Horse Talk

[ChickenLover200]

Aww. The cow is adorable

 

[abigalerose]

Thanks! She is pretty precious lol

 

[PeepersMama]

It's hard to tell without any still photos, but she looks like a quarter horse to me with no glaring flaws, so she's probably pretty good. Pretty head on that little girl. Tiny little thing though, 13.1hh, 4 inches smaller than my smallest riding horse and about a foot smaller than my biggest!

That's what I was thinking I like short horses. Smoke probably isn't too much tsaller than 12 hands! I'm like 5'4, and I can walk up to him and put my arm over his back, without reaching up AT ALL Armira makes him look even shorter!

 

[abigalerose]

Is it just me, or do these prices seem ridiculous?

 

[Kusanar]

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The colt, they are selling the papers, not really a horse. That's why I don't really care about purebreds, especially purebred geldings, they cost a lot more and aren't nesasarally any better quality than the horses I get for free. The mare, I know she has foundered, but I watch a rescue on FB where they buy horses from the kill buyers and ask people to "bail" the horses from their fate, and a lot of them are around that price with unknown training, unknown linniage, sometimes unknown breeds, and you have no idea if they are drugged to be sound at the auction... some of those go for over $1,000 so 800 isn't THAT bad I guess... I wouldn't buy her, but someone will.

 

[res]

Is it just me, or do these prices seem ridiculous?

The buckskin is intact, so I bet they are banking on his color and his sperm to get $4k for him. He is only a yearling, but even at that age, if you are asking $4k, you should be selling a fully halter broke - lead - load - stands for farrier/vet - clippers, etc. animal, NOT "shy around people because I haven't handled him much since he was weaned". There is NOTHING spectacular about his papers to warrant $4k. He is prime example of a "backyard breeder" and the fodder they produce for the slaughter pipeline.

The mare is $800 because she is lame, and not the sort of lame that it is easy to recover from... If she is foundered in both fronts?????? You are looking at a lifetime of micro-management to prevent further founders IF, and that is big IF, you can get her over this round... They are selling a uterus, which is a CRAPPY thing to do - you should NEVER EVER breed a horse that is lame like that. It is abusive to ask that mare to not only support her own weight on her foundered feet, but then the added weight of a fetus/fluids and not to mention that a prenatal diet is NOT conducive to a foundered horse.

 

[ShrekDawg]

​The buckskin is intact, so I bet they are banking on his color and his sperm to get $4k for him. He is only a yearling, but even at that age, if you are asking $4k, you should be selling a fully halter broke - lead - load - stands for farrier/vet - clippers, etc. animal, NOT "shy around people because I haven't handled him much since he was weaned". There is NOTHING spectacular about his papers to warrant $4k. He is prime example of a "backyard breeder" and the fodder they produce for the slaughter pipeline.

The mare is $800 because she is lame, and not the sort of lame that it is easy to recover from... If she is foundered in both fronts?????? You are looking at a lifetime of micro-management to prevent further founders IF, and that is big IF, you can get her over this round... They are selling a uterus, which is a CRAPPY thing to do - you should NEVER EVER breed a horse that is lame like that. It is abusive to ask that mare to not only support her own weight on her foundered feet, but then the added weight of a fetus/fluids and not to mention that a prenatal diet is NOT conducive to a foundered horse.

And not to mention they say she's broke to ride? I would think it's abusive to ride her too

 

[Kusanar]

Quote: She was probably broke to ride before foundering. And, a lot of horses have come back from foundering with shoeing and diet, so IF someone put the time and money into her to get her sound, she may be rideable due to the fact that she is broke already.

 

[ChickenLover200]

The mini mare I bought had previously foundered. Thankfully, because she is nursing her foal, she lost a LOT of un-needed weight.

Question for y'all.

My colt is over six months old now. What's a good way to wean him that isn't so cruel? Also, I was thinking of putting sweetie with cinnamon later into the process, but I'm afraid Titan and Eli might fight? Also, I'm afraid as much as titan picks at other horses right now, he might get severely kicked by cinnamon since he's not even a third her size.

Opinions?

 

[Kusanar]

The mini mare I bought had previously foundered. Thankfully, because she is nursing her foal, she lost a LOT of un-needed weight.

Question for y'all.

My colt is over six months old now. What's a good way to wean him that isn't so cruel? Also, I was thinking of putting sweetie with cinnamon later into the process, but I'm afraid Titan and Eli might fight? Also, I'm afraid as much as titan picks at other horses right now, he might get severely kicked by cinnamon since he's not even a third her size.

Opinions?

Honestly, unless you NEED him weaned for whatever reason, I would let her wean him, she will kick him off of her sometime around now. If you want to work the mare, turn the colt loos in the ring, pony him off of her out on trail rides, start using his draw to be close to her to help you train him, then you can start taking him places without her if they can both handle that. My colt was over a year old when I got him, but his mother wouldn't allow them to be separated until he was close to 2 years old. If you took him out of sight she would plow down a fence to get near him again... She was a very strange mare, she would freak out if he wasn't near her, but when he was she bit him viciously all the time, but when she would get really worked up, he would "nurse" (she was dry and not producing milk anymore) and she would calm back down... very strange.