If you were offered a pony to buy, price at first glance is reasonable for the pony.
Then you went to meet him and found a sweet pony, with a HUGE big bale of hay in a sea of mud. Little friend along side him. A bit shy of strangers but leadable by chin hairs and once a headcollar was on happy to lead and be handled all over.
The only problem is he is stick thin with a condition score of about 1.8 to 2.0 (2.0 being generous!) All the wrong bits sticking out, spine hips and got that big head look about him that skinny ponies often get.
Do you spend a heck of a lot of money on a vet to tell you if there is an underlying problem (We don' know when the big bale of hay arrived) or do you take a gamble on it being worms and teeth and no hay until the day before we saw him? Negotiate the price down to a level where you don't wince at pumping 24/7 food into him and an aggressive worming regeme??
Or 6 weeks down the line will I be paying the bills for the digger to dig a hole after atttempting all the above? Pay out if you do pay out if you don't!
One thing is for sure someone has to do something about the condition of that pony..........if they won't we may have to call the cruelty man.
Edit to say....forgot to mention the feet.......if he has had a foot trim in the last two years, I'm a monkey's uncle! That alone will take me 12 months to get right.
Then you went to meet him and found a sweet pony, with a HUGE big bale of hay in a sea of mud. Little friend along side him. A bit shy of strangers but leadable by chin hairs and once a headcollar was on happy to lead and be handled all over.
The only problem is he is stick thin with a condition score of about 1.8 to 2.0 (2.0 being generous!) All the wrong bits sticking out, spine hips and got that big head look about him that skinny ponies often get.
Do you spend a heck of a lot of money on a vet to tell you if there is an underlying problem (We don' know when the big bale of hay arrived) or do you take a gamble on it being worms and teeth and no hay until the day before we saw him? Negotiate the price down to a level where you don't wince at pumping 24/7 food into him and an aggressive worming regeme??
Or 6 weeks down the line will I be paying the bills for the digger to dig a hole after atttempting all the above? Pay out if you do pay out if you don't!
One thing is for sure someone has to do something about the condition of that pony..........if they won't we may have to call the cruelty man.
Edit to say....forgot to mention the feet.......if he has had a foot trim in the last two years, I'm a monkey's uncle! That alone will take me 12 months to get right.
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