Chaos Ranch
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When we moved in this house in Oct. we went down the road and noticed a herd of about 15 horses standing out in a small 2 or 3 acre pasture. They were nothing but bones, no grass, no hay, bark has been eaten off of the trees, and they had no shelter at all.
For months now we have gone over there twice a week to see if they were improving, and with the hopes of catching the owner over there so we could find out what's going on with these poor horses. All through the winter they were starved. A huge hay field was right across their fence, but all they could do was look at it and smell it in the air. I can only imagine how desperatly they wanted to have at lease one small bite of that hay.
My neighbor came over and we discussed these horses several times. Neither of us knew how owned them. He fed them bread, snack cakes, anything he could get his hands on. Only one time in all these months have I seen any sign of hay for them.
Well, yesterday my son Dakota came flying home on his bicycle and sped right up to me and I knew he was excited about something. I soon found out that he caught those people over there with the horses and he told them we wanted to buy them, and then he got their phone number and rode home as fast as he could to tell us.
We called them and went over straight away. They were in deplorable condition. The two that were the most serious were loaded on his trailer and he wouldnt discuss selling those. I did however get a price on the horses. $50. each. I was about to cry standing there. I called my mom and dad and begged them for the money. '
We came back home and we called them up. We offered all that we had, 250. for the 7 of them. He accepted it and called us this morning and offered to go pick them up and take them to our pasture. Thank God that we secured a 30 acre pasture earlier in the year.
He opened the door of the trailer and they stumbled out and immediatly stuck their nose to the ground and grabbed up mouthfulls of grass. I took a few pictures of them. Donnie told me "We don't need these horses." and all I could say back to him was no... we don't need them.... but they need us. So he threw himself into the effort and we got them away from that starvation pit. I don't know what happened to the others....there was about 15 starting out... I think some of them must have starved.
Now, I am going to have to do some creative financing to come up with the money to deworm them all, and take care of their feet. A couple have decent feet... one has a crack all the way up to it's hairline. One mare has been hit by a car and her shoulder never got any vet care so she has a disfigured shoulder. She gets around on it pretty fair. She also has a large golf ball sized hernia on her tummy.
Here are the photos of the horses. I hope to post new pictures in a month or so of their progress. I've never done rescue before... but there was no way I could pass the chance to help these horses.
For months now we have gone over there twice a week to see if they were improving, and with the hopes of catching the owner over there so we could find out what's going on with these poor horses. All through the winter they were starved. A huge hay field was right across their fence, but all they could do was look at it and smell it in the air. I can only imagine how desperatly they wanted to have at lease one small bite of that hay.
My neighbor came over and we discussed these horses several times. Neither of us knew how owned them. He fed them bread, snack cakes, anything he could get his hands on. Only one time in all these months have I seen any sign of hay for them.
Well, yesterday my son Dakota came flying home on his bicycle and sped right up to me and I knew he was excited about something. I soon found out that he caught those people over there with the horses and he told them we wanted to buy them, and then he got their phone number and rode home as fast as he could to tell us.
We called them and went over straight away. They were in deplorable condition. The two that were the most serious were loaded on his trailer and he wouldnt discuss selling those. I did however get a price on the horses. $50. each. I was about to cry standing there. I called my mom and dad and begged them for the money. '
We came back home and we called them up. We offered all that we had, 250. for the 7 of them. He accepted it and called us this morning and offered to go pick them up and take them to our pasture. Thank God that we secured a 30 acre pasture earlier in the year.
He opened the door of the trailer and they stumbled out and immediatly stuck their nose to the ground and grabbed up mouthfulls of grass. I took a few pictures of them. Donnie told me "We don't need these horses." and all I could say back to him was no... we don't need them.... but they need us. So he threw himself into the effort and we got them away from that starvation pit. I don't know what happened to the others....there was about 15 starting out... I think some of them must have starved.
Now, I am going to have to do some creative financing to come up with the money to deworm them all, and take care of their feet. A couple have decent feet... one has a crack all the way up to it's hairline. One mare has been hit by a car and her shoulder never got any vet care so she has a disfigured shoulder. She gets around on it pretty fair. She also has a large golf ball sized hernia on her tummy.
Here are the photos of the horses. I hope to post new pictures in a month or so of their progress. I've never done rescue before... but there was no way I could pass the chance to help these horses.
