Monthly Archives: April 2016
My Dad and a Pony
Originally posted on Willowtrail Farm Musings:
Ponies have been my focus and my passion for nearly two decades. Every once in awhile, though, I get surprised when they appear in a part of my life where I don’t expect them.…
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Slippers? From Hay string!
Another use for the hay string – and the latest project?
Do ponies remember?
“Herd Bound” is a term for a reason. BUT I’ve seen it go much further w/i pairs – both between horses and horse/owner.
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Stallions & “Green + Green=Black&Blue”
I’ve not always agreed that a stallion doesn’t make a good first horse. In some cases, I’ve seen it work and turned out AWESOME in not one breed, but several.
After foaling?
I’ve often been asked the ? of “How soon after foaling can we ride, drive, work or show our mare”? and “How soon can we show the foals”?
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Tagged driving ponies, foals, LP Painted Ponys, mares, showing foal, working mare with foal, Working Ponies
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Imprinting Foals
I have, in the past, actually foaled out some of our mares –
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Tagged belly rope, colt, figure 8 lead, filly, foal handling, imprint training, imprinting, LP Painted Ponys, new born foals, Ponies
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Driving ponies – Farm work?
Yes, we do “farm work” with ours. Can they plow or disk in a heavy, wet clay soil field all day? Probably not.
Posted in Articles, Driving, News, Ponies, Working Ponies
Tagged 3 abreast, disk, Eclipse, good for what, harrow, Kreature, logging, LP Painted Ponys, pair, Pampered Pets Pharm, Ponies, pulling logs, pulling manure bins, pulling trees, shetlands, single pony, Y ponies
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Bay & Silver, Silver & Bay!
I’m already “tired” of bays. I’m “over bayed” at the moment and will be as long as we use Wizard (all foals guaranteed to be bay pintos or chestnut pinto w/ bay gene – homozygous for both bay and tobiano.
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