Re: Got a problem here!

["LOUISE D BURTON" <FIREDANCEFARMS@prodigy.net>]

Hi Lif,
I carefully read your e-mail.  We call these horses "project horses".  I
have come across many.  Sometimes it is the feed, sometimes being cooped up,
sometimes the horse IS nuts.  I passed up a beautiful mare last fall, whom I
felt was in the last category.  Too bad.  You couldn't have GIVEN me this
mare.
I would find out two things:
1.  what he is feeding him
2.  where he is kept
Sweet feed can make them crazy sometimes.  As can a stall or corral.
Several of my horses would be nuts if they were kept corralled (they live on
100 acres).
I had a horse when I was a kid who went "nuts".  We sold her back to the
ranch we bought another horse from for about $300.  They turned her out with
the cows for a year, and she was absolutely fine after that!

It sounds like the guy is trying and not abusing the horse.  I understand
how he feels about not selling her to someone privately; I would feel the
same way.  That is why we are EXTREMELY careful and picky about any horse we
"take on".
Hope this helps.
Louise Burton
Firedance Farms Endurance Arabians
Oklahoma
http://pages.prodigy.net/firedancefarms


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