Coloured Colt in Kent Needs Upgrade

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Hi guys,

I'm based in Canada but from the UK, still keep an eye on UK horse scene. Just can't get this one out of my head:

http://www.horsedeals.co.uk/horses-for-sale/coloureds/Cute__16-8-11-877173

If he's still available could anyone with any space please try and give this little guy an upgrade and some wormer? He's not even that badly put together, although if he is either 15hh or 6 years old then I will eat my paddock boots.

If I was any closer he'd already be tucked away in the barn but I have quite enough little flotsams and jetsams here already without importing any more . . .

Hope this is okay to bother you people with but I know how good youse all are with the networking and so on . . .

thanks.
 
I wouold say he is 6 months old - maybe the site didn't allow for months rather years - he may grow to 15.2hh and I think he is looking very well considering, he certainly doesn't look wormy at all.

Hopwfully someone will buy him and give him a real home.
 
Ah, maybe I've been over here too long ;). He's certainly not a 'rescue', he's just potentially a much better little horse than his circumstances and price suggest . . . and it would be nice if he found a good place in the world . . .

As for the wormy thing, again, maybe this is not the case in the UK? But certainly if I got anything in here with that kind of disproportionate hair growth on the belly I'd be suspicious. But we probably have completely different parasites/symptoms?
 
That belly hair is the normal coat for a horse of his type, I have a Clydesdale and Cklydie cross foals and that is what they are all like. They are basically a coldblood horse that grows a large amount of feather, mane and hair.

My three year old looks like a heavy TB (dad is TB) in summer she has a fine coat and no feather -- in winter she grows a beard, feather and belly hair just like her mum.
 
He doesn't look wormy at all - I was expecting a ribby, pot bellied weak youngster and he looks fine to me. I'm more concerned that the coloured and the one behind have ropes round their necks and wrapped round their legs. Not good practise at all!
 
They are tethered and the ropes while between legs is not tangled around - they have probebly been tethered for much of their lives and have no bother with things trailing around their legs.

I've deliberately turned mine out when youngsters with a long rope trailing as it teaches them that there is no reason to get stressed out if things touch their legs. They certainly have come to no harm
 
'A horse's age is a matter of opinion' ?! WTF?!

A friend bought a horse years ago. It came from that dealer. It died of encysted red worm soon after she bought it. The pm showed it's guts were 'like rubber' due to worm infestation. Beautiful cremello boy. I cannot believe that a wormer was too expensive. :mad: I'm so careful with my worming now.

If I had space, I'd get that colt: this must be what mine looked like when he was a baby.
 
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Cuffey said:
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/255441.html
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Many years ago I took a dealer to court - receipt said he had sold me a 7yr old and vet said it was a 13yr old at least. Dealer told the judge "Thats the vets opinion, I say the horse is 7yrs old!" Judge commented that the vets opinion was that of a professional and that the dealer was to take the horse back, refund the purchase price and all the expenses involved with keeping the horse while waiting for the hearing.
 
partofthesmartset said:
Ah, maybe I've been over here too long ;). He's certainly not a 'rescue', he's just potentially a much better little horse than his circumstances and price suggest . . . and it would be nice if he found a good place in the world . . .

As for the wormy thing, again, maybe this is not the case in the UK? But certainly if I got anything in here with that kind of disproportionate hair growth on the belly I'd be suspicious. But we probably have completely different parasites/symptoms?
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I think that he is the type to grow hair on his belly, my mare is an Ardennes and gets an extremely hairy belly, along with everywhere else.

I think he is a lovely lad, loads of potential as you say. Price unfortunately is reflecting the market at present and also the time of year.

FDC
 
I heard about someone who went there to buy a cob and came back with more because she ''wanted to get them out of there'' she also brought strangles home.
 
He is about 6 months - hence the word 6. Gypsy cobs naturally have long hair on their jaws, bellies, below the knee/hock and also they get very long "bloomers" on their backsides. Nothing to do with neglect but their breeding. Mine looked very much like him as a yearling and would look like that again if I let his hair grow out grow and mine is one of the most pampered pets you could meet, albeit trimmed for the show ring.

The colt is not the best example, but certainly not that bad and for the price could be a project worth doing.

He actually looks in good condition and probably has been roped to bring down so they could take a photo.

Hopefully he will find a good home.
 
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