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First thing that comes to mind is vitamins and minerals. Is he getting enough? Deficiencies of some water soluble vitamins and minerals can cause excessive hair loss. I have my horses on a sweet block that has various vitamins and minerals. One vitamin in particular is Biotin (B-7) which...

Hey everyone, I'm sorry that I never updated you on this colts color results but life happend and I wasn't able to send it in until yesterday. I will have his results in a week and will post them. I also tested for base color and tobiano.

I received an international inquiry on one of my horses. Neither of us have a clue what it cost to ship overseas so I wondering if some here could give me a ball park number?

I live at 9000 ft in the mountains with 8 minis. Everyone so far has great information. Mine do great in the cold but I due lock them up at night only to keep them out of reach of lions, bears and coyotes. If it wasn’t for the extra predators around my house then I would just let them have...

I love Grahams Ragtime, I had the opportunity to see Ragtime last January when Pura Vida still owned him. I also work on some of Pura Vida’s brood mares when they need help catching up with hoof care. They have one foal this year by Ragtime out of a Monarch mare that is just so cute.

Mine came from a gut feeling. It has always been my goal to breed show quality dun minis. I had a good feeling about buying a mare in foal back in May and she foaled an absolutely perfect dun tobiano colt in July. This colt’s sire then took Grand champion in senior stallion 30-32 in halter at...

I would have to agree with the above post. I wouldn't pin a type to them as I believe minis are their own breed therefore their own type.

Thank you so much

Does anyone have access to show records? If so I have a few horses that I wish I could know how well they did in the show ring or if they were even shown at all. JCW LE JAZZ AMHA# A187461 MCSPERITTS TOP BUCKS CONTESSIA AMHA# A96535 BLACK WALNUTS SKY DANCER (I don’t have her AMHA...

We bred 4 before the market started getting really scary. Fortunately, one was preg tested and turned out to not be in foal. I know that I have two for sure in foal for 2013 and possibly a third. Here is what we are expecting. This is the stallion bred to the three mares. He is dun splash...

I would be careful with soybean hay. From what I understand, it has amino acid and enzyme inhibitors in it that is only inactivated with heat treatment. This can be harmful to normal protein synthesis.

I just had to say how funny this post was hahaha he is amazing

I would also suggest that while you are learing, make sure you understand your basics and your colors by themselves before you tackle gene combinations. I think people new in genetics get confused when you throw 3 or even 4 different color genes into one horse.

I have the brand inspector come out to inspect every horse I'm selling so all he needs to do is issue it. As far as coggins goes. I only pull it if the buyer is out of state. I feel like all of this can be done in a timely manner; however some people seem to overlook these things.

I agree but I think enough people have voted to still make this fun. I also feel like maybe this thread could have been confusing to newbies. Do you suggest that I have Mary Lou delete this thread and start over with all the facts laid out in the begining?

Yes I agree that we need to read posts more clearly. With that said, I really should have posted my above post in with the op that sparked the argument about my mares silver geneotype because I never clamed all her foals to be silver. I just was stating that I knew her color based on her foal...

Here is the case with my mare that caused the controversy with her foals, which I saw all in person but the buckskin that I only had pictures of. · Bay filly out a black stallion · Buckskin colt out of a bay stallion · Silver filly (cream unknown) out of a silver stallion · Silver...

Thanks for this Leia I forgot about that early on or I would have corrected it as well. I also a silver black filly back in 2008 that was black horse at birth and was clearly silver by 2 months old.

Yes they do look pretty close, I wish he was born early so I could have clipped him.

Jane I did also decide to test for silver sense there seems to be some unsure people. Like I told Marsha, I hope he isn't but I'm still leaning more towards him having it. I will try to have the hair out tomorrow and will post the results when I get them