Last Friday, Kenny traded that &*%$#^&* fence-jumping bull we had for two weanling Quarter Horse fillies! YEE-HAW! The bull in question had been touring the countryside and we got tired of chasing him. When he went to the west, it was through town, so Kenny just led the milk cow behind the golf cart to get him. But the humor in that wore off by the third trip and the seventeenth "Got milk?" joke from the neighbors. When he went east, we'd have to saddle up the horses and go brush hogging for him across three people's property ~ not fun looking for gates to get from one property to the next. He never went south and to the north is a public county road. *shudder at the thought of what could happen then*
So I think this is a GREAT trade! 700 pounds of horses will be lots easier to keep in than 1400 pounds of bull! Not to mention cheaper to feed through the winter, cuter and they just plain smell better.
We let them calm down for a couple days after we got them, then Sunday I started working with them (one is injured so I HAD to get my hands on them soon). I got halters on both of them in about an hour! Despite them never having been handled before. YAY, CALM temperaments! I like that.
The injured one (the little bay) is the calmer one, thank goodness ~ lets me wash out her injury, apply ointment and Would Kote and even give her a shot of penicillin (though she wasn't too keen on the second shot the next day) with little trouble. I've even got her started leading a bit.
The little gray dun is more skittish. I'll just have to spend more time down there showing her that I'm not gonna' eat her and she'll be okay. I'm SO excited!
They're purebred, but don't have papers right now. Long story short ~ the guy who traded them to us put three weanling colts in the pasture with some of his fillies and atleast one of them got to be stud colt age a little early. He'd already sold the colts by the time he realized what had happened and the vet said since they were that far along it would be harder on the fillies to give them the shot to abort than it would for them to have the babies, so he let them have them. And now I have a bit of sleuthing to do to get their papers. I'll need to contact AQHA to see which direction to go in first (if it's even possible to get papers through them in this case), then track down all three sires-in-question and have DNA tests done (paternity tests! Should I call Maury? ;). I know I can get papers on them through AHQHR, but I'd really like to get full AQHA if I can. I know, I know, you can't ride the papers, but you can darn sure sell 'em!
But even without papers, I'm tickled plum pink with this trade!
