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Post by nrly on Nov 27, 2007 3:06:46 GMT -5
thought this might be fun, but thought I saw a place to do this, but could not find it so I hope it is ok that I started it here.
Stormy's registered name is: Little Dunder Storm
We drove the Desert Palms, California and met Rick to get our little girl, and little she was, she was just barely 3, well she stormed out of the trailer there in California, after about and hour of her running around we loaded her up into our trailer for the 8 hour ride home, as we got closer to Mesa, AZ it was storming, and when we got her to where we were going to have her trained the storm moved out and so we unloaded her, she stormed out of the trailer acted like a mad hornet, smelling the air, she is a red line back dun, so we played on her color, the weather, and her actions to get her name: LITTLE DUNDER STORM.. she no longer has that stormy hornet attitude, she lost it all the next day but the name stuck.nola
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Post by Michelle Clarke on Nov 27, 2007 9:30:16 GMT -5
Nola, what a fun idea! ;D I love the story about Stormy, what a great name! Okay, I got a good one....our brand is the RB for Rancho Bayo; the line over it for the dorsal; and the half sun on the bottom has four rays for four of the five elements.....I picked that because the Kigers coming from the wild and being part of the earth, yada yada yada. So, we had our little Gringo this year. Did not expect a double dilute because we did not know Sycha hid a creme gene, so we were very surprised to say the least. His barn name quicky became Gringo (white man) for obvious reasons... When at Nationals two years ago, there was a painting from an Artist I really liked:  The store owner explained to me the meaning of the painting, titled The Fifth Element. She said the monks in robes all represented an element and this horse was the fifth one that completed the circle. There was more, but you get the drift. Well, we had little Gringo, who is my first Luso/Kiger cross colt (so he is kind of special anyway) and he just seemed to fit this whole notion of the elements and the big white horse, etc., so he was named the fifth element in spanish: El Quinto Elemento. PLUS, I have always like the movie, the Fifth Element with Bruce Willis. The whole movie is premised on the coming together of the five elements: earth, wind, fire, water and wood. This gal in the movie is essentially the fifth element and she is kind of freaky and odd and Gringo kind of stands out in our program and is kind of a freak with those ice blue eyes and he is going to HUGE (string tested 17 hands), so there you go....  |
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Post by lindaf on Nov 27, 2007 11:07:10 GMT -5
My girl's name is MRK Madame Mattie Silks (Mattie). I puzzled over it for awhile, then I decided to do a search of the name. Well,   ;D, I found Mattie Silks, and she WAS a madame, one of the most famous in the old days in Denver. I hasten to add that she did not participate in the trade that she sponsored. Mattie's first mom, Joan, likes to name her foals after real historic personalities as you can see on her website.
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Post by DianneC on Nov 27, 2007 13:12:51 GMT -5
This is fun! When I got back into riding I was leasing an older mustang by the name of Chinook's Legend (call name Chinny). I loved him but he was getting pretty old so I started looking for another mustang to buy and found the Kigers. One of my first purchases was a nine month old black-looking colt that I bought on a whim when I bought Smoke. Then I got the colt home and found out how truly wonderful he was. I had always thought that when I found just the right horse I would name it Chinook after my old mustang. So that's how Chinny got his name. Chinook means several things: the warm wind from the south that melts the winter snow, and it was also the common dialect (jargon) that the Native Americans tribes in this area used for trade. Many of my horses have Chinook jargon names. Tyee means headman, Teannaway means place of fish and berries. There are a great number of Native American names used for places here.
Cedar was named because the Cedar is considered the strongest of all trees by the Lakota Sioux. It is also the name used (incorrectly) by settlers for the juniper trees that are found on Steens Mountain. Lark was named for the larks that sang to us when we visited Steens Mountain for the first time just before Lark was born.
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Post by fantasykiger on Nov 27, 2007 14:11:04 GMT -5
I always had this fantasy of raising a foal of my own to be my horse buddy and partner. We would have a special bond just like in all them horsey movies I watched over and over again as a kid growing up.
So when I was all grown up and had kids of my own and finally a home with property I was able to buy a horse. I purchased a pregnant BLM Mustang and she had been bred to a Kiger Mustang stud. I had never even heard of Kiger Mustangs. I did lots of research in the mean time, getting that BLM mare tame enough to handle before that foal came along. Even met Rick and all his horses for the first time. When the foal was born it was a filly and the name was easy. She was called 'Tiffany's Fantasy'
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Post by nrly on Nov 27, 2007 16:06:10 GMT -5
wow I am excited about the response's we got love all the stories i also have one more to add:
our ranch name is Rockn' M Kiger ranch, i could not come up with a name that both hubby and I liked, one day my hubby was playing that guitar game on play station 2 with our son's and they were all rockn' out hence the name and we want to promote this breed and we finally agreed on a name.
nola
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Post by stlkigers on Nov 27, 2007 23:32:46 GMT -5
Nola:
Such a good idea...I'll play....My new Kiger colt that I got rode home all the way from Oregon with another colt from Beatty's Butte...I wanted to leave off the lead ropes but forgot to tell my friends that and I was around back shooting pics by the time the boys were haltered...with leadropes....Well we were just on the road when those babies started eating the hay that was in the trailer and pretty soon we could see the lead ropes were gonna be a problem(there is a camera in the trailer)...So we pulled over and Randy got in the trailer with them and unsnapped the ropes...The little Kiger colt allowed himself to be scratched and rubbed on....but the BB colt wasn't too sure...Fast forward to the first morning off the trailer and already the Kiger colt was allowing himself to be rubbed on and petted...Actually coming up for it...Gave him a week off and started haltering, leading, desensitizing him all over, picking up feet, etc with no problem...Learns to face up quickly and learned to come when called in about 10 minutes solidly..so we were saying he's as gentle as a Lamb...which is what Cordero means...Hence the name Kiger Cordero....Although I did get a GREAT suggestion to name him KARL since the trip I went on was with the following people Kristi, Angela (myself), Randy, and Linda....But I have an uncle named Carl so that would be too weird for me...
