Buying from Bowie “kill pen”?

[luvmyhackney]

Started a post here with pics of the saddlebred.

New Bowie Horse Arrival - 4 y/o Saddlebred Gelding

I’ll update the title once we’ve chosen a name. I snapped some pictures this afternoon, and thankfully, he looks better in pictures than in person. He unloaded at 0 dark 30 this morning. Once it was light out, you could see how sunken in and thin he is. He has a bunch of smaller abrasions on his body, and his feet are going to give my farrier a run for their money. Thankfully, he loads and unloads like a pro, leads kinda, and is eating and drinking very well. He is trying so hard to be good an…

[luvmyhackney]

Someone needs to grab this baby. He is flashy and precious.

5298 Well Built Saddlebred Yearling Colt - Bowie Livestock

[bingbingbing]

Wow! He is in good shape, good brained and good looking!

[luvmyhackney]

Alright who is up to buy the next Bowie glow up?

This guy is fancy. I have my hands full already.

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[Heinz_57]

I find it odd that they call him a “crossbred”, since that is usually used (in this region) to refer to draft crosses (crossed with whatever, anything will do).

He’s actually 75% DHH and registered with the ADHHA (which I looked up throuh the sire, before discovering someone had linked it in the comments!). All his DHH lines are KWPN, and with a dash of Saddlebred he’s sure to be a nice boy. And so young still! The price is very reasonable, too.

There are pix of the sire online from a sale a few years ago if anyone should be interested.

My inn is full but I will loudly cheer on anyone that wants to take this boy home

[MNick]

Once sweet boy makes his trip to New Mexico, we might be able to help with quarantine again BUT the person has to match Kinda Kookys energy who is so ridiculously far from Kooky! Until then this Inn is closed as well. Firm believer in quality care vs fill um up. Cheering someone on and willing to look for resources in the area. Careful choosing a quarantine center one of the gals who has high reviews transferred a mom and baby for me… she had to pull over to let her car cool down to add more oil and arrived with a piece of plywood covering a hole in the floor of the trailer! She also quarantines which is terrifying Bowie DOES have big green pastures, I did see the higher priced horses grazing those pastures. I’m sure their quarantine space is better than some of the quacks out there.

[jvanrens]

What about this lovely palomino? Looks like he rides well, just needs some TLC.

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[Bluey]

Big palomino seems off both fronts, does others also see that?
His feet look in need of help, a good farrier could get him moving more comfortably?
Would be nice to see him trotting free along the fence.
He seems to ride better than many going thru there.

[jvanrens]

I just rewatched the video, I’m not seeing it, but wouldn’t mind being proven wrong at any time. His feet do seem wonky for sure. He sure does seem to ride nice, and a size I like, though smaller than my 17 hand boy. Good thing I live way too far north for him to be affordable, he looks like he’d be a nice ride.

[Inese]

Agreed, seems off in front. He does seem to wince when he turns around at either end of the alley.

[Bluey]

@Inese

Agreed, seems off in front. He does seem to wince when he turns around at either end of the alley.

And stiff legged when he trots down the aisle also.
Could be a long trailer trip made him sore, bad ground and he is tender, who knows, just needs to be checked out a bit more than it shows there?

[MNick]

After dealing with navicular I’m hypersensitive to lameness in the front. He seems off but he’s so cute otherwise!

Could be all of the reasons stated above!

[cayuse]

I see it Bluey. On the turns, turns are tight but even taking that into consideration I see something. He is absolutely gorgeous tho and if I didn’t live at the other end of the country I’d be tempted. What I’d do with him IDK. He could be shade for the minis I guess or maybe I could walk him around, I have no goals

[luvmyhackney]

Yes, he’s off on both front feet. The turns show it 100%. Still cute and with vet care might be useful for someone.

[luvmyhackney]

@Heinz_57

I find it odd that they call him a “crossbred”, since that is usually used (in this region) to refer to draft crosses (crossed with whatever, anything will do).

He’s actually 75% DHH and registered with the ADHHA

Same. Super odd and this one is going to be a fancy horse if someone will put the time in. His saddlebred lines are nice.

[Paint_Party]

He is a really pretty horse and seems BTD (broke to death) and gentle. But unfortunately he’s also sore in both front feet which, sorry to say, always makes me go straight to navicular. Yet if you look at his feet, he’s very flat and low on his heels, so who knows what some decent farrier work might do?

It always makes me sad when an otherwise nice, pretty horse ends up someplace like this, perhaps due to an unsoundness. Broken? Send him to the auction.

[jvanrens]

Thanks everyone for making me look past the beautifully broke yellow horse. Just rewatched the video a couple of time and totally understand what you’re seeing. His front feet look like a mess, and combined with being shown on that hard floor likely isn’t doing him any favours. It would be a crap shoot if a good farrier could fix him up, because he really does seem like a lovely minded horse, and I’ve always had a soft spot for a yellow one.

[cayuse]

Yes, it makes me sad too. He’s the type of horse I usually used to always end up with because I’m a softy. I’ve been the stop before the “last stop” more than once.

[Paint_Party]

@cayuse

I’ve been the stop before the “last stop” more than once.

I think quite a few of us have starred in that movie.

I once took a gamble on a big sweetheart of a teenaged, recently gelded black overo Paint that my sister and I plucked out of a feedlot. He was half-starved, had rain rot and a horrible infection where he was castrated. But I bought him anyway. In a few months he was stunning. Blue black with high white stockings and a white face. Oddly enough, he was happy to lope around a 2’6" course with flying lead changes, as if he’d been doing it for years. Imagine that.

Needless to say, I began to ask myself why such a well trained, flashy, 16+hand horse would be standing in a feedlot awaiting his fate.

Unfortunately, the story didn’t have a happy ending. Despite having excellent conformation, there was something horribly wrong with his front leg. One day I was riding him home from getting lunch at the burger joint (he would cruise around town like a champ) and he went dead lame. In xrays, my vet found weird triangles of metal near his fetlock, almost like the tips of surgical clips. I spent thousands trying to figure out the issue and get him sound but he just went downhill. I couldn’t even get him sound enough to be a backyard pet. At least he had two years of being loved and fed and doted on before I put him down.

The fact that people will knowingly dump a horse that has been an honest workmate because they can’t be bothered to Do The Right Thing will piss me off until the day I die myself.

[cayuse]

Oh that’s sad, poor guy. Where you have any idea what the metal was? Did he have scarring?