Tag: horses

barefoothooves:

Polydactyl foal that had the extra foot removed. The coolest thing to me about polydactyl horses is that the extra foot comes from one of the splint bones. In ancestors of the modern horse like the Hyracotherium, Mesohippus/Miohippus, and Merychippus, the splint bones were like secondary cannon bones with their own distal phalanxes and hooves. So in a way it’s kinda like a little evolutionary throwback 😉

(Fun side note, the Hyracotherium had 4 toes in the front and 3 in the back, while the others had 3 all around)

Photo source: Performance Equine Associates

I’m going to do it. I’m going to be the cute picture buzzkill, but oh my god. There are so many reasons a child that tiny shouldn’t be handling any significantly-sized horse alone, let alone a draft breed. Horses are prey animals, and more prone to panic, no matter how well-trained they are.

Let me put it this way. An eight hundred pound donkey managed to catch me off balance and put my ass on the ground, and I’m a grown woman. I gave myself rope burn keeping a hold on the lead, and she could have easily stomped my head in, if she hadn’t spooked when I fell and been trying to get away.

A horse this size could easily weigh more than a ton, and I don’t like the kid’s chances if it were to spook and run, especially if part of her gets caught up in that loop of lead, or she doesn’t let go.

Interact with large animals of any species responsibly, people.

amsteramy:

harmoniabeats:

beesmygod:

there are only 3 types of girls

  • girls who loved dragons too much in elementary school
  • girls who loved wolves too much in elementary school
  • girls who loved horses too much in elementary school

that’s every flavor of girl there is

what if you were all three

Dragons ….

I was all three. Though, it was horses and wolves in elementary school, for the most part. Dragons didn’t get added until middle school.