Visitor this morning

wintrrwolf · #1 02/28/14, 05:56 AM

So I go out to milk my goat at 5 am and I have a strange horse trying to come in and get to the grain bin!!!!!
After getting her to back out of my milking room I bribe her to follow me with a scoop of grain and had to put her in with my two horses, I don't like doing that but had no where else to keep her safe. Now what?
Well went back and finished milking threw some hay out for everyone, guess I have to wait until the town starts waking up. Think she belongs next door but not sure, she is a pretty little sorrel, no halter, little smaller then Nikki and a little bigger then Snickers.
Don't know why everything ends up here???
Last year it was a mule, donkey, mini horse trio and couple months ago it was someones bull calf (that one was fun rounding up)

SFM in KY · #2 02/28/14, 06:17 AM

Visitors are always interesting! Years and years ago, on the ranch, we used to have a neighbor's stallion that would visit every spring. One day in the spring we'd go out and find him standing quietly beside the corral gate! Never any fence down, he never had a mark on him and for some reason he was never in with our horses in the pastures, would just get himself out on the little private ranch road from wherever they had him and come for a visit.

Teej · #3 02/28/14, 10:02 AM

I've had several of those kind of visitors over the years. Now we only have 1 fairly close neighbor that still has horses and it's rare for hers to get out.

crazy4equines · #4 02/28/14, 08:23 PM

Years ago we had the neighbors mini visit us at our old farm and luckily he did not get hit by a semi as we used to live on a very busy state hwy. The neighbor who owned the pony came down with his mini van and he loaded right up into their van like he has done that before.

wintrrwolf · #5 03/01/14, 05:57 AM

Well it was the one across the road. I ended up walking her back the little old lady that lives there is smaller then me and the horse "Stella" didn't want to go back. This horse actually belongs to a young girl in high school guess she hasn't been out to feed her so Gloria has been doing so, Gloria has been letting this one stay in the back pasture free of charge but has since told the girl she needs to either take care of her or sell her. The girl wants 600 for her.
No I am not looking to buy another horse am quite happy with my 2.
But she is lonely back there...

dizzy · #6 03/01/14, 10:46 AM

Had one of the other boarder's hubby come and grab me one day because one of the horses got out and was around the corner. We get to the horse, and I had never seen it B4 in my life! It had no halter on it, and had no idea where it came from. No one could get close to it, so I had someone drive me back to the barn. I got some feed and a lead rope and went back. (I couldn't find a halter)

W/the feed I was able to bribe him to come over to me, and was then able to slip the lead around his neck. By this time, the state police were there and wanted to know if it was my horse. Then they wanted to know if I had a place that I could put it. They found out where it belonged, so they asked me if I could lead it home. The horse was rude and there was no way I could have led it home w/just a lead rope around it's neck. Told them to find me a halter and I'd do it. They came back w/a halter for a mini and a bridle. Wasn't about to try to ride it. Someone else had several feet of thin rope. So, I took the rope, and was able to fashion a halter w/it. Had to give the horse a few lessons on proper leading, but managed to walk it home.

wintrrwolf · #7 03/02/14, 06:04 AM

That's what I had to do she only brought over a lead rope with no snap, she ties the rope around the horses neck. It's when Stella kept crowding her and almost knocked her 2 yr old granddaughter over that I took charge. Looped the rope over the nose and through the neck loop and started walking. I know what you mean by rude she kept crowding me I had to keep shoving her off and then do circles.
I don't know how she got out because the gate was still closed and slightly frozen to the ground little grandma couldn't move it so holding Stella by one hand and lifting and shoving with the other I managed to get it open with Stella crowding me the whole time. My two ladies never acted like that, even when Snickers gets spooky she still behaves.
I do hope that she finds a good home she is a young pretty girl...but with no papers and little training.

SFM in KY · #8 03/02/14, 07:41 AM

I've learned (after years of getting walked on/over) to keep a light lariat in the barn for situations like these. It's actually a practice lariat for kids, shorter and smaller diameter than a regular lariat, but a hard-twist nylon that has some stiffness and "bite" to it. With a loop around the neck and a half-hitch around the nose, you can instill some respect in almost any horse.

Now that I'm older and much less agile, I also like to carry a short stick with me to poke them in the shoulder or ribcage if they start trying to walk over me. Getting older is definitely not for sissies, but in self-defense you do learn some tricks to make it easier!