Okay, I just hate some people
Jul 11 2007
*big sigh*
Sad little filly with legs that will never be good for anything…dumped at a killer lot, “rescued,” now fattened up and on a sale site as an “All-Around Prospect.”
This is so sad. So much dropping of the ball here. I don’t know what percentage of this is bad genetics and which percentage is feed-related, but you can’t fix those legs.
Again, it is not cute to breed horses or have babies around when you do not know what you are doing. Someone should be very, very ashamed of themselves with regard to this filly. She has no future. The only thing she can do is hang out “all around” the barn until she gets too crippled to walk.
I know it’s not exactly going to have to go over x-country fences. I know it is a mini. But again, why breed anything if you aren’t going to try to breed an excellent quality animal? What is the purpose? When I look at this, I can only imagine that some high school dropout was trying to make fast money breeding miniature horses. (Next they will try alpacas.)
This animal’s got four super crooked legs and has anybody trimmed those front hooves ever? I would be ashamed to put this picture on the Internet, but one thing the Internet teaches us (and without even going to the “amateur” sites) is that some people have no shame. Good grief.
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A mini is a lawn ornament. Why would you want a defective lawn ornament?
They can be more then lawn ornaments. They can drive as well.
Sure, minis can do various things. Minis can be very cool! But it’s like dogs…even if you don’t plan to use your dog to pull a sled, a dog breeder should attempt to breed dogs with straight, functional legs. Even if you are breeding minis primarily to be pets, you should still be trying to breed for basically good conformation.
I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with the first filly, then I saw her feet. Or lack of them. Her ‘fattening’ is not going to do her any favors either.
And that mini…he’s got that, “I wish I’d been aborted,” look on his face. I’ve never seen one that looked like him. How screwed up were his parents?
The first filly is so extremely back at the knee that you can only call her crippled. There is no way she can move normally with those legs or hold up to carry weight. If she were a person, she’d probably be in a wheelchair!
Hey FHD, could I request a ‘Reader Submission Day’ where we submit pictures of our own fuglies?
I’m sorry if I sound like a complete idiot, but what *is* back at the knee? I googled it and found this definition: A conformational fault where the upper leg is set back in comparison to the lower leg. This fault is more serious than over at the knee because it places additional strain on the tendons
running down the back of the lower leg.
However, if that’s the case, then wouldn’t that filly be ‘over at the knee’?? Or are you supposed to look at the back of the front leg, whereas I am looking at the front of the front leg..?
BTW, love the blog.
Herrosir, there are some great diagrams, including one showing “calf kneed” which is the same as “back at the knee” here:
http://www.stanleyspride.com/twh/basics/skeletal.htm
LMAO If I were a horse, I’d be ‘back at the knee’. Mine bend backwards a little due to hypermobile tendons!
For some reason I find that really funny…
Had a look at that site – fantastic information about conformation faults!
However, please refrain from educating yourself about colour genetics from that site. It won’t do you any good.
Oh thank you! I can definitely see why most of these horses are fugly (no doubt) but now that helps alot to understand the rest.
And I think maybe the filly’s positioning and angle of the picture are not helping the looks of her fault any.. but it could just be my untrained eyes!
Thank you for posting this blog! I’m new to breeding and because of horses that look like what you are showing, I spent several years researching conformation and movement, traits that are desired, and faults that are not. I then spent 2 years looking at stallions and comparing them, their movement, comformation, their offspring, and the mares they were bred to, inspection scores, videos, preformance records, everything to find the best match for my mare. She is due anytime after this week, so soon I’ll hopefully have a nicely put together foal with great movement and pontential as a sport horse.
Want to know where I saw horses like you are showing? My inspiration to make sure I never create that? At a local “rescue” that often breeds her rescue mares, to a paint stallion that at one time was also a rescue and attempts to sell the grade foals, because they have spots. She has even bred him tom a shetland pony! Poor thing had a horse head and little legs!
This photo is a classic, the mini’s head and legs are distorted. Why? Simple. Shooting with a wide angle lens. You can make any horse look horrible with that. Zoom out to beyond 100mm (80ish digital) to avoid that.
Impossible to evaluate as shot.
I know minis can be used for driving. In fact, minis are also used for jumping (in-hand). But that’s not what they were originally bred for. They were bred to be cute little lawn ornaments, and somewhere down the line someone thought they could make them “useful”.
For every “quality” mini I’ve seen, I’ve seen a dozen that had dwarfish proportions or major faults. I just don’t get it.
If the statistics are that high, and I do not believe they are, then, basically, you have been looking in the wrong places.
I have been breeding them for 30 years and NEVER had a Dwarf, not one, zilch, Nada.
Minis are pretty defective and inbred anyway.
I didnt know where to send this too..but I found a perfect example of a “fugly” horse http://www.imaginationfarm.com
OMG! What a screech this blog is.. I’ve seen so many FUGLY’s on the internet that I have lost count. Want to check some out? Go to http://www.appaloosasporthorse.co.za\