Another thread was random but not, this thread is courses for horses.
Post pictures here related to horses in some way or another.
This might be worth a try. The rules are simple: post a nice random picture or illustration.
I'll start with one for jax: the year of the horse (https://www.behance.net/gallery/Year-of-the-Horse/13678495).
<img src="http://polymathicmonkey.smugmug.com/Frans/Random/n-6nZJF/i-R5JHwp8/0/S/year-of-the-horse-on-behance-S.jpg">
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Felementsboutique.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F08%2Fpatti-smith-horses.jpg%3Fw%3D640&hash=08d9d3218ce0ecce73472620d8aeebe0" rel="cached" data-hash="08d9d3218ce0ecce73472620d8aeebe0" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://elementsboutique.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/patti-smith-horses.jpg?w=640)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Ftx.english-ch.com%2Fteacher%2Faisa%2Fhumpty_dumpty%5B1%5D.jpg&hash=89a12733e03a82edf94f8285fd50cfb8" rel="cached" data-hash="89a12733e03a82edf94f8285fd50cfb8" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://tx.english-ch.com/teacher/aisa/humpty_dumpty[1].jpg)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FsUOhIlW.jpg&hash=822d0ca0fb9e55d2dd4d64094c7061cb" rel="cached" data-hash="822d0ca0fb9e55d2dd4d64094c7061cb" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/sUOhIlW.jpg) (http://imgur.com/sUOhIlW)
An elephant (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257911) shares some features with a horse.
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fthingiverse-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Frenders%2Fde%2F9f%2F5b%2Fa0%2Fa6%2Felephant1_preview_featured.jpg&hash=f0b499c616f43733eb3c2e367ebcf8bc" rel="cached" data-hash="f0b499c616f43733eb3c2e367ebcf8bc" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://thingiverse-production.s3.amazonaws.com/renders/de/9f/5b/a0/a6/elephant1_preview_featured.jpg)
[video]http://vimeo.com/92577771[/video]
An elephant (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:257911) shares some features with a horse.
You mean four legs and a trunk?
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepirateslair.com%2Fimages%2Fvintage-nautical-desks-tables-sea-chests%2Fsteamer-trunk-horse-back.jpg&hash=4a3fab8ca0d5b706fcc8e1335469c043" rel="cached" data-hash="4a3fab8ca0d5b706fcc8e1335469c043" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://www.thepirateslair.com/images/vintage-nautical-desks-tables-sea-chests/steamer-trunk-horse-back.jpg)
:lol:
What about whores?
Only if captioned by the BBC.
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F1%2F18%2F%25E9%25A6%25AC-bronze.svg%2F500px-%25E9%25A6%25AC-bronze.svg.png&hash=17f62e188428bf5619e3e3d2a7bbd5fa" rel="cached" data-hash="17f62e188428bf5619e3e3d2a7bbd5fa" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/%E9%A6%AC-bronze.svg/500px-%E9%A6%AC-bronze.svg.png)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fthefifthcorner.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F06%2Fi621.photobucket.com_1245347032917.jpeg&hash=8fd4b25df153a2176fc7e7b57a2f4962" rel="cached" data-hash="8fd4b25df153a2176fc7e7b57a2f4962" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://thefifthcorner.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/i621.photobucket.com_1245347032917.jpeg)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FbcjGzH6.jpg&hash=71a361fc02bb271dec93b43a6f549360" rel="cached" data-hash="71a361fc02bb271dec93b43a6f549360" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/bcjGzH6.jpg) (http://imgur.com/bcjGzH6)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sicklines.com%2Fguide%2Fdoitall%2Firon_horse_7point.jpg&hash=301d537cc9a2dfc55ca9621d7372f832" rel="cached" data-hash="301d537cc9a2dfc55ca9621d7372f832" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://www.sicklines.com/guide/doitall/iron_horse_7point.jpg)
Prague has a great number of equestrian statues. First "Good King" Wenceslas.
