FFFS: The Cremello Stud!

I have ads now! Thank you so much everyone! 


Lets jump right in, shall we? 

MAKE AN OFFER! Thunder Head is coming 3 year old stallion who will be expectin his first foal as of 2011. He has not had any training other than leading, and trailering. He is a very gentle stallion with a very mellow personality. He is never rough with the mares and he is pastured with another stallion so you can see how dosile he is. Built very well, with a big round rump and wide chest he should mature between 15 and 16 hands. With his pedigree and color he will make babies worth $$$. Email for pictures. 


This sounds so promising, doesn't it? Do we really need to see the pictures of this one? 


AQHA cremello stallion, barely 3, bred already, barely halterbroke, and his greatest claim to fame is he goes in a trailer and gets along with another stallion. 


Let me jump right ON THAT!!! Right? 

Ok, we all know that the best place in the world to sell your fugly, dirty, un-broke colored baby stallion is right next to the...

What the hell is that thing? Its got hay in it - or what once WAS hay - now it looks dried out and has as much nutritional value as cardboard. Some sort of metal/iron contraption that is made to do... something. 


Either way it makes a GREAT hay rack, doesn't it!? *insert dripping sarcasm here*


And - I'm hoping its just the picture - but is it just me or is his front legs toed out some? That off side front leg is at a really weird angle for the way he's standing - he's about as far from 'squared up' as a trapezoid, but that hoof definitely ain't straight forward. 


Its got a funky semi-not-quite-so-rare-anymore color on him. Cremellos are becoming more and more common only because people have figured out what genetics create them. The sad part, just like every other 'color' thats rare or dilute, people breed just for the color and forget things like straight legs! We don't need no stinkin' straight legs! Who really cares if their horse can't walk for 4 hours without going lame on soft arena ground! 


He's purrrrrrrrttyyyyyyyyyyy.


Most of the fugly stallions I have posted on here would make cute geldings. This guy? I can't even bring myself to say cute! He's depressed, his head shot shows that in his eye, needs some TLC, a bath, and some decent quality hay, and he might actually be a pretty sturdy mount. 


But not in the condition he's in now!


Thanks Nancy!

A Different Kind Of Fugly Featured Stallion...

Today I am going to poke a bit of fun at myself. 


I have my own 'Fugly Featured Stallion' sitting in front of me, staring at me, saying 'fix me, fix me!'

So this is one of the Breyer horses I have being worked on currently, and for those that don't remember, he started out looking like this: 

Then went to this: 

Then he got the start of wings, a better tail, and A HEAD!

Those wings took the better part of 2 hours to put together. The shape kept eluding me, and finally I had to cheat a little bit by printing out a skeletal outline of a hawk's wing structure to get the general idea of what they needed to be shaped like. 

That is what he looked like till last night. 

The wings got bulked out with Amazing Sculpt, and then I had the thought to create a thin 'membrane' to sculpt the actual wings over but wasn't sure how to do it. Some digging around in my sculpting box uncovered a brand new package of cheesecloth, so it got picked for the job. 

My hope was that I could squish it into the under bones of the wings, and when the Amazing Sculpt dried, it would be permanently affixed. Which is mostly what it did. About halfway through the curing process I tested it in a corner and found that it was sticking, but with enough force, would lift up. 

So I grabbed my super glue, and ran a thin small line of glue down the long, main bone on each side. That did the final trick, and now that cheesecloth isn't going anywhere. 

Now, I need to figure out what to put over the cheese cloth to make it look even more wing like. I was originally thinking more Amazing Sculpt, but a quick test on that last night proved that it won't stick to the cheese cloth very well at all. Initially it would, but when I started the attempt to smooth it out, it lifted right up. 

So, now I'm thinking maybe liquid latex or something of the sort. I'll have to search around some and see whats out there to use. 

