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The POSM Horse Registry is a tool
dedicated to members in good standing of A POSM HA to assist you in
finding particular lines of the old
type Morgan horse acceptable to the POSM Horse Registry as of POSM type for all around useful,
responsible primary work on the small family
farm/homestead, use in the woods or on the road.
Type denotes not only a
look or appearance, but also a spirit or being. An all around
horse could have many appearances. As it turns out the horse
that has the greatest sum of the parts that make up the all around
general use horse is an ancient horse; the old type Morgan
horse.
He has a spirit that can be duplicated in
a pinto, palomino, appeals, buckskin, etc., but why do so just to be
tinkering? If he ain't broken don't "fix" him!
Taking this wonderful little horse and
making another horse has been done. Please stop and smell the
roses. This is the horse. He doesn't
need to be anything more than what he is. Let him
be.
To get his sensible mind, willingness to
please, gentle nature, longevity, stamina, heart, power, general all
around usefulness, don't change him. He is black, brown, bay
and chestnut. White is a defect. Folks who used these
horses everyday for livelihood at hard physical work to make their
bread found these horses to be tops. They always brought the
highest prices when a horse was chosen for what he could do.
Every time you change something you get further from the original
until the original is lost. Use him or leave
him.
POSM TYPE
Type varies from style. Style is
the whim of a person based on no function, but what a person
likes. Similar to the style of a hat; here today and
gone tomorrow. Stay the course breed something proven and the
result of use when it counted. Please note we used the word
"style" in the abbreviation for the ancient old type Morgan horse we
specify and limit to the POSM Horse TM. It stands for Phillips' Old Style Morgan Horse.
We can assure you he is a type and not a style. His type is
general all around useful on the small family farm/homestead or in
the wood lot or on the road. He has been proven in this regard
when it was a merit to work hard by the sweat of one's
brow. Your life, family and community used the
POSMs and all benefited with God's
blessing.
Of course there is acceptable
variation. But we breed to type. He should not only look
POSM. He should be POSM. We of the A POSM HA have
agreed upon acceptable type and use. We do not agree that
because a good horse was bred to a post, the post is POSM type
unless the individual is. We seek to recognize those POSMs
that best characterize POSM type and promote them by a star
system. It is not intended to be a status symbol, although
some will use it as such. But, it is a tool to give breeders a
direction to look for POSM type they want to breed. Remember,
he is not only appearance, but also being. What is his
mind, his attitude, his willingness to work, etc.? What lines
of POSMs carry these traits?
It is the skill of the breeder to choose
the right foundation stock for their contribution to the POSM
Legacy. We want to leave useful horses for primary
work on small family farms/ homesteads, use in wood lots or on the
roads. If God blesses our efforts, we will leave posterity a
POSM Horse to take them into the future, should the Lord's return
allow it. We will build communities, neighborhoods,
lives for people; using animals in partnership responsibly and
humanely to feed, clothe, house, fertilize, transport, power small
regional and more cyclic craft agriculture and its associated
services. We have an opportunity to use advances of today
wisely and choose ways of life better suited to wholesome living as
God provides through His love for neighbor and nature.
Let's do it.
Written instruction and photos
of type to follow.
POSM
PURPOSE
To be used in responsible
primary work to feed, shelter, transport,
power, provide manure, provide replacements, etc. and all the
associated necessities required in simple living. You know,
where you don't send your kids off to be raised by strangers?
But, where people work together, live together, grow and die
together. Where folks don't go to a gym for exercise, but in
the common everyday labor of life you get all the daily
exercise one needs. Not factory farming and its associated
living, but simple living as conceived by God with
neighbor and nature in mind. Let's seek not to trade one
factory system for another. Let's not make the farm
devoid of life; sterile and analytical. A different way of
life. Life at God's Nature's Pace.
Wouldn't it be something to owe
nothing? Own or work a small place and just feed your family,
stock, barter with neighbors for what you don't produce or sell a
small amount of your produce to pay taxes, etc.. Do your kids
need to go to college? Did you? Why are you reading this
if you did? It maybe God telling you
something. Perhaps connection. It's family, place;
life the way some were intended to live. If your kids
are talented enough and want to go to college, let them get
scholarships. You give them love ( not things or a
family of strangers making up neighborhoods, communities or a
nation of the same.). The best is not things.
We are in the world; not of it. Please
understand, this does not save you, but it may prove you. Only
Jesus saves and He does that where you are. But, for some,
just maybe this is truth.
Once a breeder comes to understand Type, you then understand that
these horses are not everywhere and you become like many of
us. You only want them
to go to breeders that are going to
promote type or in other words to A POSM Horse
members. Those dedicated to seeing them bred to promote,
perpetuate for responsible primary work
purposed for small family farms/homesteads, use on the roads or in
the woods. One understands the danger of
primary work, but in perspective it is a far
more responsible and sensible purpose than a horses life or
our lives spent for show or our pleasure or our sport or
our leisure. Responsible primary work feeds families, horses,
neighborhoods and creates a place for regional economy and
usefulness. It provides purposeful exercise, fertilizer,
replacements, transportation, traction power, a dependent human
animal working partnership as we all depend on God.
POSM Type exists in different families of horses. By the
time one learns a breeders prefix, the offspring or sold
and that horses offspring are named under the new owners prefix
if registered. If not registered, they are lost to
prospective buyers or breeders. Attempts to study and
trace bloodlines of outstanding POSM characteristics are lost
all together. So our job of finding POSMs is
difficult. In addition to this problem, we
must deal with the masses of people who have the money, but are only
interested in consumerism. They buy outstanding stallions and
geld them because they want to show or enjoy them for pleasure or
sport or leisure. Many places today do not allow
stallions. Or outstanding POSM type is lost to consumers who
want them for children with no thought of replacing them for
posterity. When Susie or Bobby out grows the POSM, he is
sold. Sometimes without papers or tractability or even
worse to the "killers".
So to our members we offer a Search
Service. If you tell us, after viewing the
different horses of acceptable POSM Horse type (See Our Photos
of Type) and choosing an acceptable horse you would like to see
perpetuated, we will assist you in your search of descendant or
siblings descendants of that POSM type line. We search
pedigree. We also can make known to you on request horses of
any acceptable POSM type known to be for sale. We also promote
POSMs of outstanding type to our membership for breeding
purposes. Such an animal does not have to be owned by an A
POSM HA member or be in sympathy to our cause. Members,
however, agree to only breed any Registered POSM Horse mare to
approved POSM Horse type. Why? Because a POSM stallion
breeds and the mare is gone and the foal is born somewhere else in
most cases.. An approved POSM Mare bred to an unapproved
stallion delivers an unapproved offspring that remains by the mare's
side until weaned. This is just enough time for you to fall in
love with a baby pinto, appaloosa, Arab, etc.. We not only
lose POSMs but lose dedicated POSM breeders.
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