Horse Victim, Before and After

[Grunt]

My wife got a horse in January this year. Taj, the horse was in pretty bad condition when we got him. 6 months of love and care and this is the result.

Before:
http://www.users.on.net/%7Egril/ww2/Taj0.jpg


After 1:

http://www.users.on.net/%7Egril/ww2/Taj6.jpg


After 2:
http://www.users.on.net/%7Egril/ww2/Taj8.jpg

Me & Taj

http://www.users.on.net/%7Egril/ww2/TajKane.jpg


Hard to believe it's the same horse.


Chris

[Clinton1]

Good stuff

[echnidna]

Grunt,


you


have



every


right


to


be


proud


of


what


yer


done.

A bit of loving care
and yer can get a lot of extra hamburgers:p

[Grunt]

Got to get me dog food from somewhere.

[Clinton1]

When the family moved onto a cattle station in Central Queensland we came across a horse locked into the cattle yards (actually in the crush) near the homestead.
It had been left in there with no food - the horse had even stripped off the bark from the rails trying to get food.
The mongrel that locked it in there (to teach it a lesson!) had been taking it water. The horse had to be shot, it could not stand on its own and was a complete wreck.

I'll catch up with that fellow one day.

[Bodgy]

Grunt

Amazing what a feed and a bit of TLC will do (plus the vet, worming, vitamins, currying etc etc., yeah I know)

Well done!

[Grunt]

Everyone please understand that I have had nothing (well almost nothing) to with the recovery of this horse. It's all been my lovely wife Margo.

I am the horse victim in this story. Ask Iain, he will understand.

Also, 1 horse is not enough.

[scooter]

Old saying

"Never go out with a chick who is into horses. They're a different breed" :D


Cheers.....................Sean

[mic-d]

Old saying

"Never go out with a chick who is into horses. They're a different breed" :D


Cheers.....................Sean

Where was that advice when I needed it!!??

Cheers
Michael

[Zed]

good grunt, theres a gooooood boy.... woof.!

<thumbs up>

[bennylaird]

Friend took one in from the knackers yard, within a year she was rode him in the Gary Owen.

Sister in laws love of horses rules the family lol, had to move just to support the horses life styles.

I might think of changing for the right filly? lol

[Iain]

I am the horse victim in this story. Ask Iain, he will understand.

Also, 1 horse is not enough.
One horse would be enough, however, 1 wife=1 horse....youngest daughter=2 ponies...eldest daughter=3 horses.
Add to this my Landcruiser (I get to use it on occassion) huge horse float, hay cut every year plus supplementary feed, vets, farriers etc etc.
One saddle per horse? absolutely not, need one for different styles of event.
Bit like wanting to own a Triton I suppose, be nice if you could get an orange saddle.
And how much for a saddle? Horseland have them for about $200.00, but not our lot, all around $800-$3000 each.
I go out and buy a bottle of single malt and then told not to waste my money:mad:
Nice job by the way, a couple of ours had a start like that, funnily enough the thoroughbreds go a bit boney in the winter and there is not a lot you can do about it, just a TB thing.
They are pretty resilient though and can survive on very little for a while, with ponies you have to starve them sometimes as the buggers will just gorge themselves and wind up looking like a hot air balloon.
And watching the older girls at pony club with the new boyfriend in tow, they drool all over someones new horse and the boyfriend (who's intentions are purely carnal) are trying to maintain a degree of interest:D

[mic-d]

One horse would be enough, however, 1 wife=1 horse....youngest daughter=2 ponies...eldest daughter=3 horses.
Add to this my Landcruiser (I get to use it on occassion) huge horse float, hay cut every year plus supplementary feed, vets, farriers etc etc.
One saddle per horse? absolutely not, need one for different styles of event.
Bit like wanting to own a Triton I suppose, be nice if you could get an orange saddle.
And how much for a saddle? Horseland have them for about $200.00, but not our lot, all around $800-$3000 each.
I go out and buy a bottle of single malt and then told not to waste my money:mad:
Nice job by the way, a couple of ours had a start like that, funnily enough the thoroughbreds go a bit boney in the winter and there is not a lot you can do about it, just a TB thing.
They are pretty resilient though and can survive on very little for a while, with ponies you have to starve them sometimes as the buggers will just gorge themselves and wind up looking like a hot air balloon.
And watching the older girls at pony club with the new boyfriend in tow, they drool all over someones new horse and the boyfriend (who's intentions are purely carnal) are trying to maintain a degree of interest:D

