Proud Grandma Gush

[Bondama]

Here is a new photograph of my stallion's first 2006 foal, a pretty filly who just got her name approved at AQHA: She's Gracefully Dun (aka Grace) She is out of a King-bred foundation mare, Lady Dolly King, by my perlino stallion, WF Indian Bill. She has the loveliest neck.

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Blessings,
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TRINITY RANCH - Home of WF Indian Bill, Perlino stallion, dual reg. AQHA/APHA
Breeders of Fine Dilute Appendix Horses for Sport and Trail

[surprisewind]

I had to sop up the drool before I could respond.

So, hmmmmm. Is that a sorrel mare? A bucksin foal out of a sorrel mare... I have a sorrel mare.... That means....OMG.

Is it too early to be looking for next year's stallion?

[Bondama]

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Yes, you can get a buckskin foal from a sorrel/chestnut mare. My stallion, WF Indian Bill, is a double dilute called a perlino. He is the sire of the foal shown above. Here's a head-shot:

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I have 4 tb mares and 1 appendix mare who right now are pregnant by him. The tb's are 3 chestnut and 1 bay and they will all have palomino or buckskin and the bay can have a smokey cream. The appendix mare is a palomino herself and will likely have another palomino or possibly another perlino, like papa.

Bill is for stud to outside mares as well. His bloodlines are impeccable and his personality is just too sweet. I can't wait to see my dilute appendix babies. The first is due at the end of the year and the last is due in June 2007, so we'll have a busy spring!

Blessings,
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TRINITY RANCH - Home of WF Indian Bill, Perlino stallion, dual reg. AQHA/APHA
Breeders of Fine Dilute Appendix Horses for Sport and Trail

[JR]

Very nice well balanced foal.

Is your stallion homozygous for agouti ? If not you'll need to throw smoky black into the mix on all those. Bay isn't going to give you smoky creme, you'd need another creme dilute for that.

color aside, if he throws more foals like that.. oo la la Every reason to be having proud bragging moments !
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JR

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[Bondama]

Did I say smokey cream? I did mean smokey black. My bad.
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TRINITY RANCH - Home of WF Indian Bill, Perlino stallion, dual reg. AQHA/APHA
Breeders of Fine Dilute Appendix Horses for Sport and Trail

[JR]

eh regardless.. cool color !
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JR

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It's never the horse, it's the rider.
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[surprisewind]

In all seriousness, do you ship semen? If you do (and it'll be a cruel, horrible tease if you don't) perhaps I need to start planning next year's breeding. We're in Wyoming... shipping her is really not an option....

excited now, and it's still 2006.

[Bondama]

I'm sorry to say that at the present time, I'm not set up to ship. However, there is a collection station about 45 mins. drive from me that does that type of thing. I've spoken to them before about my boy and they want him to come there and be a part of their male harem! They have about a half a dozen stallions there, but no perlino. There are a couple of reasons, however, that I haven't sent him there. First of all, the management told me that the stud fees bring no profit. It gets eaten up by boarding fees and advertisement costs. Secondly, his attitude and sweet demeanor would change being around only other stallions. In other words, chances are he'd turn into a jerk and I don't want that. He's too nice and I need him to stay that way! That said, I could probably take him there just long enough for them to collect him and then bring him right back home. It's something I would consider under the right set of circumstances, i.e. the right mare, a signed contract with a deposit, etc.

I'm flattered you like him so much! Thank you.
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TRINITY RANCH - Home of WF Indian Bill, Perlino stallion, dual reg. AQHA/APHA
Breeders of Fine Dilute Appendix Horses for Sport and Trail

[surprisewind]

That does sound like a bit of a nightmare for you and the stallion. More for him than you, really... you'd get to sleep at home.

I looked at approximately 15 stallions in the WY and SD area. Picked base on pedigree, etc. And approximately 14 times, after a whole bunch of driving through the stubbly armpit of America I said, "That would make a nice gelding but my mare and I do not find him reproductively appealing."

Realized next year, unless I breed to the same stallion, I'd have to beg for sperm from another state.

Pardon my grammar. I'm sleepy.

[Bondama]