So, while he's not an actual 'real' horse, he still started out as a stallion, and I'd say right now he's still in some pretty ugly stages! *giggle*

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I am also going to take this moment for a shameless promotional plug, and inform everyone of something I have currently on ebay. 

http://cgi.ebay.com/Problem-Solving-Clinton-Anderson-DVD-/170528219017?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0#ht_634wt_930

Two years ago, I bought this off of his website, watched it once, realized I already was doing or knew how to fix all of these 'issues' and was a bit mad at myself cause I wasted $160. Its been up in a closet since, and I'd rather use the money to fund my sculpting habit. 

Its got some bids on it now, so I'm not so much looking to 'drive up the price' but if there is anyone out there looking for this, or might be interested, there you go. If someone on the blog ends up buying it, I'll take the shipping charge off. 

FFFS: What....?! OH NO You Didn't...

Gak. Its 1 am Friday morning, I have to be at work in ...... 7 hours? Such is the life of an insomniac. 


Ok. Friday. Friday Stallion time! 


You'll all just LOVE this one! Especially those of you that rescue horses...

Haflinger Stallion for Sale 500$ - $500 (Clayton Ny)

Tony was a rescue and he was severly underweight when I got him. I was told that he had come off a 600 horse breeding operation. After much TLC and groceries he is in perfect health. Tony is 17 years old and a proven breeder. He has breed both my mares and the one is due in a few short months. He is pastured with my mares and cows of all ages at the moment. He shows no aggressive tendancies and when he breeds he is very gentle. (no biting or kicking) My younger sister can walk up to him. He is a beautiful horse and very sweet. When I got him I was told that he was broke to drive. I do not know how to drive so I have not testeed him in that area. I know that when I put someone up on his back he had no idea what was happening so I am assuming he is either not broke to ride or has not been ridden in a very long time. I have gone off to college and cant expect my mother to be taking care of both of my mares and foals, along with a stallion so a good home is what I am asking for. If you have any questions or want more pictures just email me at IMATOTALMORON@IDIOT.COM

Don't you just want to go up to that person, and to borrow a very fun phrase - whack-a-moron-with-a-clue-bat? 

                                                                      

I know Halfies aren't supposed to be draft horse heavy, and if this guy needed some serious groceries then I WILL give her props for getting him back to a normal weight. He still looks a bit beat up around the edges, but thats pasture condition for you. 

What I want to know is why the HELL are they breeding a RESCUE HORSE?????

Does that make a LICK of sense to anyone out there? 

Generally as a rule legit 501(c) horse rescues will NOT EVER adopt out a whole male horse. Boy Bits get removed as soon as the horse can handle the surgery. 

So that is telling us that this person did not get this horse from a legit rescue org, but instead privately. 

We need more people rescuing horses. I'm not against that. 

I'm against the BREEDING OF RESCUED and REHABBED STALLIONS! 

For $500 I would be ALL over this guy if he wasn't on the other side of the country from me. Another $300 for the snip snip, and for less than a grand I'm in with an awesome project gelding who already drives? HOLY COW. Throw him into a refresher course with someone that knows what they are doing, retrain/refresh with some basic under saddle lessons, and you'll have yourself a heck of a horse! 

(P.S. - Halfies are some of the hardiest trail horses you'll ever find - and most of them are absolutely AWESOME with kids too!)

JUST STOP BREEDING HIM!


Oh, and by the way, who the hell nowadays has a 600!!!!! horse breeding operation that starves their horses, and why hasn't THAT been in the horsey interwebz news gossip rounds????

{EDIT: You know, I had to come back in to add this - if they are that close to the Canadian border, would the PMU farms use Halflinger stallions as crosses on the draft mares? I thought they were using higher quality Quarter Horse, Warmblood, a Thoroughbred stallions to improve the quality of the foals they were producing? Was just a thought. A PMU farm would produce that many animals per year, but I doubt they would starve the horses that badly? Am I wrong there? Ok, this is going into an entirely different topic.}

I also have a friday bonus for everyone. Yea! This is something for everyone to really ponder the absolute asinine moronic senseless dangerous kid killing mind numbing (ok, running out of appropriate adjectives here...) stupidity. 

