The warm weather should be back in a while. Once it warms up again, the kids and I are going to get a ton of work done around here. The first project is stall cleaning, and then moving some hay and grain, also pushing the manure in the hole and doing some barn office stuff. I can’t wait to have their help.
When the weather is nice the horses just love it. Almost every one of them a week or so ago was laying flat out in the sun catching some rays. It is a little scary at first as you do not expect to see three horses laying next to each other looking like they are dead. Finally when you walk up to them they get up and look at you and say,”What are you doing waking me up? Can’t you see if is 70 degrees out?”. Anyways that it what it looks like they are saying.
There has been a great deal of posting on the appaloosa message boards about letting “Cropouts” into our appaloosa registry. I actually voted against this rule, but the idea was that there are now some registered quarter horses that are coming up with appaloosa coat patterns. They are registered and have paperwork and even are genetically verified as full quarter horses, yet they look like appaloosas. The motion was made at our last board meeting that since we are allowed to outcross to quarter horses anyway and they have the correct markings, we should allow them into our registry. This has made alot of people mad as the only way to get an appaloosa is to have the appaloosa genes in the horse. I voted against this because I realized that somewhere no matter how far back these horses pedigrees are incorrect, and we should not want to allow incorrect information into our database, even though genetically they are probably not very different than our true appaloosas.
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