Horsing Around

[Carmen]

Just horsing around



Don't you just love this guy and his wonderful horses!

http://vodpod.com/watch/991753-daily...-dvd-cheval-lo

[waitinginthewings]

Thks for posting this. Amazing the bond between the man & the horses. Beautiful and incredible.

[Carmen]

Bump

[mudra]

Love always
mudra

[Oliver]

There is a say: "Beauty, your name is HORSE"!

Thank you, Carmen, for this thread. The video is breathtaking.

Mudra, that picture of the white horse you have posted made my day this morning. Ubelivable beauty. Thanks Creator for this!

Love

[burgundia]

[giovonni]

A horse with no name

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0KKGdb4qUY

[Oliver]

[burgundia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TLjlBQ5jOA

[Carmen]

Why is a stallion called an 'entire'

Answer, a stallion is 'entirely male'. They have no female attributes as other animals do. eg teats

[giovonni]

Greeting's Ms Horse~Woman

Since you know so much about these animals

I am going to begin with a simple one

whats breed and where's it from?

[Carmen]

Well now, according to my "The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds" it looks like a Asiatic Wild Horse or Przewalski Horse from the Gobi Desert region.

Cheers

Carmen

[giovonni]

No reference books > that was an easy one!

[Carmen]

Heres a nice horsey video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVWYMl2yg1E&feature=fvw

Cheers

Carmen

[Christo888]

Gio... that horse looks like a Zebra that lost its stripes, or they just haven't been painted on yet.

[giovonni]

ok ok > another test question ~ms carmen`gia

only this > massive specimen of strength and beauty
would be able or acceptable too carry my massive aah.... heart



here's a hint

[Unified Serenity]

Originally Posted by giovonni

Greeting's Ms Horse~Woman

Since you know so much about these animals

I am going to begin with a simple one

whats breed and where's it from?

This is a przewalski horse :

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/As...act-phorse.cfm

Pronounciation: sheh-val-skee

Physical Description: The coat of the Przewalski's horse ranges from brown to dun, with a pale underbelly and muzzle, a dark tail, a dorsal stripe, striped legs, and a dark, short mohawk–like mane. The head is large, and the body is short and muscular.

Size: The Przewalski's horse stands about 13 hands high at the shoulder (a little more than four feet) and has a head and body length of less than seven feet, with a tail close to three feet long. Adults can weigh between 550 and 750 pounds.

Geographic Distribution: Before their population dwindled, these horses spanned regions in Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia, and China.

Status: The World Conservation Union's Red List of Threatened Species listed the Przewalski's horse as extinct in the wild until 2008. Causes of extinction were hunting, harsh climate, loss of habitat, and loss of water sources to farm animals. However, successful reintroductuions qualified this species for reassessment in 2008, and they are now classified as critically endangered.

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/As...act-phorse.cfm

[Unified Serenity]

Originally Posted by giovonni

ok ok > another test question ~ms carmen`gia

only this > massive specimen of strength and beauty
would be able or acceptable too carry my massive aah.... heart



here's a hint

That' just an Italian draft horse

We farriers used to joke, "What do you do when a Clydesdale wants to put his hoof down?"

"You let him"

I trimmed a Clydesdale once, never want to shoe one!

[THE eXchanger]

xxx

[Oliver]

The Beauty is comming. No escape from it. Hold on, Avalonians!

[giovonni]

ok ok ok!!
one more for today

This breed is the gaucho's true friend
What is it called and where did it originate from?




to easy
One more!!!

This is a little harder> this breed or type> makes the cut (so to speak)
It's from the Great White North?

[Unified Serenity]

Originally Posted by giovonni

ok ok ok!!
one more for today

This breed is the gaucho's true friend
What is it called and where did it originate from?




to easy
One more!!!

This is a little harder> this breed or type> makes the cut (so to speak)
It's from the Great White North?

The Argentinians like Criollo horses. This looks like a rather unappealing one. "The breed dates back to a 1535 shipment of 100 Pure Bred Spaniards - Andalusian stallions coming from Cadiz, Spain, to the Rio de la Plata imported by Buenos Aires founder, Pedro de Mendoza." Wikipedia info

The second looks like a Quarter Horse, great for cutting and barrel racing.

Originally Posted by Carmen

Why is a stallion called an 'entire'

Answer, a stallion is 'entirely male'. They have no female attributes as other animals do. eg teats

Who knew?! That is very interesting Carmen! So many of these videos just did the goose bumps for me. Actually, I even got overwhelmed and (kind of) wept with eXchanger's Black Horses. That was something.

eXchanger - Carmen said in another post that black horses are uniquely enspirited (or something like that).

Let me tell you I could go on and on here, BUT...

10,000 years ago

[Carmen]

Thanks for your responses. Susan, that video of the Black Horses is pure magic! No caste , I know how you love Black Horses.

My experience of Black Horses and also black cats is that they do appear to be a bit different, often agressive or troubled in some way. My daughter Hannah had a black mare we called Macy. She was an orphaned foal and was very spoilt having being reared by humans and not being subjected to a mothers natural discipline. So, as in a child reared with no walls of constraint of behaviour, she was very unsure of herself and agressive with other horses. She also thought she could boss any human around, that is, until she met my Hannah. I would watch Hannah from the house working with this stroppy mare. Macy standing on her hind legs pawing the air in front of Hannah. It just looked like a scene from "The Black Stallion" After many confrontations she finally bonded with Hannah and was a very willing, try her best for you, type of horse.


She was absolutely diabolical to put with other horses. She just beat the **** of them and had all other horses scared of her. She was also extremely jealous and hated Hannah riding any other horse. Her facial expressions were incredible, "if looks could kill!!'

Another of her little foibles was than she craved motherhood and would steal babies from any species, calves lambs!! I will never forget Macy walking toward me one day with a new-born lamb tottering at her big black hind legs. My daughter put Macy in a yard and quickly and carefully snatched the lamb back and gave it back to the mother. Macy was furious at losing her new baby, screamed around the yard, eventually jumping the fence, then another to get into where the ewes were, beat the **** out the ewe with 'her' lamb, and took the lamb back!!! It was a sight to behold, the big black mare with the tiny white lamb, being ever so careful with it.

She was a very safe horse to ride as she hated her rider falling off and refused to move forward well until she knew you could ride! Beginners were absolutely safe with her. I remember a beginner hanging under her belly when the saddle slipped once and Macy standing looking at this curious upside - down person as if to say "What the hell are you doing there!!"

Horse stories, I love em, and there is always a story to every horse!

Love

Carmen

[Carmen]

Here is a video of the horses from Lord of the Rings



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fToLlHSbhS8