by Dream_Merchant » Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:15 am
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Well I haven't found out every detail of him, but here goes -- oh by the way, his willy has shrunk down quite a lot, it's just the tinest bit puffy now and only sticks out a little bit -- so obviously whatever was causing the discomfort, I've removed. I'll keep washing it for a few days just to make sure.
Well I went past a property down the road from us and see this disgusting looking horse there, my first thought was, oh ok, someone's picked up an old hag of a thing etc etc and going to give a good home. He was slim, but still very healthy in his coat and everything -- anyway a few months later, I was taking my stallion down to a breeding station to be tested for having his semen frozen (he has to be down there for a week, maybe two), and on the way home I saw that horse again (he had disappeared from the paddock for awhile) -- this time I almost run off the dam road looking at him, no kidding! I pulled in and saw the young girl there, and spoke to her about him. Anyway, she said she had had him for quite some time, blah blah, didn't really know anything about horses or owning a stallion or anything. Anyway, I said that he looked bloody disgusting (with a little bit more... umph, as you would say)... she was a bit shocked at my choice of ways, but very quickly got the idea that I was disgusted at his state. Anyway, we had a bit of an arguement, she broke down in tears over it (I had no idea why at the time), and she said that I should take him, no questions asked.
Anyway, I threw him on the float, and took him home. He bashed around quite a bit -- I honestly thought he was going to go down with colic because of travelling in such horrid condition, and die on the float or something horrible. Anyway, he got home, and literally staggered off the float like an old drunk -- just a 20 minute drive in the float nackered him physically! Put him in a stable (my stallions outside stable), and threw him a heap of hay, and stood with him to make sure he didn't just gulp down the barrel of water in there (which he tried to) -- I went inside, made a few calls, including one to the RSPCA, I explained the situation to them, and they said to cover my arse, they would come out in a few days and inspect him and issue the past owner with a written warning, and give me some paperwork that she would sign to say he was offically mine and she couldn't come back for him or place any legal matters on my doorstep -- which is very reassuring. So I went back out, jabbed a heap of vitamns into him into what muscle I could find on the poor bugger (I could honestly only get the needle half way into his chest before I swear it hit bone) and left him to his hay. He really wasn't too interested in it, and I thought the poor guy would die over night -- I put a rug on him as well to keep him warm, try and make him cozy at least.
Anyway, next morning, he had brightened up a little and there was not a slither of hay left in the stable -- but no manure. That was my biggest worry, that he would go down with colic, or that his stomach and bowel hadn't had any food through them for so long they would stop working. So he got another jab of vitamns, and put on a drip of fluids (dropped off at my place from Murdoch University by a friend of mine who works there who lives up the road from me) and another heap of hay and a bucket of rough cut chaff with the tinest pinch of lucerne in it.
Anyway, another day passed, and I had emptied two 2L bags of fluid into him and he looked a lot brighter (in his eyes), so I thought he could now manage a drench through his system -- he had started to pass manure too, which looked more like black rocks than horse manure, but something was happening at least. And it was the next day that I noticed his willy had swollen up when I put him out in a small paddock to give him some air -- but that's all good now.
Well he's eating well, his manure is that nice yellow/green color that it should be and he is urintating like a train (bugger leaves what looks like the remains of a flood in his stable each night!). He has lost that "hollow" look around his flanks, but it's still a long way to go for him.
When the RSPCA came out they told me that he had been left to the girl because his previous owner had died in a car crash, and this girl was her only living family -- she of course, knew nothing about horses, let alone a dam stallion! She got on ok with him at first, but naturally him been a stallion, she soon became frightened on him and wouldn't go near him to feed him or water him -- the poor sod!! Anyway, I had noticed a Hanoverian brand on his hindquarter and rung up a heap of people trying to find out who he was -- obviously, noone knew off the top of their heads, there are so many warmblood stallions around these days. Anyway, the RSPCA gave me all the paperwork I needed, and what do I see on the top, his dam name!! I've got a 4 year old horse by this bloke that is an absolute ripper jumper!!!
Anyway, I do some research -- called the past owner of the 4 year old I brought and found out who owned him, blah blah, and turns out this guy is related to my stallion through a great grandfather or something -- he has some really nice older lines including Mozart, Senny, a relation to Stakkato through his sire and his dam has Lord and Cor De La Byere in him!! I is also around 17 years old -- which I gathered by his teeth. Bit of a bugger that he is old, but hey, I've still got a few mares that would be a super nice cross with him, put some new blood into the place. So yer, what a find!! I never expected him to be anything special like that, just some poor busted up old stallion, not a dam hanoverian!!
But I'll keep you updated on him through his time -- he's feeling much better though in himself, managed to pull down half my electric fence for me (which of course, I had to later drag him through the gate because he thought it was going to jump up and attack him, that took some doing!). He's a real character, and really starting to jive up in himself and show that he is actually a bull -- of course, he runs up the fence in a spectular prance, and then just stands there because he is buggered. I think I will end up having to lunge him and put some work into him to build up his back muscles -- he's got absolutely NO muscle at all on him, and he is a heavily boned horse, which makes him look worse.
So yer -- sorry it's long!! But that's Skully's (ie. Skeleton) story so far. He's over the worst of it I would think, so yer, he's out of rough sailing so far.</b></i></font>
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