A little history of Vegas 4

Vegas was eating the grasses and still in his halter with his groom that brought him here. She began to talk about his history as she knew it to be.

She expressed love for him and was happy and sad to leave him behind.

It seems he was bought from an online catalogue source for a pretty high price of $10,000 as a two year old. He arrived with signs of founder she said.

He was shod in heart bar shoes like this when he was a tender TWO years old. :-0



This type of shoe is said to increase frog pressure to stimulate growth. (rolling eyes)

Looks to me like it stops things from moving much at all. Looks real comfortable to walk on with immature young feet. The bones in his foot are bound to stop growing in width with a shoe like this.
Problem with that is...the ones above do keep growing in width.

I felt so sad for him.

He just got his shoes off the front feet 2 months ago...and the hinds off 4 months ago.

He was also gelded 5 months ago.

After hearing his entire story, I decided to really do a great documentary and include the vet. I'll get preliminary x rays of both fronts to document boney changes as well.

We took Vegas to the shelter to clean his feet and take pictures and video all around...then we let him out in a large paddock for the night and gave him his first all you can eat buffet of grass hays, some fresh water as well as grazing grass that was in the paddock.

My working student ducked under the fence to take some hay into his paddock. I said...uh don't go in there...and before I got all the words out...it happened.
Veggie attack! He pinned his ears and Ran with vengance towards her and the hay. This sign of food aggression is common in a stabled horse. They have felt hunger many times and are not used to having enough food and want to fight for it when it comes out. I suspect this behavior will decrease over the coming days and weeks. He'll come to understand there is abundance of hays and he'll also be detoxing his system from the meals he used to receive.
In the meantime...he'll eat together across the fence from the others.

My 6 year old daughter was wanting me to take his halter off. She thought that would make him feel better. :)

I told her that tomorrow...after his first night in his new place he would get it off.
I did exchange his nylon halter for a leather one with 'fuzzies' on it. Leather breaks if need be.

He looks up from eating and acts like a stallion calling and showing to the others. The 'boys' look back at him as if to say...'what's wrong with you'? They'll soon teach him how to relax and feel at peace.