Rojo Tejas...Today!!!

[Carol Nelson]

We moved Rojo Tejas to his new stall today and I decided to snap a few photos:
Here he is...the REDMAN!!! (Not hard to see the genetic influence of his grandsire, Capuchino!)

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/36931redman2.JPG

...and a nice headshot...the pouty lip is cause he wanted so bad to call out to his girls, but he's been trained not to...and he behaved nicely! ;-)

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/36931rojoheadshot_(2).JPG

[Heidi]

He's so gorgeous! He can pout over here anytime he wants...
Heidi

[jodiTowne]

Beautiful!!

[Pasogirlz]

Love that neck and head shot Carol. He sure is handsome. We are lucky to have him in our stallion selection for the breeding contests.

[appyday]

Looks great...is that the baby from last year? I remember a fat red baby

[halfmoonfino]

I just love your boy! He is completely adorable...what a lady killer!

[Abejita]

I wish I could keep breeding mares here :( How many offspring does he have on the ground now?

SO..what does he think of his new digs???

[Carol Nelson]

Thanks, guys!! If you think I don't love that horse... ;-) :D

Abejita, Red has seven babies on the ground...you can see ours on my website. Don't let the prices scare you, make me an offer on anything you see there. ;-)
http://www.geocities.com/lazyidh/foalpage

He has two babies from outside mares :

A colt, Andiamo Diamante:

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/36931andiamodiamante.jpg

And a red roan filly, Salsita de Rojo Navidad:

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/36931salsita2.jpg

The people who own the filly were so excited about her that they ran their other mare up to the vet and had her lutalysed before we even had Red to the breeding barn, and now they have another Rojo Tejas baby in the oven for 2006.
He is a very prepotent sire, consistently bettering the quality of the mares he is bred to. A Rojo Tejas baby always comes out with a pretty head and a nice butt!
But the one thing I've GOT to do is get new pics of his son here, Devante. He is simply awesome...I say he is BETTER than his daddy! (Sorry, Red, you know you're always the main man! ;-) )

[halfmoonfino]

Great...now what am I going to do? I want a Rojo baby and I don't even own a mare! Those little ones were sooooooo precious! :razz:

[PasoPerson38]

Wow is he gorgeous! You have shown him in Bella Forma right ?! Breathtaking...makes you glad to be a paso owner when you see one like him.

[Carol Nelson]

Yes, Red earned his Title of Proficiency at the age of three with all of his points being earned in Bella Forma. Rick Meyer, noted judge, trainer and past president of the PFHA, once said of Red, "Now THAT'S what a Paso Fino should look like!" His accomplishments are listed on his webpage.

Thank you for all your compliments, I appreciate them! We love this horse, because for all his good looks, his personality is his greatest asset, and he above all else passes that onto his offspring!

Now stay tuned for Red's greatest performance ever:

Devante de Rojo Tejas!!!

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/36931devantetoday.JPG

I think this guy will give his daddy a run for his money! ;-)

[Brigitte]

He is breathtaking!! Nice offspring too !

[CarolU]

He's looking good Carol. Did you send his pictures to Beverly? I'm sure she'd love to see him.

Can we tell you love him? Nahhhh, not at all. Poor thing. ;-)

[Carol Nelson]

hehe... 8-)

(oh, yeah, and grandma Beverly gets all the family photos first hand!) ;-)

[Edurne]

I would love to have one that looks like Devante ..... Daddy is beautiful too.

[Carol Nelson]

Devante came out of a gray mare, a double Hilachas granddaughter, that I bought back from a guy for $900. She's 17, probably 18 now, years old...and I've gotten three foals from her. I'd sold her to him in 2001 with a Pinto colt by Rainforest Bribonzuela, the b/w Pinto stallion from AZ, a Pegasus Estaban son. He called me and asked if I wanted to buy Lacy back, said she had a half QH (Doc O'Lena) filly at her side. I half-heartedly went to look at the mare and to make a long story short, ended up with both of them. Here's the filly now...many of you have seen her photo before, Ms. T. She is a half sister to Devante. No relation to Redman, so if I still have her when she reaches breeding age I'm gonna breed her to him. I think they'd produce AWESOME babies. (She is gaited!)
Anyway, I always said there was a reason that Lacy came back to me...and now I know...it was Devante! Dave Hyatt who produced Lacy, told me he thinks she's homozygous gray, so Devante may turn gray...see the white hairs in his tail and his muzzle is light. But either gray or bay, I think he's going to be a beautiful horse!
Here's Ms. T...she is graying...

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/36931Ms.T.JPG

[DSDECKERT]

Hey Carol,

I assume the stallion was a QH since you say she's half? Isn't that kind of dangerous - to breed a Paso mare with a QH stallion? Aren't the babies typically big for a Paso mare to carry? I know at a feed store down here, there is a 3 month old half Paso Fino/half TB colt in with his Paso Mom, and I swear, he's as big as her! I realize QH's aren't as big as TB's, but I wanted to say to that woman "what the he** is wrong with you? She's so proud of that baby, but man, didn't that put the mare in danger? (I also realize you didn't do this, and I am just curious!)

