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Horses Horses are herd animals. We learned from experience that horses prefer to share a paddock than to be separated in a stall. This made us decide to extend each stall with a paddock that gives room to 2 adult horses or a mare with foal. Each paddock has a sand area, a shelter with concrete floor and a stall with flax straw. The hayrack, water trog, feed bowl and mineral block are spread across the paddock in order to keep the horses moving around. Next to that our horses have access to the pasture for 4 to 6 hours a day. Manure is removed daily to avoid weed and worm infections. This is our way of keeping our horses as natural as possible and to strive for a pleasant partnership. Stallions
Breedingprogram In our breeding program we want to preserve the original characteristics of the Walking Horse since this is the reason why the breed excists in the first place. Keywords: Strong, versatile, smart, people orientated, smooth, willingness to work. Our mares have been carefully selected and are all imported from the USA. We often travel to the US ourselves to search for horses. Our criteria is based on gaits, conformation, bloodlines and disposition. In order to create a diversity of bloodlines in Europe we import our mares in foal to an American Walking Horse stallion. We match each mare with a stallion based on the same selection + (very important) the combination with that specific mare. As with many breeds, the looks of the Walking Horse has changed over the years in order to fit the demand of the market. The sturdy look had to make room for more elegance and style. The modern American show horse often also has more power and exhibits more lateral movement. This doesn't help the 'newcomers' to the breed riding these gaited horses. 1 way to breed back to the original Walker-type is to breed with old pleasure bloodlines. These are not that easy to find nowadays and we do sometimes combine these rare, old lines with modern blood of which a calm and willing disposition together with natural gaits is a must. Above criteria combined with a good socialization and training has been a proven success formula for us in raising a social horse for the whole family; a Tennessee Walker with a gentle disposition, smooth gaits for hours of trail riding and plenty of expression and gait to compete at European shows. Mares
Still young and unexperienced but promising! Jenster will reside in the USA untill she is bred by Society's Dan Allen, a sorrel sabino Heritage stallion.
A Heritage outcross, in foal to the Heritage TWH Red Bud's Rambling Slim. This 5 year old sorrel mare will arrive in Europe in March 2008.
Honor is born and raised in Canada. Her bloodlines are a mixture of Canadean Walkers on top with the well known Calvin Miller lines on the bottom tracing back till the 40ies. Most noticeable is the stallion Reyclif Mid-Merry on her papers, better known as Hills Perfection. This famous stallion only had 4 offspring of which 3 never made it into the breeding. This makes this line very rare! This beautiful lady measures a well 1.60m and is in foal to a buckskin stallion.
Sheba (barnname) is actually traveling through. A striking sabino with old pleasure lines from Calvin Miller with a bit of Ben Kuske. She has 2 offspring in the USA, including the stallion Benjamin Moore. Sheba is in foal and will move to her new home after delivering her baby.
Sheba is Heritage TWH eligable. Her certification is currently in process.
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Jenster Dusty Rose
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