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My reason for waiting is that I bought him as a stallion prospect. But evidently even the retention of a testicle at all, even in the ring, is a negative trait you don't want to pass on, from what I am hearing. Never ran into this with our big horses very often. Is this more common in minis?

You hit the nail on the head. I did buy him as a stud prospect, that was my only reason for waiting. But I think you are right in that it is not a trait you want to pass on.

I have aA App colt who will be 2 this summer. He only has one testicle down. My young vet tells me that horses are either born with 2 down or not. Other horse people tell me otherwise. I remember that when we were breeding big horses, there were some we waited a little longer on to geld, to...

I gelded my older Appendix QH stallion, and he did very well. I left him separated from other horses for about a month, then eventually he was able to go out with our big mixed herd and be a regular horse. Don't know if every one of them adapts as well as he did, but he was a wonderful gelding.

Beautiful!

Teresa, but could a champagne appear black and white? Her eyes are really dark, not amber, but I didn't even realize they were blue until I was looking at pix of her as a baby. They were definitely blue, but darker.

People were very kind in helping me indentify that my pinto mare with one blue eye was a tovero, and I have read that the blue eyes normally occur in certain pinto coat patterns, not usually in tobianos. Next question is -- I have a filly who is a defninte tobiano, is out of a solid buckskin...

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Buckskin pinto stallion, au natural!

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