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Category Archives: Ponies
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.
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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.
Pony History: Bit
We purchased “Bit” (Little Jim’s Bit of Silver) in 2009. We purchased her to add her bloodlines to our breeding program and to utilize in our riding and driving program.
Pony Coat Colors
There are many colors in the pony world. Some are exclusive to specific breeds. For our purpose, we will concentrate on the colors allowed within purebred American Shetland Ponies and crosses that our program have utilized. I’ve long been fascinated … Continue reading
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Tagged Ami, bay, Bell, black, Blitzen, buckskin, Bunny, Cheri, chestnut, Chylly, Classy, Clipse, coat colors, cremello, Cupid, Dandy, Echo, Ellona, Flashi, Flower, GG, guinness, Kechi, Koalah, KoKo, LP Painted Ponys, nymbus, Ponies, Riddler, Rio, Sami, Shamrock, shetlands, silver, Stuffy, Taff, Tobiano, Toro, Tory, Wizard
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Shows – riding Shetlands western
The Hoffman girls of LP Painted Ponys started showing in 1998. Sierra and Madira showed western while Skye usually showed english (hunt seat).
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Tagged 4-h shows, children, Children ride, good for what, horse shows, LP Painted Ponys, open shows, Ponies, right size, shetlands, western riding
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