SCHLEICH heavy horses

Now I have had my Homepage for almost 9 months, app 2000 pictures, - and not yet gotten myself pulled together to take pictures of the horses !!!

But if I don`t start, I will never finish, so ...

My intention is to divide them into

heavy horses
Riding horses
Small horses (Iceys, Fjord, Haflinger etc..)
Ponies

I have started with the heavy horses. We do not see those too often here, so here they are

A question,though - the Schwarzwälders, - I suppose they come in this category, or are they small horses ?



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Thanks for sharing these! I love them all! I have incomplete families of the Shire (need the foal) and the Clydesdales (need the stallion). I also have the Black Forest mare and I LOVE her! :)

-Kristie

oooo, lovely collection of heavy horses Susanne!

Thanks, Kristie and Harriet

Thanks to show a easy way to start understand a little about horses! So I already know the name of the kind of horses that I'm not a fan, even every horses are beautiful!
Susanne, the tinkers, favourite of my niece, are heavy horses too?

Roger wrote:

Thanks to show a easy way to start understand a little about horses! So I already know the name of the kind of horses that I'm not a fan, even every horses are beautiful!
Susanne, the tinkers, favourite of my niece, are heavy horses too?

Rogerbert, you sure you know more about horses than you pretend

Tinkers, - wow, yes, they are heavy also. They were of course the horses that pulled the vans of the gipsies (tinkers) in Britain, so yes, they must be heavy horses, too. You are right !!!

They are used a lot in riding schools for beginners here in Denmark, because they are so gentle and friendly, so they did not immediately connect in my head as "heavy".

My dear little son ( 29 years) is here for the week end and sleeps in the room where I keep them. I must take pictures as soon as he wakes up - it is omly 9 in the morning

I adore your Chestnut Heavy horses ! I'm still looking for one of them, I don't see them for sale often.

The Tinker/Gypsy horses can be put under the heavy horse catagory. In the UK, they are not classified as a breed but a type. When photo showing I put them under the other heavy catagory.

I think the black forest are also heavy horses. Small, but heavy


EDITED: friesians, at least the baroque type, are also considered as heavy horses (in fact, "semi-heavy" horses)

Rio wrote:

I adore your Chestnut Heavy horses ! I'm still looking for one of them, I don't see them for sale often.

The Tinker/Gypsy horses can be put under the heavy horse catagory. In the UK, they are not classified as a breed but a type. When photo showing I put them under the other heavy catagory.

So! Now the tinkers are there, too . It is SO much fun to find them and take pictures. I am happy I started

That chestnut gelding is certainly also one of my absolute favourites, see, my friend Nicole made this, - I love him, the light colour makes me see a lot of detail that I never noticed before :

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With this colour he reminds me of a Belgian, am I right ?

Lovely collection of heavy horses, Susanne

I love almost al of the schleich heavy horses, but the tinker stallion is one of my favorites. I realy like his colors

And the custom made one is realy gorgeous, looks much better in that color

What a beautiful custom!

I also have a custom with that mold, I like it so much... Mine is a flaxen chestnut Belgian draft: [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

It´sa bit old... I don´t like him so much (I didn´t know anything about painting with pastels) but I love him!

He is gorgeous, Sylvia !!!!!

Yes, that horse is just wonderful

Very gorgeous custom :) His colour reminds me more of a Percheron but I'm not sure they can have that much feather.

Did you find it easy to obtain ? I had a look a few days ago and all I could find was one from Australia for $80

Rio wrote:

Very gorgeous custom :) His colour reminds me more of a Percheron but I'm not sure they can have that much feather.

Did you find it easy to obtain ? I had a look a few days ago and all I could find was one from Australia for $80

Which one ? The chestnut ?

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Or mine or Sylvia`s custom made one ?

I must be spelling it wrong or something because I did not see them ! Thank you :) Hopefully I can get one in May

Your custom reminds me of a Percheron :)

Beautiful horses and great photos, Susanne...

Lovely horses! I miss the chestnut draftie and the old Shire gelding (this one, that is)... they have so much more personality than the new molds!

Rio wrote:

Your custom reminds me of a Percheron :)

Percheron horses can only be black or black-based grey, no other coats are accepted

SUSANNE wrote:

A question,though - the Schwarzwälders, - I suppose they come in this category, or are they small horses ?

As far as I know, Schwarzwälder horses (or Black Forest Horses) are considered lighter draft horses (commonly known as 'heavy').

schleich61 wrote:

Beautiful horses and great photos, Susanne...

Thank you very much
I am glad you also like the pictures (I did not make the horses ), perhaps I have gotten a little better at taking photoes, - at an average.
Now and then I suddenly get a good shot, but the problem is that I have no idea what I did right

And thank you everyone for helping me to find the right category for the heavy horses. I may need more help for the "small horses" later, if it is ok ?

SyLoBe wrote:

Rio wrote:

Your custom reminds me of a Percheron :)

Percheron horses can only be black or black-based grey, no other coats are accepted

Susanne's is grey :)

Rio wrote:

SyLoBe wrote:

Rio wrote:

Your custom reminds me of a Percheron :)

Percheron horses can only be black or black-based grey, no other coats are accepted

Susanne's is grey :)

It seems a purple roan with corn spots to me :)

Here you can see a purple roan horse (also known as common roan): [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] This horse has not corn spots (EDITED: yes, it has, its corn spots are very light; if you look carefully wou´ll see them!), not all roan horses have them and I haven´t found a great photo of a purple roan with them. But here you can see a detail of the corn spots: [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] And here is the Susanne´s custom: [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]






Susanne, I´ll be pleased helping you with your small horses!

I agree with you, about the corn spots but I don't think that Susanne's horse is dark enough to be a roan. His face is too light and so are his black points.

He looks like a dapple grey to me.

I can ask Nicole, who made him.
But I am almost sure she meant him to be a "Fleabitten" grey and not a roan

Roan horses can have lighter or darker heads. It´s true it should be a bit darker, and its points should be a bit more black. I keep thinking it´s more similar to a purple roan than to a grey. Anyway, not a dappled one, since it has no dapples; maybe a fleabitten one; but even in that case it should have dark knees and hocks. If it was linebacked it could be a perfect corn spotted grullo :)

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EDITED: OK, I forgot fleabittens have a different pattern of becoming grey. Please forgive me, it´s a bit late here and I need to sleep a bit xD So it could be a fleabitten. But then I think it should have a bit lighter body:)