All You Need To Know About Horses

Howdy everybody! I will now talk about horses. By the end of this blogpost, you will know all you need to know about horses.
Horse Family Fact: There are 4 main gaits for a horse: Walk, Trot (or for some horses it is a fast walk), Canter, & Gallop. 

Different gaits for a horse (There is a typo in the picture. The third gait is a Canter not a Canker) :D

                          

 Horse Family Fact: The mare is the mother, the stallion is the father, and the foal is the baby. If the foal is a male, it is a colt, if it is a female, it is a filly. They become Stallion or Mare at 3 years of age. 

                                                

Horse Family: Mare (mother horse), Stallion (father horse), foal (baby horse). 

I will split this blogpost up into 4 main groups:

1. The Light Horses
2. The Heavy Horses
3. The Pony & Miniature
4. The Feral [fer-ul] Horses

I will talk about all these, but let's start with the Light Horses. You might ask, "Why are they called 'Light Horses'?" And the answer is: they are lighter than the Heavy Horses and they almost NEVER do work. When they do, it is very light work. These horses are mostly show horses.They include Tennessee Walker, Quarter, Appaloosa, Arabian, Thoroughbred, &C &C. The Thoroughbreds are racing horses, and the Tennessee Walkers are show horses. The Quarter horse is also a race horse, and it shouldn't come as a surprise that they run 1/4-mile races.

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                  See, these guys know how to be friendly, too ;)

                           

 

Quarter Horse

                                  

 

The Appaloosa is a spotted horse and they're show horses...

Appaloosa Horse

                                   

Next, I will talk about the heavy horses... now that you know what a light horse is, you should easily be able to to define what a heavy horse is. This group includes: Belgian Draft, Gypsy Vanner, Shire, Clydesdale, the Percheron, and others. These horses were used to plow before we had tractors, but now, they help with other work. 

Horse Family Fact: Shire horses are actually a type of Gypsy Vanner

Gypsy Vanner Horse

Clydesdale Horse

                      

Some of these, like the Clydesdale, are used in parades. The Percheron was used in the French Army, but they started getting killed off too fast, so they were moved to pulling ambulances.

The third group: the Pony and Miniature, is next. The Pony is smaller than a horse, while the Minis are tiny horses.

Welsh Mountain and Cob pony mix

                                     

The ponies are stubborn creatures, and do things most unexpected. There are a few different kinds of ponies: American Shetland, Asturcon, Bosnian, Camargue, Connemara, Dales, Dartmoor, Dulmen, Eriskay, Esperia, Exmoor, Fell, Galiceno, Garrono, Giara, Hackney, Highland, Karachan, Kerry Bog, Losino, Navarra, New Forest, North Iberian, POA (Pony of the America’s), Quarter Pony, Shetland, Sport Pony, Welsh Mountain, Welsh, Welsh Pony and Cob…&c, &c.

For the Minis, they have the Refined Arab look that looks like an Arab horse, except more refined, and the Stocky Quarter horse look that looks like a Stocky Quarter Horse's 3 ft. baby! The Minis come in all different colors: sorrel, bay, roan, appaloosa, pinto, palomino, and sometimes they can be silver, (but silver isn't a common color for them). The smallest of the Minis is the Falabella... this Mini stands only 7 hands high at the withers (each hand being 4 cm approx.)! The Falabella colors are Bay, Brown, Black, Pinto Palomino, &c&c... They also can be spotted like the Appaloosa, but these aren't common.

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Last but not least, there are the Feral horses.This group includes donkeys, zebras, wild horses, mules, hinnies, and others, but we'll just be talking about the ones I mentioned. A mule is  cross between a male donkey and a female horse. As you can gather from the saying: "Stubborn as a one-eyed mule", they are very stubborn.

                                    

Hinny

                                    

 The zebra is a very pretty animal, but few have been tamed to pull carriages, and still more few have been tamed to be ridden.

Wow, you're a good guesser!!! That's a zebra:)

                                

The donkey or ass is a domesticated horse and has been used for work for over 5,000 years!!!

Yes, this is a donkey

                                 

And last but not least, there are the wild horses such as Mustangs. But they are just horses that are not domesticated. There have been few that are tamed. There is nothing extra special about them save they are wild horses.

