Brooding

[constance]

I have a stepcousin who recently bought a Clydesdale ranch in Colorado, and she's just broadcast pictures of the ranch's firstborn foal. I've always loved Clydesdales, although I wasn't ever the kind of little girl who never stopped thinking about horses. But I've been wondering lately if that wasn't just because I'd never seen a Clydesdale foal.

Comments

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

I am deafened now by the high-pitched screams of my eldest. Even the thought of shopping for a hearing aid, though, doesn't dim my enjoyment of these pictures. Draft horses are surely my favorites (I like my dogs and cats thin and sleek, but my horses beefy and shaggy) but OMG FOAL. I've never seen such a new one before.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sorry for the deafness. :/ But I did think of you and Brooke as I was posting this. Even if no one else cares about Starbuck's newness and shininess and fuzziness and spindliness, I said to myself, they will, I said. I do know that you love draft horses at least as much as I do, after all.

I like my creatures generally larger-than-life, it seems. Doesn't matter so much if they're stocky or attenuated, shaggy or sleek, as long as they're comparatively massive.

I've never seen such a new one before either. He weighed 150 pounds at birth! And apparently the weight was all in the legs, because, OMG look at them. they are so huge and sinewy and strong compared to the rest of him.

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

He weighed 150 pounds at birth!

LOL!! He may be shiny and new and utterly precious and I want one, but he's really the least spindly foal I've ever seen. :)

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, how can you say so! They are thick spindles, sure, but those are some long and knobbly legs!