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Faster horses

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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:
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90 days later:
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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.

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17 year old mare.

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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.
 
Ah, you can spoil those girls with horses...it will pay big dividends in the end! :lol:

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?
 
Faster horses said:
Ah, you can spoil those girls with horses...it will pay big dividends in the end! :lol:

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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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.
 
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...



PPRM
 
katrina said:
Denny would that be Dave Storms stud???
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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.
 
Faster horses said:
Sometimes...the LAST thing people (including me) need, is a SMART horse!
:wink: :P :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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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.....

PPRM
 
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!!! :P :wink: :lol:
 
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..


PPRM
 
We had a nice gelding we bought from Kyd Cattle Co. in Three Forks.
Buck Brannaman was young and rode the horses there. He had ridden this one. He was a Silver King, and a nice horse. We loaned him to a friend to use on a big ranch he worked for and he doctored calves with this horse that spring, as it seemed like the horse just craved doing that. Mr. FH went out one day to help doctor and he rode this same horse. We called him Melvin. Anyway, when he got home, he told me, "I'm not hand enough to ride that horse to doctor on. He goes at those calves like he's killing snakes."

We intended Melvin for a heading horse, so that summer Mr. FH started heading off him. Melvin hated it. Absolutely hated it. When you'd get your rope and ride back up the arena he would insist on looking outside the arena. Then he started cheating in different ways. You'd get one deal figured out and he'd throw another one at you. Mr. FH gave up on him, but the friend that rode him doctoring calves really liked the horse and he bought him from us, thinking he could turn him around and get him to be a nice heading horse.

It never happened. Same old thing, cheat you one way and then another. So he gave up on him too, sold him to a rancher in Wyoming that appreciated him for what he liked to do.

BTW, PPRM, I really enjoyed the story of your favorite horse.
 
Yeah, on that horse, one thing Mr Hall always told me is there's too many good horses out there to waste any time on ones you have to fight. It has stuck with me.....LOL....

I will say, in the winter, we used to ride outside on pasture with horses we wanted to be heading horses.There were always calves to rope and Doctor....They learned real quick that the harder they went to calves and the quicker they got there, the less running they would have to do....

Bracey and bad box mannerisms, takes a lot of work before hand to keep them out of the horse and still not always 100%....They get nervous, somtimes it shows in different ways....Maybe this horse just liked outside, anyways, sounds like he found his Niche......That isn't always bad..

BTW, the mare in my story, she was a little standoffish when we first got her. They foal and her both had trust issues. I think it was the owners before the lady that sold her, maybe it was the accident where her ankle got hurt.....But they have both settled down a lot and the issues seem to be gone......Trust isn't something given freely, it is earned through consistency and success....


PPRM
 
WOW!!!!!!!!!!! He doesn't even look like the same horse............that must be some great feed they gave him! :nod:

My Raven mare was in about that bad of shape, when I bought her. The rolled barley the previous owner said to feed her, just wasn't enough umph for a growing filly, so I switched her over to Omolene........she blossomed in the next few months. I think he was just starving her down so she'd be easier to break, if ya wanna know what I think. Might not work as well for an old horse, though, as it did her.

A good way to keep from having to float an old horse's teeth, is to give them a gallon of whole corn a couple of times a year. It sure has saved us some headaches, and the horses seem to really like a little change like that on occasion............:nod:
 
My horse Charley figgured out I'd make him go smell what he shyed at--took to shying at tall green grass :roll: ------had to put a stop to that :lol:
 

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