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| Posted: Fri Feb 17th, 2012 12:16 pm |
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karenlexsc G.O.G Community Member 
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Lisa, I too am sorry you had to lose one to find another, but life is like that so often, isn't it? Love hearing Jenny now can relax and have her old position in the field back! That herd mentality and hierarchy is so interesting to me!
____________________ Karen No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. ~Winston Churchill |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16th, 2012 12:16 pm |
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crs trail rider Ranch Hand 
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Karen- my horse that just died was a golden buckskin- If you took off the black points and put white ones on you would have a pretty palomino.  I am going to get some really good pictures soon I promise! I have tried with my phone but it is acting stupid outside-the pics it is taking look over exposed- in the house its fine-grrrrr. It looks like Honey has -justlikethat- become the alpha- with no fuss no muss-. Dream- was my alpha and I have said since she passed that Jenny was uncomfortable in that role- but as second in the field it fell to her. She was very jumpy and spooky in the field- very unlike her- She was fine with me- because in her eyes I am the alpha- but with the others- she just wasnt comfortable- I had hoped she would grow into it- but it looks like she was just fine with someone taking over after she got use to the idea. You can almost see the relief in her face and body language. And we had the best ride since loosing Dream. She was listening and I was communicating better (I had a dressage trainer look at a problem I was having with getting her to side pass- a few quick suggestions- and viola'! she is side passing without being pissed off about it- and yup- it was 100% ME causing the mis-communication! ) Honey is about 15 hands- Maybe 15.1 but once we get the shoes off of her and she is trimmed for a barefoot trim (her heel is awful high to me) she will probably be 15HH. Just the right size IMO. Very solid bone structure- nice short flat back(Lindsay rode her bareback and said she had a sofa back) I am so glad that no one snapped her up in the year and a half between going to look at her the first time and now! Karma?! I think so- just wish Karma didnt have to take my Dream away to make it work out in the end.
____________________ Its rarely the horses fault- Its usually a failure of the rider to communicate their requests in a manner that the horse can understand. Lisa |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15th, 2012 10:33 pm |
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SPOTD RIDR G.O.G Community Member 
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Awwwh little bitty Karen
____________________ JoAngela "Jo" |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15th, 2012 10:09 pm |
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karenlexsc G.O.G Community Member
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Now don't laugh...this is Honey and me 100 years ago. This Honey was a beautiful gold color but not a palomino, she was really a buckskin, as you can see, but the brightest yellow gold buckskin I have ever seen. Sorry for the black and white photo. Its an antique, after all! Attachment: phpNzt9bSPM.jpg (Downloaded 41 times)
____________________ Karen No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. ~Winston Churchill |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15th, 2012 09:22 pm |
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karenlexsc G.O.G Community Member
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I am soooo happy you're choosing Honey for your new beauty, CRS, the very first TWH I ever rode at the tender age of 9 was a gorgeous mare named Honey. (I'll have to find a pic) Jo, I am so sad to hear of the loss of Mira's only foal. So sad! Lacey was bred to another SSH colored like her but she had a colt that was a solid chestnut, who was registered under the name Unlucky. I would love to find him, so if any of you ever hear of or see a coming 8 yo gelding by that name and color, call me!!!! The man who bought him as a yearling, had him broke to ride, then said he was a PIA because he would be right behind you in the pasture, so he took him to the Bennettsville, SC auction and sold him. What? Exaxtly what I want in a horse, and he calls him a PIA? Nuts, just nuts!
____________________ Karen No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. ~Winston Churchill |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15th, 2012 08:57 pm |
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SPOTD RIDR G.O.G Community Member
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How tall is Honey ? and Mira is the same way if the LQ is hooked up she is running as fast and as far away as she can, but if its the 4 wheeler hooked to my small trailer she is chasing me from one end of the pasture to the other to see if I am delivering hay, LOL Got out today and did some grooming on my 3, I am trying to shorten the bridle paths I have gotten to long over time, they are all sporting 3" mohawks and I have to jump on warm days to clean Mira up, since her foaling trauma she pools urine so it spills out as she runs and I have to keep her stockings tail and rear washed up every week. Yes the colt died while we was waiting on the vet to arrive but it would never made it anyway, it took the vet, Jerry, George and I over 1 hour to free the foal from her and it ruined her to ever foal again, her 1st was her last and that was in 2008.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15th, 2012 07:16 pm |
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crs trail rider Ranch Hand
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I think I am sticking with Honey. I havent gotten any good pictures yet- I have some "candid" shots but my helpers were not much help! Jenny wouldnt get out of my way- she wanted the attention and then I couldnt keep Honey off of me long enough for a good shot. I do love her though- she is such a love bug. She drops her head into your chest for hugs, comes when she see you (all of mine do provided the truck and trailer is not hooked up- then Jenny can be a pita) Follows you around the pasture. I put her in with all three of them today and there was no drama what so ever. I so like it when they are just accepted into the herd. I am having fun playing with her mane- its all wavy and long and I am having barbie flashbacks -lol. Today I walked with her out to Dreams grave and told her all about the new girl- and told her I missed her and there will never be another. Jenny came and joined me there too so we all had a moment- Gosh I miss that horse. But I love the future too. Jo- I am so sorry about the colt- from your post it looks like he didnt make it?
