Phishy25
Fish Crazy
Thought I would introduce you to my favourite girls!
Rosie is a 16.1hh 11yr old Dutch Draught mare. She was born in Holland. Somehow, unbeknown to me she ended up at a meat market and was purchased by a dealer as a "job lot" with 9 other horses!
This is what she looked like when I went to view! Check out her hooves
(Man in pic is my dad, so please no abuse) She was riddled with lice, worms, ring worm, very under weight, sores to her mouth, hooves extremely overgrown and had actually formed "toes". She was a proper mess, but had the sweetest kindest temperment I had ever seen. I came away feeling very sorry for her, but couldn't justify giving the dealer nearly £2600!!! I was told her meat value was only £900! I tried for a week to forget about her and knew that it was a lot of money to part with only for the poor thing to pine away from something I couldn't see. She had had a vet check to get her in the country so I felt a bit better she didn't have anything nasty. Just had been very neglected. However, a week later without a thought I drove 400 miles and offered the dealer £1500 to take her there and then. Best desicion I have ever made, even if it was costly!!!
After only a month of trying to get Rosie back to health I noticed she was bleeding from behind. Her stomach felt swollen and even though she had been wormed she had an appetite of a....well....HORSE
I had no history on her, but I had to rule everything out. While waiting for the vet, a friend offered me a "Weefoal" pregnancy test she used on her miniture horses. She said at least I could rule that out, but they only worked on horses at least 4 months pregnant. It went positive in seconds!!! I asked the vet to scan her, but she told me I was wasting my money as that "coat rack" couldn't possibly be in foal! I showed her the test and she just laughed! (Yes I have a new vet now!) Anyway I managed to get her to do it...eventually and to her amazement a little horse appeared on the screen!
Fast forward to 26th July 2009 and at 7.00am I was greated to this.....
I named her Summer-Rose, a beautiful filly
Unfortuantely she didn't stay this small...but still just as cute. Now 18 months old and 15hh!!!
I'm hoping to drive them both and do a few weddings. At the moment they are just incredibly spoilt and expensive pets
Rosie is a 16.1hh 11yr old Dutch Draught mare. She was born in Holland. Somehow, unbeknown to me she ended up at a meat market and was purchased by a dealer as a "job lot" with 9 other horses!
This is what she looked like when I went to view! Check out her hooves
(Man in pic is my dad, so please no abuse) She was riddled with lice, worms, ring worm, very under weight, sores to her mouth, hooves extremely overgrown and had actually formed "toes". She was a proper mess, but had the sweetest kindest temperment I had ever seen. I came away feeling very sorry for her, but couldn't justify giving the dealer nearly £2600!!! I was told her meat value was only £900! I tried for a week to forget about her and knew that it was a lot of money to part with only for the poor thing to pine away from something I couldn't see. She had had a vet check to get her in the country so I felt a bit better she didn't have anything nasty. Just had been very neglected. However, a week later without a thought I drove 400 miles and offered the dealer £1500 to take her there and then. Best desicion I have ever made, even if it was costly!!!After only a month of trying to get Rosie back to health I noticed she was bleeding from behind. Her stomach felt swollen and even though she had been wormed she had an appetite of a....well....HORSE
I had no history on her, but I had to rule everything out. While waiting for the vet, a friend offered me a "Weefoal" pregnancy test she used on her miniture horses. She said at least I could rule that out, but they only worked on horses at least 4 months pregnant. It went positive in seconds!!! I asked the vet to scan her, but she told me I was wasting my money as that "coat rack" couldn't possibly be in foal! I showed her the test and she just laughed! (Yes I have a new vet now!) Anyway I managed to get her to do it...eventually and to her amazement a little horse appeared on the screen!Fast forward to 26th July 2009 and at 7.00am I was greated to this.....
I named her Summer-Rose, a beautiful filly
Unfortuantely she didn't stay this small...but still just as cute. Now 18 months old and 15hh!!!
I'm hoping to drive them both and do a few weddings. At the moment they are just incredibly spoilt and expensive pets
