Umm, wait a second....

So, I was going to write a blog post here about horses. Except, I'm not sure what to write about horses. I mean, they're great and all, but wasn't I superbly busy? That I was, and still am. Ah well, may as well say something here.

So, around Thanksgiving weekend I saved a miniature filly, and possibly from death (let's hope not, though). I was at the stables, showing some relatives around the place. It just so happened that the owners had left to go eat, and I found Echo, a miniature palomino filly had gotten her hind leg stuck in the fence.

It almost looked like her leg was woven in between the wire, and I kinda doubt she could have gotten out of it by herself. So, actually knowing what to do, I grabbed onto her muddy little hoof and got her un-stuck. It was actually quite easy, and I'm really grateful it was calm little Echo, not the wayyyy rowdier (and older/bigger) colts.

And, that was that. Other than having kinda dirty hands, I felt really good about it. :) I like saving horses.

Also, if you peel a fair mass of carrots, please, instead of tossing the peelings in the trash, just find some horses to give them to. :) They'll enjoy them, I'm sure, and never once have I heard of a horse that was allergic to carrots.

Crazy Busy

Yes, I know this is another boring filler. I just don't want you to forget about my blog.

Anyway, lately I've been crazy busy. Other than my school and standard responsibilities, I'm having more chores added to my checklist, and I have to take over helping Mom school the kids (as my older sister is gone, and will be gone for another week). Ugh.

So, you probably won't see any annoying fillers or awesome posts until later.

Till then, peace out, munch on carrots, love horses, and don't forget to help this blog by +1ing the posts, and telling any horsey friends about it.

Confirmed Hypothesis

Just the other day, I got a chance to talk to a lady who attended college solely for learning about horse genetics. A couple points she made were foreign to me, but I'll take her word for it for unless I hear otherwise from a reputable source.

First of all, I learned that approximately half the population of horses have a roan gene, but it doesn't always appear if it isn't prominent enough (so it isn't a dominant gene, it's recessive). Which explains how one of my friends got a chestnut roan from two solid chestnuts.

Also concerning roan, it is possible to get the roan gene from the sabino gene. So now Cayenne's coloring is possible, yay!

I asked her one more question- how do you get a bay from a palomino and a chestnut? Okay, this is the one piece of information that seems iffy-ish to me, so I'll have to look into it further. Either way, she said that palomino's can indeed be a black base color, but you cannot see it because of the palomino dilution.

EDIT: Now, I would disagree. One copy of a cream gene on black does not produce a palomino-colored horse. Turns out that the "chestnut" is actually a silver bay.

So, that's that. If I remember what I had wanted to write about, or find that list of topics to write about, I'll try to do another blog post soon. :) And one that's a bit more interesting.