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wf-f.org%2FWFFResource%2FStWen.jpg&hash=9ac1667ddfefc8766fe55ebeeddf7292" rel="cached" data-hash="9ac1667ddfefc8766fe55ebeeddf7292" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://www.wf-f.org/WFFResource/StWen.jpg)
Jan Žižka, Vítkov hill, Žižkov
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.praguecityline.com%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fprague-3-pamatnik-vitkov%2Fpha3-pamatnik-vitkov001.jpg&hash=15af3eb6279719c84e5c63bf6b5dde80" rel="cached" data-hash="15af3eb6279719c84e5c63bf6b5dde80" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://www.praguecityline.com/wp-content/gallery/prague-3-pamatnik-vitkov/pha3-pamatnik-vitkov001.jpg)
Wenceslas again.
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fmemoriesduncargol.files.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F02%2Fhorse.png&hash=60f569bd7371da1c3cfad88b278b484f" rel="cached" data-hash="60f569bd7371da1c3cfad88b278b484f" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://memoriesduncargol.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/horse.png)
Jaroslav Hašek, Žižkov
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi380.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Foo246%2Fbuild_album%2FHasek-nepras-01-800.jpg&hash=4db5e5f545bc9b53fc0c18e5cb5f7e0b" rel="cached" data-hash="4db5e5f545bc9b53fc0c18e5cb5f7e0b" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i380.photobucket.com/albums/oo246/build_album/Hasek-nepras-01-800.jpg)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FlaAXfSg.jpg&hash=594fdb8996aef06f0ec52a1cf317adfb" rel="cached" data-hash="594fdb8996aef06f0ec52a1cf317adfb" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/laAXfSg.jpg) (http://www.theproduceguide.com/pimage/prod196.jpg)
It's not exactly a horse. We call it хрен here.
It's not exactly a horse.
It's horseradish and it's in the spirit of the topic. Unlike your (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/253164678/offtopic.gif) post.
Post pictures here related to horses in some way or another.
It's not exactly a radish either. It fits in here, as well as in the Not Exactly A Radish thread.
(In Norwegian it is called pepperrot, pepper root. So it also belongs in the group of culinary items not called pepper in English, but in some other language. Versatile thing.)
I just had a random horse born. A little later than I had guessed, but not by much. Another one due any day now. I'll post pictures of them after the other one gets here... If I remember.
Sounds cute.
Freaking adorable. I've got too many but I just can't stop, lol. :)
What to do with them is becoming an issue. Most aren't much more than lead broke. Problem is I wouldn't take what they're worth for any of them.
As promised. Here are my new baby boys...
Here's the first one:
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F5Z8VplS.png&hash=9d3b4a9de4f22f781633175fc6178a71" rel="cached" data-hash="9d3b4a9de4f22f781633175fc6178a71" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/5Z8VplS.png)
And born today:
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FNcKKEKS.jpg&hash=8da087122b9caae419db508bbcd2bb85" rel="cached" data-hash="8da087122b9caae419db508bbcd2bb85" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/NcKKEKS.jpg)
Some togetherness:
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FwDAwT2Z.png&hash=d5900c7e0109c0092d991a03aab4d624" rel="cached" data-hash="d5900c7e0109c0092d991a03aab4d624" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/wDAwT2Z.png)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fj8ON80Y.jpg&hash=a64d20c49753fed912d2c849066217e0" rel="cached" data-hash="a64d20c49753fed912d2c849066217e0" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/j8ON80Y.jpg)
And more of the little one... I've got tons. :)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fyio7TXO.jpg&hash=d245b11c99dd7e5f63cd5b9e724fd689" rel="cached" data-hash="d245b11c99dd7e5f63cd5b9e724fd689" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/yio7TXO.jpg)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FSnAcAdM.jpg&hash=18b571d9c09616cc27c5d8510f2eec89" rel="cached" data-hash="18b571d9c09616cc27c5d8510f2eec89" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/SnAcAdM.jpg)
Bahahaha....