____________________ Its rarely the horses fault- Its usually a failure of the rider to communicate their requests in a manner that the horse can understand. Lisa |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15th, 2012 04:10 pm |
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SPOTD RIDR G.O.G Community Member
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Karen it was a Colt about 125 lbs, rear leg did not go into diver postion and caused it to hang up, he was delivered out to his waist and stuck, solid black 4 high white stockings and a spot on his neck was all the white he had.
____________________ JoAngela "Jo" |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15th, 2012 12:40 pm |
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karenlexsc G.O.G Community Member
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Jo, you may have said, but what did Mira have - foal wise? I admire all of you with horses to care for 24/7, it is hard work, a big responsibility, and very confining. We love boarding for those reasons, and are so blessed to have found the ideal (for us) place for our two. There is almost always someone there to ride with, she takes excellent care of our horses, can share vet and farrier visits and we are not confined. We don't have the property so its the only way we could have horses in our lives at this point.
____________________ Karen No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. ~Winston Churchill |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 13th, 2012 01:57 pm |
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SPOTD RIDR G.O.G Community Member
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Slip my husband opens the back barn door at night to let the horses into there stalls, gives them there grain and closes there stall doors, that is the extent of his barn work, I have already done all the rest and at night I am in the house working on supper for HIM that is why he does the night shift so he will get fed, LOL. CRS post some pictures of your new girl, what name are you going with ? I like Honey.
____________________ JoAngela "Jo" |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12th, 2012 11:22 pm |
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slipslider G.O.G Community Member 
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crs, love your new horse, who does not like a dark palomino! She looks sweet and just the right size too. I envy those with a pasture. I feed twice every day and muck stalls when weather is bad. I might have more energy for riding, if it were not for caretaking. I can understand being talked out of the fourth one spotd. I do all of this myself and I do mean all, my husband does not even know what the inside of my barn looks like and it is only a few feet from our house.
____________________ LaVonne Summertime Stables, LLC Life's journey is not to arrive safely in a grave in a well preserved body But rather to slide in sideways, Totally worn out, Yelling......What a Ride ! |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 9th, 2012 10:51 pm |
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crs trail rider Ranch Hand
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Mine are out 24/7- very easy to keep- no feeding April-Nov- we have plenty of pasture. We were already budgeted for four- so it was easy to justify another one.
____________________ Its rarely the horses fault- Its usually a failure of the rider to communicate their requests in a manner that the horse can understand. Lisa |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 9th, 2012 10:07 pm |
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SPOTD RIDR G.O.G Community Member
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Yeah that was my whole reason for buying Cruz, he was my spare horse while Mira was in foal and we had planned on maybe breeding her a few times but her first was her last. If we left them out 24/7 I would have gotten the other mare but since I do all the barn mucking it was easy for me to be talked out of it.
____________________ JoAngela "Jo" |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 9th, 2012 09:30 pm |
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crs trail rider Ranch Hand
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I am a mare person. I saw a Cremello TWH for sale on the cover of our local horses for sale magazine. Spotd my husband said the same thing at first- but he has been home when we have taken two away and has seen Jamie's distress, so that helped. I havent told him though that next year I want to breed Jenny- her bloodlines are OLD - she is the daughter of Choco (which makes her a granddaughter of Kilburns Chocolate Sundown) and she is also a granddaughter of Sewells Sam. I regret not breeding my mare I just lost- she also had old blood lines on her QH side- one whole side was out of Wisencamps farm- Skipper W, and his sire were on there multiple times and she also had Wimpy twice and Leo once. This was only 4/5 generations back. When I do breed it will be for me- not for sale though. (and then I will need one to ride when she is out of commission-shhhh dont tell him yet lol)
____________________ Its rarely the horses fault- Its usually a failure of the rider to communicate their requests in a manner that the horse can understand. Lisa |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 9th, 2012 03:26 pm |
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SPOTD RIDR G.O.G Community Member
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Nice looking palomino CRS, you must be a mare person I really wanted the spotted buckskin mare so I could even out my herd to so I would have 4, and at first my husband said do what you want you always do anyway, then that afternoon he came back with we don't need another *&^% horse !
____________________ JoAngela "Jo" |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 9th, 2012 03:00 am |
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Lakota Ranch Hand 
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Ya, I like her too. I think we hijacked her thread a little bit though...sorry!
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| Posted: Thu Feb 9th, 2012 02:18 am |
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quaillady G.O.G Community Member 
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Gee Lisa, your new girl sure is pretty
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| Posted: Wed Feb 8th, 2012 11:18 pm |
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LARHAGE G.O.G Community Member 
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I see, than I definately want a Cremello. Thanks a lot!
____________________ God Forbid that I shall go to a Heaven without Horses. |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 8th, 2012 11:10 pm |
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Lakota Ranch Hand
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I was under the impression that the cremellos would have a white mane and the perlinos (being based on a bay which has black points) have a darker tinge to the mane. I am not an expert though... Attachment: Ivy barn smaller.jpg (Downloaded 67 times)
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| Posted: Wed Feb 8th, 2012 10:48 pm |
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LARHAGE G.O.G Community Member
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The Perlinos look just like the Cremellos actually.
____________________ God Forbid that I shall go to a Heaven without Horses. |
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