A Warm Welcome for Mountain View Rowdy!
Mountain View Rowdy, our new draft horse
That handsome new draft horse down at the barn is "Mountain View Rowdy," a Colorado native, foaled in 1997 at Mountain View Belgian Farm near Hygiene. He is mighty glad to have a new home and a meaningful job. He moved "Back East" as a weanling and was trained by an Amish horseman in Arthur, Illinois. He's been living on an Illinois farm as the 5th horse of a 4-horse hitch, so has not had steady work. He came back to Colorado just a few weeks ago.
After months of calls, e-mails, visits to ranches all around Colorado, we discovered "Rowdy" on the InterNet, living just 15 miles south of Sylvan Dale. And it's no wonder that he's an almost perfect match for "Kid" in color, size, and conformation--turns out they are distant cousins, tracing back to the same great grandsire! After a week at Sylvan Dale, "Rowdy" is looking like a willing worker: responsive...and friendly to a fault. Please give him a warm Heart J welcome, but be careful or he'll "nose you over"!
Contributed by David Armstrong
Editor's Note:
Kid, our other draft horse, will be pulling ranch hayrides with Mountain View Rowdy. Kid's brother and partner Butch recently passed away.
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In the Media
Reunions
Magazine, Oct-Nov 2002 - Sylvan Dale Featured
on cover
Sylvan
Dale Honored for Conservation Efforts; The Fence
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