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Were it me with twins, I’d be doubling the dosage! XD
Good to have ya back, Beck! Here’s hopes for a speedy recovery and quickly fading pain. oh…wait. Hmm…no pain means there goes the meds. On second thought!…. 😀I have added new photos of Misty, taken this afternoon. She was out with her mom and some future herdmates, including her 3 year old half sister. She is 1 week old tomorrow, and has unfolded quite nicely! 8) I’m still not 100% sure that she’ll eventually go gray, but only time will tell. 😉 http://s576.photobucket.com/albums/ss206/tasgrs/
I sure do! I remember when they took it out to repaint the horses not too terribly long ago. They’d done a gorgeous job on it. It’s been a long time since I’ve been down to Seaside…..
Have you ever seen the one in Ocean City, NJ? The horses were all white, but they had real horse hair manes and tails, and they actually did the catch the brass ring, get a free ride thing. 8)Mirrako wrote::hi: We had some Polish/Egyptian and some pure blue list Egyptians–Raffles and Ansata ibn Halima were the most recognizable names. My last mare traces all the way back to Queen of Sheba in the Egyptian desert before showing all ‘desert bred’ on her ancestors’ papers.
Yay! Haven’t heard horsey-speak since I was in school for range animal science a bazillion years ago. Where will she be in CO? I’m in the middle-ish eastern side…
My mare, Mirraj, is a black bay. Her son was born the same, but had the ‘goggles’ and silvery legs, so he turned fairly quickly. His name is Jeran, and he’s steel and silver with dapples right now. I lost his daddy, Co Ment, a couple of years ago, and still miss him terribly. DragonsRage (my hubby) and his daughter have a Quarter mare that is bred to a monster black Andalusian/Quarter cross. Her name is Trouble, she’s chestnut, and she’s due (probably) the last week of June. (don’t know for sure, but she was covered the last time on 28 July last year…)
Will definitely have to talk with you again! I’m headed for the barn now–they are boarded, so it’s a drive (and a drag not having them on the same property). :bye:
Misty will be going to Peyton, CO just outside of Colorado Springs. She’s going to Holly Arabians, which is where her mother came from. 😉
I like the steel gray with dapples, and wish they’d stay that color. The 3 year old filly here is an iron gray with the dapples beginning. Too bad she won’t stay that shade. 😀
My 3/4 Arab Pinto gelding is predominantly Crabbet breeding–Raffles shows up a bit in his pedigree, along with Skowronek. The purebreds here are all Blue List (eligible) and can be considered “straight Desert-Bred”–they go back to the desert in every single line of the pedigree.
I have one mare who has a lot of Ansata lines. I liked the look of Ibn Halima, and usually can tell on sight if a horse has Ansata breeding. The most prevalent lines for me are Babson Egyptian. My guys aren’t Straight Egyptians, though…they’re Egyptian related.
Hey, you want horsey-speak? You got it! 😀 😀I’d *love* to see that. I love carousels, always have. There used to be a great carousel museum out in PA at Peddler’s Village. The carousel is still there, but they turned the museum into a kid’s game arcade. 🙁
Mirrako wrote:Very nice! Does she have the tell-tale silver rings around her eyes and silvery legs? You’ll usually see that the day they are born if they are going to turn… I used to raise Arabians, too! 8)
Thanks! What bloodlines did you have?
Nope…no “goggles”. 😀 And no gray anywhere at the moment. Out of about 12 foals, only 1 was born with the gray around the eyes so far. My stallion is actually homozygous for black; doesn’t carry the red gene for chestnut, or the agouti gene for bay. Unfortunately, gray is a “masking” gene; it covers all colors, and you have a 50% chance of any offspring being gray right off the top. Almost all of our foals so far have been born black, and turned gray later at various ages–I have one colt we sold who just turned 5, and he’s still 99% black. And on the other hand, I have a yearling colt here now whose mother is also gray, and he’s already going gray. This girl’s half siblings were born very nearly the same color she is right now, kind of a mouse color, with the silvery legs, no gray visible anywhere for at least the first 6 months. There is a *very* small chance that Misty will be either black or black bay. I really need to see her outside in good light and take pictures to be able to get a better idea. She hasn’t been outside yet because we’ve had nothing but rain for like the last week or so, and everything is nothing but mud. 🙁 I hope she’ll give me an idea of what color she’ll be before she goes to her new home. She’s already spoken for, and will be going to Colorado when she’s old enough to travel.
The vet feels she’s gray, and I did, too until I was looking closer at her tonight. Her color is subtly different from a couple of the others. She’s not as brown over her body, and her legs are more silver–her sister’s lower legs were almost a tweed color. So, now I’m not sure. :shrug:
I can’t wait to see her go outside for the first time. That’s always neat to watch. I’ll have to charge up the video camera. 8):hi: Meet GTS Dabab, the newest addtion to Royal Blue Arabs. She was born Tuesday morning, around 2:00. She is a purebred Arabian, and Dabab is the Arabic word for “Mist”, which is a description of the weather when she was born, as well as what she’s going to resemble when she’s older. (She’s probably going to be gray like her dad… 🙂 ) When I took these, she was maybe about an hour old. I’m a lousy photographer at 0:dark-thirty 😳
http://s576.photobucket.com/albums/ss206/tasgrs/?albumview=gridThanks.
I figured it probably was an “oopsie”. 😀 Now for the next $64.00 question: does that affect the value of the piece?I’m not following on that one; what would be different about the molds? yesh, I’m having one of those slow days….
I can try…..gotta go find the cable for the camera…..and hopefully I can remember how to post pictures; it’s been a while….. 😳
Okay, so I guess I’m a little slow to notice things sometimes…. 😳 Back when the special “magic” painted red fire OW’s were being auctioned, I managed to snag one. Around about the same time, I also bought a peacock OW from another forum member. I was looking at them both the other day, and I noticed that the hole in the wing on the peacock goes all the way through and you can see daylight and/or the other wing, depending on the angle you look from. On the special painted one, the hole does NOT go all the way through; up near the rib of the wing, it has a smooth spot that has a bump in it, and it’s solid, so you can’t see through it. At the bottom of the wing hole, you *can* see the pebbled texture of the body. So my question is, what the heck is it? 😕 An “oops” in the mold? I’ve been looking at photos of OW’s, and I haven’t seen any others that are like mine.
Does anybody else have an OW that the wing hole doesn’t go all the way through? Here are 2 shots….assuming the link works.
http://s576.photobucket.com/albums/ss206/tasgrs/Hmm….ya know, this doesn’t make me wanna just run right out and join you in Idaho. 😀 Maybe you should come out East to NJ–we just went from in the 90’s to the low 60’s…yesterday and a couple of days before it was *HOT* and I was wearing shorts; today I’m wearing a sweatshirt. Go figure.
*sends chocolate, wine and a good book to twindragonsmum*
