Thursday, April 9, 2009

Mustang Hy's Caramel Candy




She is beautiful and smart. These pictures are of I first saw her at the Oddessa Adoption in 2008. When Candy came to me she had been adopted for 2 years. Candy was not titled because the person that adopted her turned her right out into a large feild to eat grass and left her there. She was not handled and her feet got long and no one would sign her off to get her title from the BLM. At 8 years old she came to me. I was going to try and gentle her more and bring her to the next adoption. Candy never left, my mom adopted her for $25.00. I have continued to work with her gaining her trust and that has not been a easy feat. Candy went from leaning away as I touched her face till she almost fell over and would have to move to get her feet back under her to being able to throw hay over her head and hand feeding her grain while petting her head. Well today got very interesting. All we wanted to do was go riding. Ya right!!!!!


Today Candy got out. Yep OUT! She was in a hay field about 100 acres or more, NO fence on the road side just big white irigation pipe. My best friend Debby and her sister Sandy ( on crutches) my sister Melissa and my self. Oh and for a moment my dad. Candy proves to be a very smart horse. She kept us right where she wanted us most of the time. I had her back in the corral, using grain she would follow me right to the corral, smell the ground where the line would be if the panels were closed, and turn and go the other way. She did not want to go in. We finally got her to run down the fence line to the owner of the hay fields house, and got her in a large fenced area. We then had to totally dismantle my panel corral and load them on a trailer and go to the neighbors and build a corral to get Candy in so I can get a halter on her and in the horse trailer. We got her in a small area and I got the halter on her. Reloaded the panels back on the little trailer, Candy in the horse trailer, the small pen of panels loaded, and back up to my mom and dads to load the other horse Buck and the rest of the panels, drive to Debby's unload the panels and build a corral with them, and then unload the horses. This all took about 7 to 8 hours. We are all exhausted but the horses are cought, moved, and haltered. 3 for us and 0 for the
horses.

1 comment:

Andrea -Mustang Saga said...

I didn't know you took her home! She's a beautiful horse, I really liked her when I saw her at the adoption.

Sounds like an exciting day! Glad it all ended well.