Presenting, with a bow and a flourish, Berkeley!
She’s actually Doc Williams‘ dam. Registered Quarter Horse, appoximately 15.1, 18 yo, very “copper” chestnut. She was a broodmare (too many babies, just like so many others) so she can be a little nervous around colts and studs but is VERY personable with people. Smart, curious and friendly, loves affection. She is the pasture boss of the mares, and is good at, not ruthless though. Her real name is Doc’s Glo Bar (I think – again, the pedigree stuff is not my strong point). She is rideable but would need some training since she’s been kicking it in the pasture for about a year now.
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Bit of a long back, but I like her balance. Hopefully somebody with some time and patience will snag her (retraining an 18 year old takes a while, but is worth it). I really like the expression on her face.
Is she just fat? She reminds me of halter horses with Impressive in their blood lines. Draft like bodies, horse like legs. She’s not bad for a reg. quarter horse. Someone apparently knew how to breed a decent horse. I’ve seen worse confro on quarter horses, a lot worse….
She’s a TOUCH fat…and very out of shape…but she also has a dropped belly from having had a number of foals.
I don’t think her name can be Doc’s Glo Bar, can it? Because, according to all breed pedigree, doesn’t that make her 34?
She was about 300 pounds underweight when she came to the rescue. If she wants to be a little piggy, that’s fine with us!
She’s a nice old style cow horse. My own 7 year old mare has the same body style and is also an old style cow horse pedigree.
I think she’d be a great trail horse and probably could be a baby sitter for weanlings and yearlings.
Being “piggy” isn’t a good thing. It puts the horse at risk for laminitis. I’d also wonder about the neck — is it cresty? (hard to tell from pic) Please monitor this horse’s food intake and don’t let her gain any more. I just got on a horse myself that was let to get too “piggy”… until she turned laminitic and the former owner dumped her.
Here’s one page I found to share with you about the cresty neck and fatness as warning signs for possible IR and/or laminitis:
http://www.hopeforsoundness.com/education/articles/additional/metabolicissues-stiller.html
I am confused. Is she for sale? At a rescue organization? or just an example horse up for discussion? (In the title, what does it mean to “Learn” about her?) If she’s for sale/adoption, why has’t anyone been on her? I hope you don’t mind me making a suggestion: but it might be good if someone rode her so buyers know what kind of horse she is under saddle. HYPP status is also really helpful since the pedigree is known. She does have the ‘meatier’ build, like the Impressive lines, which makes HYPP a possibility.
Keep in mind that a QH is not as prone to laminitis/founder as most pony-type breeds. And, of course, that she is 18 and shows no signs of experiencing either previously – in all likelihood if ever there was a horse who could have a few extra pounds, this is her. Extra weight does not automatically equal laminitis. She is currently at a very reputable rescue “LEARN” (hence the post title) which comes highly recommended – I’m fairly certain that if there were any signs or indications of health issues associated with weight (or anything else, for that matter) that the good people at LEARN would take immediate corrective action.
Also, if HYPP was a possibility, and going to be an issue, a bonus of her being an older horse is that it would have certainly presented itself by now.
There’s nothing wrong with that horse a bit of exercise wouldn’t fix. She’ll probably always have a slight big belly. I don’t look at the belly in older broodmares so much as at the crest, and although I agree that she’s slightly fat, when I look at her I see ‘out of shape’ not ‘overweight’.
Here is a link to Docs Glo Barr pedigree: http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/docs+glo+bar I dont think this isher, because that would make her 34 years old! If it is, she looks GREAT and has some very impressive old foundation bloodlines. Maybe Docs Glo Bar was her mother. She is a pretty nice looking mare for an older fat mare and has that good ol foundation conformation that a QH is supposed to have. If I had a place I woul love her!
Y’all, she’s a rescued brood mare who was slowly starving to death when we got her. LEARN is the rescue who took in her and her colt Doc Williams. She is nowhere near obese. She is built like a truck and is carrying a little extra weight, on an all grazing diet nonetheless, combined with the fact that she’s likely had lots and lots of babies, hence the tendency towards big belly. No one is saying that she’s going to win a conformation class or going to the Futurity – she’s just an older lady who needs a home. And considering that the director of LEARN works about 100 hours a week feeding, cleaning, medicating, etc, and because we have an all volunteer organization, training is not really high up on the priority list. She will ride, stand for the farrier and dentist but many of the volunteers (myself included) are not capable of training/riding an out of practice horse for safety reasons. She’s smart, friendly and capable – she’s just looking for someone to love and take care of her.
Where would you say she fell on the hot/quiet scale?
God bless you for all you do. Sorry there are so many people here who criticize every little fault about a horse. I bet that they unconsciously do that with people too.
Yeesh people, way to be jerks! She’s not going to fall over foundering at any moment. She’s about as chubby as many pampered and successful hunters are who perform in the show ring today, just not as in shape or conformed so. Poor gal’s likely had a long life of baby-making. Lets pop 10+ babies out of you and see if you retain your shape and metabolism.