A blog that focuses on our unique program that teaches natural horsemanship, heritage breed conservation, soil and water conservation, and even folk, roots, and Americana music. This blog discusses our efforts to prevent the extinction of the Corolla Spanish Mustang. Choctaw Colonial Spanish Horse, Marsh Tacky, and the remnants of the Grand Canyon Colonial Spanish Horse strain.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Mill Swamp Indian Horse Views: Health Alert: Help Curb Equine TTFM
Take action before it is too late. Mill Swamp Indian Horse Views: Health Alert: Help Curb Equine TTFM: TTFM (Too Tall For me) is a genetically related disorder that often results from breeding mares over 13.3 hands to stallions of equal siz...
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I sometimes fail of diplomacy in this regard...
I will climb on pretty much any mustang...but the prospect of getting pitched off a thoroughbred that one could successfully drill a deep water well from the back of does not thrill me...and I like roller coasters...-Lloyd
Sadly, no cure has been found for this terrible disorder. If your horse does, indeed, have such a disease, I advise you to take him out of his "comfy" stall, put him in a pasture filled with good forage, and go out and buy (or foster) your own Corolla. For an example of such a horse, do not refrain from looking back on the picture on the blog from January, titled "A Workman Worthy of Wage' and observe the horse's comfortable stature and the riders gleeful smile.
-AM
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