Posted 2008-09-30 11:30 AM (#92350 - in reply to #92210) Subject: RE: BBQ?
Extreme Veteran
Posts: 479 Location: central sierra nevada foothills
What color is he registered as? He looks as if he's chocolate. I have a mare that I call my "chocolate pony", as she is the color of a herseys candy bar. Her papers have her as chestnut, I would call it a brown, or dark brown.
Posted 2008-10-03 9:12 AM (#92505 - in reply to #92167) Subject: RE: BBQ?
Veteran
Posts: 274 Location: Memphis, TN
Hey Jan....NICE loking boy ya got there.
Looked for y'all at Buck Creek St. Jude ride last week in Alamo. My count was 397 horses on the trail and we raised 33k for St. Jude. Left my camera at home, , but we had a good time.
I've retired my Mustang from long trail rides an took my lil boy on his first BIG ride. He is 5yr. old, 16.1 hands, Red Dun. He did real good except when he encountered a blue barrel with a black garbage bag in it. Blue barrel alone is ok but that black garbage bag has boogers in it.
Posted 2008-10-03 9:51 PM (#92554 - in reply to #92167) Subject: RE: BBQ?
Location: KY
Ike, great picture! Have you noticed that black seems to be the color that bothers most horses? I wonder if it is because it does not reflect the light like other colors. Or maybe they think it is a very deep horse swallowing hole, attempting to be disguised by a blue barrel in order to swallow a poor unsuspecting horse...hmmmmm
Posted 2008-11-23 1:39 PM (#95250 - in reply to #92167) Subject: RE: BBQ?
Location: KY
ok folks......There was an anti slaughter poster or 2 on here in the past; so here's the challenge! This horse has NO BAD HABITS.......no reasonable offer refused....will deliver within a reasonable distance......Step up anti slaughter people.....or this guy is going to be dinner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted 2008-11-23 2:36 PM (#95253 - in reply to #92167) Subject: RE: BBQ?
Location: Central Arkansas
At least he rides! We just GAVE away a good looking AQHA registered Colonel Freckles & Sons Rey Jay grandaughter. She aborted twice this year and we didn't want her to go to the killer sale. I feel like we did right by the mare.
Posted 2008-11-24 8:17 AM (#95286 - in reply to #95281) Subject: RE: BBQ?
Elite Veteran
Posts: 690 Location: missouri
Hey there, before you start cuttin... We can find a place for him. seriously. Folks shouldn't breed and put them on the ground if they can't commit to raising them up (humans included)...
Posted 2008-11-24 5:50 PM (#95302 - in reply to #92167) Subject: RE: BBQ?
Location: KY
Well,I didn't breed him....I bought him as a 4 year old for my nephew, who has now married and moved, so I have a a well trained registered quarter horse who needs an owner who will spend some time with him and give him a job. I have my own saddle horses; do not need this horse, but he is a good horse and has no bad habits.
Posted 2008-11-24 9:36 PM (#95314 - in reply to #92167) Subject: RE: BBQ?
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Posts: 690 Location: missouri
He looks like a nice horse. gelded? I have a niece who is looking for a good horse with good temperament that travels well...tell me how he has been trained and used for so far, please.
Posted 2008-11-25 1:21 PM (#95343 - in reply to #92167) Subject: RE: BBQ?
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Posts: 781 Location: La Cygne, KS
The horse market is flooded with weanling to 5 year-old inexperienced horses. Just because someone says a horse is Broke does not mean to me that it is a trained horse. And around where I live it is mostly Quarter Horses and Paints. I laugh at the breeders of so called Foundation AQHA horses and the justification for continuing to breed them based on those lines... dime a dozen.
I live 3 miles from two AQHA super-sport horses. There are tons of bred mares and yearlings/two-year-olds. I don't get flooding the market with more horses becuase of bloodlines etc. More is not better. Where is the market to buy those babies???
Additionally, I have a foundation AQHA breeder and a Paint Horse breeder 1 mile from me and both have given yearlings away this fall, but continues to breed on.
I have very nice Actual Southern Sunrise daughters that are trained (1 is working on level one dressage), but I refuse to breed when I know the market is down and most very well trained horses are being sold for a fraction of what they would have brought a year ago.
Yes, Dressage horses and eventers are still bringing fairly good amount of money, but that is a segmented market and does not reflect the larger pleasure horse market.
I'll just keep riding my gals and enjoying the horses that I have as long as I can take care of them. However, with the market the way it is and the job outlook for employment is shaky I have looked at ways to find homes for my horses in case we become unemployed and as last effort need to part with some of them. I think a lot of folks are in thinking along these lines too. It is very scary right now and unfortunately the horses that are continuing to be brought into this world are the ones to suffer.
Posted 2008-11-26 6:20 AM (#95368 - in reply to #92167) Subject: RE: BBQ?
Elite Veteran
Posts: 648 Location: Coconut Creek, FL
excellent post - wish more people felt the same way you do. Just cause a mare has a uterus doesn't mean she should be bred and most colts should undergo "brain surgery" and not be left intact....
Another issue are the hoarders who continue to take in more and more horses, don't feed them properly, allow them to breed constantly, and produce foals with bad conformation, no training, etc resulting in horses that have no value. Sigh... the horses are the ones who end up suffering.
Posted 2008-11-26 11:00 AM (#95388 - in reply to #92167) Subject: RE: BBQ?
Location: KY
CJ and Truckergirl: have sent you pm.... Started to write "pms" as plural of private message but thought not. I am laughing at my own pun.........Hope to hear from you all again. And I do thank you for writing.
Posted 2008-11-30 12:10 PM (#95509 - in reply to #95388) Subject: RE: BBQ?
Expert
Posts: 2828 Location: Southern New Mexico
Hopefully you get your guy sold. I've got a filly thats been up for sale for a year now. She may go to an auction between here and Dallas when I help my sister move in December. I just don't have the room for her. Any one know of anygood auctions between NM and Dallas?
BBQ?
, but we had a good time. 
Hey there, before you start cuttin... We can find a place for him. seriously. Folks shouldn't breed and put them on the ground if they can't commit to raising them up (humans included)....jpg)
