On 6/16/07, Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Now I see it - Janice will be forever regaling us with Life Lessons Via the > Chicken Parables. :) > > > Karen Thomas, NC >
i marked eggs from my two different roosters. One has healthy vigourous babies, the others are weak, they either didnt hatch but one did and is weak and dying. Ones from the mean rooster lived. thats interesting huh. the most reknowned breeding stallion paso fino of all time, all the years he lived, was El Pastor, "The Preacher". My cousin went to the farm and visited him there in south fla.. he said it took 6 men to get him out of his stall, two to help the other four get lead ropes on him, then they would open the stall door while four men, two on each side, holding lead ropes attached to a halter with heavy hard rawhide noseband, and he would BURST from the stall and leap and snake his body in the air like a dolphin breeching while the four men would hang and bounce on the four leads. That was brio!! yee haw! everyone wanted to breed to him!!! My cousin said far as he was concerned el pastor was the meanest horse that ever lived, a breyer horse, inarguably one of the most prominent breeding stallions in all history, of any breed. think of that. my cousin said when he finally quit leaping in the air he would make it his immediate goal to strike or bite whatever came near. People love pasos, and thru love and nurturing they are able to have good ones that are calm etc. but here in fla you have to be very careful buying a gorgeous registered paso at auction cause when the drugs wear off they can be pretty amazing from all the brio training/breeding for show etc. I rescued one nearly dead that would throw himself down or rear and flip over backward if you tried to get him to walk thru any opening, gate, trailer door onto any washrack etc. I could not help him, but I paid someone to try and when that failed I found him a good home where the woman keeps him in a 60 ac pasture and lets him just have a quiet life. If I had not sold him I was going to have him humanely put down, because he was such a danger to humself and others. It was so sad, he was very loving when he could let himself relax. I will never forget him. His torment, his neurotic misery. His eyes seemed to beg for relief... Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
