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Possibly the ugliest horse on god's green earth and I own him-he's getting a flank and a bareback rigging in a month or so. He's named Gooch.
 
Yesterday while out movin in the last of the hay, one of our day workers that keeps a few horses on our place came thru the gate pullin a horse trailer with 3 paint colts and an old old oldddddddd sorrel geldin in it. All of em skinny but some worse than others. The old geldin looks awful. Someone gave them to him, in trade for ridin a colt for them.
One of em looks alot like that one you posted only he's got alot more winter hair.
He asked if he could turn em out in our pens while he shuffles things around at home to have room for em. So now we have these things out there, I sure hope no one calls in on it. put a fresh new bale of hay in there with em and a big water trough, and they were soooo happy, and munchin away. They all need wormin, and a lil time....the old geldin tho, I just don't know how he'll fair. He may be past the point of help, but we told him, just for his sake, he can leave him there, that way he won't have to fight for food with the youngsters. I feel so sorry for him :roll:
 
Lilly, I will e-mail you some pictures of how those old horses can be brought back with proper nutrition. It can be done, but the horse will need supplemented. Just regular hay won't do it. Of course, I realize it is not your problem, but when you see animals like that, it kinda becomes personal.

Usually those kind have been 'good ole boys in the past' or they still wouldn't be around.
 
Oh I know hay won't do it alone, We have a feed house out there with a 1/2 ton of horse feed that we had special mixed for Lil Lilly's 24 year old mare. I offered to let him just buy some of it to start him on. But man he looks like he hasn't seen hay, grass, or a bucket in a while. I'll take pictures of him and send you.
 
Be careful on the worming, if the horses are really wormy you an colic a horse. Keep some mineral oil on hand in case the worms plug it all up.
 
Northern Rancher said:
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Possibly the ugliest horse on god's green earth and I own him-he's getting a flank and a bareback rigging in a month or so. He's named Gooch.
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Taking him to a bucking horse sale or is it just a practice horse for you?
 
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Yesterday while out movin in the last of the hay, one of our day workers that keeps a few horses on our place came thru the gate pullin a horse trailer with 3 paint colts and an old old oldddddddd sorrel geldin in it. All of em skinny but some worse than others. The old geldin looks awful. Someone gave them to him, in trade for ridin a colt for them.
One of em looks alot like that one you posted only he's got alot more winter hair.
He asked if he could turn em out in our pens while he shuffles things around at home to have room for em. So now we have these things out there, I sure hope no one calls in on it. put a fresh new bale of hay in there with em and a big water trough, and they were soooo happy, and munchin away. They all need wormin, and a lil time....the old geldin tho, I just don't know how he'll fair. He may be past the point of help, but we told him, just for his sake, he can leave him there, that way he won't have to fight for food with the youngsters. I feel so sorry for him :roll:
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Are they worth bothering with?
Lots of papered QH colts in good shape end up going to dinner with a frenchman. For the low price that you can buy good colts for at a sale does it make sense to put time and money into those ones even if they are free?
 
the three colts aren't all that bad. Won't take a whole lot to get em back in good shape.

The old gelding is destined to bein a lil 7 year old girls first horse, Them old ones make good "first horses". Even if they are a lil harder to keep.
 
NR I have a 11 year old who said she would be gald to take that UGLY looking thang off your hands since your so against him LOL
Said all he needs is a girl to love him LOL gotta love young girls
 
Well he is for sale-we bred a pair of Belgian mares Paint to raise a chore team but lost the other foal so I guess we'll see if he bucks. Ty's going to try him as soon as things dry up. I just said he was ugly never said I was against him.
 
Good for you, Jersey Lilly. Anything that has a heartbeat is worth bothering with, ESPECIALLY a good old horse. I hate it when these
old horses starve plumb to death. What is the matter with people?
If they don't want them, they can put them down.

Takes a real chicken s**t to let a horse starve. I have no patience
with these types of people.
 
I aa sure your not against him...ya know girls they hear you say ugly and think you dont like him. Let me know how well he DONT buck LOL
Need to get away ~~~people in the neighborhood are getting on my nerves. Need a a change in latitude to get a change in attitude. :D
 
NR,
he looks like a horse that Larry Sandvig has in a pasture across the fence from us. He has 9 head of very colorful studs down there that he is going to buck this summer. If they don't buck, they will atleast be colorful
 

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