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F9cBV4Ob.png&hash=c6df0d73ad8536665c03e864fdd6ad4e" rel="cached" data-hash="c6df0d73ad8536665c03e864fdd6ad4e" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/9cBV4Ob.png)
Feel free to contribute to the naming pool!
One more. So adorable. :love:
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FpXptDSl.png&hash=4db21fd356d528d5dde415ac4b3eba83" rel="cached" data-hash="4db21fd356d528d5dde415ac4b3eba83" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/pXptDSl.png)
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WmJOhbpyKY[/video]
That's what you call skill. Amazing. (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/253164678/Applause.gif)
Aww. Sweet pics! My mind is currently drawing a blank beyond something cliché like Hoefje (Little Hoof). :P
Edit: umm, that was a reply to the post from 1.5 months ago. :doh: :whistle:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BuCrt1dCYAAINbV.jpg:large)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjRndltIIAANruG.jpg)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eexploria.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F08%2Ftrojan-horse-virus-symptoms.gif&hash=c8fe7307748e32998d0433d533565738" rel="cached" data-hash="c8fe7307748e32998d0433d533565738" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://www.eexploria.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/trojan-horse-virus-symptoms.gif)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fgulfnews.com%2Fpolopoly_fs%2F1.1381521%21%2Fimage%2F846886909.jpg_gen%2Fderivatives%2Fbox_475%2F846886909.jpg&hash=c0a68990f9ec76012ff0614431fe78d7" rel="cached" data-hash="c0a68990f9ec76012ff0614431fe78d7" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://gulfnews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1381521!/image/846886909.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_475/846886909.jpg)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.architectureoflife.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F07%2Fjansch_atlar_17.jpg&hash=6b82d16abf8043449e09631606c9154d" rel="cached" data-hash="6b82d16abf8043449e09631606c9154d" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://www.architectureoflife.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/jansch_atlar_17.jpg)
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-0ACt7i2JZD0/VHXQG6lgTGI/AAAAAAACL-w/gOKEQSX-7ZY/w968-h569-no/IMG_0141-EFFECTS.jpg)
Aww. Sweet pics! My mind is currently drawing a blank beyond something cliché like Hoefje (Little Hoof). :P
Edit: umm, that was a reply to the post from 1.5 months ago. :doh: :whistle:
Cliche names in another language pass just fine actually. IDK why I never thought of that. I've run out of the English variety. Two of my
three (now) four donkeys (Right, they making babies too.) are just called Jack and Jenny. But that's like naming a rock, Stone.
So, is that pronounced like Hoofie?
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FrryxouT.jpg&hash=aa6a2523dbaa8af9cf6310e75ffceefc" rel="cached" data-hash="aa6a2523dbaa8af9cf6310e75ffceefc" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/rryxouT.jpg)
So, is that pronounced like Hoofie?
That's the diminutive in my informal native variety of Dutch, but in Standard Dutch it's hoof-yuh. I'd consider both pronunciations more or less interchangeable. In informal Belgian Dutch it'd be
hoefke (hoof-kuh).
Compare cookie, borrowed from Hollandic
koekie, with Standard Dutch
koekje (cook-yuh). In Belgian Dutch that'd be
koekske (cook-skuh).
Btw, if you're looking for something "exotic" there's whole databases full of e.g. horse names: http://www.paardennamen.nl/ And this forum has some donkey names: http://www.12forum.nl/forum/bericht.php?ID=554&tID=482&fID=1 (I'm sure most will work for any hoofed animal.)
Thx ;D
You have now named a horse. The lighter colored and younger of the two is yours.
Haha, awesome.
In a few hours it's the end of this year of the horse. Midnight Beijing time (seven hours from now), we enter the year of the wood goat (or sheep if you prefer).
