Chaos Ranch
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An ad came through on one of my local email lists about 3 horses that were for sale for $25.00 each. First reaction was... hm.... typo 3 times in a row? Nope. I emailed her concerned that these horses would get bought by children, or kill buyers and that maybe since they were priced so low, they might not be in a good living situation.
Well I talked to the lady, then her sister in law, then the man that owns them. Come to find out, they have 14 horses on 4 acres.
They were supposed to be a 6 year old leopard appaloosa stallion w/blue eyes, his 2 year old son w/blue eyes, and an 8-10 year old snowflake appy mare.
After a good long conversation, and loads of questions, I got off the phone and talked to my husband about the situation these horses were living in, their prices, and my concerns. He gave me the go ahead to buy them all 3 sight unseen to get them out of there, get them back into shape, evaluate them, and rehome them. I told them my plans with the horses...that I would keep them only to get them into good health and to evaluate them and work with any bad manners they might have and then find them good homes. They were fine with that, they just wanted them gone. We paid them an extra 25. to bring them to us because on our way to get them Donnie hit a curb and threw our axel back on the trailer and busted the spring.
Well, after some consideration, I started to really worry about bringing the 6 year old breeding stallion to my pasture. These people had 5 stallions in one pasture with cycling mares... I have NO idea how they pulled that off without serious injury or death. But they did. I have my pasture divided into 3 sections. A 20 acre section I run my horses on. An 8 acre pasture I keep my 16 month old stud colt on, and a 2 acre pasture I put "extras" on when needed. I was worried that the 6 year old stallion would tear through my fences and get my stud colt, or get to my pasture of mares. And I do NOT want my mares bred, especially by a grade appaloosa stallion when I have registered Peruvian Pasos and MFTs. So, I called the guy and told him my concerns and he agreed, it probably would be better to skip over the stallion for now and just work with the first two.
They brought them to the pasture today. The two year old colt looks like a yearling, he's very skinny, no tone to him at all, and I checked for testicles and couldn't fine either of them. I was hoping to take him and get him gelded next weekend, but I'm going to have to put some good weight on him and see if he drops on his own once he relaxes at the new place and gets to feeling a little more healthy. He's a very gentle colt, not the least bit spooky. I believe a few months of good food, he'll be a whole new boy! I think he has a lot of great potential. His blue eyes are very nice with that black eyeliner!
The mare who was supposed to be black with snowflakes, and an Appaloosa, and 14 hh turns out she's actually an 11-12 hh grey flea-bitten small arabian looking mare. I'm pretty sure she's a small arabian. If you could see her expressians, and the way she carries herself you'd think the same thing. Has an arabian hip, tailset, and all sorts of stuff. She likes women and girls. Not guys. We'll work with her on that... but for now we'll just let her settle in and get some good groceries in her and she'll do fine.
I honestly believe I have stumbled upon a couple of little hidden gems. I believe they will become great looking horses in a few months and I see a lot of promising potential in them. I can't help but worry about that 6 year old stallion though. Maybe I should use the money I was going to geld the 2 year old with, and go ahead and get the 6 year old and have him gelded on the way home from his sellers house and just keep him apart from everyone else.
Will a stallion that is the dominent stud (breeding rights) in a pasture of 5 stallions and cycling mares settle down and not hurt my mares or colt once he's gelded? They said he's not violent, but he will show out to the mares and insist that HE be the only one to breed them.
OH...almost forgot. I went over and grabbed a few pictures of them after they settled in a little bit. Please don't mind the flowers, we're waiting on our bush-hogging man to get out of the hay field so he can mow our pastures. You can see the pictures I took on my MySpace album...
Here's the link to the first page, they're near the bottom (Bella & Jazzy)
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?...6718&page=2
And here's the second page
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?...6718&page=3
Well I talked to the lady, then her sister in law, then the man that owns them. Come to find out, they have 14 horses on 4 acres.
After a good long conversation, and loads of questions, I got off the phone and talked to my husband about the situation these horses were living in, their prices, and my concerns. He gave me the go ahead to buy them all 3 sight unseen to get them out of there, get them back into shape, evaluate them, and rehome them. I told them my plans with the horses...that I would keep them only to get them into good health and to evaluate them and work with any bad manners they might have and then find them good homes. They were fine with that, they just wanted them gone. We paid them an extra 25. to bring them to us because on our way to get them Donnie hit a curb and threw our axel back on the trailer and busted the spring.
Well, after some consideration, I started to really worry about bringing the 6 year old breeding stallion to my pasture. These people had 5 stallions in one pasture with cycling mares... I have NO idea how they pulled that off without serious injury or death. But they did. I have my pasture divided into 3 sections. A 20 acre section I run my horses on. An 8 acre pasture I keep my 16 month old stud colt on, and a 2 acre pasture I put "extras" on when needed. I was worried that the 6 year old stallion would tear through my fences and get my stud colt, or get to my pasture of mares. And I do NOT want my mares bred, especially by a grade appaloosa stallion when I have registered Peruvian Pasos and MFTs. So, I called the guy and told him my concerns and he agreed, it probably would be better to skip over the stallion for now and just work with the first two.
They brought them to the pasture today. The two year old colt looks like a yearling, he's very skinny, no tone to him at all, and I checked for testicles and couldn't fine either of them. I was hoping to take him and get him gelded next weekend, but I'm going to have to put some good weight on him and see if he drops on his own once he relaxes at the new place and gets to feeling a little more healthy. He's a very gentle colt, not the least bit spooky. I believe a few months of good food, he'll be a whole new boy! I think he has a lot of great potential. His blue eyes are very nice with that black eyeliner!
The mare who was supposed to be black with snowflakes, and an Appaloosa, and 14 hh turns out she's actually an 11-12 hh grey flea-bitten small arabian looking mare. I'm pretty sure she's a small arabian. If you could see her expressians, and the way she carries herself you'd think the same thing. Has an arabian hip, tailset, and all sorts of stuff. She likes women and girls. Not guys. We'll work with her on that... but for now we'll just let her settle in and get some good groceries in her and she'll do fine.
I honestly believe I have stumbled upon a couple of little hidden gems. I believe they will become great looking horses in a few months and I see a lot of promising potential in them. I can't help but worry about that 6 year old stallion though. Maybe I should use the money I was going to geld the 2 year old with, and go ahead and get the 6 year old and have him gelded on the way home from his sellers house and just keep him apart from everyone else.
Will a stallion that is the dominent stud (breeding rights) in a pasture of 5 stallions and cycling mares settle down and not hurt my mares or colt once he's gelded? They said he's not violent, but he will show out to the mares and insist that HE be the only one to breed them.
OH...almost forgot. I went over and grabbed a few pictures of them after they settled in a little bit. Please don't mind the flowers, we're waiting on our bush-hogging man to get out of the hay field so he can mow our pastures. You can see the pictures I took on my MySpace album...
Here's the link to the first page, they're near the bottom (Bella & Jazzy)
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?...6718&page=2
And here's the second page
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?...6718&page=3