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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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No he is a registered line back dun.
He looks buckskin to me:) so who knows.
Becky
That's what I wondered. He looks like a dun or maybe a buckskin but a reddish color :) Anyway, I was looking at his black mane and tail and his legs and kept saying to myself, that's an odd bay :)
That's a nice-looking gelding that Kristy's got there. That's strange about him messing his stifle up like that. He must've really been pulling a rip-snorter when he did that. I'm glad to hear that he's better though.
JP sure is a cutie!
I'm glad you found a place for Belle. She has good babies, she'll do well as a broodmare. I would really rather sell all my mares as broodmares than riding horses. There are just too many people who don't have the knowledge or patience buying riding horses. I'm getting ready to list some of our horses for sale again and I always dread it. But I'm working really hard on retiring by July and to do that, they have to go.
Well that's good to know about Belle... I'm glad to hear it, I don't remember hearing you mention it before!
LOL...I didn't mention it:)...felt like a traitor, even after it turned out OK.I don't have a problem with selling most horses at a sell barn. But it was hard to sell her there.
Becky
Thanks:)
The colt is a nice horse...and they have no clue what happened really, he was fine one day and lame the next. The vet said 9 months of pasture rest...looks like it did the trick, but it's one of those things that it could never be a problem again, or it could, you just don't know. And given what Charlie and Kristy do with horses, barrels and rope, they think it would be better to go ahead and sell him.
Becky
Well good luck...selling is hard even to the right buyer...but sometimes it has to be done. They are just to expensive to keep as pasture ornaments, or pets, IMO.
The few people I had look at Belle, like the chiropractor guy, they all wanted to try and "fix" her for a riding horse...that just worried me. But after the drought last year, every one was unloading brood mares, etc...it wasn't the best time to sell, but the drought and pasture conditions was a large part of why I went ahead and sold her when I did. The kids pasture was getting thin, and Belle was just an extra mouth, that wasn't doing anything and never was. If the pasture conditions would have been better, I still may have had her. But it straps the kids, and was an extra expense for me too.
I understand completely where you're coming from wanting to sell so you can retire:)I'd sell in a heart beat for a reason like that.
Becky
Well, I'm glad it turned out OK, and sorry you felt like you didn't want to tell. I think all of us understood it was hard to know what to do with her.
It wasn't that I didn't want to tell because I didn't think you all would understand. I just didn't want to talk about it:) Jenny and Kristy were kind enough to take her to the sell barn for me, so it was one of those out of sight out of mind things. I just didn't even think about it much...except for when I got the $36.00 check:)...that gave me a lot to think about.
Becky
Understood.
We cleaned stalls and have them air-drying... I really want to have a machine come in and peel out all the buildup inside and right outside the lean-to. It'll dry for summer and be better, but in the fall when it gets wet it will just expand into suck mud again.
We may take down the lean to to the level it should be at and put mats in it... no bedding out there, just a nice, clean surface.
She is being bred to Tuffy (his only mare this year) to see if he can throw color on solid or quarter horse mares. She is 7/8 quarter horse.
Hey - she's pretty.... Excited to see what Tuffy's first baby looks like :~)
You'll have to visit sometime after I move.....check out the South...my kids are still here and with the grandkids, but I don't see them all that much because as the grandkids got older, they have so much activity that they don't have time for "grandma" Your situation is different with the kids living with you.
I figure that if I really miss my kids, then I'll drive up and spend a week with them and hopefully they will come down and see me.
Are you going to Bradshaw's sale on the 31st?
Corn beef and cabbage, yay!
I saw on Channel 3 that people are already starting to party at House of Blues....they started at 7AM....yuk
No, I"m not going to Bradshaw's, I won't be in the market for a horse until I move ..I have enough to move without another horse!!!!! Are you looking for another one?
Heck no, we have a barn full now.
We go for the socializing.
Good morning:)
Very slow here today. I'm letting it warm up a bit then i'll ride.
Becky
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