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chilture.com%2Fimages%2Fchinese-paintings%2Fchinese-horse-painting.jpg&hash=758c23b2011f0e8c81fc630fc6028226" rel="cached" data-hash="758c23b2011f0e8c81fc630fc6028226" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://www.chilture.com/images/chinese-paintings/chinese-horse-painting.jpg)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.animalliberationfront.com%2FNews%2FAnimalPhotos%2FAnimals_51-60%2Fgoat_horse.jpg&hash=9a514f17879e935e15dd5314ba45d30f" rel="cached" data-hash="9a514f17879e935e15dd5314ba45d30f" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://www.animalliberationfront.com/News/AnimalPhotos/Animals_51-60/goat_horse.jpg)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FnnhddZJ.jpg&hash=9b27b9753cee36f98ef2ef85a4a2f368" rel="cached" data-hash="9b27b9753cee36f98ef2ef85a4a2f368" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/nnhddZJ.jpg)
Here we go again. I was hoping for a girl from this one. She hasn't got any daughters yet.
Still cute. (Still needs a name.)
How about Bobbie, after the Dutch name for Milou (Snowy), Tintin's dog. :P
Sometimes it's best to look a gift horse in the mouth!
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbiR6IMf5KQ[/video]
A Horse With No Name...
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02EsC1M8wto[/video]
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.guim.co.uk%2Fsys-images%2FGuardian%2FPix%2Fpictures%2F2009%2F02%2F10%2Fwhitehorse276.jpg&hash=2de1a16ac0f8cfef0af3644d4c5d4e05" rel="cached" data-hash="2de1a16ac0f8cfef0af3644d4c5d4e05" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/02/10/whitehorse276.jpg)
Shooting horse.
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2F31.media.tumblr.com%2Fa60970d96797d9682a9ca5615fe89f58%2Ftumblr_my8jl8Xx2k1t6fz7oo1_500.gif&hash=c29518eaf984ec6b2f4d15c0c340b2f7" rel="cached" data-hash="c29518eaf984ec6b2f4d15c0c340b2f7" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://31.media.tumblr.com/a60970d96797d9682a9ca5615fe89f58/tumblr_my8jl8Xx2k1t6fz7oo1_500.gif)
And....
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Festy.ancients.info%2Fnumis%2Fapollo.jpg&hash=f330695482c8194353630d9b0079febc" rel="cached" data-hash="f330695482c8194353630d9b0079febc" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://esty.ancients.info/numis/apollo.jpg)
How about Bobbie
I have an uncle and friend named Bobby. I better not. :) But thanks for the suggestion.
Judged by some to be the most beautiful horse alive.
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.metaspoon.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F04%2Fhorse1.jpg&hash=7da51ae2e581a8a8fdee54f0c839fef5" rel="cached" data-hash="7da51ae2e581a8a8fdee54f0c839fef5" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://www.metaspoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/horse1.jpg)
Not all horses can be trusted.
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fvoidlive.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F03%2F8-troy-trojan-horse.jpg&hash=7a16cbd4738bd68d97c9b7046d8da119" rel="cached" data-hash="7a16cbd4738bd68d97c9b7046d8da119" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://voidlive.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/8-troy-trojan-horse.jpg)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQpy6E0WwAANebY.png)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FqvWPGwG.jpg&hash=4b82439fb63c3b12f20cf4a3c2edf179" rel="cached" data-hash="4b82439fb63c3b12f20cf4a3c2edf179" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/qvWPGwG.jpg)
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FgRICg2r.jpg&hash=8ce2ea6bcec6fc75587890146301d670" rel="cached" data-hash="8ce2ea6bcec6fc75587890146301d670" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/gRICg2r.jpg)
It's a boy!
**passes out cigars**
:happy: Thinking about naming him Bosley.
Woohoo! Pics are broken?
Edit: loaded now
(https://ersi.vivaldi.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/308/2019/07/IMG_20190728_164341_959-1024x1024.jpg)
Is he a super hero?
Reminds me, I've got some catching up to do here... See if I can remember my imgur login.
