Do You Own Horses/Donkeys/Mules?

[HomesteaderWife]

@Baymule - those are some beautiful horses you have there, and Joe is absolutely stunning! Have you ever bred him? I would be curious to see what colored foals he would throw. Thank you for sharing these photos!

 

[Baymule]

@Baymule - those are some beautiful horses you have there, and Joe is absolutely stunning! Have you ever bred him? I would be curious to see what colored foals he would throw. Thank you for sharing these photos!

Joe is a gelding. He is a cremello, which is a double dilute palomino. A cremello can throw a palomino, buckskin or another cremello. His dam and sire were both palominos.

 

[Ferguson K]

I just found this thread thanks to the scrolling pictures.

Here's my girls:

Ma'am (pronounced Mom.... sort of) American Mustang mare whose about as wild as a Californian fire. She's absolutely batty, but, after almost 13 years I can't stop lovingher. We've traveled the country together... mostly in saddle. She's the love of my life. Her color is few spot appaloosa. She's genetically black, and has black eyes.

Then there's my bombproof, life proof, Saint Mayas Girl aka Maya. She's my go to horse. Or she was, until her knees buckeled two years ago. Now she's mainly a pasture pony.

Then there's "C" an OTTB who is in her 30s. She's a great horse, who was knocking on death door when we found her.

And Java, another formerly starved OTTB.

 

[Ferguson K]

"C"

"Java" 18 hands of forever lame and only rideable on a full moon. He eats a LOT to not have a job... but that's okay. Every horse deserves a retirement.

He's a BIG horse.

 

[Poka_Doodle]

Wow. I'm just getting into 4h horses. I'll post pictures later

 

[Baymule]

Me and our grand daughter on Joe.

Joe saying Hi to the baby

 

[raeleigh26]

I've got 4, one isn't mine.
Annabelle Lee is a thoroughbred-spotted saddle horse -percheron cross, mouthful I know. ..she's 6 this year, my husband's horse, we've had her 3 years.
Sam is an auction purchase, he's supposedly quarter horse, but looks like a mule in back and a draft in front. ..Idk. .but he moves pretty, we think he's about 13 but who knows, we've had him 6 years.
Maxx is quarter, doc bar little Lena bred, but I couldn't prove it cuz I didn't pay the extra 800 for his papers, but I bought him as a weanling and he'll be 16 this year.
I don't ride much anymore, no one to ride with, nowhere to go, and after my accident in 07, I don't ride alone...
But once upon a time I rode daily and even made a decent living training, rode the playdays into my 20s, just can't seem to make myself go out and saddle up to plod around the pasture. ...
Only have a pic of Maxx on my phone. ..sorry

 

[TAH]

You all have such beautiful horses. I wish we still had ours. I miss her a lot.

 

[Kusanar]

I have 6 horses, just had to put one down recently and lost one a few years ago...

The 2 I have lost were:
Doodle - lost him a few years ago, he was a 20 something Standardbred gelding, about half broke both to saddle and to harness, only ever saw him canter under saddle one time.
Thunder - 30+ guessing mid 30's Appy gelding, he was a dream to ride, nearly perfectly trained, could jump over 3 foot, could ride him with a rope around his neck... He had a ton of spunk if someone knew how to ride, but if someone was nervous, he would walk on eggshells to make sure they didn't fall off.

The ones I have now are:
Wings - 25 year old grey Arabian gelding, used to show him Dressage until he decided he would rather be retired.

Lolli - 16-17 year old bey Arabian gelding, he's a special sort of green, he's what I would say is green, and you need an experienced rider on him, but he is safe (if you know how to ride) and will go for hours.

Pippin - 32" silver dapple Mini gelding. He's a "mini draft horse", he's not one of the refined arab looking minis, he looks like a tiny percheron and has the pulling power to match. We have had over 350 pounds in his cart and he didn't have any trouble with flat ground or up hill, but the cart made him slide some on the downhills since it weighed more than he did.

Splash - 15-16 year old arab x paint gelding. I lease him to a friend so he has a human of his own and she has a horse to love on.

Stud - 7 year old Sabino White TWHx stallion. This boy is 16 hands, solid muscle, and a doll to work with and be around, a toddler ran into his stall one day and he just gave it a strange look and backed away. I also just had a guy at work (older) ask if he could bring his GF to the barn to ride for her 59th birthday, and Stud is the one I put her one, just gave her a pony ride around at a walk, but he stood like a rock while she mounted and dismounted.

Papi - 8 year old Bay tobiano TWH gelding. This one is a trip, he's spooky, unrideable (due to freaking out and unloading his rider constantly), but if he lays down in his stall, you can walk in and sit on him like a couch and love on him and he will wait until you are off of him and all of the way out of the stall before getting up to make sure you're out of the way. He's Stud's best friend and they live in a paddock complex together. They are so good with each other that you can even shut them in a stall together with no issues.