A Horse (or Two) of a Different Color

I have been meaning to post this for some time now but you know how things are! We have 2 new members of the furry variety to the family. Logan had been wanting a colt to train for a long time and the opportunity came up for that to happen. We had known of a woman close that bred Appaloosas. Logan's horse growing up was an App and this woman had happened to have bought the daughter of Logan's horse. Well turns out that she had used that horse to breed and so the horses she had now were the great grandchildren of Logan's horse Chinook.

So we went out and were looking at the colts to see if any caught our eye and one did. While we were looking at them in the field another older 3 year old kept following us around being curious. Well, when Logan went to talk to her about the cold, the woman basically said she would give us the other 3 year old because no one seemed interested in her because she didn't have a lot of color (that's the main reason a lot of people would want an Appaloosa would be for their spots and coloring). Well, of course Logan jumped at the opportunity and well, now we have 4 horses.


This is Lace - the 3 year old. She was as wild as a mustang when we brought her home (which is a whole story in itself trying to get her loaded onto a trailer). She had pretty much been left to her own out in a field with the brood mares and colts and yearlings and like I mentioned before, no one was really interested because she didn't have loud coloring. Well Logan worked with her and she was as easy as pie to train. In only a few weeks she was leading and even riding like she had done it for years! She is such a good girl - I have even ridden her several times and she is just a wonderful horse!


And this little guy is Co - short for Cochise. He was just a weanling when we got him and is such a funny boy! He definitely has a lot of color as you can see and it will be interesting to see if he keeps the coloring he has now or lightens up - a lot of time Appaloosas will change their coloring as they get older, often lightening up some.

It will be some time before he will be ready to ride - horses aren't ready to ride until they are 2 and he will be a year old in the Spring. He can be taught the basics and already knows how to be lead with a halter on.

So there are the 2 newest Morrisons - yep, we are crazy but at least not boring!!