Einstein the 6 lb horse

xzanti

Sorry if it's already been posted.. Just had to share the cuteness

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/pets/detail?entry_id=62283

When Einstein was born he tipped the scales at a mere 6 pounds and measured just 14 inches tall. And while these stats might sound ho-hum for a baby of the human variety, they tell a very different story for a horse.

Einstein is a pint-sized pinto colt born born last Friday in New Hampshire and this living "My Little Pony" is making a giant splash in world news.

"We've been at this for 20 years and I've never seen one this small," Judy Smith, owner of Tiz A Miniature Horse Farm in Barnstead, New Hampshire, told the Boston Herald. The average miniature horse foal stands 21 inches tall at birth and weighs 18 pounds.

Although he has yet to be certified as the smallest horse on the planet (the world's record currently belongs to Thumbelina, a chestnut mare born in 2001 near St. Louis who weighed 8.5 pounds and stood 11 inches at birth), Einstein has become an instant Internet star:

Wazdakka

xzanti wrote: »

"We've been at this for 20 years and I've never seen one this small,"

This?

NothingMan

Bet that horse had none of the problems those torn women on the birth thread had. Probably just thought it was having a poop.

M5

NothingMan wrote: »

Bet that horse had none of the problems those torn women on the birth thread had. Probably just thought it was having a poop.

so wrong in so many ways

Wazdakka

All AH nonsense aside, that is pretty cool...

I want one.
I'd let it run around on my desk in work and set up a little show jumping course with pencils.

It'd be the best distraction from doing work ever.

WindSock

xzanti wrote: »

Sorry if it's already been posted.. Just had to share the cuteness

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/pets/detail?entry_id=62283

When Einstein was born he tipped the scales at a mere 6 pounds and measured just 14 inches tall. And while these stats might sound ho-hum for a baby of the human variety, they tell a very different story for a horse.

I heard he is not feeling to well lately. He's a little hoarse.

alwaysadub

Aww i want one!! He's so cute.

No doubt there'll be a pile of celeb's looking for mini horses to replace their mini dogs..

M5

WindSock wrote: »

I heard he is not feeling to well lately. He's a little hoarse.

tumbleweed

MaybeLogic

M5 wrote: »

tumbleweed

Neigh.

M5

MaybeLogic wrote: »

Neigh.

please make it stop, your making an ass out of yourself

MaybeLogic

M5 wrote: »

please make it stop, your making an ass out of yourself

Windsock is a pal-o-mine-o.

M5

MaybeLogic wrote: »

Windsock is a pal-o-mine-o.

you may have missed something in my post but anyway....

MaybeLogic

M5 wrote: »

you may have missed something in my post but anyway....

Not that old chestnut.

Wazdakka

Ok, I didn't want to stirrup any trouble here,
But you lot seem intent on shoeing in a pun wherever you can...
It's like it's the mane priority of AH..

Now were all neigh-bours here...
Hoof cares who gets the most puns into a post?
We shouldn't have to feel like were saddled with a constant barrage of crappy jokes.

Now instead of all falling at the first hurdle, let's see if we can stable this out a bit..



*Runs*

M5

MaybeLogic wrote: »

Windsock is a pal-o-mine-o.

ahhh i get it now

That_Guy

xzanti wrote: »

When Einstein was born he tipped the scales at a mere 6 pounds and measured just 14 inches tall.

"If you didn't need to go the bathroom so much you wouldn't be so small"

biko

Points at tiny horse

"FREAK, FREAK, FREAK"

orourkeda

How big is his flute?

NothingMan

Now even I can say i'm hung like a horse.

xzanti

NothingMan wrote: »

Now even I can say i'm hung like a horse.

He's actually a Stallion better again :pac:

keano_afc

Sure you'd never get a saddle on that. AP would struggle to win a race on him.

IvySlayer

All we need now is a midget jockey.

RolandIRL

genetic engineering...the body of a dog, the head of a horse...

mad scientists...making crossovers of animals since 1841

almost looks photoshopped IMO.

but i still want one :P

SugarHigh

I'd love to kick it 10 feet in the air, imagine being able to tell people you kicked a horse 10 feet in the air.

SoulTrader

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwDpiFJEBiE

liah

I hate breeders of these minis. They've gone too far, the animals live their lives in constant pain with a ridiculous amount of health problems, but sure who cares, they're cute, right?

Depressing.

kraggy

It's wrong and nothing for the breeders to be proud of.

"We've been at this for 20 years..."

Oh fair play to ya for working on a project that involves interfering with nature and animals being born that are not of a natural size.

xzanti

liah wrote: »

I hate breeders of these minis. They've gone too far, the animals live their lives in constant pain with a ridiculous amount of health problems, but sure who cares, they're cute, right?

Depressing.

Breeders say that unlike the record-holder, Thumbelina, Einstein shows no signs of dwarfism. He's just a super tiny horse.

Where in the story does it say that the horse has been 'engineered' to be so small? I was under the impression that this is just natural selection..

I wouldn't be posting the story in such a manner if I thought he had been genetically modified, I think that's disgusting.

We've been at this for 20 years..."

Oh fair play to ya for working on a project that involves interfering with nature and animals being born that are not of a natural size

Do they not just mean, they've been breeding for 20 years?

liah

xzanti wrote: »

Where in the story does it say that the horse has been 'engineered' to be so small? I was under the impression that this is just natural selection..

I wouldn't be posting the story in such a manner if I thought he had been genetically modified, I think that's disgusting.



Do they not just mean, they've been breeding for 20 years?

It doesn't, but there's thousands of breeders out there trying to get the smallest, cutest, most sellable horse at the expense of its health and well-being.

After watching the video I take it back, the dam is very clearly a good breeding mare and isn't at all a dwarf type (lovely little thing, actually). Still, I don't like seeing articles like this because chances are it means some idiot is going to get the bright idea to go out and buy one of these and end up at home with a dwarf and no understanding of how to take care of it.

SugarHigh

liah wrote: »

I hate breeders of these minis. They've gone too far, the animals live their lives in constant pain with a ridiculous amount of health problems, but sure who cares, they're cute, right?

Depressing.

get off your high horse.

Breeders say that unlike the record-holder, Thumbelina, Einstein shows no signs of dwarfism. He's just a super tiny horse.

NothingMan

SugarHigh wrote: »

get off your high horse.

Is that a pun about horse size or are you actually saying she shouldn't care about breeders abusing animals by unnatural selective breeding causing them a life of pain?

Genuinely curious. Once she saw it wasn't selective breeding she did retract her statement in relation to this particular case.

Nulty

NothingMan wrote: »

Is that a pun about horse size or are you actually saying she shouldn't care about breeders abusing animals by unnatural selective breeding causing them a life of pain?

Genuinely curious. Once she saw it wasn't selective breeding she did retract her statement in relation to this particular case.

I think if it was a serious point s/he was making, using a pun-of-sorts in a thread with 70% pun posts would be a ridiculous attempt to make a serious point.

SugarHigh

Nulty wrote: »

I think if it was a serious point s/he was making, using a pun-of-sorts in a thread with 70% pun posts would be a ridiculous attempt to make a serious point.

exactly.:D

But I think NothingMan Realised that and just decided to white knight on the off chance he gets his hole.

Dudess

This thread has a cute animal and puns galore - win.

starbelgrade

At last - a horse that can make jockeys look normal sized!

NothingMan

SugarHigh wrote: »

exactly.:D

But I think NothingMan Realised that and just decided to white knight on the off chance he gets his hole.

Hey, I've done worse to get less.