Posts Tagged ‘krazy kolor breeders’
*headdesk*
I keep talking but clearly not everyone is listening. Maybe I should put it into picture book form for some folks? You know, a stick horse with testicles + a stick horse without = a dollar bill with a big “NO” symbol over it? Can someone make T-shirts like that? Maybe we can all wear them to flea markets, rummage sales, NASCAR events, Wal-Mart, etc. and reach the target demographic illustrated by this sad Craigslist ad from Iowa.
Hideous, scary, very bad horses for sale
1. None of those horses needed to happen.
2. Clearly you did not invest so much as a $10 tube of dewormer into them, much less any actual time caring for them.
3. Are you proud of yourself for filling up a kill truck?
4. Did you REALLY think you were going to make money breeding these? Part B, if you did, what the fuck were you smoking at the time?
In case it gets deleted, here is the text. My comments are in blue:
“the 1st one is a stripe dun yearling filly turned a year in june she has a very dark stripe down her back and her legs are tiger striped she is broke to lead very sweet and gentle she has been trimmed and stands well both of her parents were registered they just did not do a stud report on her of course the lazy fucking bastards didn’t, god forbid you fill out a form and write a check, that is just tooooo much responsibility to expect from a stallion owner, so she does not have papers her sire was a registered buckskin paint he was 16.4 hands if you don’t know how to measure horses, you do not know enough to breed horses…please stop and the dam was a registered buckskin buckskin what? Or just buckskin registered? she was just shy of 16 hands whoever believes that please raise your hand and I will set you up with a GREAT deal on owning a piece of the Brooklyn Bridge so this filly should mature to be a nice size horse she has a nice head on her if by “nice” you mean supersized, and yes I know it’s a bad angle but still! good conformation did you know that good conformation usually does not include features like an upside down neck? and she is will to learn when i got her she was not even broke to lead and she came around very nicely and easy i am asking 400 obo trade for boat, atv or good wrasslin tickets
the 2nd one is 2 year old registered golden palomino stallion of course he is and that sound is my head whapping into my desk his papers say that he is a overo paint but it does not show he has four tall white sock and white blaze and one blue eye and one part blue eye oh great the Blue Eyed Horse Association will welcome him with open arms, probably make him their mascot i have had him for about 2 or 3 months and when i got him he had no human contact at all he was not broke to lead he is broke to lead now i have started lunging him and he does very well my guess would be he was worked with when he was a weanling he lungs very nice good that he can breathe and switch direction when you tell him to i am still working on his feet he is not quiet sure about that yet but he is very quick learner and wants to learn he just needs someone who can be stern with him he came around quickly but he is still not sure about something i have had him tied and he does ok with being tied he has a very nice head and great conformation he will make someone a nice stallion or a nice trail horse i am asking 500 obo i dont have pics yet will post soon can’t wait to see this winner based upon what else you think has great conformation!
the 3rd is a 7 year old paint mare and thank you for posting her because I haven’t had a chance to use my made-up word “nest” in quite a while. See how the neck goes right into the chest? She’s got nest! Kinda like cankles. Not pretty. very nice horse she is about 13 hands she has blue eyes she was broke to ride when she was 4 but we have not rode her much at all we just got her with the intension to make her and the stud we have a driving team FOR WHAT? The Krazy Kolor Breeder Demolition Derby Driving Event? Were you really gonna hitch a stud that “needs someone to be stern with him” up next to a mare? Holy crap. Yeah you were. You probably would have put it on Youtube, too. but we do not have time she is bred for next spring she was bred to the stud OF COURSE SHE IS we have he is same color and size ’cause everyone is lining up to buy medium pony sized fugly paint horses so let’s make more all of the colts she has had have been spotted GAH! The neck has already bred on! she is a very good mother she does stand tied she stands to be trimmed she has been wormed how many times? Who thinks she has been bred more often than she has been wormed? i am asking 200 obo
the 4th is a 2 year old sorrel pony he is about 53 inches tall he is still a stud but he has not dropped yet oh joyful a possible crypt, everybody wants one of those TOO he is not mean he is broke to lead he runs with a couple studs now and we do not have any problems he usually buddies up with a stud he is sorrel with black spots all of his body there is no such color, asshat i am asking 50 obo we dont have any time for him.”
OK folks, check out that pic and tell me…can you find ONE part on that animal that is NOT bad? Is there ANY REASON AT ALL that someone should have made that horse happen?
