lorihadams
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Here's my experience with horse drawn carriages.....my wedding day. It was fun but I do like the draft horses better 
Bee~ Journal of then...
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lupinfarm
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Beautiful!
I think I'll have to get some photos of Piper and her cart, there's a boarding barn on our road and one of the boarders has a Purebred Percheron Mare who pulls a cart. She's gorgeous and they take her out on our road all the time. They also have a Percheron/Fjord cross gelding lol.
I think I'll have to get some photos of Piper and her cart, there's a boarding barn on our road and one of the boarders has a Purebred Percheron Mare who pulls a cart. She's gorgeous and they take her out on our road all the time. They also have a Percheron/Fjord cross gelding lol.
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Beekissed
Mountain Sage
Wow, lori! How wonderful can you get for a wedding? 
Always wanted to incorporate horses into my wedding.....guess that is one dream I can kiss good-bye forever! 
Hey, Lupin? Could you post a pic of the Fjord horse? I've always been interested in that breed but a fella I know said he had one once and it wasn't very nice. I think they are beautiful!
Farm, thanks for the heads up. There is a Morgan farm over near where I want to live and this would be some good info to take with me if I ever look into their horses......of course, this is all a big pipe dream....as things stand right now I could not even afford to haul away the manure from their farm!
Always wanted to incorporate horses into my wedding.....guess that is one dream I can kiss good-bye forever! Hey, Lupin? Could you post a pic of the Fjord horse? I've always been interested in that breed but a fella I know said he had one once and it wasn't very nice. I think they are beautiful!
Farm, thanks for the heads up. There is a Morgan farm over near where I want to live and this would be some good info to take with me if I ever look into their horses......of course, this is all a big pipe dream....as things stand right now I could not even afford to haul away the manure from their farm!
lupinfarm
Almost Self-Reliant
I will indeed. I rode with a lady who had a purebred Fjord gelding and he was an absolute doll! She was diabetic and he was trained to stay perfectly still if she passed out until someone came to get him and her.
The boarder at my neighbours horse, Bucky, is a Fjord/Percheron cross and he's such a portly man but super cute!
The boarder at my neighbours horse, Bucky, is a Fjord/Percheron cross and he's such a portly man but super cute!
lupinfarm
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Bee, Bucky is the third horse down on this page. It's only a photo of his head but he's super adorable. Under him is Piper, their Percheron mare.
http://moonmistmeadows.piczo.com/boarderspages?cr=1&linkvar=000044
http://moonmistmeadows.piczo.com/boarderspages?cr=1&linkvar=000044
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Beekissed
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Thank you, Lupin! He certainly is a beauty! Love that buckskin coloring. That Echo is some horse, huh?
I could look at horses all day long.....sigh....
He certainly is a beauty! Love that buckskin coloring. That Echo is some horse, huh? I could look at horses all day long.....sigh....
lupinfarm
Almost Self-Reliant
She's indeed VERY pretty. She's a registered Arab, and I think she's actually for sale lol. The owner is disabled and her granddaughter just started high school and has no time to ride her anymore. Shame really, they've had her since she was a foal.
If you go onto the main website and onto Bill and Linda's page you'll see Bailey, my neighbours horse... she owns the barn and boyyyy I LOVE Bailey. I was kind of hoping Mylie would turn into a buckskin but she's actually a Sooty/Smutty Palomino, when it rains she looks muddy but its just her dark skin underneath. She too is buckskinny in colouring, she has dapples and some dark points but a flaxen mane and tail.
If you go onto the main website and onto Bill and Linda's page you'll see Bailey, my neighbours horse... she owns the barn and boyyyy I LOVE Bailey. I was kind of hoping Mylie would turn into a buckskin but she's actually a Sooty/Smutty Palomino, when it rains she looks muddy but its just her dark skin underneath. She too is buckskinny in colouring, she has dapples and some dark points but a flaxen mane and tail.
Farmfresh
City Biddy
My daughter had a carriage take her from the church after the wedding to a bed and breakfast in town for her honeymoon. It was too cool. Her horse for the day was a Belgium/Standardbred mare that really wanted to be on the track. Man that big old mare could MOVE!!
We have had lots of driving horses over the years. My personal favorites were ALWAYS ponies. We had a Hackney/Welsh pony that was 50 inches tall, but that never stopped him from plowing our garden each year and pulling our sleigh in the winter and then we had POA's (Pony of the Americas) that would work their butts into the ground. I always called them my "compacts". Those ponies could do a horse size job and were such easy keepers they lived on only grass or decent hay and stayed fat and sassy. That is MY idea of a SS work horse. Big enough to ride, drive and plow and little enough to make my life easy.
We have had lots of driving horses over the years. My personal favorites were ALWAYS ponies. We had a Hackney/Welsh pony that was 50 inches tall, but that never stopped him from plowing our garden each year and pulling our sleigh in the winter and then we had POA's (Pony of the Americas) that would work their butts into the ground. I always called them my "compacts". Those ponies could do a horse size job and were such easy keepers they lived on only grass or decent hay and stayed fat and sassy. That is MY idea of a SS work horse. Big enough to ride, drive and plow and little enough to make my life easy.
lupinfarm
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I totally agree with Farmfresh, those POA's are crazy work horses (hehe). There was a (rather nasty) POA at one of the barns we boarded at who just worked worked worked and loved to work.
Farmfresh
City Biddy
With the POA I think it is the indian pony bloodlines. Used to working all day with little food and no reward. They are tough little wonders for sure.
I think ponies in general are under rated. Too many of them were never properly trained and develop nasty habits because of it, then give the rest a bad name. Ponies are SMART. Sometimes that is their undoing as well. They are happiest when hard at work. Idle ponies get bored and become tricky and think up things to keep themselves entertained. A pony can pull close to three TIMES their weight and work all day pulling up to two times their weight. Just look at those little coal mine ponies of yesteryear, they hauled huge cars of coal daily.
I think ponies in general are under rated. Too many of them were never properly trained and develop nasty habits because of it, then give the rest a bad name. Ponies are SMART. Sometimes that is their undoing as well. They are happiest when hard at work. Idle ponies get bored and become tricky and think up things to keep themselves entertained. A pony can pull close to three TIMES their weight and work all day pulling up to two times their weight. Just look at those little coal mine ponies of yesteryear, they hauled huge cars of coal daily.
