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The Ranch Santiago brood mare band continues to develop
over the past 15
years. Quality is constantly upgraded. We cull and replace individual mares to
breed for specific goals. Our overall goal is to produce exceptional quality
riding mules that can perform on the ranch, trail, parade, and show ring. We
desire mule colts with good calm minds, who are people oriented, with refined horse type
heads, muscular bodies, strong medium bone, and color - chrome - lightening,
hard feet, 14 to 16 hands tall. QUALITY!!!!!
The blood of many of our appaloosa mares
goes back to the Nez Pierz Indian tribe's horses that roamed the hills of the
north west before Lewis and Clark
made their exploration.
The spotted appaloosa mule at birth is a genetically elusive blessing. A few
of the mule colts are born spotted but appaloosa's most develop their color
between 2 and 5 years of age. The color usually changes each year after the
winter coat is shed with a more consistent color being set at around 5 years of
age. This is true with appaloosa mules and horses. A few of our mules are red
roan, bay, or sorrel, but the majority are showing good color with age. The
strongly stripped hoofs at birth are a good indicator of color to come with age.
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