Quote Originally Posted by Entropy View Post
Pictures are important. However I have to comment that not graining or haying isn't a bad thing. I kept barrel horses on just pasture with no problems. It's the quality of the forage that's key.
Visits have been postponed until next week because of work, so it'll be a while before pics (We would have gone, but my dad and brother are trying to get as much work done on a roof before it rains tonight, so no visiting)


Overall, I am not impressed with this guys pasture at all. In addition to the filly, he has a young gelding with a HORRID limp. This guy is seriously moving wrong, such as, his hindquarters drop a LOT on one side when he walks. The owner said he got a rock in his hoof not to long ago. This gelding is in with the filly.
In another pasture is a huge 16hh Thoroughbred gelding. He's muscular boy, a real impressive horse, but you can see his ribs.
I've heard of how some Thoroughbreds can be tougher to keep weight on, but I feel pretty sorry for the guy. He looks like something you would do some tough show work with.
Also in the pasture with the Thoroughbred is a maybe 14hh-14.5hh, coming on three, chocolate brown QH stallion. This boy has 'once a beauty' written all over him. Now he is scrawny, has a serious skin problem (I ran my hand over his hindquarters and it feels like what my former TWH had were the hide has little bumps, not bug bites, as the hair comes off). And has some pretty messed up feet, his back hooves both point inwards (I'm not sure of the proper term for this condition)
Overall he is a calm, friendly little comes-right-over kinda guy. I'm sure he would make a great light-work gelding after some serious TLC. The guy tried to sell him to me for $200, fifty bucks less than his original quoted price, as he was offering a 'package deal' since I was interested in the filly.
The reason he says the stud is priced so is because of his lines. He has some Doc Bar son or grandson in there somewhere.

Whilst in conversation I asked him how much it is to geld, as I have never kept a stud, and if I were to buy the stud, he would be gelded pronto.
He refered me to the Mennonites. He said $30 and they'll hobble him, go back there, and chop them off. (not his exact wording, but it was something along those lines)


Fences should be up by December, hopefully. I just want to get my little girl out of there. The grass on my place is good, when it's mowed. Right now it's up past your waist since it's been growing for the last two years without check.