I'm hearing you! Every other week their seems to be a new package at the door. If it's not new rugs, it's some expensive supplement or herbs. Then there's the bills for the horse chiropracter, horse massause, hi-tech plastic shoes etc etc etc. Every morning is a 5:30 or 6am start, most weekends I am a horse widow while she does something horsey, plus she's the agistment manager and chief instructor at the local pony club and she of course gets to deal with a few of the assinine parents who want to do things "their way" Ah well, I shouldn't complain, she does fund it herself.

rant over !
Cheers
Michael

[Terry1]

Hello Grunt,
The horse looks in great nick now.Good work.Is he just going to be used as a riding hack or is he going to do a job for you?In our area (Riverina)alot of the horses that are turned out in the winter come back in fairly poor condition but they soon pick up in the spring.It seems that alot of the fellows here have similiar interests.I also had horses up until about five or six years ago which we kept on my brother's farm and I certainly miss the riding part if not the chores and upkeeps etc.There are alot of handy horsemen still about here and a fellow who has just finished working for my brother as a stockman won the Man from Snowy River competition twice.Does anyone else here share my other main interests of boxing and rugby league?
Regards
Terry

[bennylaird]

Hello Grunt,
Does anyone else here share my other main interests of boxing and rugby league?

Same thing arn't they? :)

[Terry1]

Maybe they were a bit similiar years ago benny but the game (rugby league)is too fast now to get the amount of cheap shots that were very common once.
Regards
Terry

[bennylaird]

Same with AFL seems the old style has passed us by. I actually prefer going to the amatuers, parking my car by the fence, beeping the horn etc etc like the old days up in Kaniva.

Thank God (Mohamed, Budda, etc etc - insert your own) for memories..... (oh and mammories)

[Grunt]

Terry,
I have no interest in horse. I am the victim here!

We got the horse for free in January. Margo has spent maybe $1500 all up on food, hoof care, dentists, physio, vets etc. That doesn't include 2 saddles and soon to be a 3rd saddle at around $2k, bridles, rugs, leads etc.

However, Taj is a bit of a surprise. He was a slow race horse but in a previous life he's had some dressage training. Tell him to go back and he does, he crab walks (not sure what the technical term is) and certainly has a bit of spirit.


My other hobby is photography and I have interest in sustainable living and real footy.

[mic-d]

Terry,
he crab walks (not sure what the technical term is) and certainly has a bit of spirit.



It's probably half-pass, but it might also be shoulder-in or renvers/travers.
There! SWMBO would be proud of me.

Cheers
Michael

[TassieKiwi]

Now if all of the too-thin chicks that you see could do the same....amazing what a good feed can do.

Well done.

[Terry1]

Not too many of the real skinny skelton type ones about here Tassie.It might be a city thing I reckon.
Terry

[namtrak]

I don't get it - in the second and third photo it still looks like a horse? :D

Seriously, not being a horse person (apart from backing Kingston Town into second in the Melb Cup in 1982). What are the improvements that horse people would see? Not so many ribs showing and a bit shinier?

Cheers

[Grunt]

That's basically it. The horse was basically starving when we first got him. A shinny horse is a heathy horse. Same goes for dogs.

Taj was a bag of bones when we got him.

[Tonyz]

clever horse :cool: got its own dog to carry the water bottle :eek: .. Tonto

[ozwinner]

Well done Margo.

Al :)

[Auld Bassoon]

Excellent!

I hate to see animals being mistreated or neglected. It's good that this one seems to be in good hands :)

[black1]

get a treadmill and hook it up to ya tablesaw and you will get use out of it as well:cool:

[ozwinner]

Owwrah for Margo
Owwrah at last
Take a look at Grunt
For he is the horses........


Al :p

[Termite]

get a treadmill and hook it up to ya tablesaw and you will get use out of it as well:cool:
You could also use it to power your flour mill. :D

[bennylaird]

Hate animal cruelty, still -issed off that the Aussie Lighthorse were not allowed to bring their horses home and had to shoot them.

[Grunt]

You could also use it to power your flour mill. :D

Don't laugh. I'm trying to talk Margo into getting a Clidesdale so I can put a harness on it and pull a plough or cart. This is just for fun, I will own a tractor too.

[Iain]

getting a Clidesdale so I can put a harness on it and pull a plough or cart.
A word of warning here from he who knows.
When my parents had the farm we still had a couple of horse drawn implements, during harvest I would pull the hayrake behind said draught horse operating the release4 every so often when the rake was full.
I had one lesson from Mr Draught Horse, when he stops and lifts his tail and you watch this large fleshy aperture open like a camera lens you about 5 seconds to get out of line of fire.
When a draughthorse farts there is a mass of fine solid and liquid matter which travels about 10 feet and generally hit you at about face level....................once:(

[scooter]

...When a draughthorse farts there is a mass of fine solid and liquid matter...

I believe it also happens when a mouse farts it's last too... ;) :p