Black Forest Draft Horse

The newest horse breed to join HI2 is the Black Forest Draft Horse! It's another one of those rare breeds we didn't know much about, so I think it's fantastic that HI2 added them and piqued our interest.

The Black Forest is a forested mountainous region in southwestern Germany. It makes me think of fairy tales and black forest cake.

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But it is also home to the Black Forest Draft Horse, a breed that dates back to the Middle Ages (wow!) and was originally used to haul felled logs from the forest.

These horses are always chestnuts with lighter manes and tails, and HI2's have wonderfully abundant manes. HI2's come in 10 different colors, including 3 shades of silver. I have no idea if Black Forests can be silver in real life or not, just that silver is different genetically from flaxen chestnut. But at any rate, the silver versions of these guys on HI2 have darker tails than manes, while the flaxens have matching manes and tails.

Here are a few examples from the BBB:

red silver

black silver

flaxen chestnut

sandy chestnut

black chestnut (my personal favorite! <3)

Also note that HI2's Black Forests always have major facial markings: either blaze without snip, blaze with big snip, and blaze with white muzzle. These horses all remind me of black forest cake, especially the dark ones. If we ever are lucky enough to own one of them, it will probably end up with a dessert-themed name. 

Unfortunately, I don't think we'll be adding a Black Forest to the herd anytime soon. The way things have been going, I doubt we'll even catch any more herd-worthy horses of any breed this year. We've fluted many attractive horses lately, but sadly they've all had unimpressive stats. Let's take a look at a few of them anyway.

Felicity and Aspen fluted this beautiful Kinsky mare with a bonus Spanish moon moth:

Anya and Lily fluted this snow-speckled Sugarbush stallion:

Bethany and Della fluted this dramatically dappled Appendix:

And Tinsel and I fluted this interesting splashed white Spotted Draft whose avatar is decidedly unspotted.

Our favorite of all is this cool Spanish Mustang fluted by Felicity and Herbie:

He is definitely going to our Millennium Fields once we think up a fitting name and give him some spiffy rump art. =^)