No. No, there is not. No one is going to make any money here. An animal has been created that will be very lucky indeed if he doesn’t wind up on a double-decker. He isn’t going to stay sound for more than light riding. He’s going to be sore in a million places just from regular work – he’s the classic FrankenHorse, made up of spare parts. If he gets super, super, super lucky, some Iowa reader of this blog will feel sorry for his furry little self and go get him and try to clean out his disgustingly parasite-ridden gut enough to keep him alive. And the asshat owner will take their $50 and go buy more beer and put the stallion and the mares in together and laugh with his buddies, and the cycle will continue.
*headdesk*
Woo hoo NickerNews – You guys did it!
The NickerNews site and its readers kept up the pressure until local officials took action against Alexis Ingraham and Fair Play Farm, who as readers of this blog know, had been starving horses and breeding crap since this blog began and probably longer!
I know it is frustrating when you call and call while the horses get thinner and thinner but this is a good example of how being persistent pays off – in safety for the horses and lives saved! So don’t hesitate to do it yourself if there are thin, neglected horses in your area. File the report and follow up. You have the power to save lives – please use it! Animal control can only be as good as the evidence provided to it and if you are that neighbor who has to drive by every day and see the thin horses, then tag – you’re it! Get out that zoom lens, take pictures (never, ever trespass or your evidence could be deemed inadmissible) and go down to animal control or the sheriff’s to file a report.
Here is another story where the only reason these animals are safe is that the neighbor bitched and kept bitching! Good job, folks!
Earlier blog entries on the Ingrahams and their Krazy Kolor Breeding establishment here and here
For those of you who enjoy trail riding, the HSUS is sponsoring a Ride for the Rescues on June 13th. Check it out here. I checked out some of the local sign-up pages and they’re pretty cool – some venues are having professional photographers so you can get super cool pics of yourself and your horse on the trail as opposed to the 4,261 you already have that the person riding in front of you took, where your horse looks like his head is gigantic and someone else’s head appears to be growing out of your shoulder. So, if you don’t have plans for the weekend of the 13th, check it out!
Given that it’s Friday, I thought it was appropriate to put up Cocktail! You can find her up for adoption at Shiloh Horse Rescue near Las Vegas. 
And the Academy Award for Krazy Kolor Breeding Goes To:
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Cremellos in the kill pen, check it out!
My apologies to those of you who have nightmares every time I post these reports, but PLEASE forward this one to your ignorant friends who STILL think color will keep their foals selling well and safe.
IT’S A LIE. A BIG, FAT LIE. THEY ARE NO SAFER THAN SORRELS!
Please, please, please, do not breed your stallion this year if he does not have a solid record of accomplishment in a competitive discipline. I don’t care what color he is. I don’t care if he’s a fuschia and chartreuse zebra-striped sabino. Don’t do it!
Think of your young stallion like you’d think of your teenage son. Sure, he wants to breed! They all do. But I’m guessing most of you would advise your sons to delay marriage and children until after finishing school and getting a good job. That way, the kids will have a much better life, right? You don’t want your grandchildren living in a studio apartment in a crappy part of town, do you? That’s all I’m asking you to do with your stallions – develop the stallion and his accomplishments first. See if he really has what it takes, compared to others. I swear, if I see one more horse pimp rubbing their hands together, gleeful at the fact that 2 year old colts can breed, I’m gonna throw up. Your stallion has his whole life to breed mares – get that competition record on him FIRST!
Oh, and to the people who brought the adult, unbroke broodmares to the auction – congratulations. The fact that you were too damn lazy to put 30 days of training on them sentenced them to death. Good job, asshats! None of us can predict the future, so please, if you own unbroke broodmares, make this the year you get them started under saddle. You do not have to be trainer of the year to get them to walk-trot on trails and that is enough level of accomplishment to save many of them from the slaughterhouse if things go bad for you. There is no excuse for anything, stallion or mare, to only be a breeding machine and given that fertility is not endless, it’s not safe for them to only be a breeding machine. If they are sound get ‘em broke – just in case and before you are in money trouble and have no choice but the auction.