Yes, I blew it up as big as blogger will let me {Edit: had to reduce the size down to the Large, not X-Large, it didn't all fit} because I think this needs to be a HUGE MASSIVE GIANT ENORMOUS poster with a huge red circle/slash for why some people should NEVER EVER OWN MINIATURE HORSES OR ANY HORSES EVER AT ALL. NEVER. We can roll it up and use it as our own 'clue bat', yes?

Do you see the lead rope and where it goes? Tied to the fence, 10+ feet long, running UNDER the belly between the legs and attached to the halter. When I saved this picture, I actually named it 'lets kill our kid today' because thats exactly what I see happening here. 

I don't care how big or small your horse is. This is an accident waiting to happen. Even a mini of this small stature can seriously harm or kill this kid if he makes the wrong step, gets caught up in that lead rope, and freaks out. There is a fence behind him that can easily trap that kid, and even a mini's small hooves, when driven into a child's skull, can kill, or at the least, disable the child to a vegetable fed by tubes the rest of his miserable bed ridden life. 

Let us also throw out the fun fact that I happen to know this miniature is..... wait for it ........ A STUD! I know, I know, total shocker, right?

I"m going to make an educated guess and say that the guy with the three spare tires is either dad, granddad, or an uncle. I doubt it would be anyone else - I certainly HOPE its not the owner/manager of whatever property this happens to be because DAMN. Talk about a total and complete lack of common sense. Well, actually, let's rephrase that.

The guy is a complete air headed idiot if he doesn't see the danger in this situation.

Do I really even have to say that this should have never been taken to begin with, because anyone with 2 salt shakers worth of intelligence would see the inherent danger here and not just yank that child off of this animals back, then carefully un-tangle the lead from under the barrel, and shorten that lead up about 16,656,572 feet. 

The very, very,VERY first rule I ever learned about tying a horse up is you never ever let the lead rope go beyond the length of your arm. That was the very first thing I ever got drilled into my head when it came to safety on the ground. That was even before the slip knot - because us beginner kids weren't actually tying the horses leads to the hitching posts, the adults did it. The knots came after a few lessons, and only if the kid/student showed common sense in actually retaining the safety lessons being drilled in mentally. The second rule was always tie at eye level or higher. (Those of you with chronic pullers/set back-ers (?) will understand that one very well!) Third was the slip knot. Fourth was never tie on slick, untextured surfaces if you can help it, etc. There were ten altogether.

My childhood riding instructor was a professional level 3 Day Eventer who was extremely strict about safety both on the ground and mounted. I have no regrets whatsoever being started out by her, because she created a foundation of safe handling practices that to this day, I will never forget - but more importantly, STILL FOLLOW.

I sincerely hope that anyone out there that sees this, and thinks I'm being too harsh/this is just a cute photo opportunity picture, please speak up in the comments. I'd love to discuss the topic of child / horse safety with you and find out why this situation is "OK" to have happen. 

I will come back with evidence after evidence of accidents that happen from situation just like this one where the kid ended up a permanent disabled person, or six feet under. As will several other people that read regularly. 

This picture came in an ad, the mini is for sale: 

We have a miniature paint horse in need of a good home. We do not have the time for him that he needs and deserves. He is a stud but he is very sweet. He is cart trained and broke to ride. The price is not firm. If interested let me know ASAP. $300 OBO 

This picture is one of the biggest examples of the words YOU FAIL I have ever seen!

On that so joyous note... I'm off to bed! 

(The Halflinger stallion from today as well as yesterday's ad were picked out of  rescueahorse's daily email. She picks out ads from all over the country and puts them in one long email - I know she doesn't do this just for me but WOW, thank you very much for adding me to your list! Makes my work so much easier here :). Thats also how I knew the city mentioned was in or around NY, it was in series of emails of ads from NY that took several different posts to get out completely. Thank you very much Lynn for your hard work, and I hope you don't mind me ripping some of them apart here. :) 

The miniature stallion picture was provided by Boyfriend Chant du Coeur.)

