Anyhow, stick with me (if you're interested).
Lime's dream horse is as follows:
Option one!
Tully x Bliss from Northfork gypsies
Tully
Bliss
I think they would produce a beautiful (and tallish) gypsy baby. They're both about 15 hands, which is about the height that I'd like. Some of the other stallions they have there are (though beautiful) really really short. Seriously, their stallion Tumbleweed looks more like a miniature horse, though apparently he throws taller babies.
Even if Tumbleweed, who is kind of a rockstar among gypsies, throws tall babies, I'm pretty fond of Tully's markings and he was really sweet when I met him, he let me put my hand in his mouth and scratch his chin and nose. And I love his lip marking and his blue eye! So cute. He's my favorite option for my dream horse's sire.
Anyhow, this is Cash, who is one of Bliss's foals. He's not from Tully, he's from Tumbleweed. He's young but he is still gorgeous. That brown in his markings comes from Tumbleweed, so I'd still have a black and white. (yay)
Cash
Just because I'm talking about him so much, here's Tumbleweed at 13 hands.
See? Gorgeous! But so short!
Option two!
This one will take longer... which is an upside and a downside. It will be cheaper, certainly, since I'll just have to pay the stud fee rather than for a foal... but I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG I CAN WAIT. It'll have to be about three years ANYWAY. I don't know if I can wait SIX OR SEVEN.
Please forgive my crazy.
Anyway, option two!
My friend has a foal on the way from these two horses
Hannah x Traven
Hannah
Traven
I took care of Traven for awhile so I know him very well. He's the sweetest boy you could ever imagine and the most adorable stallion. And he's tall for a gypsy, he's still growing, but he'll be more than 15 hands. I really don't support the breeding farm that this baby is from, so I'm not linking to it. They've really disappointed me in the way they care for their horses and if these babies weren't already paid for and on their way, I wouldn't be considering this.
However, my friend has expressed an interest in breeding if I would be willing to care for and keep the foal, pay for costs of the stallion, etc. That would be IF he gets a mare out of it, which is what he wants. If he gets a stallion/gelding, then I will be planning a Tully baby much sooner than I would be while waiting for his mare to get to a good age to have a foal.
So, this baby would be from his mare, who would be from Traven and Hannah.
Traven has no babies as of yet, but Hannah has had Jehna, who is our sweet mutt of a filly. So far, Hannah produces babies taller than she is, who are sweet-tempered and handsome (though I'm biased, it works for me haha)
Jehna
So my baby would be a black and white either way, since Traven is homozygous for the tobiano gene (he'll always throw paint babies and he doesn't have any brown in him, so I think they'll be black and white instead of brown and white or tricolor... hmm more research needed).
They haven't tested Tully yet, but since both horses would (hopefully) be black and white pied... I don't think it will be an issue. Either way, they'll have the markings/paintiness that I love.
So, Traven x Hannah baby + Tully
Plus
What do you think? I'm still very new at the whole combining of horses and it's kind of consuming me. Agh...
Option three!
We take Jehna, our mare, who is Hannah's baby, and breed her to Tully once she's old enough (a few more years yet).
Jehna
Tully
However, Tully would have to have been tested, since no one knows if he's homozygous for tobiano or not. If he wasn't, this wouldn't be an option. However, his stud fee is a lot cheaper than Tumbleweed's and I just love this horse.
OR!
Option four!
If Jehna gets to be really TALL... I would have no issue with breeding her with Tumbleweed, even though we'd probably get a tri-color instead of a black and white. He's also homozygous for tobiano, so I'll get a paint baby for sure.
Cause seriously, he's a rockstar among tiny tiny horses.
Jehna
Tumbleweed
....did anyone actually read that besides me? XD
