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Comment by CCR on December 3, 2008 at 11:45pm

yes, Pat, its hard to find someone who "knows" horses. We want to be able to visit my parents, go home to Ft. Worth and visit my brother, etc., but you just can't leave for more than a day. I'm seriously considering offering my sons room for rent to a horse trainer for free - tee hee! Then they could have their own business and train other outside horses here. I'd probably have to get insurance and that might be cost prohibitive. what do you think?

Comment by CCR on December 3, 2008 at 11:43pm

a blowdryer to get the latch thawed. I am sure I am going to hear snow stories.

Comment by CCR on December 1, 2008 at 8:36pm

C - now would be a good time to post those parade of lights pics.
I'm having such a hard time typing with gloves on. he he.
Farrier came today and wrote a note saying he'd be back in 2 weeks to do Miracle's foot (the one thats bandaged' up) LOL. It takes forever just to get him the first time. I can just see it. Like getting a pedicure or manicure and leaving a nail undone. ohwell.

Comment by CCR on November 24, 2008 at 12:50am

BRRRR! Kelly, when you spoke of the blindness, I was rmembering John Lyons Horse - Bright Zip, wasn't it? Its amazing a blind horse could still do all those things. I guess the blindness didn't upset his equilibrium in the spins.
Well, last week-end I lunged everyone. This week-end, my husband worked our little black filly and actually got a halter on her. Her mom is having bad problems. She should have healed by now. Reagan had a large bad gash in his shoulder, and two others had back pasturn cuts. I recognized them instantly. Barbed wire. so we checked out the 90 acres that belongs to our neighbor when our horses sneak to because hurricane trees downed the fences, and back behind that 90 (behind our 40) there was Temple-Inland cutting down trees and they had fallen on some fencing ajoining the 90 acres. Everyone's all cut up and Miracle hops on 3 legs. I've put her in a stall, with round pen panels access to a small grass area to eat and she's still hopping. There's no vets with x-ray machines around here. And our truck can't haul anyway right now. I'm thinking about calling a vet out to the house, , we just had one here during the summer to cut a colt. Oh well, maybe I can get some teeth floated at the same time if I have to pay a barn visit call. $$

Comment by CCR on November 23, 2008 at 10:55am

Kelly, was it your app? I hate that. I've been through it 4 times now,and I've had people ridicule me for crying over my babies. We understand. We know your pain. I am so sorry. What a tragedy.

I saved a black mare from the "factory" in TN.
But not before she came to TX with me and gave me "Miracle".
Vet here said the old black QH mare (from Bar Flower by Three Bars) would never have babies. He was wrong. She was 22. One day, I was sitting on the steps to my house, she put her head in my crouched up knees and just closed her eyes. I petted her and knew something was wrong. She went off her feed and died while we were gone to my moms. Who knows? Maybe cancer?
Twister- one of my sister broodmares. The gentlest and sweetest. She lived, but her baby died.
My vet had me give all moms and babies the tetnus shot right after the baby was born. Something was wrong - a bad batch- and Twister's black baby died and she had to go to TX A & M for 2 wks. They told me to tell her good-bye, that she had a liver disease from the bad tetnus. But she made it and they were shocked. I have to be careful with her diet now. And not let her get fat, which is hard, they are all easy keepers.

Then I sold a mare to a construction worker for helping us build our barn and later discovered his "new place" only had rocks and dirt on his property. I would go visit and ask him if he was giving her hay or SOMETHING. I questioned him if he was worming her. I heard he sold her to an illegal race track, they fed her and she died of colic. They don't speak English, so I had someone ask them - didn't they know she hadn't been fed grass for a yr., and they would have to EASE her into eating again? Its so heartbreaking not to be able to take care of them once their sold.

And lastly, my "Sunny" won 5th out of 24 in a 4-H halter contest with a QH Judge. The girl only worked with her 3 times total, (she had to show the AG teachers horse also) and the other kids worked with their 5 days a wk for an entire year prior. The Judge loved her disposition, gate, conformation, hips, everything! He said she had bright clear eyes that stood out on the side of her face, a lovely neck and lovely face. (They all have kinda dished faces, they are from the Mighty Bright, Bright Eyes Brother line of Apps.) She was the 2nd tiniest horse there. The others were yearlings and she was only 7 mo. old.
Came home 6 mo. later she was all swollen in the neck and face and couldn't breathe. Vet said it was strangles and I said there are two puncture wounds next to each other, one oozing yellow, one oozing red. I think its a snake bite I said. He concurred, but after she had necrosis of the esophagus, and was cachetic we took her to A & M. She was gonna need surgery, but after 2 wks, she died during the night from organ failure. That story is much longer than to put in here, but to tell you this. Her dam stood in the same place where she was when we loaded her to the vet and didn't move around with the herd for over 4 days. She refused to move. It was heartbreaking. Sunny was so young, but she was so sweet. I cried at my job and everyone made fun of me.

Comment by CCR on November 20, 2008 at 11:31pm

Oh, I can tell we're gonna have some fun in here!!

Comment by CCR on November 18, 2008 at 10:43pm

Pat, I am interested in the Morgan history. When our stud started - how do you say- standing out? When they put their legs way back - I said - WOW, he's pretending he's a Morgan! I looked at his pedigree and he had ONE MOrgan (LOL) so far back, it was during Calvary times. Remember how they used some as remount stallions?

Comment by CCR on November 18, 2008 at 10:41pm

I took off a year from work in 2003 or so, (I fell out of a truck stacking hay and my acl came completely apart) and spent it doing pedigree research. If you figure every horse has 64.... Course my 2 ApHC broodmares are sisters, so that cut down some. Then my stud, ApHC, and one AQHA black mare we "saved" and found out she was from Bar Flower from Three Bars. Then after those 64, I found I had to go even farther back because I started reading the legends books and loving the history and the stories and reading who was in their bloodlines. I even have talked to Frank Holmes (writer of the legends books and "Spotted Pride" the book on appaloosas ) on allbreedpedigree.com and he and Pat Medford have helped me so much to find "missing links". I especially like the stories about the 2/3 club winners and Triple Crown Winners in their backgrounds (but they are WAY back there - 5 generations and more - so they don't count - )but its interesting all the same!

Comment by CCR on November 18, 2008 at 10:35pm

Hi Kelly, havn't heard from you in a while!!!

Comment by CCR on November 16, 2008 at 3:31pm

Pat, how was equine affair? I went to Equitana in Kentucky when I lived in TN back in the late 90's and saw and spoke to John Lyons and Clinton Anderson. At that time, no one knew Clinton.

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