Angela
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Post by DunBNWild on Nov 28, 2007 16:52:05 GMT -5
Hi all,
I've been away from the boards for a few years--but recognize some of the names!
I haven't been able to name (and can't seem to bring myself to re-name) any of my Kigers. But I did name my ranch the Dun-B-N-Wild Ranch. Like the play on words and that it has a double meaning :-)
~Cindy
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Post by prismbluekigers on Nov 28, 2007 18:26:56 GMT -5
Our first colt came out of the 2003 adoption and is from the Riddle HMA. We are a family of pundits and my husband wanted to name the colt before we got him home, so he became Fit As A Riddle before we had gotten far from Burns. We call him Fit. This is the same horse my husband refers to as "Precious" a take off on Clinton Anderson's referral to spoiled horses and he is a clown, an escape artist and we wait to see what he thinks up next. He led an escape the other day and I came home to a missing gate and an empty pasture. After the heart attack, we found that he led the band of 4 to our lawn where they found green grass to feast on. I have a neighbor next door who hates stallions and luckily, no one noticed the horses out. When we moved to this place, the horses had not even been there 1 day before he knocked hard on my door and in a loud voice said" Do you know that horse is a stallion"? (hard to miss a 3 year old stud in my book, but I didn't give him the retort clenched behind closed lips)
The first colt born on our place is also from Riddle lines; Doc Marten and a mare we have named Ginger Snapp, so he became Doc's Riddle and we call him Riddler.
Next spring we will have 2 foals sired by Fit, so I have been playing with names for them already.
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Post by kigerfan on Dec 27, 2007 11:00:53 GMT -5
Firefly was given her name before I got her, but it is a very apt name. She is definitely a little firefly!
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Post by lindad on Dec 27, 2007 12:18:46 GMT -5
I'll follow Shelly and Firefly, since our horses are related. Spring came with her name too, Riddle Mountain's Springtime. Her colt is Kiger Sundance's Bolero, AKA, Dallas. Dallas was a fine name, that I think had to do with the breeders, ties to the city. I wanted Spanish names due to their heritage, and Bo was just a baby, so the change did not create any problems. In elementry school, our class went to hear the symphony play Revel's Bolero. Its haunting melody, cadence, huge crescendoes mesmorized me with their power, and that piece of music always stuck with me, even though I don't typically follow symphonic music. Revel's Bolero gives me the same feeling that seeing a majestic horse does, as they have similar elements. That is what I imagined Bolero to become: bold, beautiful, powerful, with cadence and crescendos, as that is what I saw in his SK bloodline. I fantasize, that Bolero will be ridden in an areana to the music that is his namesake, someday.
Chica is also a SK gr granddaughter, out of Springtiime. Chica Bonita, pretty little girl, just is fun to say. Our parrot, has his own version of her name and says, Chica Boo, which stuck as her nick name, with her call name as Chica. My dear horse mentor had a lovely mare, named Little Girl, so it is also a Spanish take-off of that name.
Linda D
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Post by desperatehorsewife on Jan 10, 2008 23:59:59 GMT -5
Firecracker got her name, well...because she was one!
DD hadn't picked a name yet. We were watching the country music videos when Josh Turner's "My Little Darlin' is a Firecracker" song came on. I laughed, because I call her Darling, and said it was the perfect name. She disagreed (because she'd not been there to see the mare spin when we loaded her up at Steve's place and brought her home.)
Later that afternoon she came out to watch me work and video her new horse, when the mare did a quick spin, the flew straight at her like a bottle rocket, knocking her head straight into the gate where DD was standing.
"Okay, that's her name!" was all I heard... ;D
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Post by nrly on Mar 11, 2008 23:47:55 GMT -5
lol they do tend to come into their own names, or even nick names, don't they
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Post by stormyranch on Mar 12, 2008 10:04:28 GMT -5
Our ranch stormyranch was named after my childhood horse. We had him for 36 years and it seemed apt to give him a namesake. We made it all one word just to be different.
Dino is name after Dino on the Flintstones. Because when Kevin would get home from work he would run down the fence line tossing his head as if saying Daddy's home. We had to ad Riddle in there some where as that's were he's from. Hence Riddle Me Dino! :-)
Lisa
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Post by MustangsInNC on Mar 12, 2008 10:36:58 GMT -5
prismbluekigers, I'd love to see pics of your 03 Adoption colt. There was a yearling colt on that adoption I wanted sooooo bad, but I got outbid. So I waited until this adoption, and I'm bringing my new boy home at the end of this month!
Amanda
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;D, I found Mattie Silks, and she WAS a madame, one of the most famous in the old days in Denver. I hasten to add that she did not participate in the trade that she sponsored.
