It is May in New Mexico. We do have some green, although very little of it is grass. But the Choctaw Princess is hard at work keeping the weeds under control. Except for the noxious invasive Sahara mustard weed. Apparently it might serve as condiment occasionally, but she does not actually consider it food.And apparently […]
Category Archives: Horses
thoughts on horses human and ridng
Our wild horses offer an tremendous genetic resource that should be considered a national treasure. Genetic diversity is a huge and hugely underrated issue for the modern horse. Yet, horse breeders seem oblivious to the perils of a restricted gene pool. Maintaining soundness and performance falls far behind keeping a paper trail and the myth […]
Until very recently, it was official US government policy to more or less forcibly transform Native American warriors into farmers. US government agents made sure that Indian pony stallions were either castrated or slaughtered. Heavy horses bred for harness were brought in to cross on the local mares. Harness horses or trotters, whether heavy draft […]
This post continues my train of thought from San Felipe Horses and continues with how to recognize Spanish Colonial horses. According to the Forest Service web sites, the El Rito horses are the only band of wild horses running on Forest Lands that have genetic markers that match up with those found in modern Andalusian […]
The Choctaw Princess has been here for six months now. The before photo on the right does not do justice to how skinny she really was last fall when she arrived. But, in the after photo on the left, you can see she has filled out and muscled up from her neck and shoulders all […]
I was quite sorry to hear that San Felipe Pueblo was no longer interested in keeping the horse herds that have roamed the area for centuries. The lineage of Medicine Horses among Spanish Mustangs traces back to a stallion named Santo Domingo because that pueblo is where the Brislawn brothers found and bought him. That […]
Matthew Wood asked me to participate in his April first online Materia Medica class (click here). The topic was the Trickster. Matt had a great repertoire of herbal remedies that can help shift the various ways our wondrous human mind can trick us into states that are really not so wonderful. Of course the question […]