<Steps down from soapbox!>

[Carol Nelson]

You know, Deb, strange but I never thought of that up until you mentioned it...but it's a good question. In this case it turned out ok, because Ms. T was just a cute little snip of a thing so doubt Lacy had any problem delivering her (Devante was another story, he was a moose!! She took awhile to get over delivering him. :D ). You're right, I didn't do it...and doubt I would do such a breeding as I simply don't like crossing breeds. Just a personal preference.
The young man who bought her said he threw Lacy out in a pasture with three other mares and the stud who belonged to his brother. The stud comes from Canada, is a horse by the name of Olenaote Tex who is by Buds Doc Olena, a Doc Olena son. I made him give me a copy of the stud's registration papers.
This young man was of Latin descent who had come from Santo Domingo. His father trained Paso Finos when he was a boy for the rich people, but they were poor, and could not afford to own horses. He used to ride the horses his father trained however. He happened to see my ad on a feed store bulletin board and got excited...and to say the least, he ended up owning TWO Paso Finos which he picked up on Christmas Eve. They still have the Pinto colt which they gelded and his kids ride him and love him.
He said that in the Latin American countries they are shipping in well-bred QH stallions and breeding them to Paso Fino mares and getting a cowpony second to none. Looking at Ms. T., I can believe it.
Oh yes, she was born in that same large pasture, and never found til she was four weeks old...wild as a jaybird. I brought her and Lacy to my place soon after and took me awhile but soon I had her eating out of my hand. She's my baby now... took to me like a bee to honey! ;-)

Will just add here that I know that the Doc Bar line is used for cutting and reining...they're probably a smaller type QH??? Ms. T loves the little calves...she had one in her pen one morning from the neighbor's field behind us, she was herding and protecting him...she got all upset when we took him away and put him back with his mommy. ;-)

[Nito]

loving Rojos neck .

IT'S A CAPUCHINO THING

[Carol Nelson]

Thanks, Nito!! Yes, I think it's fairly easy to see what line Rojo comes out of by just looking at him! ;-)

(of course, too, he has the beautiful Castellano on his mama's side, his mama is a double Castellano granddaughter!)

[Edurne]

Yes, I think I remember seeing a beautiful photo of Ms. T. How old is she now?

[Carol Nelson]

Ms. T is now two and a half...she will be three in May. I think her birthday falls somewhere around the fourth of May, since she was born in a pasture and not found for several weeks, that's as close as he could come.
I want to start working with her. I've moved her to our "socializing" pen...it's a pen right behind the house that we have to go through to get to just about anyplace on the farm, so it facilitates constant contact with the horse in it. All of our babies start out there.
I want to start working with ropes, and saddle pads and a saddle...since she's not a large horse, she probably won't be ready for riding til four, but she can be sat upon and gotten used to a rider before that.
It's been a real challenge with Ms. T. Since of course, she was born "in the wild", she is a lot different than our imprinted foals here. But I kind of like it. She has a real respect of humans that the imprinted ones have to be taught.
She loves me to death...is my puppydog. Her mama was mistreated as a young horse, resulting in her tongue nearly being severed from her mouth. She mistrusts men and this kind of carried over to Ms. T. She much prefers me over my partner. She accepts him, and respects him, just doesn't have the bond that we do.
I halter broke her myself...and that was a piece of cake! My girlfriend used to say she was a stupid horse...I laughed and told her, "This horse isn't stupid, she's smart as a whip!" She learns quickly, it's just that she isn't a pushover. She's not a dunderhead like the QH my friend works with. Obviously the Paso Fino influence there. ;-) With patience, she can be a real partner and a delight to work with.

[Carol Nelson]

There's kind of an amusing story behind Ms. T's name. I have a friend who is an animal communicator and healer (with amazing results, she worked on my old mare Danzarina once) and she was interested in buying Ms. T. At that time we were calling her Tidbit because when she came to us, she was just a little tidbit of a thing. Of course, we didn't want to let that carry on into her adult life. :D

My friend was really hot to buy her, but I talked her out of it. Since my friend is 64 years old, and already HAS a graying four year old Paso mare that she doesn't ride (is too much horse for her), I convinced her Ms. T wasn't for her. She is a lot of horse, and requires someone younger who is going to be prepared for the quickness and power she has.

At the time we were trying to settle on a name, and my friend called me one night and said she was "getting" the name Misty. (Because she was graying, and would end up salt and pepper and eventually white). I laughed and said there is nothing "misty" about this girl...I said, "More like MS. T!!!" I went out and tried it on her, she came to me, and voila! It stuck! :lol:

[PASOFAN]

Redman is beautiful! Just love his look.. yep he is what a paso should look like!! ;-) very nice pics.. It is so cool he is trained not to holar to the lady's!!

[Carol Nelson]

Yeah, I guess I kinda got away from the Redman thread here...but I just think he and Ms. T would be the ideal match. So much so I've offered a discounted breeding to him to the person that buys her! (Imagine a Redman/Ms. T/Devante combination!) :smile:

When a stallion goes into the show ring, he cannot call to other horses, so that is the first thing they learn. Second is not to drop. Ha!

[Terry Wallace]

Great photos Carol!

Deb D.... its not a problem on the breeding. We used to breed Shetland pony mares to Arabs & QH stallions.... never had a problem, the foal did not grow larger than the mare could deliver.

Problems like that are rare...not the "norm"... uterus size almost always limits fetal growth to a manageable delivery.