See if I can remember my imgur login.
I found that Xfce Screenshooter can post to Imgur without requiring a login. Been using it ever since.
Yeah, but then you lose whatever sense of ownership you might've had. Often it doesn't matter, but sometimes it might. :)
I don't own those horses. And after uploading anything on the internet, why would anyone pretend they still own it?
So catching up...
After Bosley there's Daisy:
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FydjRg4h.jpg&hash=4ca1a4acf31ecb15e1ca5a0977ddffdd" rel="cached" data-hash="4ca1a4acf31ecb15e1ca5a0977ddffdd" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/ydjRg4h.jpg) (https://imgur.com/ydjRg4h)
And Dixie (sleeping?):
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F8tTbfOa.jpg&hash=faa253e52bfa126b1ec59e820b8f63b9" rel="cached" data-hash="faa253e52bfa126b1ec59e820b8f63b9" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/8tTbfOa.jpg) (https://imgur.com/8tTbfOa)
Next there's Jax, the OP's namesake ( @jax ):
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FhOJaj7w.jpg&hash=bb3fb9e5f91bb94b86dec48a434bf7ca" rel="cached" data-hash="bb3fb9e5f91bb94b86dec48a434bf7ca" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/hOJaj7w.jpg) (https://imgur.com/hOJaj7w)
And a year later Chauncey:
(https://dndsanctuary.eu/imagecache.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FdEwp8Iz.jpg&hash=1311a197456ddd37893ac7e4cebe4574" rel="cached" data-hash="1311a197456ddd37893ac7e4cebe4574" data-warn="External image, click here to view original" data-url="http://i.imgur.com/dEwp8Iz.jpg) (https://imgur.com/dEwp8Iz)
Jax and Chauncey together... :zip:
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And more recently Daisy had her first, Patches. (Let my niece name it - :lol: - sounds like a cat's name.:right:)
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And about a month ago; Graci:
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She is sleeping...
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And lastly, a cheeky group shot. :P
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Dixie's front and center.
I counted ten horses... What do you do with so many horses? they don't seem to be working horses and I suppose you don't eat them.
Educative/decorative for the children? You sell them?
Anyway, they are fine animals, very American style. :)
Those horses look edible, but might be purely decorative.
I counted ten horses...
Are you sure you didn't miscount? ;)
Anyway, they are fine animals, very American style. :)
Thank you. Although if memory serves they're a Scottish breed.
They are glorified pets. I started with three, a male and two females. It's gotten out of hand in the last decade or so. Up to 14 at last count.
What to do with them has always been the question. Suggestions are things like: teach them to pull a cart, do pony rides, teach them special tricks and/or sell them. We taught one to bow for an apple and you have no idea how many times people have asked if I rent them for rides at parties. I'm not quite redneck enough to own a cart and tack for it - but that is one of the more adorable options. They all get lead broke; learn to follow on a lead and stand where you tie them for brushing/trimming hair and hooves . I don't actively try to saddle break them but some have picked it up better than others. Learning can be rough, they don't
want to cooperate and learn stuff but they have to. So at times I have to wear them down a bit so they don't just fight me and thus figure out that what I need from them ain't so bad. The fastest way to get to them tired is a mock rodeo. Let them haul me up and down the corral rodeo-style a few times and suddenly listening to me isn't the worst thing. Chauncey is the only one so far to hack my method. As soon as I put a halter on him, he ragdolls. Not even gracefully - just suddenly he pretends he has no bones, lol. Equal measures cute and aggravating.
So basically - I have no idea what I'm doing with them. Sustainability is eventually going to be a problem. The field can only support so many, but that number is still pretty far off.
I've had plenty of other saddle and quarter horses over the years. None of which have been a problem for me to sell. Something about raising them from a baby makes it hard to let go.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENIVksmX0AAs8np?format=jpg)
Horse named Clancey. Turtle named Booger.
