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Raising quality quarter horses with color and conformation. Bloodlines include High Brow Hickory, Ja
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Raising quality cow-horses with conformation, color and disposition. I first saw High Brow Ladd as a two year old at a horse sale at BLS and I told my dad that if he bought him for me that I would stay home and train horses and quit college. Well, dad didn’t buy him and I didn’t quit college. However, four years later, I got another opportunity to buy High Brow Ladd and I jumped at it. It wasn’t easy. I had to get a loan, I had to put a business plan together and I put up all of my savings. But in the end, I got him. High Brow Ladd (Hickory)was mine. And I would do it all again.
In 2014, I thought I was going to loose Hickory. He was kicked in the left front foot and it broke on of the bones in his foot. I was advised by one of my vets to put him down. I was heartbroken. My other vet said she could try to cast it. So we gave it a shot. The next couple of weeks were touch and go. There was alot of swelling of the broken leg and it started to develop a ulcer from the cast. And we were worried about break down on the other front foot too. I was going out to the vets office three to four times a day to try to ice the broken foot to try to decrease the swelling. Hickory started to become depressed. (I never thought I would see a horse depressed, but I did). My vet advised to take him home and see what happens. So we made a corral ready for him complete with a covered three sided shelter so his cast wouldn’t get wet. We brought him home and got ready for the worst. But Hickory perked up. He favored his foot. He layed down. He wasn’t the best about his dressing and bandage changes and he had to get a cribbing collar so he wouldn’t rip at his wrappings. But he regained his s***k. Eventually the x-rays showed the fractures healing. We increased the size of his corral and his cast came off.
In 2015, Hickory’s x-rays showed that the fractures were completely healed. Hickory still walks with limp and always will as the bones fused much like ring bone. He has a scar from the cast ulcer too. He will not be sound to ride. But he is sound to breed. He passes his great conformation, muscle and intelligence on to his offspring. His offspring are as cowy as he was. He still watches a cow even if they are 1/2 a mile away.
I know that many would have put their horse down in this situtation and I understand. But I just couldn’t without trying. And I’m so glad that I did.
