Our modern super-star cow horses have been created by careful, selective breeding (which has often included linebreeding and inbreeding), doubling up and concentrating that natural ability.

Bel Laurel’s current brood includes 14 pigs, eight horses, eight goats, three mini-horses, three sheep, two cows, a mule, a guinea hen and bunches of chickens, ducks and rabbits, along with two ...