henryhorn
Well-Known Member
We've got several advertised at the moment and yesterday the viewer was a no show.. I think some people are dreamers and like getting emailed pics but have no money in the end.
Anyway because the little filly was groomed and clean we decided to keep her in overnight, so removed her headcollar (she can be a bit iffy to catch without one which I explain to anyone viewing).
CCj opened the door to muck out this morning, put the wheelbarrow across the door and started. next minute said filly leaps the wheelbarrow, gallop soff to the field, tried to clear the almost 5 feet metal gate and gets over bar her back leg.
turns upside down, hangs there, then struggles over it slicing her cannon off about 9 inches long..
I am in the supermarket at this point, and rush home to help catch her. She is by now thoroughly wound up, refuses to come to a bucket, and trots painfuly off whenever we get near.
We remove the other two horses, she won't follow them.
We try stalking her for half an hour, doesn't work.
We try herding her into the smaller paddock, doesn't work.
At this point C gets on Jonty in a headcollar and leadrope and proceeds to try and either get her to follow her or move her out into the pen..
jonty bounces up and down like a lunatic, C almost falls off laughing so hard, and says, "Will you stop trying to rear Jonty!" I point out she isn't rearing the back and front ends are going up and down at such speed it's more like bronking...and that whizzing at speed round the field without anything more than a headcollar and leadrope perhaps isn't very wise..
By this time the lame filly is sound as a pound having freed off her stiffness trotting round.
No sign of the proposed buyer either.
Another ten mins and we give up.
I've rung the vet, arranged to collect antibiotics from his home, and we will leave her a couple of hours to settle then try again just me and a bucket. Sadly she is a real loner anyway, so will stay on her own regardless of who we put in or out of there, and that field is 8 acres...
The moral of the story? Don't try and sell a horse who obviously wants to stay here... those cuts will take at least two weeks to heal and so any interested people will have to wait.. Oh and don't muck out a fairly wild youngster without tying it up first.
Haven't a clue what got into her today, she has been in previously without trouble, but the reason she is cheap is because she is different to the norm we get here.. At least we know she can jump, C said if she had a run at in instead of from a standstill she would have cleared it easily!!!
Anyway because the little filly was groomed and clean we decided to keep her in overnight, so removed her headcollar (she can be a bit iffy to catch without one which I explain to anyone viewing).
CCj opened the door to muck out this morning, put the wheelbarrow across the door and started. next minute said filly leaps the wheelbarrow, gallop soff to the field, tried to clear the almost 5 feet metal gate and gets over bar her back leg.
turns upside down, hangs there, then struggles over it slicing her cannon off about 9 inches long..
I am in the supermarket at this point, and rush home to help catch her. She is by now thoroughly wound up, refuses to come to a bucket, and trots painfuly off whenever we get near.
We remove the other two horses, she won't follow them.
We try stalking her for half an hour, doesn't work.
We try herding her into the smaller paddock, doesn't work.
At this point C gets on Jonty in a headcollar and leadrope and proceeds to try and either get her to follow her or move her out into the pen..
jonty bounces up and down like a lunatic, C almost falls off laughing so hard, and says, "Will you stop trying to rear Jonty!" I point out she isn't rearing the back and front ends are going up and down at such speed it's more like bronking...and that whizzing at speed round the field without anything more than a headcollar and leadrope perhaps isn't very wise..
By this time the lame filly is sound as a pound having freed off her stiffness trotting round.
No sign of the proposed buyer either.
Another ten mins and we give up.
I've rung the vet, arranged to collect antibiotics from his home, and we will leave her a couple of hours to settle then try again just me and a bucket. Sadly she is a real loner anyway, so will stay on her own regardless of who we put in or out of there, and that field is 8 acres...
The moral of the story? Don't try and sell a horse who obviously wants to stay here... those cuts will take at least two weeks to heal and so any interested people will have to wait.. Oh and don't muck out a fairly wild youngster without tying it up first.
Haven't a clue what got into her today, she has been in previously without trouble, but the reason she is cheap is because she is different to the norm we get here.. At least we know she can jump, C said if she had a run at in instead of from a standstill she would have cleared it easily!!!
