[Homestead] horses

paxamicus at earthlink.net paxamicus at earthlink.net
Thu Apr 17 17:22:08 EDT 2008


Good Arabs are worth their weight in gold : )   My very first pony was  
a **Raffles grandson. He was also Maeve's first pony. :  )   I had to  
put him down at the ripe old age of 30 when melanomas occluded his  
airway. He was a grey, you know how that is. I like the old Polish  
ones, not the Egyptian ones you see at shows these days.

Celia

>
>  Another small breed
> that is handy and versatile is the Arabian. I once had a 7/8's  
> Arabian mare
> that I broke, and she turned out to be a wonderful, athletic,  
> willing little
> horse - able to anything I asked of her. I think I paid $200 for her  
> (that
> was after she cleared a barn of people when she threw a fit - she  
> was a bit
> wild and had been improperly handled as a filly when I got her).
>
> But if you've a mind to save a rare breed, go for it. Just be sure  
> to have
> the horse vet checked and try to find out what problems exist in the
> too-small gene pool remaining.
>
> Gloria
>



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