Monday, March 27, 2017

Little white hairs...

The last couple of weeks, I've been squinting at Justice's coat, trying to determine if what I'm seeing is dirt or white hair.

Well, apparently it depends on what bit I'm staring at.  Like this shoulder:
It's not mange, I swear.  lol It's white hair slowly growing in underneath the sun-bleached coat.

The current expectation of the barn owner is that he's headed for the bay version of this:
Borrowed from Drafts with Dots
I was thinking not - and then I found that white on his shoulder... lol

The babies are supposed to head back to the main barn this week, assuming the weather quits being quite so much spring in Texas.  (This weekend featured 80 degree temperatures and a hailstorm with hail up to almost 5 inches in diameter in places.  Ahahaha... hahaha... haha... ha... I hate spring.)  That means bigger pastures for them, and a better setup to see if maybe Justice just needs some dietary assistance to get out of the ugly duckling stage.  We had him on some grain that did a great job fattening him up over the winter - but as soon as we took him off of it, he shot up a couple of inches and started growing his spring coat, so we've lost ground on the Battle of Baby Franken-Horse again.

2 comments:

  1. I am so curious to see what his color ends up being...

    Grace is changing colors as she sheds...

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    1. My BO has been (jokingly) trying to horrify me with the time she took a shedding blade to a young horse she had in to sell without realizing how much white was under the winter coat. Every single stroke pulled all the color off. I'm starting to think that's in my future... lol

      I'm curious what Grace is going to look like! Some of your earlier shots of her, it looks like there's quite a bit of white/roaning under that red coat.

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