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EddieWalker
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My wife has been out of the hospital for a couple months now and her recovery has been fantastic. She is planning on going back to work when school starts in August.
I mentioned to her that we have too many horses and that the two young ones where hogging all the food and bullying the older horses. She acknowledged my comments, but wanted to wait until she got better and took over feeding them again before doing anything. It's been a month now since she has been strong enough to feed the horses every evening, and if anything, it's worse. They are so pushy that we have had to physical block them from taking the other horses feed. They are not bad, just not trained or disciplined. It's totally our fault, but that doesn't change anything.
So she agreed that we need to find new homes for the two young horses. To start, I took a few nice pictures of them and then commented on peoples posts that have horses and train horses. Until this week, they all declined to have anything to do with them. Then this week, a young girl that teaches riding took an interest and asked on her FB page if anybody was looking for two horses. She got a lot of replies and questions, so I sent her the pictures, which she posted. When that happened, we received dozens of emails from people wanting them.
Since this was all on FB, I was able to go to their pages and see what their places are like, and a little bit of who they are. It was shocking to see so many that have post after post of horses for sale. Some even say that if the horse doesn't sell by a certain date, it's going to the auction house. Others do not have any pasture to keep them, or it was so overgrown that a horse couldn't live there. The next biggest group of people wanting the horses was from young girls/women with a boyfriend that has some land. To me, that was too unstable without a good feeling that they would be able to take care of them long term. The smallest group of replies was from those who train horses, teach riding classes and have a lot of acreage with really nice barns. There where three of those types of people. There where also a fair number of families looking for just a single horse, or both, to give to their kids, or to ride with their kids that we considered. Most where not what we thought was ideal for the horses, except one. They have a very nice pasture with goats and chickens. Their kids are gown, but living at home, working the family business, a feed store here in Tyler.
After narrowing it down to four, we went over what we knew about them again, and decided that the family with the feed store was going to have the best chances of keeping them fed, and owning them long term. They are currently working on building a shelter for the horses and want to pick them up after it's built. We are not in a rush, so that was fine with us. They also have an employee at the feed store who trains horses on the side and will be the one in charge of training them.
Thank you for all your advice and comments, they where very helpful.
Here's another pic of the two horses that will be leaving us fairly soon to live with their new family. The dark one in the middle is 24 years old and the one that was being bullied.
I mentioned to her that we have too many horses and that the two young ones where hogging all the food and bullying the older horses. She acknowledged my comments, but wanted to wait until she got better and took over feeding them again before doing anything. It's been a month now since she has been strong enough to feed the horses every evening, and if anything, it's worse. They are so pushy that we have had to physical block them from taking the other horses feed. They are not bad, just not trained or disciplined. It's totally our fault, but that doesn't change anything.
So she agreed that we need to find new homes for the two young horses. To start, I took a few nice pictures of them and then commented on peoples posts that have horses and train horses. Until this week, they all declined to have anything to do with them. Then this week, a young girl that teaches riding took an interest and asked on her FB page if anybody was looking for two horses. She got a lot of replies and questions, so I sent her the pictures, which she posted. When that happened, we received dozens of emails from people wanting them.
Since this was all on FB, I was able to go to their pages and see what their places are like, and a little bit of who they are. It was shocking to see so many that have post after post of horses for sale. Some even say that if the horse doesn't sell by a certain date, it's going to the auction house. Others do not have any pasture to keep them, or it was so overgrown that a horse couldn't live there. The next biggest group of people wanting the horses was from young girls/women with a boyfriend that has some land. To me, that was too unstable without a good feeling that they would be able to take care of them long term. The smallest group of replies was from those who train horses, teach riding classes and have a lot of acreage with really nice barns. There where three of those types of people. There where also a fair number of families looking for just a single horse, or both, to give to their kids, or to ride with their kids that we considered. Most where not what we thought was ideal for the horses, except one. They have a very nice pasture with goats and chickens. Their kids are gown, but living at home, working the family business, a feed store here in Tyler.
After narrowing it down to four, we went over what we knew about them again, and decided that the family with the feed store was going to have the best chances of keeping them fed, and owning them long term. They are currently working on building a shelter for the horses and want to pick them up after it's built. We are not in a rush, so that was fine with us. They also have an employee at the feed store who trains horses on the side and will be the one in charge of training them.
Thank you for all your advice and comments, they where very helpful.
Here's another pic of the two horses that will be leaving us fairly soon to live with their new family. The dark one in the middle is 24 years old and the one that was being bullied.
