My new ride

[jedstivers]

Got this horse yesterday, he needs some groceries and a little care but he seems like he's bomb proof( I hope). Made about a 4 mile loop pushing some calves today through woods, fields, mud an big ditches. He did great. I'm not a horse man either but I'm going to learn. He has all the gears too, foward, reverse, park and power steering. That's more than any other horse I've had had. He's 12 an spent most of his life working cows.

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[Faster horses]

He looks pretty nice. You get him fed up and wormed with some
Safeguard de-wormer and you probably won't recognize him in
a month! Have fun!!

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

I agree, He looks fine and with some TLC he will probably fill out just fine.

Might want to get in contact with a farrier and get a good trim on those feet and get those cracks looked after before they get worse.

 

[jedstivers]

He looks pretty nice. You get him fed up and wormed with some
Safeguard de-wormer and you probably won't recognize him in
a month! Have fun!!

Thanks FS,he had his wormer today, I've got him on some pretty good grub too I'm going to dry lot him for a good while so I can work better an easier with him end also keep him away from my trouble makeing horses.

 

[jedstivers]

I agree, He looks fine and with some TLC he will probably fill out just fine.

Might want to get in contact with a farrier and get a good trim on those feet and get those cracks looked after before they get worse.

He will get that this weekend, we have a really good one here that can do alot with them.

 

[jedstivers]

I agree, He looks fine and with some TLC he will probably fill out just fine.

Might want to get in contact with a farrier and get a good trim on those feet and get those cracks looked after before they get worse.

He will get that this weekend, we have a really good one here that can do alot with them.

Forgot to add we can ride here without shoes because we have zero rocks, most people pull shoes in the winter here because of the mud but I will shoe him in the spring so the gravel roads won't hurt him. Just wanted to add that so no one would think I was hurting him by rideing without shoes.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

I agree, He looks fine and with some TLC he will probably fill out just fine.

Might want to get in contact with a farrier and get a good trim on those feet and get those cracks looked after before they get worse.

He will get that this weekend, we have a really good one here that can do alot with them.

That's great.

Ya know what they say "No hoof,No horse"

 

[Bruce]

Hi Jed, sure depend's on his history but I don't think he look's that rough? Specialy not if he's been used regular lately.
Without knowing any of the party's involved I'd say give him free choice of good hay, watch his teeth, stay on top of him regular and see where you are in a month. Wouldn't be the first solid old ranch horse used to foraging for his grub that got penned up and fed a gallon of oat's per day that didn't know what to do with the built up energy after a month
PS sure hope it's just the picture's but if you get a farrier in, take an extra long look at how he moves on his right fore

Keep 1 leg on each side

 

[Jassy]

He looks pretty nice. You get him fed up and wormed with some
Safeguard de-wormer and you probably won't recognize him in
a month! Have fun!!

:agree:

 

[jedstivers]

Hi Jed, sure depend's on his history but I don't think he look's that rough? Specialy not if he's been used regular lately.
Without knowing any of the party's involved I'd say give him free choice of good hay, watch his teeth, stay on top of him regular and see where you are in a month. Wouldn't be the first solid old ranch horse used to foraging for his grub that got penned up and fed a gallon of oat's per day that didn't know what to do with the built up energy after a month
PS sure hope it's just the picture's but if you get a farrier in, take an extra long look at how he moves on his right fore

Keep 1 leg on each side

From what I can gather he's been through 2 different horse traders in the last few months. He was supposed to have come off a ranch that the man died and everything was sold off. I had two good horse men there when I bought him an they liked him. He will go on pasture right beside my house I'm just going to keep him up for a while.

 

[Bruce]

Hi Jed, sure depend's on his history but I don't think he look's that rough? Specialy not if he's been used regular lately.
Without knowing any of the party's involved I'd say give him free choice of good hay, watch his teeth, stay on top of him regular and see where you are in a month. Wouldn't be the first solid old ranch horse used to foraging for his grub that got penned up and fed a gallon of oat's per day that didn't know what to do with the built up energy after a month
PS sure hope it's just the picture's but if you get a farrier in, take an extra long look at how he moves on his right fore

Keep 1 leg on each side

From what I can gather he's been through 2 different horse traders in the last few months. He was supposed to have come off a ranch that the man died and everything was sold off. I had two good horse men there when I bought him an they liked him. He will go on pasture right beside my house I'm just going to keep him up for a while.

I like him to!! Especially the distance between his eye's, and the set and size of his ear's, just look's like he has a good expression/disposition. Some of the best minded horse's we've had needed the most care physically.......and they were all more than worth it!
Take care

 

[MsSage]

He looks very handsome. The important part is you had fun riding him.
Send more pics the more you ride him.

 

[bverellen]

I like him too.

I picked up a 20 year old mare from a working ranch this past fall also. I started her on some Senior feed and set a bale out for her. She's put weight back on nicely.

Like yours, she is absolutely bomb proof and does anything I ask of her. A nice suprise is she was taught to open and close gates behind her. No kidding.

She also knows more about moving cattle so I have a good teacher :wink:

bart. †

 

[Faster horses]

That's really cool! I was more or less a town girl (small town, very rural) when Mr. FH and I got married. That was 1963.
I wanted to know about moving cows,
but I didn't know much. Mr. FH got me a real good teacher; a JB King
gelding. That horse knew it all. He taught me so much, I will be forever
indebted to that horse.

I was thinking of selling him (that was before we didn't sell horses)
because he was getting stiff in the front. I mentioned that to
the guy we worked for. He replied, "Don't sell that horse, I'm just
getting to where I can quit going over the hill and pulling out
my hair!" I must have been pretty bad at that point in my life.

A good horse makes ALL the difference.

 

[jedstivers]

He got a new set of front shoes today and a trim on the back hooves. Will try to get the front to grow out some then prol get a full set in April. Going to start treating his hooves with something I've already forgotten the name of.

 

[jedstivers]

He got a new set of front shoes today and a trim on the back hooves. Will try to get the front to grow out some then prol get a full set in April. Going to start treating his hooves with something I've already forgotten the name of.

Hawthorns sole pack hoof dressing