It looks more and more likely that we will be adding a Cedar Island Banker to our off site breeding program. The Cedar Herd is composed of Shacklefords and one remaining pure Cedar Island Banker. The Cedars and the Shacklefords were once all of the same stock and have simply been separated by the ocean for years. Dr. Sponenberg has enthusiastically recommended inclusion of Cedar Island horses in the off site breeding program.
The Cedar mare shown below is the last of the pure Cedars. Her color was lost to the Corollas years ago. It would be a wonderful thing if we could return that color to the domestic Corollas, not by bringing in modern horse breeds (which we will never do) but by simply bringing a lost color home where it belongs.
This looks like the color of my ancestors horses they brought from Virginia having been original settlers in Spotsylvania County... from there a move to Ohio and finally Wisconsin with a buckskin decendent on the family farm until the 1950's, having retired and letting the Ford Tractor do all the work!
ReplyDeleteThis looks like the color of horse that my ancestors brought with them from Spotsylvania County, first to Ohio and finally to Wisconsin in the early 1800's! One decendent resided at the family farm until the 1950's having earned a place of retirement after a lifetime of service and bowing out to a Ford Tractor! If this color could be reintroduced I think that would be a wonderful thing!
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