Noche Miller's Blog – March 2022 Archive (4)

Sensible Single Whorls

Those single whorl horses. They have an amazing reputation in the horse whorld. Steady, dependable, unchanging. They are the unicorn of whorls.

Yes, this is mostly deserved. It’s entirely possible that they can be those things.That single whorl shows a lack of extremes. Extremes are good to avoid with anything in life. The middle of the road, a little of everything and not too much of anything.

Most of the time a single whorl comes with a straight profile, squared off muzzle, a…

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Added by Noche Miller on March 29, 2022 at 4:42pm — No Comments

The Doule Whorl Club

They have a bad reputation. Watch out for those double whorls. Nothing but trouble. Said to have double personalities, wildly swinging mood changes. Jekyll and Hyde temperament. Avoid them when you can.

And yet.

There are a select few of us who like our double whorls.

What is a double whorl?

For this purpose it is two whorls stacked on top of each other or next to each other. There are other whorl patterns with two whorls but they aren’t usually included in this.…

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Added by Noche Miller on March 14, 2022 at 10:30am — No Comments

Why Do We Look At Whorls?

Why would looking at whorls on a horses head or body be able to give us any information about the horse?
It seems silly doesn’t…
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Added by Noche Miller on March 7, 2022 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Accident Prone?

Some whorls come with very specific ‘meanings’. The S shaped feathering is one of those.

When a horse has feathering on their forehead that twists and turns, sometimes in the shape of an S, others are just squiggly, it is said that horse will be accident prone.

While it does often hold true I think it’s important to look at what ‘accident prone’ actually means. It should be fairly obvious that the whorl doesn’t cause the horse to get hurt. Whorls are signs of what is going on…

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Added by Noche Miller on March 5, 2022 at 3:54pm — No Comments

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