This is not my goal. I am not working toward or planning this. But sometimes it is relaxing to sit back and close your eyes and say what if...?
......If I had 1000 acres of cutover timber that was cut about three years ago and fully fenced and forty Corollas, five shackleford mares, two Tacky stallions, a Cracker mare, and a Choctaw mare, the Banker strain, composed primarily of Corolla blood would be safe from extinction.
Population would be managed by gathering yearlings, getting them well saddled trained late in their second year and auctioning them at a big Corola festival event.
But that is not going to happen. These horses have but one hope, passage of the Corolla Wild Horse Protection Act.
Without that thirty years from now Corollas will only exist in daydreams and fantacies.
What if..I had a hundred acre farm a few miles away? Say..60 acres arable and the balance in timber...20 odd acres in pasture and paddock, 40 in rotation, annual hay and sustainable produce crops..pasture under intensive rotational grazing, beef and poultry, pasture raised gourmet hogs fed on good grain and forest mast, and a few mustang mares in the offsite breeding program..a couple of big rangy western horses, for east west crosses, training eastern trail and cattle horses...
ReplyDeleteSure would be rough. -Lloyd