Chaos Ranch
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I have been horse-less for a few months now...and absolutely hating it ! Yesterday Donnie came home from work and tells me that a friend of ours has two horses that he'd give me if I wanted them. Though I was very very sick (salmonilla poisioning) I got up and headed over there to see them. One is a smaller quarter pony mare with a big blaze and the other is a fair sized Mustang gelding. They are 3 and 4 years old. They were in very good flesh, and seemed pretty mellow. I said we would take them.
My friend is letting me put them there for as long as I want, and Donnie has put feelers out for some pasture we can lease. Too bad I just sold my horse trailer last month.
Another friend of ours is going to go over and pick them up for us.
I am beginning to worry about the horse situation here. Just days ahead of that a friend gave my father in law two horses... nearly starved little look-alike mustang mares. We're going to help him de-worm them and get them into good health. He doesn't know how to do it. Then while talking to this other friend of ours we find out that he knows of about half a dozen horses here and there that have been given away, mare and foal pairs that sold for 50. and a horse that sold at the auction for 10.
OH! Poor horses...
We were driving around to check out a miniature stud, shetland mare, and miniature donkey and on the way there we seen at least a dozen horses in different pastures that looked half starved. Ribs and hips sticking out. It's really not looking too good for livestock right now. The little stud, shetland, and donkey we seen were in a mud pit... another horse layed dead on the side of the hill. A pretty litlte pinto mare who fell through the pond and drowned a week ago. The pond was their only source of water and she walked out on the ice to get a drink and fell through. I told the man the donkey needed attention, he had labored breathing and a lobbed over ear... kept shaking his head and kept that one hear flopped over and you could tell it hurt him when you touched it. He sure was a cutie tho.
It's going to be good to have a horse agian. They're not miniatures... but Donnie and I would like to get enough horses that all of us can go riding together as a family. That would be neat. I will take pictures when I get them home.
My friend is letting me put them there for as long as I want, and Donnie has put feelers out for some pasture we can lease. Too bad I just sold my horse trailer last month.
I am beginning to worry about the horse situation here. Just days ahead of that a friend gave my father in law two horses... nearly starved little look-alike mustang mares. We're going to help him de-worm them and get them into good health. He doesn't know how to do it. Then while talking to this other friend of ours we find out that he knows of about half a dozen horses here and there that have been given away, mare and foal pairs that sold for 50. and a horse that sold at the auction for 10.
OH! Poor horses...We were driving around to check out a miniature stud, shetland mare, and miniature donkey and on the way there we seen at least a dozen horses in different pastures that looked half starved. Ribs and hips sticking out. It's really not looking too good for livestock right now. The little stud, shetland, and donkey we seen were in a mud pit... another horse layed dead on the side of the hill. A pretty litlte pinto mare who fell through the pond and drowned a week ago. The pond was their only source of water and she walked out on the ice to get a drink and fell through. I told the man the donkey needed attention, he had labored breathing and a lobbed over ear... kept shaking his head and kept that one hear flopped over and you could tell it hurt him when you touched it. He sure was a cutie tho.
It's going to be good to have a horse agian. They're not miniatures... but Donnie and I would like to get enough horses that all of us can go riding together as a family. That would be neat. I will take pictures when I get them home.
