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Jean
ParticipantShe posted that in December.
ParticipantThank you! You have saved me seconds of scrolling.
ParticipantMy Percheron, Bess, will come up from the field when I whistle and call her name. If I want her to come with speed I cluck to her and she starts running. The others will follow, the saddle horse reluctantly. Of course she will never do this if the Vet or Farrier are here to see.
Some time I call because it it feeding time, other times it is just to see her run.
Jean
ParticipantDo you want something that he can get to the fairgrounds from, or is he looking for something after wards? I have 2 friends that have cabins that they rent out. One on Holland Pond and one in Peru VT. Both remote, both with a lake either right there, or a short walk. Both have hiking. Holland Pond is nicer and has a canoe that can be used.
Jean
ParticipantHow do we purchase a ticket?
Participant@Carl Russell 10278 wrote:
The worst thing about this situation is that Jean didn’t have the opportunity to make it right with Kruiser before it turned into the tragedy that it is. The same thing may have happened to Jean, rather than to her friend, but there is no way to know. To me the biggest devastation is in the loss of relationship between the horse and owner. I will take full responsibility for anything that I happen to cause through my own misjudgments, but I protect my relationship to my animals by being the only human allowed to impact it.
Carl, this is exactly right. You can only guess how many times both in my waking hours and my sleep I have gone over the “what if I had been driving”. We will never know.
The vet did come out. He says his hip is sore, most likely from the fall. Both his stifles responded to his poking and manipulating them. He felt that they have been sore since before the accident and that could have been a reason for his behavior. Again we will never know.
Until I can think about what to do for at least 2 days in a row, I will keep him as is and treat his sore stifles.
Thanks for the kind words and for the hard to read ones too.
Jean
ParticipantHind sight is great. Here is what happened prior to hooking him to the forecart.
I was ground driving him to the ring where the forecart was. He balked at the gate, he had never done that before, he is usually very willing to work. I ended up having to really get after him to go through the gate, good wollop with the end of the lines. When he did go through he was willing to go the rest of the way. I thought, ok, I won that one, now he remembers he is not the boss.
When we had him in the shafts and was hooking the tugs on Cathy was not strong enough to get her side done, so I handed her the lines and I went around to the other side and got her tug on. He moved forward and Cathy corrected him. She had the lines and I made a joke (not very funny now), you have the lines you get in. She has driven this horse a ton, he came to me from her farm. He has never shown any really bad behavior while hooked. I have had my totally green sister and husband drive him. As Cathy said to me today when I visited her in the hospital he drives like a cadilac.
Anyway once she was in he wanted to go, so she encouraged him to trot around the ring, but when she tried to get him to come down to a walk he would not and it got out of control in seconds.
maybe his trot was not a nice floaty trot, maybe it was a trot that said my back end hurts and if I bounce with every step it does not hurt as long. I don’t know.
The vet is coming to look at him tomorrow. He has for sure been different since it happened. He was snappy at me last night and today he has not really wanted to leave the barn. His gate on the hind end seems off, not limping lane, but off. He does have a banged up hock where he landed when he flipped himself. Not too hot, but I am sure sore.
I had been working on him backing up for a couple of weeks, that was a very weak spot in my ability to tell him what I wanted to do. That could have made the shivers worse.
Sorry for the long post.
Jean
ParticipantHi Mark, I have 2 fly nets. They are old and would need new buckles. I have not tried them and the horse I would have used them on is on his way out. If you would like them you can have them.
Let me know.
Jean
Participanthttp://sharing.theflip.com/session/c5ba3395e9fc020f605f95130af54df3/video/5234811
Here is a link of the video that my husband took at horse progress days. It starts with the end of the day and ends at the beginning of the day. Don’t ask me why!
Jean
ParticipantCarl, you never ride them out of the woods back to the barn? The barrel races can be done with the harness on, so there are the hames to hold on to.
Jean
ParticipantI would love to visit Howell Farm, but I did not see on the website where it is located. Must be there somewhere.
Jean
ParticipantThanks Jen for getting the field day under events.
Are you bringing any horses?
Jean
ParticipantWow, sounds like a lot has been done in a short time period. Would love to see some pictures of the progress.
Jean
ParticipantKarl, I did not hear the talk about the JD. I might have other pictures of it if you would like to see them. Jean
ParticipantAndre’ – there was one team of greys, they were picking up the large round bales. I thought the whole percheron breed were too few, there was only 1 four horse hitch of blacks, then a 6 horse hitch of show blacks in the breed parade. Of the 6 horse hitches, I thought the Percherons were in control the best. Not to say the others were not beautiful, they just looked like a wicked handful.
Jen – I did not get any info on the little carts, They were easy entry carts with a tow hitch on them instead of a pole, or it might have just been the hitch that the pole would have been attached to. I also like the little wagon at the end of the 3 carts.
Jean
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