February 27, 2010 Auction Report, Tofield, Alberta Canada
Buckskin five yr old green broke pregnant to draft 430…meat buyer
Ten year old Quarter Horse bay mare nice but a little scared. Ridden. ..400  Private buyer
Shetland geldings driven and broke. Cute with light manes tails. Four and six yrs. 125 each. Private
Shetland gelding ran in 25 meat buyer
Mini sorrel cute ridden mare 180 private
Welsh team driven geldings seven and ten yrs grey and b/w pinto. 325 each private
Shetland black and white pinto broke ridden and going well. Four yrs. 200 private sale
Bay mare six thoroughbred broke with paperwork ahanahan. Ridden and went well. 370 meat buyer
Bay gelding well broke ridden jockey club reg thoroughbred. Seven yrs 700 didn’t sell him
Belgian team driven geldings 14 and 15. Going well and handsome. 950 ea picked up their feet. Private sale
Grey gelding qh registered ridden roped and cattle went well not for beginner 750 private
Black ridden gelding qh cross ten well broke anyone can ride. Calm brand on left hip XS (x on top, s below) 1050 private
Grey gelding morgan arabian gelding. Warned Will pull when tied, thirteen yrs. Went well. 550 lady rode him. Owner kept
Quarter horse seven sorrel mare. Broke but fast. Riddden responsive went well 500 owner kept
Buckskin gelding. Ridden and going well. Three yrs or so they dint say. Pretty head nice horse. Picked up hooves. 1100 owner kept
That was it for saddle horses…now saddles sold
Mexican saddles. 300 picks one..300 picks two. 300 all the junky Mexicans were gone 250 for the last one
Then unbroke horses
Black Quarter Horse two year old no white, registered. Run in scared but pretty,  good weight 250 meat buyer
Chestnut Quarter Horse 2 Â year filly run in star marking good weight pretty 260 meat buyer
Standardbred four year old no papers not fast enough to race but broke. Let around 9DN3E brand on neck 300 meat buyer
Sorrel grade stud with halter chased around 350 meat buyer Walter – straight to slaughter
Cremello tobiano yearling filly application there yearling ok weight 90 meat buyer
Palomino mare Quarter Horse papers promised Nice looking, run around yelling for foal selling as grade pretty good weight 385 meat buyer
Cremello yearling same as earlier one a little heavier meat buyer Les
Cremello tobiano mare registered seven bred. Chased around with rope halter ok weight 300 meat buyer Walter…straight
Cremello mare reg papers good weight 285 meat buyer
Palomino six year old paint mare registered run around friendly and petted led a bit 270 meat buyer straight to slaughter again
Black paint filly year old 180 registered meat buyer
Paint mare palomino pretty four year old Quarter Horse cut on knee not bad registered a little thin 270 meat buyer straight to slaughter
Pretty palomino yearling filly. Run through 140 meat buyer
I’d be less of a bitch if I were wrong more often!
The first thing I want to say is that this farm has NO RELATIONSHIP to the one in Michigan of the same name, which appears to be a lovely facility. This farm is in MAINE.
This blog is now nearly three years old. Â For three years, some of the horse community has loved it and some of the horse community has bashed me as a meanie, unfair, nasty, sniping, “no right to judge” and so on. Â Well, folks, I’ll stop being such a bitch when I stop being right so often about these damn backyard breeders and krazy kolor breeders that I feature! You know, the ones that show up here protesting that their program is awesome and I don’t know WTF I am talking about and they’ve been doing this for twenty-five years and they take GREAT care of their horses and everyone in the whole world loves them and I must just be a bitter, unhappy person with no friends not to love them and their wonderful horses.
Here we go AGAIN!  When this story came to my attention, I said to myself  ”why does that farm name sound familiar?”  I did a little hunting around and, yes, it’s someone I featured in the first year of the blog when someone sent me their fugly sabino Thoroughbred colt as an example of Things Desperately Needing De-Balling.
Original Blog
From the comments of that blog (emphasis mine):
“OK well, I actually forwarded the website the colt is on to [FHOTD]… I am considering breeding my mare again, after she produced a wonderful colt(that is everything I wanted and more), and decided to take a look locally this time. I browsed the “Uncle Henry’s†to see what was close by, so I could see the stallion in person this time, rather than video and going by others oppinions. There are no photos in Uncle Henry’s, but the ad sounded professional, so I spoke with the colt’s owner and she descibed all of her stallions as wonderful sport horses, with excellent conformation and movement, that would complement most any sport horse mare. She answered my questions and refered me to her website (http://fairplayfarm.net/)for photos. The red flag on the phone was she said something along the lines of all her boys being so great, she does not have the heart to geld any of them. I saw the photos on the website and said, forget the Maine “Uncle Henry’s breedersâ€, I’ll look into stallions out of state.”
Wise choice, Gentle Reader!
So three years pass and where is Ms. Oh-My-God-My-Sporthorses-Are-So-Amazing-That-They’re-All-Stallion-Quality and how are those amazing sporthorses doing? Â HERE YA GO! Here’s how they’re doing. If that isn’t one of the worst things I’ve ever seen still on its feet…! Â HOW it is still on its feet, I don’t know, but it needs out of there NOW. If someone rehabs that horse successfully, they deserve a freaking medal!
So call me whatever you want…I’ll stop being a bitch when these asshats stop (a) breeding boatloads, er, double-decker loads of low end horses and then (b) starving them. Â I suspect I’ll go to my grave still a bitch!