FFFS - QH Stallion

This is a case of a stallion that might actually one day be well known - if he had owners that actually KNEW how to market a stallion prospect. 

This is so obviously NOT the way to market a stallion prospect. I wonder if they even groomed him for this picture, or if they just simply put the halter on him and took 5 steps backwards to take the picture. 

If I were actually looking to breed a mare right now - I would consider this guy just on his bloodlines alone. But, that picture would turn me away in about 2.3 seconds. And I wouldn't give him a second thought. 

Sonny Dee Bar/Peppy San Badger QH Stud!!! - $250 Heza Rappin Cowboy 2002 Black Quarter Horse Stallion standing at stud for 2010 breeding season. Ringo stands at 14.3 Jet black with a TON of muscle! Great confirmation and an impeccable disposition. Very calm for a stallion, VERY willing to please and LOVES to be loved on, I believe he will carry down his amazing traits to his foals. Ringo's breeding fee is low because he is new to breeding. 


Sonny Dee Bar, Peppy San Badger, Three Bars, Poco Bueno, Blondys Dude, Reynolds Rap, Win or Lose, Mr Bar None, King are all in his bloodlines!!!! If you want a nice speed prospect or halter prospect with GREAT bloodlines... This could be the stud to breed to!!! :) 

Dam: Dudes Fashion Bug 
Sire: Rappin Ringo 


PLEASE SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY! NO SPAM!!! 


Like I said, I actually would consider this horse as a stallion prospect if he were cleaned up, presented to show him in the absolutely best way possible, AND if they actually mentioned some sort of performance record. As he is presented right now, we have no idea if he's ever even left that mud filled pasture he's pictured in ONE TIME in his entire life. Thats not a good thought to put into a mare owners head when they are stallion shopping.

I've been over the whole bad picture thing with other stallions before - ad nauseum. So I won't rant over that again here. But this is a perfect example of a stallion that might actually be GREAT, if he was just marketed the right way.

(Again, I have lost track of who sent me this and if it was sent. I need a better system for that!)

BTW, I didn't win the ebay auction on the Breyer Appy that wasn't an Appy that I posted earlier this week. Someone outbid me by a whole $.25 Cents while I was at work 2 nights ago lol. Oh Well. I'm sure there will be others in the future ;).

And, I have listed the Amber CM up for sale on the MH$B. Just curious to see if it will sell as it is. If it doesn't I'll try my hand at painting it and hopefully *not* ruin it ;-).

HAPPY 100TH POST!

I can't believe I made it to 100! And People actually read! Thats what amazes me - is you all actually read this!

And as promised, I have the update on the horse you all have asked me about. 

Comet. :D

And this is him now!

Can you BELIEVE thats the SAME horse? 

From Megan herself: 

Hi, earlier this year, you wrote a blog about a horse named Comet. I'm the girl who rescued him. I just wanted to update you on how he's doing. He's gained over 100lbs since I got him in March. I'm also starting to break him. I've ridden him a good 5 times, and he's very eager to learn. I have a couple of pictures I'm attaching to show you how much he's changed in the few months he's had with me. '

Then she sent the 'full' story: 

So, I was supposed to go to New Hampshire for a riding internship, but things didn't work out, so I told my dad instead of me leaving, I wanted to get another horse. So I went and looked at dozens of horses, came close to buying a few, but nothing really stuck out. Like you, I'm an avid CL browser. I would literally go through days and days of ads for every place in the state looking for a horse that I could get for my mom. Then one day my friend Laryssa and I found the ad for Comet. I immediately called on him and asked to come out to see him. They told me I wasn't the first caller, but I was the first one to look at him. The guy told me that he was only skinny because he had a high metabolism. Well, that didn't seem logical because he was feeding 6 horses 4 bales of hay a day in the winter. That's not nearly enough. I told the guy to hold him for me and I would call him the next day with my answer. I was kind of leery at first because I didn't know what I was getting myself into. But then I looked at his pictures again and I couldn't say no. I called him the next day and told the guy I'd take him. Two days after the ad was posted, Laryssa and I got my trailer ready and went and picked him up. We took him into my garage as soon as we got him to my house to see the damage. The poor guy was caked in mud and skinnier than any horse I've ever seen. We brushed him as best as we could and cleaned him up. His coat was so dull and coarse from the malnourishment he had. He was quiet and just soaked up all of the attention. His belly must have been very sensitive though because every time we tried to brush the mud off, he tried to kick us. So everyday for over a month, I fed him Safe Choice grain and mixed that with Healthy Coat to help him gain weight. Slowly but surely, he started to gain weight back. We trimmed up his hooves after a few weeks then wormed him. Now he's a healthy 150lbs heavier and he's finally shed out into his beautiful summer coat. We thought he would end up being a boring brown, but instead he turned out to be a flashy black boy.

