May trade for a new horse thoughts please?

[Rusty Hills Farm]

I am highly skeptical of this one for your purposes. With that build (especially the very short stuffy neck) she is NOT going to be easy to deal with if any issues arise, and I would absolutely not recommend buying an unstarted 3 yr old unless you have already *and in recent years* ridden a good variety of other very young unstarted horses. Not a good candidate for "want to get back into riding".

Sorry but I have to second this.

Rusty​

 

[michickenwrangler]

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Sorry but I have to second this.

Rusty

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Lack of withers and a round back will make that horse difficult to fit a saddle

 

[welsummerchicks]

That's not a good choice.

What happened to your buying criteria? Did you just change what you were looking for? You weren't going to get a green horse.

 

[chickenzoo]

To bad you're not in Florida, seen nice horses being given away... many others at a good deal.

 

[arabianequine]

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Offer was presented to me so seeing what you all thought. I told them no pretty much right away after posting.

Here is another horse that is being offered. The owner does not know how much the horse weighs but guesses 1000 pounds. 15 year old mare.

This is what the owner wrote me about her......

Missy is great with other mares and gelding She has no health problems or bad habits other then she is a little herd bound for the first few mins. away from the other horses.Broke to ride but has not had anyone on her for a few months She lets my 3yr ride her while being led around and doesn't seem to mind at all. Very sweet girl.

 

[welsummerchicks]

The horse's feet are in very bad shape, the right front knee looks to have a rather big lump on it, the horse is standing abnormally on the right foreleg, being led around with a child sitting on it proves nothing, it has not had any riding in months, and I'm betting 'a little barn sour the first couple minutes' is going to be a problem.

 

[resthavenfarms]

I'm willing to bet this one has quite a few issues, arthritis, etc. Might be good for light riding, I don't discount slightly "off" horses depending on the scenario, but this is not one you're going to do a 20 mile ride on, and probably not ride on gravels or pavement either.

 

[EweSheep]

Her knees......I would not ride her, she either had injuries or arthritis. It does not look good. Lovely looking mare but feet and joints, nope.

 

[michickenwrangler]

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Plus, the farrieer is trimming her front toes WAY too long. Coupled with her "broken knees", she'll also be prone to bowed tendons and other leg injuries.

 

[patandchickens]

Definite no. What they said.

I would not suggest looking at any horse described as herd-bound or barn-sour... or at least looking at it with great skepticism and an expectation of probably walking away. While *sometimes* it's just that the current rider is grossly incompetent and the horse is 100% fine with someone who is not a complete wussie, most often it is actually a fairly difficult problem for the out-of-practice or novice rider to deal with. And in a number of horses can escalate (if you push it the wrong way) into unsavory behaviors like whirling around or rearing.

You want something USER-FRIENDLY, remember

Hang in there. The right horse WILL turn up, within your driving radius. I think you probably feel somewhat like I did this past summer when I was looking for a dog to adopt -- I could not BELIEVE that it was taking *weeks and weeks and weeks* to come up with a safe user-friendly medium-to-large dog within 2 hrs of us, that someone would be *willing* to let us adopt -- and certainly was SORELY tempted by some rather marginal characters, but am VERY VERY glad that I hung in there. After almost 2 months (and it could easily have been longer, I got lucky) the *perfect* dog came along.

Just as it was really pretty important to me not to have a bitey dog because I have kids and cats, it is really pretty important to *you* to have a horse you can have fun on and rebuild confidence and skills and not take a major financial bath on.

Hang in there

Pat