Royal Agricultural Winter Fair to Return in John Prescott - Rhodococcus Equine Bacteria. I deworm my horse….. Skip to main content. Login My account. The Gorgeous Gypsy Vanner Horse. By Jess Hallas-Kilcoyne Like some fantasy creature of legend or a magical steed from a fairy tale come to life, so the Gypsy Vanner Horse seems.
The disposition of the Gypsy Vanner Horse is of almost equal importance to its body type. Cutting - A Sport of Precision and Strategy. The Charismatic Canadian Warmblood, Part 1. The Canadian Horse. The Charismatic Canadian Warmblood, Part 2. A Morgan For Everyone. The Ancient Andalusian: the Horse of Kings. Search form Search this site. Featured News. In Memoriam: Conrad Laurin You will see them pulling carts and carriages, ridden in the dressage ring, as well as over fences and as western pleasure horses.
The Gypsy Vanner is a wonderful family horse and is popular as a trail or therapy horse due to its unflappable nature. At Gypsy Gold, we have a special mare named GG Diamond Girl who is both fading and non-fading black, making her a very rare, black on black.
Yes, blue eyes are fine, Irish Gypsies prefer blue eyes thinking that blue eyed horses will produce more color in their babies.
English Gypsies are not as enamored with blue eyes, but would never reject a blue eyed horse as long as the rest of the horse fits their vision of the perfect caravan horse. There were three size classifications for the Vanner breed originally and there will always be at Gypsy Gold. All sizes should have the look of a small Shire with more feather, more color and a sweeter head. Americans breed up, therefore will breed the Classic Vanner up to a Grand Vanner.
The key to maintaining the breed, no matter the size range you embrace, is a focus on the seven characteristics of the breed standard that define the Vanner breed.
The Mini and Grand Vanner have developed from diminutive and grand offspring of the classic middle. It was clear from the beginning that the Classic size could be lost if it was not managed carefully, and that is why the original standard was established with sub names and size ranges like Schnauzers and Poodles.
Those names, along with their size ranges, were removed by a whimsical vote of a small group of uninformed society members. Example: Our stallion GG Versace is a mature He comes from Classic genetics, but he wound up Grand.
As a breeder, I must know this so that I can manage my breeding size goals going forward. If sizes are left to whimsically develop as they are now, the Classic Gypsy Vanner Horse that won the hearts of millions worldwide might well be lost in time, and that would be a sin. The only way to forever preserve the hh Classic Gypsy Vanner Horse is to celebrate and manage the upper and lower size ranges with sub names and informed breeders.
A drum horse is a horse the Queen of England chooses to carry drums in her parades. Throughout the years of research focused on understanding horses raised by British Gypsies, Cindy and I never heard of a Drum Horse. After the Vanner breed was introduced in , an importer of Shire horses promoted that crossing a Shire stallion to a female horse raised by British Gypsies would produce a Drum Horse.
The promotion coincided with the release of a Drum Horse model by the Breyer Corporation and a total lack of knowledge concerning horses raised by British Gypsies by the American public, a perfect storm of sorts.
Fred knew everything about his breed. First, there is no genetic combination that will make one every time; and second there is no connection to horses raised by Gypsies other than possibly color. Even the contribution of color would not have come from the breed, it would have come from a crossbred horse, the breed is too small.
This explained why we had never heard of a Drum Horse. The connection to the breed was manufactured for the purpose of selling horses, it is that simple.
The British Drum Horse prior to was basically unknown to America, but lately due to crossbreeding with many Clydesdales and Shire mares, you can find a good number of Drum Horses that are offered for sale in the U. In conclusion, a Drum Horse has nothing to do with a breed of horse developed by British Gypsies and is therefore contrary to the mission and goals of the Gypsy Vanner Horse Society and Gypsy Gold.
The Gypsy Vanner Horse is a status symbol; the breed exactly as it was envisioned is actually less plentiful than one might think. In contrast, horses raised by Gypsies in general are not rare or expensive at all.
To an untrained eye, they look similar, but they are genetically not the same. The breed makes your heart skip a beat, the less defined type does not. Exploitation and confusion about what the breed is on the Internet has made establishing the actual breed more difficult, and yes one could argue it has also made it easier.
Tom had 1, horses when we met him. Most were not capable of evoking the special feeling he expressed about The Kent Horse because they were not his vision horses…his breed. Falling in love with this breed is very easy to do as the founders of the Hairy Horse Company in quickly discovered. Upon seeing this gentle, docile, kind-eyed, and beautiful horse, Jennifer Dymond and friends were hooked and the Hairy Horse Company was founded. Located in Bedford IA, the Hairy Horse Company offers an array of sizes and colors and has now expanded their majestic herd to one stud-horse, geldings, mares, and fillies.
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