Santera has made some progress this week. ❤️.
From lonely and emaciated to……Loved. This video is what love can do. Hard to believe she’s the same horse I posted this morning. Remember the one that was so skinny that her skin was ripping like plastic wrap. Not only do we think she’s pretty special. “Prints” is kinda obsessed with her too.
Now who’s the Crazy Chicken Lady😂😂😂.
I bought 11 straight run, sickly, on sale chickens and 3 guinea hens that day @Ruralking. All 14 were hens and all 14 lived.
For years I’ve always went in with the sole purpose of buying the sick chicks. I’ve had several associates over the years to offer them to me (Free). I remember my mom telling one of them, “She has saved her money for this day” “If you don’t take it, we’ll just be back tomorrow”😂.
#ruralking
The other day I made a post labeled “Nothing”
In the post, I made reference to Texas Mae.
Texas Mae was a horse we discovered when we went to pick up another horse. The barn was the remnants of an old pig farm, actually still had hogs in the front of the barn, but in the back of the barn was Texas Mae.
When I saw a shadow of a horse all the way in the back of the dark and dinghy barn, I asked “What about that one?”
His reply “You don’t want that one, she’s 1/2 dead”
She had, what looked like a bite wound on her neck, that had already started to heal. This baby had stood in the back of that barn, with an open wound that had already started to scab over. The unreal pain she must have gone through, with no one that cared. She stood there with no water, no food, no……nothing.
I had to try…..
My reply “I may not need her…but she needs me”
One of the hardest decisions you’ll ever have to make is which one to save and which one you’ll always remember as the one you let down. Yes there were others there, I just took the worst 2.
(Trailer room and finances) I hate limits
(Have since contacted the lot….said they didn’t have anymore horses…)
Unfortunately that just means someone else does
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Aggressive Horses?
Aggression can come in many forms, the most common is food aggression. Generally when you feed a group of horses, you may have one or two, to pin their ears, charge, even strike out. (More towards the other horses)
Other causes can be protection, fear or even pain. A few years ago we had a mare that for no reason “known to us” just started to charge and bite. We later discovered she had a large tumor in her intestines.
This girl was given to a family for their children. The original owners never had any issues with her and feel just as baffled by her mood change, as her new family is.
Because the new family has small children, they didn’t feel comfortable with a horse that was charging each time they approached her.
This was the video from their field, then her unloading here at the farm.
We placed her in the round pen for an hour after they left, then entered the pen. It took 45 minutes to catch her safely.
We did notice she has been dealing with diarrhea recently by the matting on her tail and the stains on her legs. However Santera watched her until she had another bowel movement in the pen and it was normal.
Santera gave her fresh hay and water yesterday. We will be contacting our vet to get them on board with her as well. As soon as we get her settled in, we will work with her and look at possible causes.
Please if you have experienced this type of behavior, let us know what the cause was in your situation. First hand experience is golden.
So many times they come in with obvious problems like injuries or lack of care, (that we can fix) it’s hard to see causes of behavioral issues.
And this is how the love for chickens begins❤️. Next week we will introduce her to Chicken Math.
Side note. Yes we wash our hands afterwards, generally in the creek, but we wash them.
I do not own the rights to the music in the background,
Now them chickens, them are all mine. 😂😂😂😂
I feel like all I’ve posted the last few days are serious post or support post.
Sooooo no not serious, not even sick, basically Nester was throwing a tantrum, because…… he wanted my attention. Anytime I was working with other horses he would fall out and start making a weird snarling noise, until someone laid with him. Can we say spoiled 😂😂😂.
“Girl Power”
The guys at Feed and Farm mixed us up a 500 pound load of our “Christian Farms Mix” today and this girlie put that stuff up like it wasn’t nothing.
Mom once told me how she would unload produce trucks before forklifts. One day this girl at school twice her size started a fight, mom said she picked her up and threw her to the ground like a sack of potatoes. That’s my mom🤦🏼♀️.
Let me just say, not a lot of people want to mess with this girl here either. Santera got it going on.
We still need $260 to cover today’s load
Update $210 needed
Update $110 needed
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Thank you just doesn’t seem like enough
This video looks like just another day at the rescue but the behind the scenes
We had ordered hay a few weeks ago thinking this would be our last order for the Winter, yeah right. These big babies eat and they eat well.
Then middle Tennessee was hit with flooding followed by snow and freezing temperatures, needless to say we had to put the delivery off until conditions were better.
Last week lo and behold our gas at the house went out, our tank regulator had broke during the coldest temperatures of the year. We called the gas company, just to get one recording after another. Called another gas company, they couldn’t repair another company’s equipment (understandable). However, they could bring us a new tank if we wanted to switch to them, but would need to use a tractor to set the tank. (Tennessee winter ground, I’m pretty sure quick sand has more substance)
Unfortunately during all the wet freezing temperatures mom and dad both came down with the flu, out doing too much (Can’t tell parents nothing 🤦🏼♀️)
Santera was sweet enough to get her own tractor to allow us to have a tractor in both places at the same time. Then she got up early this morning to get the tractor delivered, go back home to get ready to take her own baby to her 10:00 Dr appointment 45 minutes away, then rush back to make sure hay was set in the fields, then placed the rest in the barn.
You see a girl on a tractor….I see a friend
I see a friend unloading the love from all of you.❤️
🤦🏼♀️1:16 of water. I know if you were effected by todays torrential downpours you are probably sick and tired of this crap, but for those that are wondering about the rescue, we are good.
Mom went out mid day to check on and feed everyone.
Santera set rolls of hay out between the morning and afternoon storms.
Unfortunately our area isn’t out of the storm just yet, it is coming a downpour as I type. We will check throughout the night for rising waters and I’ll update in the morning.
Love ya, be safe.
So fun fact (for us) Bottle babies do a lot better if they have to fight for the bottle. Each year during bottle feeding we make sure to let the dogs clean up any spilled milk. 😂😂. It’s a Win Win
Hay Day.
Thank you to everyone that helped with buying a bale or roll of hay. Please help me tell Santera “Thank you” for her hard work and care of everything while I can’t ❤️.
