i have a great husband and if your good partners you can accomplish alot.. thanks BruceBogwoodbruce;2375190; said:
Farm life at my farm
- Thread starter Red Devil
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hi nice to meet you... what kind do you have... i did so much with the horses for the past 20 years i am just starting to forget all that i learned... i went to every seminar in cornell.. haha. so i am not on the forums like i use to be... just if i need to check out something..let me see your guys sometime..crgeltn;2614118; said:
I only asked about the other horse forums because my wife is usually on a few of them. Here is a link to our blog. She updates it pretty much daily. There are lots of pics too! Even a few of our rescues. http://ctgponies.blogspot.com
We have miniatures, a Mexican mustang and a POA that we own at the farm. We also pick up rescues here and there. Pretty much all of the horses we have could be considered rescues. Both of the minis were in rough shape when we got them. One was local and the other came from an auction. The POA came from an auction and was missing one of her heel bulbs, and had horrible thrush in all four feet so needless to say she was lame and is just gettting better now. The Mexican mustang was aquired by paying some back board someone owed on him. He was completely lame due to bad farrier and vet care. He was just a little over at the knee. The woman who was riding him was too heavy and she would ride him too hard. So, he would go lame after riding. The farrier put bar shoes on him and left the heels really high to try to fix the "problem" and the vet did x-rays and injections before advising the owner to possibly put him down. Thank god she didnt! We pulled his shoes, got the heels back down, and basically let him be a horse for a while. Less than one year later he is 100% sound and being used as my daughter's barrel horse. She is doing so well on him that she will be doing some NBHA and IBHA events this year as well as lots of local stuff. She even did an English show and won her event in her barrel saddle. You should have seen the looks we got from some of the trainers. LOL! Here is a pic
Sorry, I didnt think I had soo much to say!
We have miniatures, a Mexican mustang and a POA that we own at the farm. We also pick up rescues here and there. Pretty much all of the horses we have could be considered rescues. Both of the minis were in rough shape when we got them. One was local and the other came from an auction. The POA came from an auction and was missing one of her heel bulbs, and had horrible thrush in all four feet so needless to say she was lame and is just gettting better now. The Mexican mustang was aquired by paying some back board someone owed on him. He was completely lame due to bad farrier and vet care. He was just a little over at the knee. The woman who was riding him was too heavy and she would ride him too hard. So, he would go lame after riding. The farrier put bar shoes on him and left the heels really high to try to fix the "problem" and the vet did x-rays and injections before advising the owner to possibly put him down. Thank god she didnt! We pulled his shoes, got the heels back down, and basically let him be a horse for a while. Less than one year later he is 100% sound and being used as my daughter's barrel horse. She is doing so well on him that she will be doing some NBHA and IBHA events this year as well as lots of local stuff. She even did an English show and won her event in her barrel saddle. You should have seen the looks we got from some of the trainers. LOL! Here is a pic
Sorry, I didnt think I had soo much to say!
thank you..i just glanced at it and it looks so inviting.. i can get swept away in there... i will take the link and save it for my afternoon break.. thank you so much.. i love meeting people who have horses in their life with their horses best interests at heart.. Lizcrgeltn;2614830; said:
Thanks for looking. If you get a chance check out the little video for Pumpkin our mini. He his just a great little guy! I love posting the above pic too. It drove some of the local trainers and parents nuts!
Absolutely amazing. Gotta love Upstate! My wife said she will shovel horse poop if we can come for a horse ride!
you brought tears to my eyes...seeing this pic.. so wonderful to find out something so wrong has a happy ending... i rescued a stallion QH and i ended up getting his papers .. he was going for meat... he was a palomino.. we put him in the stallion class and he won the entire show... how you describe this event is how i exactly felt that day... and i remenber Dusty turned around to look at me.. like he was saying Thanks...crgeltn;2614882; said:
Red Devil;2614890; said:
Sorry about the tears. They usually do end up saying thanks or paying you back in some way and even if they dont it's still nice to do the right thing. I also try to keep my wife and daughter away from the auction as we would be overrun! Unfortunately, you cant save them all!
