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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Thumbelina - The World's Smallest Horse

Amazing stories wake up our mind, and we start wondering God's unique creations in this world!

She may be small, a mere 17 inches and weighing only 60 pounds. But she is all horse.
Born as a dwarf to a miniature horse, Thumbelina is officially the world’s smallest horse.

She may never aspire to be a champion show-jumper – she is so tiny she would find it hard to jump over a bucket.
But these things matter little to the feisty Thumbelina, who has been officially recognized as the world’s smallest horse. That title was conferred on her in 2006 when the five-year-old entered the Guinness Book of Records.

The real-life My Little Pony was born on an American farm to a couple who specialize in breeding miniature horses.
Normally these horses weight about 250lb and rise to a height of 34 inches when they are fully grown. But from the day she was born it was clear that tiny Thumbelina would never grow to that size. She weighed in at only 8lb – the size of a new-born baby - when she was born.

Eventually she grew to just 60lb.
Her amazing size has been explained as dwarfism. This makes her a miniature of a miniature. She may be a mini-horse, but small means beautiful as far as her owners, the Goessling family in Goose Creek farm in St. Louis, are concerned. She likes to hang out with the cocker spaniels rather than the other horses on their 150-acre farm.

“When she was born, she was so small we thought she wasn’t going to make it. She looked very ill. We feared the worse. “Because her legs are proportionally smaller than her body and her head, she has to wear orthopaedic fittings to straighten them out a lot of the time. “But we love her and wouldn’t want her any other way,” said Michael Goessling, whose parents Kay and Paul bred the miniature horses. She only measures up to the shins of the normal-sized horses in the paddock.

Michael’s parents have bred hundreds of miniature horses, but they have never had one as small as Thumbelina. She has become something of a celebrity in her home town in America.
She lives on a cup of grain and a handful of hay, served twice a day. She is expected to live to the age of 17 years because of her size – normal horses live for about 35 years. “She was just a complete fluke and we call her a mini mini. She is too precious to sell. I think my parents would sell me before they part with Thumbelina. She has that special Wow factor, which you only get when you see how small she really is,” said Michael.

While she has the ability to get pregnant and give birth, the Goessling family have decided not to allow this to happen. There could be complications during the pregnancy, they believe, so it is better to avoid the risks. And also they don‘t feel it is right that the gene which creates dwarfism in horses be carried on through future generations.

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12 comments:

ghieGANDA said...

ang cute ni Thumbelina! parang c Tinkerbelle (haha.. tma ba spelling?). anyway, musta na ang buntis? wat's the update? =)

Cruiselife & Co said...

Long time no talk. What an adorable article.

Meryl (proud pinay) said...

ang cute naman ng kabayo! ^_^ sana may ganyan akong pet..hehe.cute.
kaso sayang di pwedeng sakyan..hiyaaaah!
happy weekend! ^_^

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me said...

Miss you mare..tagal ko na hindi nakakavisit dito..musta na inaanak ko??malaki na bha at malikot??will go to your other blogs and visit them lalo na pregnancy blog mo..sorry for the long absence ha..mwuah..

niko said...

miss u mare!! kamusta ka na???

Anonymous said...

ang cute nya :)

instant therapy siguro si thumbelina sa mga kano. :)

Unknown said...

Aww, what a tiny horse! Great post.
Coincidentally,Barbie Thumbelina is the newest for the season. I was at THE CURVE to do a storytelling for the kids.
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Kim, USA said...

Ka cute man pod ani oi.

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Ciela said...

Didn't know there's such a horse as tiny as Thumbelina. So she thinks she's one of those cocker spaniels rather than the horses. Lols! She's so cute!

I hope you're always doin' fine, Madz. Take care always!

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