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| When you are looking at weanlings/yearlings what do you look for in a prospect besides breeding? They change so much while growing... What do you look for in their conformation? If anyone wants to attach a photo of their "perfect" prospect that would be great too for examples!! |
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  Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Well, shoot, lmao.....I can't resist....see below lol.
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| LOL!! i thought you'd be the first to join me LRQHS!!! I love your babies! But tell me what exactly you look at that makes them ideal! |
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Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | For me:
Conformation....balanced, no crazy legs, a good V in their chest.
I love a big personality and friendly, curious attitude, eager. I like to watch them run and play.
I love a pedigree too.
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Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Kgirl - 2014-05-02 6:21 AM LOL!! i thought you'd be the first to join me LRQHS!!! I love your babies! But tell me what exactly you look at that makes them ideal! The yearling foal that I have for sale below was running himself thru poles in my yard as soon as he could run. Just like a pro, weaving in and out like he knew what he was doing. And, he enjoyed it, because he did it every day lol. That was a great, eager, little man.
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| That is too cute! Too bad me and geldings dont get along too well :( Mares and I seem to be the best fit. Otherwise i'd have him shipped my way pronto!! |
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Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Kgirl - 2014-05-02 6:27 AM That is too cute! Too bad me and geldings dont get along too well :( Mares and I seem to be the best fit. Otherwise i'd have him shipped my way pronto!!
lol, I always get along with the little boys better. The little girls always want to kick my butt for some reason. |
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Location: In a happy place | I love the picture of your colt and your puppy meeting head on. |
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| Here are some pics of a few I raised that shows you the stages they went through
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| Wow!!! thanks TN barrelracer! those are some beautiful horses you have there!
So... If a horse is narrow in the front or rear will they grow out of that? Or if they are higher in rear end will they level out? |
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 Guys Just Wanna Have Fun
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Location: OH | Babies as they are growing will change levels, but there are many things that will not change. Shoulder angle will generally stay the same as will hock angles. Proportion wise I like them to have little short pasterns and short cannon bones with a lot of bone structure with a neck that ties in clean, not too low in the chest--this is also something that will not change. |
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 1D Lawn Mower
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Location: Southeast, Texas | Strong, straight legs. I like a lot of bone. A nice shoulder, and big hip. [=
Being butt high usually levels out, but I wouldn't pick a very narrow colt. I want them to look proportionate.. Even as babies.
This is our yearling, whom I obviously adore. [=
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| ABroussard that one is gorgeous too!! Ya'll are making drool over ur babies!
I was looking at one filly for sale they had her weanling photos posted on the add but nothing updated. in the weanling photos everything looked great. nice wide straight beautiful. then i got the updated yearling photos... and she is narrow in the front... would that be just a phase or is she gonna be narrow? |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | I want to see what their sire and dam looked like. Odds are, if mom and dad are conformationally correct, baby will be too. Not always the case, but your odds are better that way!
Babies change a lot as they grow…but I think you can tell a pretty and correct baby from early on.
Here is my yearling colt. He is just getting better and better looking with age.
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1D Lawn Mower
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Location: Southeast, Texas | Kgirl - 2014-05-02 11:20 AM
ABroussard that one is gorgeous too!! Ya'll are making drool over ur babies! I was looking at one filly for sale they had her weanling photos posted on the add but nothing updated. in the weanling photos everything looked great. nice wide straight beautiful. then i got the updated yearling photos... and she is narrow in the front...  would that be just a phase or is she gonna be narrow? Â
What's your definition of narrow? Does she still show good muscling in her chest? Here is a shot of Dirty's chest from February, he turned one in March. He's certainly not narrow, at least not by my standards.
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| all soooo pretty!!!
no i would not call that one narrow... the one i'm speaking of that i was calling narrow is a yearling and only had maybe 2-3 inches between her knees when standing square... |
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 The Color Specialist
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Location: Washington. (The DRY side.) | I've always heard look at a youngster at 3 weeks, 3 months and 3 YEARS. They can go thru periods where they just look weird. Chest too narrow, head too big, butt too tall ect... IMO, if you really like the looks of them as a 3 week or 3 month old, you will like them as an adult.
Here is my 3yo.
12 hours old:
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Yearling: (Close to 12 months old.)
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The Advice Guru
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| I look at the pedigree the sire and dam then at the prospect. I look at the hip, shoulder, make sure the legs are straight. I also look at the throat latch how the neck ties into the chest. I also want to see the v in the chest. I also look for a large girth. I want to make sure the forearm is longer then the cannon bone, and the hocks are lower then half the length of the leg. I look for a wide forehead and a kind eye. I also make sure there is no over bite and that the underline is longer then the back. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Here is one of mine:
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(she's at the trainer, so I don't have a slicked off one, and excuse the mess, the door got left open and the wind wreaked havoc!)
I would swear this isn't the same horse if I didn't know better, she looks so different at different times.
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Location: NE Texas | I like a horse that is really balanced front to back....meaning I want them to have roughly the amount of muscle in their shoulder as they do in their hip. I don't prefer a heavy muscled horse over a more light made horse as long as they are balanced hip to shoulder. I don't want a horse to have a big pretty chest and forearm with no hip, and vice versa. If I had to choose between two prospects (depending on age) I would probably prefer a more compact made horse than a big long horse. I would prefer a horse's head and neck tie in a little high rahter than a little low. Most importantly when I watch a colt/horse walk, where there back foot lands I want to be at least 6" in front of the hoof print where their front foot just picked up. This is my 4 YO, Ricky (sometimes Richard, LOL), and I would take a pasture full of them just like him. He's probably the most talented colt i've ever started with. He's probably also the most ornery but only because he's too smart and gets bored. Meet Ricky, Actions Peak Louder. I've had him since he was a weanling and have enjoyed every day of it!
http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/actions+peak+louder
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