Moose TV! https://www.svtplay.se/video/30719926/den-stora-algvandringen/den-stora-algvandringen-sasong-3-26-apr-08-00-1
I have watched that from time to time, seeing several slow-moving trees, usually in company.
That post leads to a classification question: How horsey is a moose? Horses are odd-toed ungulates, like e..g. tapirs, while moose are even-toed like pigs, cows, and whales. Is this a horse?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmeCaAwEtUI
Not really random, but very topical to horsedom.
Origin of domestic horses finally established (https://www.cnrs.fr/en/origin-domestic-horses-finally-established)
(https://www.cnrs.fr/sites/default/files/inline-images/Ginnerup.jpg)
This strategy paid off: although Eurasia was once populated by genetically distinct horse populations, a dramatic change had occurred between 2000 and 2200 BC. A genetic profile, previously confined to the Pontic steppes (North Caucasus)3 (https://www.cnrs.fr/en/origin-domestic-horses-finally-established#footnoteref3_jyh6k8c), began to spread beyond its native region, replacing all the wild horse populations from the Atlantic to Mongolia within a few centuries.
This is quite fascinating because of the time and the place. The Kurgan hypothesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgan_hypothesis) has been victorious the last couple decades, merging a Yamnaya culture (archeological findings), a language group (Indo-European), and genetic mapping into a fairly coherent picture. And domestication of horses (not yet horseriding, but wagons) has been the hypothesized driver that spread these Ukrainians (more or less) over wide parts of Eurasia.
And the place fits perfectly, but time not so much. 4200 ya is at least a millennium
after the Proto-Indo-European speaking tribes started emigrating from Ukraine (or thereabout).
Now, all tame horses today can trace their roots back to these Caucasian horses, but they were not the first domesticated horses. The same team had earlier established that Botai horses (https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/node/2636), tamed more than 5500 ya, were not the ancestors of today's tame horses. But they
were the ancestors of Przewalski's horses, previously assumed to be original wild horses, but that would be feral horses instead.
The research is EU funded by the slightly confusingly named Pegasus project (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/681605) (because of another Pegasus project (https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project))
Oh, and while this Nova documentary, First Horse Warriors (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/first-horse-warriors/), is from 2019 and thus positively ancient in the history of horses, it tells a similar story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I74S96TMMLM
I've been reading (parts of) the French Wikipedia article of the day now for two or possibly more years. There's an astonishing amount of horses among those.
I've been reading (parts of) the French Wikipedia article of the day now for two or possibly more years. There's an astonishing amount of horses among those.
You mean that there is a CNRS cabal behind both modern horse genealogy and French Wikipedia? I could well imagine that.
For a while there was a horse almost every day. If you look at the program (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Lumi%C3%A8re_sur) right now, you can see that the Nivernais (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nivernais_(cheval)) is up on November 7. They've reduced the frequency a bit.
At the top of the page you can browse the history. For example, here's September 2019 (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Lumi%C3%A8re_sur/Septembre_2019).
The research is EU funded by the slightly confusingly named Pegasus project (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/681605) (because of another Pegasus project (https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/pegasus-project))
And another Pegasus project, my second love in the realm of email. The project seems to have recently re-enlivened http://www.pmail.com/devnews.htm
The absolute first email app I knew and loved was 'pine'.
Today's horse in French Wikipedia is fantastic and legendary, as they say,
Article labellisé du jour
Morvarc'h (en breton : « cheval de mer ») est un cheval fantastique du légendaire breton,...
Since you all are into Wikipedia horses, I checked to see if it was possible to constrain the wikipedia random generator to horses, and sure it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Horses
Here is first catch
#1
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Ritt_zum_Kufenstechen.jpg/800px-Ritt_zum_Kufenstechen.jpg)
#2
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Kazakh_shepard_with_dogs_and_horse.jpg)
#3
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Wildpferde_Tripsdrill.jpg/800px-Wildpferde_Tripsdrill.jpg)