As for his name, we heard the guy say "Griffen," but we thought that was an ugly name. We decided that he had some very similar features to Laryssa's appaloosa, who is about the same age, and his name is Vixen. So we thought it would be cute to name Comet after a reindeer as well.

Isn't he just GORGEOUS now? He is just LOVING his life now - his eyes are completely different now. 

Let's all give three HUGE cheers to Megan and to Comet, and lets wish them a long and happy partnership together :). 

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Of course I wouldn't forget a normal blog post, and it is Friday so that means our Fugly Stud of the Week. Erin sent this, and while its short, its full of Fugly.

Horse For Sale: 3 Year Old Buckskin Stud - $100 (Casey, IA)

15.2 hands to 15.4 hands approx. Grade. Green halter broke. You pick up. 45 minutes west of Des Moines, near I-80. 

Friendly, first to greet you at fence. Proven stud, buckskin colt on premises. Nice action. 

Nice horse but needs work, do not have time to work with him. Motivated seller. 

$100 OBO 

515------63, leave message if calling before 5PM on weekdays. 

He's 3, and already has a foal on the ground. He's barely trained, and is standing behind barbed wire. *smackheadondeskandrepeattillbruised*.

Ok, this guy needs not just an upgrade, but a rescue and pretty damn quick, because if he doesn't slice himself on that wire, at that price, he'll be sliced up for other reasons.

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HAVE A HAPPY AND SAFE 4TH OF JULY EVERYONE! PLEASE CHECK OUT THE LINKS ON THE CARNIVAL OF THE HORSE IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY. 

FFFS: How Many Studs Does One Need?

When you are getting rid of horses because you have too many, that puts a certain ideal, or image into peoples heads. When its too many STALLIONS you have...thats something else altogether. 


Like this guy, in Houston. 

2YR OLD STALLION FOR SALE, HE'S HALTER BROKE, LOADS WITH EASE, LEADS ON A LEAD ROPE, HE WILL FOLLOW YOU WHERE YOU GO, VERY GENTLE HORSE FOR A 2YR OLD STALLION. HE EVEN GETS ALONG WITH MY OTHER STALLIONS, I WAS GOING TO USE HIM FOR BREEDING, BUT I HAVE A STALLION FREISIAN THAT IM GOING TO US E FOR BREEDING NOW, ALONG WITH MY OTHER CLYDESDALE STALLION. THIS 2YR OLD WILL MAKE A GOOD BREEDING STALLION, I JUST HAVE TOO MANY STALLIONS RIGHT NOW. MAKE ME AN OFFER, AND HE COULD BE YOURS, WILL MAKE YOU A HECK OF A DEAL ON HIM, WILL ALSO CONSIDER TRADES. PLEASE CALL OR TEXT 713---0502, WE HAVE HIM STARTED UNDER SADDLE, AND HE IS DOING VERY WELL, IF I DIDNT KNOW ANY BETTER, I WOULD SAY HE HAS SOME TRAINING UNDER HIS BELT. 


If you click on the ad picture, and compare it to the ad text, you'll find it doesn't exactly match up - when I took the screenshot of the ad, it said what the screen shot said, but I neglected to copy the text into a text doc like normal. The ad was still up, but the ad text had changed some since, so thats what I copied over to here.


