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    Horse Tails: History and Beyond, part 1
    Horse Tails: History and Beyond, part 1
    Horse Tails: History and Beyond, part 1
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    Horse Tails: History and Beyond, part 1

    By Sue Weaver

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    Horse Tails: History and Beyond is a collection of five short magazine articles that full-time animal writer Sue Weaver wrote in 1991. Their themes are the magical milt (hippomanes), the folklore of coat color, veterinary bloodletting, and two articles about horse faeries. She plans to search her published article archive for similar items to use to compile more free ebooks like this one. Enjoy!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSue Weaver
    Release dateSep 19, 2013
    ISBN9781301644551
    Horse Tails: History and Beyond, part 1
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    Sue Weaver

    Sue Weaver has written hundreds of articles and ten books about livestock and poultry. She is a contributing editor of Hobby Farms magazine and writes the “Poultry Profiles” column for Chickens magazine. Sue lives on a small farm in Arkansas, which she shares with her husband, a flock of Classic Cheviot sheep and a mixed herd of goats, horses large and small, a donkey who thinks she’s a horse, two llamas, a riding steer, a water buffalo, a pet razorback pig, guinea fowl, and Buckeye chickens.

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      Book preview

      Horse Tails - Sue Weaver

      Horse Tails: History and Beyond - Part 1

      Published by Sue Weaver at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013 Sue Weaver

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied, and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please visit Smashwords.com to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      Introduction

      While sorting through old material stored on ancient floppy disks, I discovered these five short folklore articles I submitted to The Chronicle of the Horse in 1991. Rereading them made me smile. It seems a waste not to share them, so here they are. Enjoy!

      Table of Contents

      Out of the Mouths of Babes

      In the Blood

      Tanglemane

      Black Horse, White Horse

      Beware the Water Horse

      About the Author

      Out of the Mouths of Babes

      It was almost 5 AM. The faintest hint of rosy dawn tinged the eastern horizon. On the far side of the foaling stall, Oriole’s newborn filly butted the mare’s broad flank, seeking her first meal. Sarah swept a lock of hair away from her eyes and she smiled to herself. Her first foaling, and everything went so well! Nothing remained but to check the afterbirth. Sarah stooped and probed the discarded membrane. That’s when she spied it, and

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