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PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:21 am    Post subject: Before and After pictures Reply with quote
For any and all of you who have an old horse that is thin, you CAN do something about it. Old horses need good nutrition and they can live a long life. Someone emailed me these before and after photos and I'm going to share them with you. I cannot imagine anyone letting a horse get this thin in the first place. The 'AFTER' picture is 90 days after being fed Progressive Nutrition Hi Fat Diet Balancer and hay. Remember this is in the winter time. The horse is a 20+ year old stallion. And it does NOT belong to us:


The beginning:



90 days later:


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PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
He sure looks alot better in the second picture.Remember my old mare I posted pics. of last fall she came home from pasture today after an hour each on these 2 mares cleaning cockle burrs out of their manes and tails we turned them in with the other horses these 2 mares were getting bred.



17 year old mare.



My daughter Lacy'smare she's 7 years old and a true kids horse our youngest could ride her when he was 4 and she was 5.Actually Lacy has layed claim to both of these mares plus another thats out getting rode on a Ranch North of Valentine Neb.shes spoiled.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ah, you can spoil those girls with horses...it will pay big dividends in the end! Laughing

The sorrell mare looks MUCH better than the first pictures you posted of
her whenever that was. She looks bloomy now. Good for her, good for you!!!!

Do you know the best way to get the cockleburrs out of the manes, is to
use WD-40? No kidding. Cooking oil works too...

Both nice looking mares. What did you breed them to? (Ok, I know, another horse... Wink) but how was he bred?
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Faster horses wrote:
Ah, you can spoil those girls with horses...it will pay big dividends in the end! Laughing

The sorrell mare looks MUCH better than the first pictures you posted of
her whenever that was. She looks bloomy now. Good for her, good for you!!!!

Do you know the best way to get the cockleburrs out of the manes, is to
use WD-40? No kidding. Cooking oil works too...

Both nice looking mares. What did you breed them to? (Ok, I know, another horse... Wink) but how was he bred?


We floated her teeth and wormed her quite a bit she sure turned around.

An impressive bred stud my best friend owns we made a deal I get one colt he gets the other.I'm not much on pedigree's of horses and the papers are at his house for the stud report stuff.The stud is a heavy muscled dapple gray.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Denny,

My Grey Gelding goes back to Impressives Duece. Real nice Horse, very good minded, but not as smart as some of my Barrde/Docs Genuine Risk Ones......And that isn't a knock on him, it's just those other two are real smart...



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sometimes...the LAST thing people (including me) need, is a SMART horse!
Wink Razz Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Denny would that be Dave Storms stud???
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
katrina wrote:
Denny would that be Dave Storms stud???


No I could check this stud came from your area as a weanling for a wedding gift.A freind of mine and brother to the guy who owns this horse works on a ranch near Colome S.D. and hes the one who brought him up here.My gelding I ride came from out there also somewhere in that general area.We have two mares out there right now I need to pickup sometime one we have owned and sent her out to be rode and the other we bought this summer sight unseen.Both will be getting rode quite a bit then we'll come get them.Horses are my bad habit.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 8:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Okay..... Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 8:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Faster horses wrote:
Sometimes...the LAST thing people (including me) need, is a SMART horse!
Wink Razz Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing


Actually it has been handy. We turn everything out together. These horses are the smaller end. When we come out, you know how most horses will just come to a fence and look over. These guys will look around and go through a series of gates (and the gates aren't in a line, they really have to go around). So when we feed, we can pretty easily call them out and feed them seperately where they won't get bullied....


Downside.......Ya gotta tie gates shut and make things more escape proof, LOL....

Upside...easy to train....ten minute trailer loading lessons, my trainer likes them a lot.....

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I meant SMART as in a step ahead of everyone, figuring out how NOT to do something. I really don't think rope horses are real smart, or they'd figure out how to get out of all that work.

And yep, there are horses that are like that!!!

Give me dumb and honest!!! Razz Wink Laughing
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I see what you mean FH......These guys seem to be ones that are smart and get bored...Therefore, when I go to do something with them, they look forward to it, maybe get a kick outta seeing what we will do next, LOL...

I got an old mare smart like you are talking about. I bought her with the intentiopjn opf her being my practice roping horse. You know, make three perfect runs on your good horse and tie them up, rope off the "Plug" the rest of the practice....Well, she came from my cousins daughter. Mare learned if she acted spooked, she would get put up and not have to work....Well, I thought she was spooked first time I rode her. Go up to a brush and she backpeddles....So I get off and lead her and she lines out behind me...Next tree was the same......Guess What? Spur Rowels are all it took to make her head of the class, LOL...Wasn't mean, just showed her I wasn't laying games,

BTW, I will post under horse story..


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