Well, there you are! Now you know about all the 4 main types of horses!!!
Lynnae made this video to go along with this: 
ENJOY!  
Beware: It doesn't follow exactly word for word what I said above!!!:)

Jesus and Muhammad Compared

  Jesus and Allah are both claimed as “gods,” but the Bible (the Christian Bible) and the Quaran (the Muslim bible) both state that there is one god. The Muslim’s say that Allah is their god, and the Christians say that God, Jesus, Christ, is theirs. Which one is the true God. Since Jesus was a “Messenger” of God, who came and did God’s will; and Muhammad is a messenger, who came to do at the command of Allah. What I want to do, is give you some side by side facts of the two just to bring you to a deeper understanding that Islam has it wrong.

The Islamic world under Muhammad is marked in red

1.     Muhammad was a great ruler. He conquered many lands, and he had many followers, but he didn’t rule the whole world. Jesus is a great ruler as well, but He is the ruler of the whole world. He will reign forever, and Muhammad’s reign was temporary. Of course greatness is not measured by how much land that you have, but I am convinced that Jesus is the greater than Muhammad.Jesus also didn’t gain this land by killing people for it. He is the Creator of this land that He owns; whereas Muhammad gained His land by slaying people and he did not create the land that he ruled.  

2.   Muhammad taught people to fight, but Jesus taught peace. We have evidence today from the things that have been going on, that the Muslim religion is all about war. There is also great animosity between the Christians and Muslims today, which I will talk about later.

 
3.    Muhammad taught vengeance on anyone who offended you, but Jesus taught to “...turn the other cheek…” Again this goes back to peace, we are not to retaliate when we are struck down, but in the Muslim religion Muhammad gave full right for the people to retaliate. Peace is one of the things that sets Christians apart from others.

  
 4. It is a blasphemy to call Allah your father, but Jesus loves it when we cry out to Him calling Him “Father.” I wouldn’t want a god who refused to let me call him “Father.” I love being able to call Jesus my Father.

 
5. Muhammad taught that women are nothing, that they are not equal with men, but Jesus elevated the value of women. Many of his followers were women, and He never turned any of them away; in fact, He encouraged their discipleship. You see that when the Pharisees bring the adulterous woman to Jesus, and He forgives her of her sins.In Muhammad's eyes women were just slaves, and he encouraged his men to rape the slave women. Is that the way that what Jesus commanded his disciples to do. In fact, according to the law of Moses, if you act immorally with a woman, you are worthy of death.     

6. Muhammad ordered that those who did not follow Allah be killed, but Jesus had compassion and forgave those who did not follow them. On the cross He said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34) He loved them just as much as he loved those who were His. The Muslims have long been persecuting Christians because of what they believe. They have killed and tortured them for centuries. The Christians have not persecuted the Muslims for not believing in what they believe, but they have loved them and brought the Gospel to them. Jesus would have never killed the Muslims, but he would have rebuked them for leading the people astray.  

  7.   Those who follow Allah cannot have a personal relationship with him. He is separated from them. He is uninvolved with their lives, but Jesus loves to talk with us. In fact the Bible commands us to pray, it is part of the Christian life. If you claim to be a believer, but don’t have a right relationship with the Father, then that could be a sign that you are not walking with the Lord. I hope that this clearly points out the difference between the two religions.

8.    Muhammad had slaves, and he ordered the slaves to do the work, which was culture in that day, He had a slave build the pulpit where he preached. Jesus came as a servant. He came to serve and not to be served. He was willing to do the dirtiest job: washing His disciples feet. Of course Jesus was served by servants when He entered people's houses, but He, being the King of Kings wanted to show His disciples what true servant hood and so He washed their feet. Do you think that Muhammad would have done the same thing to his disciples? Do you think that he would have served the them in such a way? No.

  9.  Now I want to bring you to my last and Final point. Jesus died for us to save us from our sins, but Muhammad would not have died for his people. Allah would not have died for his people. Allah is so much higher in rank than the people that served him, but Jesus came down to earth, associated Himself with the lowliest of the lowliest, healed them, and died the most horrific death for them. What an amazing God we serve!

   
 As I conclude, I want you to see God in a different light. As a God that far surpasses the gods of the other religions in the world. I hope that you see Him as a God who wants to know you, who loves to to reach His hand out to you when you need His help, and as a God who took all the ridicule, and took all your sins that you have ever committed and died for you. I think we take advantage of Christianity these days. We take it so lightly, that we don’t even think about the fact that people were tortured and died for their faith, so let us be thankful that we are not enslaved like so many of these Muslims are today.