On 11/5/07, Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> Do your Icelandics stick together? At our boarding barn my two are > always together--they may interact a bit with the 'big' horses once in a > while, but most of the time you see them together. > > > I think the idea that Icelandic's only want to hang with other Icelandic's > is WAY over-played. I
I don't know, Karen, I do think there is something to this. My Arab was always glad to see other Arabs, more so than other breeds and Doppa was in a mixed breed herd before I got her and the horse she was closest to was another Icelandic that she had never seen before. I certainly don't think they "have" to have another Icelandic in the herd to be happy but I do think, in most cases, they prefer another Icelandic if they have a choice - maybe it's because they are most likely to have the same personality. I have seen this in the Arabs, also. And I'm sure many of us have heard that horses seem drawn to other horses that are the color of their mother. -- Laree in NC Doppa & Mura Simon, Sadie and Sam (the "S" gang) "When you're young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter" - Roy Rogers
