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Here rolling hills and moss-covered live oak trees are home to horses bred with love and care.
You won't find horses with better dispositions anywhere. We have excellent brood mares with foundation bloodlines and as you browse our gallery of pictures you will see for yourself why we are so successful.
Our babies are handled everyday. Ground work starts immediately so that each horse is trained to be safe, soft and supple when ridden.
The ranch is located 6 miles south of Caryville, Florida on State Road 284.
We look forward to your visit.
Lee & Linda Eyer
We breed quarter horse with good feet, straight legs with plenty of muscle on a balanced frame and adequate bone.
All of our horses are hand raised and socialized for the finest dispositions.
Lazy M Salty Blue is the stallion we look to for athletic ability and a willing disposition.
Salty was born on the Broken Bones Cattle Co. Ranch in Lander Wyoming. He is an ownly son of Hancocks Blue Boy. Like his sire, he is a consistent roan producer. Salty stands 15.1 hands and weighs 1280 lbs. He has a gorgeous head and a sound mind and passes it on to his foals. His foals are great working horses that have color and look good to boot. Two of his foals have been shown in foundation horse shows with one of them being a district weanling champion. All of his foals have big butts and forearms.
Salty consistently produces foals that not only have bone and substance but also an ability for work or play. View a larger image of him in our Gallery under Stallion.
Salty is one of the reasons we are fast becoming known for our truly amazing "blue" roans. When looking at the pictures in the Gallery - keep in mind that our horses LOOK blue because they truly ARE blue!
Come fall in love with our beauties:
The roan gene ("Rn") mixes white hairs evenly throughout the base coat or the main body.
True roans usually have normally (non-roaned) colored faces and lower legs.
Roan horses have otherwise solid colored coats, but with white hairs interspersed. The white hairs are not actual spots, but single white hairs mixed with the darker coat color.
The Roan Gene can be applied to any color of horse. The most common are Red Roans, Bay Roans and Blue Roans. There are also Palomino Roans, Red Dun Roans, Dun Roans, Buckskin Roans, etc. The Roan gene adds white hairs into the body of the horse. The legs and head are not affected and will remain darker then the body. The mane and tail are usually not affected, but some may have some white hairs mixed in.
A Blue Roan is a black horse with the roan gene. The roan gene gives the horse interspersed white hairs on his body.
Grullo (also black dun, blue dun or lobo dun) is a color of horses in the dun family, characterized by smoky or mouse-colored hairs on the body, often with shoulder and dorsal stripes and black barring on the lower legs. In this coloration each individual hair is mouse-colored, unlike a roan which is composed of a mixture of dark and light hairs. In the Fjord horse breed, the grullo color is called "grey," or, in Norwegian,"grå" or "gråblakk" (literally, "gray dun"). However, a grullo is not a gray horse and carries no graying gene. It stays the same basic color from birth (with seasonal shade variation from summer to winter coats in some individuals) and does not progressively lighten with age.
The word grullo originates from the Spanish word "grulla", which refers to a slate-gray crane. Because of the Spanish origin of the name, some people will refer to a mare as a grulla and a stallion as a grullo, pronounced "grew-ya" and "grew-yo" respectively.
A grullo horse is a dun with a black base, rarer than red duns or bay (classic) duns. Only 0.7% of quarter horses registered each year with the AQHA are grullo. There are several variations of grullo, informally referred to as black dun, blue dun, slate grullo, silver grullo, silver dun, or lobo dun. However, all of these shades are genetically based on the same thing; the dun gene on top of a black gene.
The most obvious way to tell a grullo is not only the gray or tan-gray shading, but also its primitive markings, which include some or all of the following: dark face; cobwebbing around the eyes and forehead; dark mottling on the body; leg barring (sometimes called tiger striping); dark ear tips and edging; dark ear barring; dark shadowing of the neck; dark dorsal and transverse striping; dark mane and tail guard hairs.
We are look forward to hearing from you and of your interest in adding one of our outstanding horses to your family.
We do care very deeply that our horses go to good homes where they will be cared for in a compassionate and loving manner.
We are confident that you will fall in love when you meet them in person. You will be astonished that our blue roans are, in fact, blue horses.
Please call us 850.535.4537 with questions and to set a time to visit. You can also email us at: l_eyer @ yahoo.com.
Thanks so much, Lee & Linda Eyer
When we receive your email inquiry and interest in meeting one of our horses we will send by return email written instructions and a more detailed map to the ranch. We look forward to meeting you!
