Friesian x Percherons!?

[Ezme]

Ok, this has got to be the weirdest cross I've seen in a while but I like.
http://www.horsemart.co.uk/AdvertRef/HM9...HorseDetail.asp

They're blatently in a bit of a "ugly" baby stage atm but our baby percherons are still a bit.... funny shaped and they're only 3 and 4. I think £1500 more be a better price but I defo would like, chuck em out for a year and get them under harness later then saddle. Opinions?

(edt to correct terrible "their" mistake!

way too tired tonight!)

 

[blackcob]

I'd bet that given three or four more years they'd blossom into handsome big chunky beasts.

I am inclined to agree with you, £3000 for the pair to go together and eventually become a driving pair.

 

[jewel]

meat horses

 

[twisteddiamond]

they r nice, they will be chunky chaps

 

[StarFell]

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meat horses

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Why?

 

[Ezme]

Ahhh meat horses could explain the odd breeding but I can also see the merits of the cross. I'm phone phobic, someone else ring! lol

 

[rara007]

I thought it was quite a common cross....Maybe I'm confused. I'll go look.

 

[twisteddiamond]

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Why?

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exactly?

not wanting to poke the hornets nest with a sharp stick but, just because its part percheron doesnt mean it was 'saved' from a fattening farm in france, or bred for meat in this country,

seems like a decent cross for a driving horse, IMO

 

[jewel]

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meat horses

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beacuse they look like the same type of horses that are on all the french rescue site. plus it's a trade ad so i bet they are importing meat horses.

 

[Ezme]

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meat horses

Why?

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exactly?

not wanting to poke the hornets nest with a sharp stick but, just because its part percheron doesnt mean it was 'saved' from a fattening farm in france

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lol, yeah scroogie is brabant x boulanise! lol

 

[JM07]

great meat stock...

are you thinking of rescueing it??

 

[rara007]

It is is popularish in the states...

This looks a lovely one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWzfvbItx7Y

 

[laceyhiggs]

i have to say .............. i like them?,,, they would make a lovely driving pair.

 

[Ezme]

I think everyone's a bit over sensitve to the meat thing atm, the advertiser only has one other ad and they are handled and lunging at 2. I think its unlikely they're meat horses. They are nothing like scrooge who is a meat horse.

 

[annret]

I think they'll be nice types tbh.
2year old is too young to lunge imho also, not going to help.

 

[laceyhiggs]

see driving horses tend to be broken much younger than riding horses,

 

[Ezme]

I wouldn't lunge a 2yr old regularly but it is a usful handling skill for diagnosing lames and showing off to prospective buyers. Saying that I don't really lunge anyway... longling is a million times better and less boring! lol

 

[funkyfilly_92]

aww i think they will grow to be big handsome boy

x

 

[tabithakat64]

I really like them, in a couple of years they'll be super smart.

 

[DressageDevil]

Its a hell of an assumption to make, that they are meat horses!
Just because they are young, chunky and hairy!

It used to be quite a common cross years ago, they usually mature into lovely big heavy weight hunter types......

My favourite is the Norman Cob, Andy cross Perch - yummy beasties!