Don't need too many days like today

37chief · Dec 20, 2012

Nice cold morning, frost on the ground looked like snow. I walk over to the barn area to feed daughters rescue horse. No horse in the corrall. This is bad, as he is very wild. Neighbor about 1/2 mi away had him penned up. Cops woke him up at 12 midnight about a loose horse. Now he is in this large fenced in area. All I could do is get my trailer and take some pipe corral's, and make him a holding area. About the time I got there the horse jumped out of the fenced area. Now the chase startes. We got him turned around and back in the corrall area. Some how we got the pipe corral up and got him in it. Then take the trailer backhome, get the horse trailer, and managed to get it backed in to the holding area. I did use my dulley, and not my F 150. Then got the horse in by moving the panels to the trailer. Get him back home and in his corrall. Got stuck and needed to get pulled out. Then remove the horse trailer, and get the flat bed trailer hooked back up and pick up the pipe panels. Those 24 ft panels are still as heave as I remembered. This is hard on a old guy. Mean while the daughter is home in her wheel chair from her horse accidend a couple weeks ago, and can't do a thing. So how your day been? Stan

EJ70 · Dec 20, 2012

Wow Stan you did have a day! Hope it got better after all that. Is this guy a stallion or gelding? How many hands?? Praying your daughter has a full and speedy recovery.

1030 TOM · Dec 20, 2012

THATS WHY i like horses when ther under a hood;

Huskers86 · Dec 20, 2012

I feel for you. I'm getting the feeling this horse is pretty close to a one way ride. Hope things get better for you.

Traditional Farmer · Dec 20, 2012

I'd be looking for someone with a bunch of hungry dogs.If you don't do something with that horse you'll end up in a lawsuit or worse,roaming livestock are trouble.Hope you have a very good farm liability policy.

jeff-h01 · Dec 20, 2012

First off many prayers for your daughter and hope she recovers without a flaw...second hats off to you for your hard rough day...third how u and ur family have a merry Christmas and a safe happy new year!!

jacksun65 · Dec 20, 2012

Horse tastes good except for the tough places where the spurs hit LOL

GordoSD · Dec 20, 2012

Time for a heart to heart with that daughter. Give her the benefit of all your years of experience. What would you do here? Then convince her to do that. Don't enable her.

Paul from MI · Dec 20, 2012

My day was lots better than yours, glad you're ok. may be time make plans for different horse operation.

Nancy Howell · Dec 20, 2012

Doesn't sound like fun at all.

If he keeps jumping, you might think about investing in a set of hobbles.

Chasing a loose horse in good weather is bad enough, but a real pain when its cold or wet.

Nancy Howell · Dec 20, 2012

As far as the hobbles go, that's assuming you or someone can get their hands on him long enough to get them on.

37chief · Dec 20, 2012

The horse is a gelding, I would think it is 15 or so hands. Stan

GeneMO · Dec 20, 2012

what, no deer rifle?

Gene

IA Roy · Dec 20, 2012

Put a halter on him if you don't have one already. hook a chain onto something that he can drag, maybe a tire and rim, maybe a log. He probably won't try jumping if he has some resistance. I think someone I knew 30 years ago did that to keep a billy goat in the pasture

Kenneth R Ohnstad · Dec 20, 2012

Where is the nearest glue factory?
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ShadetreeRet · Dec 20, 2012

Stan, I understand how people can feel about animals, and I am not saying anything that you don't already know, I'm sure, but there comes a time in everyone's life when we have to face up to a mistake, and it seems to be the time for your daughter to do so. Better to get rid of that horse at a loss than to keep messing with it until someone gets seriously hurt or it gets out into the road and, well, you know.

Dick2 · Dec 21, 2012

Dad had a beautiful Palomino that was un-manageable. Dad hooked him with 2 other horses on the grain drill to break him to harness. Before Dad got him fully hooked to the drill, the horse reared up and struck Dad in the face with his front hoof and broke Dad's nose.

Dad traded him to an equipment dealer that had a contract to supply horses to a Chicago dairy. The dealer had the horse loaded in a semi with a bunch of other horses. By the time the semi got from Fargo to Saint Cloud, MN, the palomino had killed 2 other horses. The trucker took the palomino out of the truck and shot him and sold his body to a fox farm nearby, along with the two dead horses.

So - are there any fox farms in your area?

Bret4207 · Dec 21, 2012

I'm a horse guy, but "wild rescue horses" sound like trouble to me. If possible, put him in a box stall and feed him just hay, and it doesn't have to be great stuff. Make sure you are his only "friend". Usually a couple weeks of that and they get so you can handle them better. It's a start.

Traditional Farmer · Dec 21, 2012

And the ones under the hood quit eating when you turn off the key

Hay hay hay · Dec 21, 2012

I am a horse guy..own a bunch.

But, your daughter's kind heart is likely to get her Daddy killed or maimed.

Some of these super wild critters are not easily handled by the average Joe...including me, and are simply not worth the risk ...for the act of kindness.

Whose life is worth more to your daughter...yours or that wild horse? She may get emotional about it today but in a few years she will wonder how she could have been so naive.

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