Thursday, April 22, 2010

Owyhee Gold: Part I



Thursday April 22 2010

It's that time of year: gold babies on the creek, next door at Lost Juniper Ranch. Dad is the cremello stallion Stoney - LJ Owyhee Moonstone.

Two babies out, one yet to come. Meet LJ Owyhee Crystal and LJ Owyhee Flint.










LJ Owyhee Crystal: Look at those long legs!













Crystal playing with Nibs




LJ Owyhee Flint - look at those long legs!






Flint touched the hot wire and kept shaking and scratching his head to get rid of the sensation!




4 comments:

  1. Will they stay buckskins as they mature?

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  2. Cuties, that's for sure. Wonder what their futures will hold.

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  3. Carol of Lost Juniper Ranch says: Yes, they will stay buckskin. They do not have a grey gene. If they did they might go grey, like if the mother was grey. Stoney imparts a "dilute gene" to anything he is bred to. He is a "double dilute" and all he has is dilute genes, no color. So a buckskin is a dilute bay, a palomino is a dilute chestnut. A smokey black is a dilute black. Here is an interesting website explaining the whole thing: http://www.doubledilute.com/main.html

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  4. Those are lovely foals! Love the hiding-behind-mom's-tail photo.

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