Posted on 04/26/2010 3:53:27 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
A TINY stallion just 35cm high is thought to be a record breaker as the world's smallest foal. Einstein, a pinto stallion, weighed in at just 2.7kg when he was born last week in the US.
Breeder Judy Smith, of Tiz A Miniature Horse Farm, in Barnstead, New Hampshire, told Sky News she thought he was dead when she first saw him.
"I have been at this for 20 years plus, but I have never seen one this tiny or even close to it.
"At first he didn't move very much. We started rubbing him with a towel and he started to move around. He was so small."
Breeders said that unlike the current record holder, Thumbelina, Einstein shows no signs of dwarfism.
"From the head to the legs - the length, width, height - everything is just beautiful about this little horse," said co-owner Charlie Cantrell.
Fellow owner Dr. Rachel Wagner said: "Most of the ones that are really tiny are what we call dwarves and they have some sort of dysmorphic features, or features that aren't really normal or healthy.
"This little guy is like all horses - he's almost all leg."
I always try to check, but I think mine was first because the other poster asked to have theirs pulled. It hasn’t been, however.
I had a lady that temped for us once take her grandkids to the Bass Pro Shop telling them it was the zoo. The three year old bought it; but the 4 year old busted her when he realized the animals weren’t moving!
My daughter tells me there is some kind of unholy cross now in the UK between a pig and a sheep. The picture was hideous and I’m not believing it.
Don’t know anything about that.
There’s this island in Indonesia called Borneo. There are elephants and rhinos that are the smallest in the world that live on the island and scientists don’t know how it happened.
In fact, just recently they captured a pregnant rhino on Borneo who was pregnant, very rare.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/Eco/wireStory?id=10432130
http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/finder/asianelephants/borneoelephant.html
AW!!! Thanks for the picture. It puts the tiny one in perspective!! He’s adorable...I want him!! He would fit right in with my mini dachshunds. :-)
“Wooly pigs” are a Hungarian breed of pigs called Mangalitsa. No sheep are involved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangalitsa
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/dining/01pigs.html?_r=1
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