[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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