Kai is starting to show his true color- losing that dun colored baby hair that Beamers babies are born with, and coming out black where he's rubbed out. The pale color on his face tells the story though, he will be a dilute.
I think he is going to be a sharp looking boy next year! I'm glad he will be living locally so that I can visit with him as he grows up. I got an email a while ago from Peppy's owner who said she would try to get some photos for me; as soon as I get them I'll put them up here.
Rode Beamer at the local arena today, but first we had a discussion about loading. It went something like this:
Beamer: I don' wanna leave my girls.
Shirley: You have to.
Beamer: What if I just refuse?
Shirley: You will have to work.
Beamer: Nanananana I can work all day as long as my girls are close by!
Shirley: I'll get my Big Stick.
Beamer: Don't care!
Shirley: And I'll tan your hide too!
Beamer: Ok Ok! Just keep that stick down please!
I didn't have to use the Big Stick -much- (it's a fiberglass stock stick that I use during breeding season when his attention is on his hormones). One thing about stallions, you can't let them start getting pushy or pretty soon they lose all respect for you and do what they want- and they are much too powerful to argue with.
At the arena Beamer got a little excited as it was his first time out since breeding season, but I took him down to the end away from the other horses and put him to work; then we hung out by the cows and watched some young girls getting a lesson on shoulder control for barrel racing. It was good for Beamer to have to stand quietly and be well behaved; he "talked" a couple of times but it earned him work, so he decided it was easier to stand around and do nothing. I was hoping to get to work the cows today, but I guess I'll have to wait until next week.
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Kai is really looking cute. Looks like with those light brown ear tufts he could be a smoky black.
He sure does turn out some good looking young ones that is for sure.
Fun Dialogue with Beamer , I had a similar conversation with Cactus , but it was about walking nicely in hand out to the breeding pen . Explained that the end result is the same no matter how fast we get there
Wow! It's interesting how much Kai has changed in coloring already. He's also grown so much, too.
What does dilute mean? Does it mean that he's still smokey black? When he's all done changing colors, will be be as dark as Beamer, or more like Coyote Belle?
And you sure got Beamer's number. I suppose horses, just like kids will always test us. It's much nicer when they don't have a full out tantrum about it, though.
Apache was calling out to other horses this past weekend, but just one time. I don't like when horses do that because then they aren't paying attention to you. Thankfully, just a stern word or two from me, and she stopped that behavior and walked calmly and was focused on me and where her feet were going instead.
It takes a strong and confident person to ride and control a stallion during breeding season, though. Good job.
~Lisa
Years ago we had an old sorrel stallion, a grandson of Three Bars, big muscles, massive jaws and neck. He was the best behaved horse I ever rode. He wouldn't even look at another horse when I was riding him. He never did anything that he didn't do 110%. I loved that old horse. Beamer reminds me of him only a different colour.
It's always nice to see a well behaved stallion....the alternative is just plain dangerous.
Lisa, dilute colors are a basic color, such as sorrel, bay, or black, which is diluted with the cream gene. So a bay becomes a buckskin, a sorrel becomes a palomino, and a black becomes a smoky black. A brown horse would become a smoky brown. A horse that carries two copies of the cream gene, a "double dilute" horse will be cremello or perlino. Their get will all be dilutes as they will pass on the dilute gene to every one of their foals. If you check out the website on my sidebar, High Performance Quarter Horses, they stand a horse called Sunquest Half A Glo who is a perlino dun.
Ha ha! Love the conversation with your stallion!
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