He has just too many stallions right now. 


How many is too many? How many did he have to START WITH? (Cause there's another ad of his you'll see here in a sec.) I don't get the mentality that a horse is ok to breed at 2, but NOT ok to ride at 2. I think in this case it might have something to do with .... dare I say it.... Penis Envy? 


Seriously. LOOK at these pictures. 

This guy has at MINIMUM 2 Clyde Stallions AND a FRIESIAN stallion, and he's taking pictures in front of what looks to be a HOUSE on the side of the road in the driveway???


Does this picture make ANY sense to you? 


Friesians are highly expensive - and if this guy doesn't put his Friesian stallion through the inspection process before breeding, the registry WILL kick his horse out of the studbook. They tend to NOT like their horses breeding without their permissions, because of the high inbreeding coefficient within the Friesian breed. 


But back to the Clydesdale. The horse isn't THAT bad. Stallion quality? I don't know enough about the drafties to tell... but at first glance, probably not. Or at least let him fill out some before deciding whether or not he's worthy of being bred. 


Its the decision to take the pictures in a freaking driveway in front of his house, in an area that looks like there is nothing 'horsey' about the area. 


Here's the other ad...


HAVE A HUGE CLYDESDALE STALLION, HE LOADS WITH EASE, LEADS ON A LEAD ROPE, GENTLE WITH MARES, ONLY GETTING RID OF BECAUSE I HAVE TOO MANY STALLIONS, HE GETS ALONE WITH MY OTHER STALLIONS, BUT IM GOING TO JUST KEEP MY FREISIAN STALLION, AND ONE OF MY OTHER CLYDESDALE STALLIONS. THIS HORSE IS A HUGE HORSE, BUT HE IS GENTLE AS CAN BE FOR A STALLION, HE IS WORKED WITH EVERDAY, HES AN EASY KEEPER, WOULD MAKE SOME WONDERFUL COLTS FOR SOMEBODY. CALL AND MAKE ME AN OFFER, WILL ALSO CONSIDER TRADES. CALL OR TEXT 713---0502 


At least these pictures are a teeny bit better... kinda ... 

If blurry is better than ghetto I guess. 

FFFS - Foxttrotter Gaited Stallion Stud

Well, after getting home last night, I remembered its Thursday. Thursday traditionally is Survivor night, CSI night, and for the last season, Flash Forward night. (Though the bastards at ABC canceled Flash Forward for next year - one of the dumbest moves I've seen in network T.V. yet.) Its also FINALE'S week, which usually means the best episodes of the season.


Once I got home, dinner was first, then it was off to cbs.com, and abc.com for hours of entertainment. 


Oh, and yes, I had completely forgotten that Survivor always does a Sunday finale. Silly me. This was ok though, because that meant that I didn't have to anxiously wait for cbs.com to post the nights episode somewhere between 11 am and 2 am. (Yes, I have stayed up till 2 am waiting. Obsession doesn't have reason.) It did turn into another 2am sleepy time after the 2 hour finale, then I just *had* to go find reactionary interviews with the top three, and THEN I found (Way too late) that Jeff Probst has a BLOG? and had to go read THAT. Yea. I've only missed one season out of 20. 


My point here is the obvious, there was no ad yesterday lol. Sorry. Between shiny pretty plastic horsies, and the guilty pleasure of Survivor life just happens that way sometimes, ya know? *giggle*. 


THERE WILL BE AN AD TODAY! 


Let us commence. 

So today we have a rather interesting stallion ad, offering up some juicy tidbits. 


