It’s brown with white on it’s nose. I need both boy and girl names.
Girl: Cheyenne, Everly, Roxy.
Boy: Sawyer, Prentice, Corey.
Just suggestions.
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I want to take my horse to trails that back up behind the place she is boarded. She has never been on trails and there are no trail obstacles to work her in around the stables. I was wondering if I could just take her out to the trails, where there are mainly hills and just work her there? I don’t have a trailer so I can’t take her to a trail riding training place. Any advice would be great! Thanks.
If she doesn’t spook easily, then she should be just fine. She may even enjoy the ride more when she is out in the open (although she may be more distracted than usual). If you are worried about her spooking, you can desensitize her in the barn before you go. Even though you said there aren’t any trail obstacles at your stable, you can make some that will do the job. For example, to get her used to water, you can lay down a blue tarp in your arena and have her walk across it. You may need to be next to her on the ground first if she scares easy. Another easy favorite is practicing opening and shutting the mailbox at your barn while mounted. This helps with steering and patience. Also, cones, planks, barrels and anything else you find around the barn can be turned into mini obstacle courses to practice on. Have fun!!
Please, only answer if you’ve bred an old horse before or have experience with breeding horses.
Our mare is one-of-a-kind. She’s 11-years-old and her colouring is breathtaking. She’s a bay tobiano pinto mare, 16 hands, Hanoverian X Thoroughbred… very pretty horse with the friendliest personality as they come!
I want to breed her. I am experienced with handling foals & pregnant mares along with their care, that’s not my concern, she’d be boarded with professionals. It would be her first foal. I just bought her, and I’d like to breed her in four years or so. She’d be 15 then. Would she be okay to carry a foal so long as we keep her very healthy and fit?
Also, when she was a baby, she broke her rib… and to this day, one of her ribs has a small bump on it vertically, but it’s unnoticable, and you can put pressure on it, around it, punch it, whatever… it doesn’t hurt her or bother her the least bit. Her back left leg also has a bigger hock, but she’s never been lame on it, and once more, it doesn’t bother her at all. It’s not noticably big, it’s just a tad more rounder.
She events regularly and none of those have ever been a problem, she’s always been 100% sound and healthy. She’s a tough girl. Would the past broken rib hurt her when giving birth? I know the hock wouldn’t, but I’m concerned the rib would.
Advice/tips? Don’t say "get the vet to check over her" because we will for sure. Don’t say "get the farrier to check over her" because he comes on a scheduled basis and checks the hock for us every time and says the same thing, "Looks fine, it doesn’t hurt her, it’s not a problem at all."
No opinions wanted. All I want is experienced breeders to tell me.
Wow Julie, that’s really interesting! But will my foal still have MY mare’s colouring, or the false mare’s colouring? Won’t the mares be confused?
My trainer breeds, and while fifteen isn’t ideal for a first foal, it certainly is not unheard of. If the mare is fit and 100% healthy, there shouldn’t be any complications.
Have you considered doing a surrogate? Take an egg from your mare and have it put into a surrogate mare- that way the other mare can carry your mare’s baby, and your mare can keep on working while "she" has a baby! Plus no risk to your mare. 
http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=10703
Check this article to see advice for breeding an older mare.
EDIT– genetically, the foal will be your mare’s. It will have her conformation, her coloring (unless she inherits that from the sire), her genetics. The nurse mare will be the one raising your foal though. Your mare will never know she had a baby… but it genetically will be her baby!
http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=255
Here’s an article about embryo transfer.
Only advice, make sure to use a sweet mare for the surrogate. You wouldn’t want a nasty horse to teach your baby to be nasty!
I’m not saying there is a problem with them in general, just that none of them are perfect. Although a couple are close, there is something about each that I don’t like.
equine.com
dreamhorse.com
equinenow.com
horseclicks.com
agdirect.com
equinehits.com
horsetopia.com
What parts of these sites do you like, and in what areas are they lacking? If you were to build the perfect online horse classified site, what features would you include?
you need the notability of Equine.com – more people sell and buy horses from that site than any of the others, but I don’t like it. That whole login and pasword that you don’t choose thing kills me. And there are way too many ads in the middle of the listings. I like the "exlude breeds" thing on dreamhorse.com I think free pictures are good, so you can see what each horse looks like, they should just charge for a second picture. "registered horses only" is a must, and even better would be only horses in X registry (so you get AQHA registered QHs, not "grade horse registry" which you can register any horse in). AgDirect, I like the ranch search option, that thing is my best friend.
It says it all! Thanks for all your answers a head of time!
http://www.equine.com
http://www.agdirect.com
http://www.horsetopia.com
http://www.dreamhorse.com
http://www.equinenow.com
There are many more. Just go to a search engine and type in "horse sale"; you’ll find plenty.
What does cadence mean in horse terms? And how important is it in horses training?
I keep trying to look it up for what it means for horses and how important it is for horses training, but cannot seem to get a clear answer. So I ask, What does cadence mean in horse terms? And how important is it in horses training? Thanks.
Cadence is the balanced, rhythmic flow or the measure or beat of movement.
When the horse moves you can count four distinct hoof beats which produce a cadence of equal rhythm.
1. Walking- Four-beat gait
At the walk, the horse has three feet on the ground and only one in the air at any time. It places each foot on the ground in turn; first a hind leg, followed by the foreleg on the same side, then the other hind leg and finally the remaining foreleg.
2. Trotting- Two-beat gait
At the trot, opposite fore- and hind feet hit the ground together in turn to give a two-beat gate. The fact that only one forefoot or hind foot is bearing weight at any one time makes this the best gait to use to detect lameness.
3. Cantering- Three-beat gait
At the canter, two diagonal feet hit the ground together. The other two feet hit the ground separately, making a three-beat gate. One forefoot is followed by the opposite hind foot, then the other two feet together. There is a time when no feet are on the ground.
4. Galloping- Four-beat gait
This follows the same pattern as the canter, but the paired limbs do not hit the ground together. The hind limb lands slightly before the paired forelimb, making a four-beat gait. In the gallop and the canter, a horse can change which foreleg is leading.
You never want your horse to be "out of cadence" because it is easily detected by a judge while showing. Horses that are lazy are the ones most likely to be "out of cadence", therefore, training for a constant motion is crucial with horses.
horse gaits (with correct cadence):
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