Gosh, that’s one SOOPER classy “sport horse” operation you’ve got there, Alexis and Brett Ingraham (formerly Alexis Pelletier). Â I can tell by those pictures that you guys are seriously world class. I mean, just look at that facility! Â Why, it’s the equine equivalent of Great Mobile Homes of Mississippi. Â Who could fail to be impressed? Â I mean, hell, no reason you should be embarrassed or anything. Keep standing your stallion at public stud. Â Surely no one will come to your property and report you or anything.
Oh, wait, as I understand it, you’re no longer a breeder. NOW you’re claiming to be a “rescue.” Â Funny how everybody’s personal horses become rescues when they drop enough weight to look like rescues, isn’t it? It’s like magic! Â Shazam, they’re rescues! Â Now you’re not a breeder! Â You’re a rescuer! Â So the animal control people should go away because, hey, it’s not your fault.
You can’t care for your horses but you still have ALL KINDS OF TIME to post on horsey message boards. Boy isn’t THAT typical. Â Look who’s pro-slaughter. Â Honey, even the kill buyers don’t want them looking like this!
Alexis cheerfully playing on PedigreeQuery while her horses starve!
Because you should be all over COTH while horses starve and your place is a total shit heap. Â God forbid you go outside and fix a fence or anything.
Well isn’t THIS not a surprise.  Alexis sold a mare to someone and it was “accidentally” bred.  NO, REALLY?????  ’CAUSE I NEVER WOULD HAVE SEEN THAT ONE COMING!  THAT’S NOT A PATTERN WITH PEOPLE LIKE HER OR ANYTHING! Alexis’ post is on page two of the thread and she states – are ya ready – “ACCIDENTS HAPPEN.”  It’s stunning how many of us own stallions and mares and are accident-free, isn’t it? I guess we are all just super lucky that way! Or we just have amazing skillz, like, when a board gets knocked down, we get a hammer and nails and put it back up. I know, it’s just shocking that you can do that, isn’t it?  Gosh, can’t expect that from poor Alexis. She might break a nail or something!
I’m so tired of this and I know you all are too. Â My God, put a bullet in their heads before you let it get to this point. Â That would be kinder. Â HOW do you sit there in the cozy house and be all chatty on the Internet while horses who look like these are outside suffering? Â I will never understand it in a million years. This was all so stupid and avoidable and now it’s going to be ungodly expensive to clean up the mess.
So I just got pictures from a reader proving that Alexis has a long history of horse neglect and abuse. This is a stallion which was leased out to her in April 2002 looking the way you see him in the riding picture. (By the way, that’s Alexis in the riding pic).
He was rescued by the owner in October of the same year, looking the way you see him in the other picture. “It took them 6 months to take him from a gorgeous, sound stallion to a near-dead rack of bones with a collapsed front left ankle caused by a serious infection.” The owner who rescued him back had to pay for six weeks at the vet’s to save his life, none of which Alexis offered to pay for.
Of course she didn’t. This kind of person has no problem leaving a mess for others to clean up and going merrily on her way. If it’s broke, don’t fix it — just get new horses that aren’t skinny and broken! Oh wow, they became skinny and broken again, how sad…but look, there are more free ones on the Internet! We’ll just get more!
OK, readers, here’s what you can do on Monday:
Numbers to call to demand action on this particular train wreck. They’ve gotten enough calls by now that if you mention Alexis and Brett Ingraham in Clinton, ME, Fair Play Farm, they’re going to know which property you mean.
Call the state Department of Agriculture, 207 287-3419
Ask to speak with Commissioner Seth Bradstreet
State veterinarian Don Hoenig, 207 287-3701
Norma Worley, Director of Animal Welfare 207 287-3846
Clinton Police Dept. 426-9192
Other officials to contact:
Evert Fowle, DA for Kennebec and Waldo counties: 207 623-1156
Governor Baldacci’s office 207 287-3531
More about the horses on the NickerNews site.
One final note:  Alexis, your horses did not fail to sell because of U.S. slaughter or the lack thereof.  Your horses failed to sell because (a) they were  mediocre to begin with (as I pointed out in the original blog, if you want to see a quality colored sport horse, look at the True Colours horses…yours do not resemble them in any way, shape or form) (b) no one buys horses in this condition! No one! and (c) sport horses need to do a sport. When they are thin and covered in rain rot to an extent I’ve hardly seen before, they are not sport horses.  Shit, they are not even meat horses!  They are an expensive mess for someone else to fix, and I hope to Hell the law makes you pay restitution for the costs of cleaning up this cesspool of equine suffering you managed to create.