Starts off with the typical searchword title obnoxiousness. 


foxtrotter gaited stallion stud - $4000 coming 5 yr. old registered foxtrotter stud. wait, he's still 4!? saying the horse is a 'coming x year old' does NOT change the fact that the horse is STILL a year younger than you WISH he was. Sante Fe and Missouri Outlaw bloodlines. Have bred him to our mares, oh, of course you have!  he is respectful and will make a great stud. Ah - wait - you JUST SAID YOU ALREADY BRED HIM. that makes him a stud already, not one in the making. We also ride him. oh, thank gods for that! Ride him in what class? Reining? Barrels? Naw, he's a foxtrotter, so he's gaited. That means he just goes trail riding. We also have his 3 yr. old full brother, they are perlino and cremello. OH there it is. The COLOR! So which one is this one, the perlino, or cremello? and is the other a stud too? Have you already BRED him too as a 3 year old?
If nobody needs these guys, we'll cut them and train them as a carriage pair, as we train/work draft mares and don't need the distraction of studs on site. then why don't you just already DO THAT AND SELL HIM AS A GELDING!??? He might actually BE WORTH the $4000 price tag you PUT on him at that point... good well broke harness teams are HARD TO FIND in any color, but in this situation, the added sparkle and pop of having a matched nearly white set - now those horses might be worth $4000.


But as he is now? $4000 is a complete joke.


Thanks,

Kevin
307---2582 


My comments of course, are in the blue italics. 


After an ad like that, you know what the icing on the cake is! 


Check THIS SHIT out. 

Yes folks, thats a $4000 horse, right? No - correction - A $4000 STALLION. Rather hard to tell here, but I think that might be the perlino, what with the orangish mane and tail. Though that might just be dirt. 

Anyone wanna tell me what that metal contraption on the other side of the wire fence is? I have NO clue. Some sort of plow?  Looks to me like the frame of some sort of funny car, the ones that are like 200 feet long, skinny as hell, and run on jet fuel on the 1/4 mile strips? 


Thanks Sue for this one. I think you hit the nail on the head.


 I found this lovely, or mostly unlovely ad for a stud for sale for an astronomical price with an ugly picture of him to boot. It's kind of small and the so called stud is hard to see but I think he qualifies as the WTF ugly friday stud of the week. Feast your eyes. (or grab the eye bleach after getting a good look.)  


*Passes out the eye bleach*


Monday is the other pool party that I still have to run back up to the school and *ahem* pay for, so Monday's post might also be late if I can't manage to get it written sun night. We'll see what happens. 


Have a good weekend all!

FFFS # Too Many: Good Breeding Home Only!

older proven black & white tobaino stallion has Easy Jet on his papers.
he about 15 hands tall he has both APHA & Ptha papers,I have owned him since he was a yearling,he was foaled in the year 1995
he is very gentle & has good manners & will stay in a 1 wire electric fence,he is Broke to ride & rein,he ties ,loads, baths,easy to breed ,easy to pick his feet up,you can touch him any where on his body.
selling do to my health.
looking for a good breeding home for him.
I paid a lot for him as a yearling & also paid to have him trained.
I asking $2500 for him but will consider all reasonable offers,
but will only sell him to a home that has use for a good stud horse
email your phone number so we can talk 

looking for a good breeding home for him.
but will only sell him to a home that has use for a good stud horse 


Why? Why? Why? 


Why do people think that just because it has balls, it has to make more? There are 249,502,938 black and white tobiano stallions out there. (Ok, google only brought up a little over 30,000 but still. 30,000???? Thats about 29,900 too many!) According to this owner, the world really will NOT survive without her stallion being bred!!! 


My head hurts already from the flu that hit me literally within 30 minutes while I was at work yesterday - they sent me home and I have been sleeping nearly non stop for the last 20 hours or so. This ad certainly is NOT making it better. 

Why can't people just STOP BREEDING?

Didn't We Just, Um, See Him?

Ya'll remember him? The little paint stud from Friday that we couldn't decide if he looked more like a gelding than a mare? (I think 'mare' won with more people commenting he looked rather feminine rather than masculine.)


Weeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllll......


Cut-N-Jump found this yesterday.

