Anonymous-0
Well-known Member
Gotta vent again folks..if I didn't know better, I'd say the wife set me up yesterday and today........
1st thing, we went to pick up a foal that was suposed to be already seperated from it's mother. Got there and nooooooooooo... got the foal caught (people couldn't touch it since it was born)..... Got it out of the fence and ready to get on the trailer when the mom went thru the fence along with about 10 other horses. Owner had foal on a lead and let go of the lead.... almost 200 miles from home and running behind schedule and 11 horses loose and running thru the town...... Wife and I waited at the vehicle until they got the foal caught and back to the trailer an hour later.... Got him loaded and took him to a friend's place because they have a foal the same age that was to be seperated from it's mother also. Got there and noooooooo........ Took our foal off the trailer and to the pasture (empty)....friend was supposed to have foal and mother there with an old gelding, idea was put ours in and take the mother away/leave the two foals with the gelding. Friend says "got it under control and took the leadrope. Thinking he was going to go the 50 or so yards to another pasture where everything was prepared, wife and I went to get the vehicle moved to a better place..... Got almost to the car and our foal blows by us like it's wild..The genious put him in an empty pasture without electricity on the fence and went to get the other horses. Tried to lead 2 mares and a gelding that barely get along by himself so had them loose too.....2 hours later, got ahold of our foal, put him on the trailer and brought him home where he belongs......
Today, I'm at work a couple hours when the wife calls and says 3 horses are not right.... rush home and have one cramping with the 1st stages of colic and 2 others standing with heads hanging. By the time we got the 1st one emptied out and some oilpumped in to him, the other two were starting to look a little worse, same with them and got the vet on the way when I smelled the problem.... Guy that owns that piece of pasture had dumped about 300 pounds of apple waste and rotten apples that the horses gorged themselves on........ Got things in control and the apples out of the pasture and went to his house. He says "horses eat apples don't they?"..... Then "it's my place, I'll put what I want on it"....... He just don't know how close he was........ He'll have a healthy vet bill to pay but prolly won't fix his stupidity........
You just can't make this stuff up....... Can laugh at it now but I sure look at a buddy in a whole new light..... Wife says he's an idiot and been sayin it for 16 years but I've known him longer and always defended him. I realize now that he is a first class, icecream cone on the forehead idiot and just can't tolerate him anymore.....
done now and sorry for the long one..... but, what else did you have to do with the last 5 minutes??? :roll:
1st thing, we went to pick up a foal that was suposed to be already seperated from it's mother. Got there and nooooooooooo... got the foal caught (people couldn't touch it since it was born)..... Got it out of the fence and ready to get on the trailer when the mom went thru the fence along with about 10 other horses. Owner had foal on a lead and let go of the lead.... almost 200 miles from home and running behind schedule and 11 horses loose and running thru the town...... Wife and I waited at the vehicle until they got the foal caught and back to the trailer an hour later.... Got him loaded and took him to a friend's place because they have a foal the same age that was to be seperated from it's mother also. Got there and noooooooo........ Took our foal off the trailer and to the pasture (empty)....friend was supposed to have foal and mother there with an old gelding, idea was put ours in and take the mother away/leave the two foals with the gelding. Friend says "got it under control and took the leadrope. Thinking he was going to go the 50 or so yards to another pasture where everything was prepared, wife and I went to get the vehicle moved to a better place..... Got almost to the car and our foal blows by us like it's wild..The genious put him in an empty pasture without electricity on the fence and went to get the other horses. Tried to lead 2 mares and a gelding that barely get along by himself so had them loose too.....2 hours later, got ahold of our foal, put him on the trailer and brought him home where he belongs......
Today, I'm at work a couple hours when the wife calls and says 3 horses are not right.... rush home and have one cramping with the 1st stages of colic and 2 others standing with heads hanging. By the time we got the 1st one emptied out and some oilpumped in to him, the other two were starting to look a little worse, same with them and got the vet on the way when I smelled the problem.... Guy that owns that piece of pasture had dumped about 300 pounds of apple waste and rotten apples that the horses gorged themselves on........ Got things in control and the apples out of the pasture and went to his house. He says "horses eat apples don't they?"..... Then "it's my place, I'll put what I want on it"....... He just don't know how close he was........ He'll have a healthy vet bill to pay but prolly won't fix his stupidity........
You just can't make this stuff up....... Can laugh at it now but I sure look at a buddy in a whole new light..... Wife says he's an idiot and been sayin it for 16 years but I've known him longer and always defended him. I realize now that he is a first class, icecream cone on the forehead idiot and just can't tolerate him anymore.....
done now and sorry for the long one..... but, what else did you have to do with the last 5 minutes??? :roll:
