Search results

I am hoping someone can direct me to a thread that gives Show tips and preparation tips for showing a miniature.. What type of products they use and helpful techniques too.... I know their are threads out there on this, but my searches are coming up empty. Thanks..

I have someone overseas asking about the possibility of shipping frozen semen to Europe. Although this practice is known to be successful, and commonly done with the larger breeds of horses, I have not heard it done yet with the miniature breed. I see some miniature ads saying that they ship...

Max has the run of an acre of a whole pasture, with trees, but a few nights ago he must have run into a skunk.. I suppose he thought he would get in real close, and check the little guy out, and had himself a smelly encounter. It smells like he got sprayed on his head, and neck, and Im...

This foal was born by Dianne and Sarah's Buckskin mare last week, that was crossed with my Stallion. They said it was ok to post him. He's not short on the friendliness factor, so it was challenging trying to get good photos. He also has some intresting green eyes . They are wondering if...

Just wondering out there if anyone has tried this hauler.. They were very helpful in the beginning,- but now we cant reach them. We have a couple of mini's on board with them, for a few days now, and for days no-one has been awnsering their phone at their office or on the road. I dont know if...

Here's our last foal for this year.. This boy was born in the middle of the night, and dried off by the time I found him at 4:00 am yesterday, :DOH! He is out of our Gold/Cream Champagne mare, and our Classic Champagne Stallion, Please welcome Platinum Stables newest Classic Champagne colt...

I missed the birth, as I was fixing dinner, :DOH! and once again she foaled in the pasture. It was pretty dark, and I really could'nt see very well when I looked outside at her at about 6:30 pm.. But I could tell something was different in the shadows.. There in the grass was a little head...

My neighbor and I are looking to buy a used easy entry cart to drive our A sized mini's in.. We've found one that seems to fit all of our requirements, but we are not sure about the length that the shafts should be. This one measures 48" from the back to the tip of the shafts. We are thinking...

Ok.... I bred two of my own this year,- This mare took right away, and I had to re-breed the other to get her to settle. Desert Golds Crescent moon, AKA Mariah is due in mid-January of 08. (Shown here at 9 1/2 months) The picture quality is not too good,( Blurry I know) - but Devon did a...

Ok, I cant stand it.. I want in on this too. I have a filly that I would love to hear comments on.. I have several pictures of her but will just put up this one for now.. She is a little hefty from free hay feeding, so she could stand to lose some weight I know.

Lately I have been noticing a ton of flies on my horses, and they have been attacking the face mostly on my poor mini's... I use a variety of fly masks, and as usual they usually dont stay on the horse til the end of the day, and I have to put them back on.. (And yes, I even have the combat...

I dont mean to sound too ignorant here, but I have a "red chestnut mare" that came from a Silver Bay Buckeroo Granddaughter.. She foaled a filly that was a brownish tan color. For some reason when I clipped off this filly's darker coat, at 4 months old, she was very light whitish golden color...

Just now I am able to post pictures, as we did not have them ready before. I missed the whole birth, although we had the mare on camera, for two months.. Hubby turned off the monitor for 10 minutes, durring the day on friday to watch the basketball game.. :lol: By the time we figgured that...

I have noticed quite a few weanlings from places with legs that seem to flare out after the knee joint. Thus giving a slight appearance of toeing out at the front.. Some breeders are telling me that this is typical of a younger horse, and that all will straighten out in time.. My question...

Well for not having this mare on a monitor we were all surprised as she did not ever get very big. But I knew she was bagging up, but still thought we had some time to go before the monitors got hooked up.. So as soon as dawn hit, to see well enough in the pasture, we could tell there was...

Yes, this is our second resident skunk, (the first one died for some reason, and was removed) and for some reason they just love to camp out in our barn.. Now mind you all of my grain is kept up and high out of varmits range, and other than escaping our 115 degree weather, I dont know why a...

I sold this brown and white pinto mare to a friend of mine, and she brought her back to me- to breed to my cremello stallion, in 05.....Almost 1 year later we had a baby filly over a month ago, and low and behold, it was a cremello/pinto. : Now correct me if I am wrong,- but doesn’t it...

I am wondering if any one out there uses a "water softening system" with their horses. My hubby installed one a while back, (potassium based) and I found out that my horse auto waters are hooked up to it. I can continue to use it on my horses, or switch them back over to the origional city...

I have a mini that is good at removing his fly mask -especially when I'm not around to put it back on.. In our climate the flys are still quite pesky, and I would like to use something safe around the eye area, that wont irritate the skin. Do you have any more natural suggesstions? I really...

I am wondering how many out there in Iowa show, and train for showing their minis.... I have a friend located in "Chariton, Iowa", that is thinking about showing a Stallion that she has recently purchased from me. She is hoping to find someone out her way that she could maybe visit with...