The ad is so long that it took 2 screen shots just to grab the text. I won't post both, but here is the full ad text:

4yr old APHA Colt - $850 (NW Tucson)
Frosted Dakota aka "Handsome" (pedigree can be seen at http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/frosted+dakota) is being offered for sale to a good home. He is a 4yr old APHA sorrel overo stud colt. He has an excellent disposition, is eager to please, very honest and learns quickly. He leads and stands for grooming. He is OK with his feet, but definitely could be better. He loads like a pro without any problems (in a stock trailer-- never tried a 2-horse). We are working on lunging. He had his first session with fly spray today. It took him about ten minutes tops to get used to it.


Handsome is by Frost My Feature (Frosty Feature X Painted Robin bred mare) and out of a Peppy San X Docs Prescription bred mare. He stands about 14.2hh and weighs about 1000 pounds. He has HUGE, hard, black feet and is solid muscle. He has been bred to one mare this spring. She is an old broody and did a fabulous job of teaching him the ropes and how to be respectful of the ladies.

I can't say enough good things about this horse. He is GORGEOUS with his sorrel sabino/overo markings and his two blue eyes complete with eye liner. He's super smart, too! Once he learns something, he knows it and it sticks with him. He will make an outstanding gelding, and is a decent stud prospect. I adore this horse, but I honestly do not have the room nor the time for a stud horse. He is currently living in my round pen.

The people I got Handsome from (his original breeders) put about 3 or 4 rides on him. They said he never offered to buck and was a real quick study. They have owned and started numerous colts by the same sire, and all have had that easy going disposition. Handsome grew up in a large pasture and has never been messed up. There is nothing to "fix" with this horse. He is a clean slate and is ready to be trained the way you want him. He has the pedigree to be an exceptional gymkhana horse, cow horse, or family trail horse (if he's gelded).

Handsome got hung up in a fence as a yearling, so he does have an ugly scar and thickening on his right hind cannon area. But, it does not affect him at all. I have never seen him take a lame step. Its just ugly to look at.

I am open to offers on this horse, and he will only go to a good home. Would consider trade for corral panels or.... what do you have? Make me an offer. =)
 
 
...............Ehhh...... he's in Tuscon now???
 
{Edit: Ok, after going back and looking at the copy of the ad from Friday, they didn't actually LIST a location for him... but they were advertizing him in the Phoenix CL. I originally thought when I first saw this latest ad, they had moved him from Phoenix to Tuscon in the time frame from last week to now, but I think he has been in Tuscon the entire time. Doesn't mean much anymore, just tryin to get facts straight :) }
 
OK..... Soooooooo....... I guess he wasn't such a fabulous addition to their breeding program after all if he's up for sale! Whod'a ever thunk THAT!!! I really wonder what happened here. The original ad showed him in with another stallion (the mustang) but the style and pattern of writing is different on this one. I seriously doubt that this is the same person that put up the ad for the breeding one.
 
Ya'll see the note about the leg injury? Got caught up in a fence? And he's not lame? Wow.
 
This ad just feels like this person pulled this guy out of some sort of situation, and is either trying to make a quick buck off of him in a turnaround sale, or is trying to dump him for the other ad poster. Several things jump out at me to substantiate this:
 
1) The fact that he's living in a round pen. This is not a permanent solution, and In my experience, a horse only goes in a round pen as a stall for two reasons; there are no empty/available stalls or they want to keep this horse away from the other horses.
 
2) The ad reads like the person is working with the horse for the first time in some areas, yet in others the writer has a history of sorts. Trailer training, for instance. Working on loading in a stock trailer, but they know he's never been in a 2 horse. The lunging. Fly spray.
 
3) If this person doesn't have the room for a stud horse, then I'd almost bet 100% its not the same person that was studding him out. That person had the two - and had NO Plans to geld either - they wanted babies.
 
I wonder what happened to this guy in the last week. He's obviously had an eventful week - new place, new owner, been shod, trailer training, fly spray, and even lunging!
 
What irks me though - they refer to gelding him several times, but you think THEY WOULD DO IT? This just sounds like they grabbed him for whatever reason, and are just trying to turn him around and not put any more money into him than they need to.
 

And no, he doesn't look any more masculine 5(?) days later. Nor did they take any better pictures than the FIRST AD!