We had our herd stolen in 2016 and currently perusing the return of our herd. Troy, Dunnie, and Sookie are home. Avatar, 2Socks,Willow, and the Twins Monkey and Whiskey are still missing. Also our goat Rikki was taken. If you have any information on the whereabouts of our horses, please call Midge 928-249-0247.
Marvin Found a skittish unmarked horse wondering through the desert, weak and malnourished. It took time but we were able to catch him, have the vet check him and help with some health concerns, named him Marvin. The photos above are before and after photos. 30 days apart. He is eating and doing well.
Troy (and his 17 year old retired Arabian show mare mom) came from Scottsdale AZ. and was found at a slaughter auction. We tracked down witnesses to get his papers (his sire was a $2000 breeding fee and his half-sisters sold private sale, at $4000), got DNA plucked from his mom’s and his mane hair follicles to get his registration (AHA papers). He went to auction simply because he was a colt! After trip, he was stitched up (impaled on something). Now loves the ladies. Donations to our rescue for his stud fee would help buy hay. By standing him to outside grade mares, gets you a registerable half Arabian foal.
Avatar a California BLM Mustang (looks and moves like a standard bred), fell backwards on something and made a fist size chunk near his anus, only a scar today. Also went through fencing probably chased by feral dog or coyote. For three months he didn’t put weight on his rear leg where a three foot long jagged laceration healed to a knot on cannon bone. He possibly has “Herda” where even a web halter wears his hide off and a “Parrot Mouth” so he will need dental work to help keep weight on, as he ages. I must soak steamy fourth cutting alfalfa hay as his tongue and pallet were very swollen, was possibly bitten by a scorpion or ants in the hay. He is the only horse I could trust to trim his hoofs or clean his sheath all without a halter on. Extreme trust!
“Piggy Sue” or Two Socks (Pinto Pony Nevada BLM Mustang) was found hanging upside down (who knows how long) she got her hind leg caught traverse in top rail of corral panel and only got a knot on her cannon bone. Later did a cartwheel going through four strand barbless wire. So, occasionally hind patella goes out. This “9 life cat” pony also got bit by a rattler and we had to cut the halter off her face (swelling went down the next day, breathing better with veterinarian medications). She must have had BLM implant because she never came in heat (she’s a real tease now). And her alfalfa intake must be monitored, as she is photosensitive and tears her skin with her teeth.
Full Moon Monkey and Cherokee Whiskey We call them “The Twins” because they move in tandem harmony even though they are not brothers. Monkey was raised on a Nevada BLM facility. He turned out wormy, who colic’s easily or has kidney stones. Corrective trims help his club foot. He is the most fearless gelding and very comical. Monkey came in with Whiskey, who is now a 16 hand Chestnut whose facial plates were raised off his face from a horrible unknown accident. A roach developed in his spine area, he has nasty bone growths on both forearms and a weird jagged lightning-bolt hair pattern from torn skin. Now he can run with his buddies on turnout and gives big horse kisses. He is a great listener and very grateful for his second chance in life.
Willow Bey is a pretty dun mare. She flipped herself full speed into fencing resulting in crushed withers. She is how we learned about Mexican Rodeos and horse tripping which is debilitating for a rigid spine species. Horse tripping was outlawed in Hollywood movies as animal abuse (and last year in Clark County, Las Vegas, NV.) Mustangs are near and dear to me. Wild Horse Annie got legislation preventing harvesting mestenos for slaughters, yet if they don’t make adoption, three sites, off they go (see #NV41) where the global media raised funds to buy, save and foster out 41 Nevada BLM Mustang’s sent through Reno Auction, they saved from knackers-meat buyers (dead, diseased, dying, disabled, horses, cows, pigs are bought by the pet food industry). We didn’t know Willow was pregnant till Sookie popped out. Sookie is a beautiful silver buckskin brat (she has moments when she is sweet but sometimes can be a brat). She needs hoof work (possible coronet damage by mom, contracting hoofs can be corrected by taking the heels down).
Dun Deal “Dunnie” is a gorgeous Red Dun Triple Registered American Indian Horse, IBHA and as half Arabian. Mom delivered him in an empty water trough. He has camel withers (higher than then the rear croup) and ambles at a walk. His foals would be “of color” for IBHA. On other than a buckskin mare 50 percent would be buckskin a quarter of his foals would be bay and a quarter would be palomino. Dunnie has a very pleasing temperament for a stud.
Over the past 9 years also 2 goats came in (Boer Cross). Maria Elena was a three day old doeling on the bottle. Her humans just had a fire and all were living in a small storage shed. Gazelle was running wild (we caught her in a fishnet at a month old suffered from a dog pack attack and survived). Rest in Peace Rozalyn, she taught us about the pain of C.A.E. Positive (arthritis) and C.L. (abscesses). She died with a dead twin in her, which an infection killed her and her sibling, one month prior to her due date. We did not take these girls in, for the meat but to live out their lives comfortably as companions for the horses and us. They love watermelon as a treat and mosey in the sunrise and sunset on our 5 acre parcel.
We do not harp on their handicaps (they don’t) and they seem happy to return the favor. We have no-cost equine day programs in the works for military families, PTSD Veterans, troubled kids and other kids that can’t have a horse (but are horse crazy too).
Jack ~ we had Jack 8 years. He passed at the age of 22 years old.
17 H.OTTB (off track thoroughbred) our poster child for throw away industries (TB, Arabians and Greyhounds); he went down in a claiming race, owners walked away from him. Some gal believed in him, he was down 10 months and still has fetlock scabs (also hindgut ulcers issues, hoof wall problems and polysaccharide myelopathy, where the hind muscling can cave in). A local trainer called us and we placed Jack but he did not get enough calories so we took him back. Second adoptee potential we discovered was going to take him straight to a meat auction so we cancelled the adoption and here he stays. He has happy smiles over apples with a camel face. He can keep up with our Mustangs on turnouts. Race horses, Greyhounds, Arabians, puppy millers, Canadian farms (having pregnant mares’ hormones, from their urine makes hormone supplements for women) and they take the foal after 11 month gestation right to slaughterhouses.