Nakita
Well-Known Member
Well as you all know I recently purchased a little friesian filly and as a result had to sell my mare Rosie which I was very worried about;
a) trying to find her a good and suitable home.
b) actually selling her in this market.
We advertised her for only £1250 inc tack for quick sale and hopefully opportunity to pick and chose buyers a bit. Well after only a day of ads being up we had LOADS of calls and emails - couldn't believe it!
One famiy came up to view her the day after the called and fell in love with her! Despite knowing she can be spooky, she fails a flexion due to mild arthritis, she is terrified of tractors and has this weird thing like mud rash on her back legs (but is isn't had the vet up etc and nobody knows what it is, it clears up then comes back, vet said to just manage it best I could with hbiscrub). They just fell in love with her, shows how much a quiet well mannered horse is worth really! They wanted to take her for a week trial which I was happy with as they sounded PERFECT for her. She is for their daughter to ride to get used to larger horses and if she ends up not being suitable fo that or the daughter starts to ride one of the other horses she will be used in their therapy centre ie will be groomed by disabled people etc which would be prefect for her as she would stand all day!
Sooo ... they came to pick her up on the Sunday, I didn't want to be there as thought it would be too upsetting as sometimes she takes a few attempts to load into a trailer (fine with boxes but thinks shes a giraffe and wont fit in trailer lol) and knew I'd be like oh no shes not loading she knows im selling her blablabla lol.
Got my friend to deal with it, owner of yard and she called later to say Rosie was still with us, tractor spooker her as she was loading and she fell on her side, running of the ramp backwards! They decided to leave her be as she pretty stressed understandbly but thank god not hurt!!
Soo we fed her in the trailer the next few days and she was ok so Thursday night they came up to try again (this time i was there as couldnt forgive myself!) and she loaded perfectly! Then I burst into tears which made Leanne another girl on livery also cry, so she was hugging me while they gathered tack etc. Next thing yard owner was crying AND lady taking Rosie was crying too! Was very emotional! Lol.
The lady text me that night to say she travelled well and settled as though she has always been there and I'm going to visit her today
And my new horsey Emma is coming tomorrow!!
Well if you managed to read all of that you deserve multiple bags of jelly tots!!
a) trying to find her a good and suitable home.
b) actually selling her in this market.
We advertised her for only £1250 inc tack for quick sale and hopefully opportunity to pick and chose buyers a bit. Well after only a day of ads being up we had LOADS of calls and emails - couldn't believe it!
One famiy came up to view her the day after the called and fell in love with her! Despite knowing she can be spooky, she fails a flexion due to mild arthritis, she is terrified of tractors and has this weird thing like mud rash on her back legs (but is isn't had the vet up etc and nobody knows what it is, it clears up then comes back, vet said to just manage it best I could with hbiscrub). They just fell in love with her, shows how much a quiet well mannered horse is worth really! They wanted to take her for a week trial which I was happy with as they sounded PERFECT for her. She is for their daughter to ride to get used to larger horses and if she ends up not being suitable fo that or the daughter starts to ride one of the other horses she will be used in their therapy centre ie will be groomed by disabled people etc which would be prefect for her as she would stand all day!
Sooo ... they came to pick her up on the Sunday, I didn't want to be there as thought it would be too upsetting as sometimes she takes a few attempts to load into a trailer (fine with boxes but thinks shes a giraffe and wont fit in trailer lol) and knew I'd be like oh no shes not loading she knows im selling her blablabla lol.
Got my friend to deal with it, owner of yard and she called later to say Rosie was still with us, tractor spooker her as she was loading and she fell on her side, running of the ramp backwards! They decided to leave her be as she pretty stressed understandbly but thank god not hurt!!
Soo we fed her in the trailer the next few days and she was ok so Thursday night they came up to try again (this time i was there as couldnt forgive myself!) and she loaded perfectly! Then I burst into tears which made Leanne another girl on livery also cry, so she was hugging me while they gathered tack etc. Next thing yard owner was crying AND lady taking Rosie was crying too! Was very emotional! Lol.
The lady text me that night to say she travelled well and settled as though she has always been there and I'm going to visit her today
And my new horsey Emma is coming tomorrow!!
Well if you managed to read all of that you deserve multiple bags of jelly tots!!
