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Horse Basics
Rare Horses of the World F – K
Sadly there are a wide variety of rare breeds in the modern world of today. Many of them simply outliving their usefulness (poor drafts) and often they were rare to begin with. With those kinds of numbers loosing even a few breeders becomes a big deal. Here to help educate everyone, I wanted to profile […]
Horse Art
More Horses For Coloring
Image from Raph 1966 Thanks to Deviant Art for their network of fantastic artists and their work. Be sure to check out Even Big Kids Like to Color Horses for more line drawings of horses for everyone to color. Color in your favorite and send me a picture of it, I’ll post them on the […]
Horse Basics
Rare Horses of the World A – D
There are hundreds of horse breeds across the globe, some we see every day and some are far more elusive. In fact, some of them are rare enough to be considered endangered and that’s positively sad. The Tip of the Iceberg Take a look at a selection of the rarest horses on the globe, there […]
The Equinest
10 of the Prettiest Toxic Plants
The toxic plants page is steadily growing, and in doing my research I find that many toxic plants are quite beautiful.
Horse Basics
Learn Your Horse Colors
There is a huge variety of horse colors and they all stem from four bases, on top of that coats can be affected by a variety modifiers, dilutions and white patterns. Base Colors There are four basic horse coat colors: black, chestnut, bay and brown. From these stem the wide variety of color modifications, dilutions […]
Horse Basics
Horse Color Modifiers – Flaxen
Flaxen Shades There is a fairly wide variety of flaxen shades, but they fall under four (slightly) different general chestnut categories. Liver Chestnut Red Chestnut Standard Chestnut Sandy Chestnut White Patterns on Flaxen Flaxen animals can be affected by
Horse Basics
99 Plants that can Damage the Health of Your Horse
Did you know that oats can be poisionous to horses?
Equine Online
Nickerit – Horses Gallop onto The Social Web
*Update, as of 12/22/08 it appears Nickerit is history. Check out my list of social networks for horse enthusiasts to find other horse communities online.
Equine Online
Girls Horse Club Blog – Cool New Redesign
As I’m working on my own redesign I’ve been searching the web to find inspiration. I found Girls Horse Club Blog, and I like the design. So I thought I’d share it. They feature articles from many facets of the horse world, like International Horse Girls, Finding the Right Barn, You Know You’re a Horse […]
Horse Basics
Horse Color Modifiers – Mealy / Pangare
Identifying a Mealy This is one modifier that is fairly easy to visually identify, they almost always have obvious pale hairs around their muzzle. The other soft spots tend to be affected in varying degrees. Here are some of the characteristics that define a pangaré animal and generally the easiest way to identify them. Light […]
Horse Basics
Horse Color Modifiers – Sooty / Smutty
Basic Smutty Shades This coloring can be found on chestnut, black, bay and brown coats. Although for obvious reasons, darkening of the coat only has a visible affect on variations of bay, brown and chestnut animals. The cause of this coloring and how it’s passed on genetically is unknown. Chestnut Base Bay Base Brown Base […]
Horse News
The First Cloned Horse Reproduces – Ruins Fugly Horse Business Model
Putting Good Stuff Out of Business Sites like Fugly Horse of the Day earn their traffic by slaughtering (with words) the fuglier aspects of the species (or should I say those that breed & sell them). If we continue to clone horses, this poor website will be rendered obsolete, which is sad because it makes […]