[ChieflaStables]

Ok, so I have a paint gelding, he was a great barrel horse, until he went lame, and has had a $3000 put into him to save his life he isn't lame now, I can ride him lightly I ride him about once a week for about 30-45 mins at a walk but he's kinda skiddish so I have to have another horse out with him, (if I take him out at a trot sometimes he'll go lame the next day, and when he runs alot in the pasture he's start limping)... he's mainly just a pasture orniment, but I was thinking about adopting him out but with an adoption fee I was thinking about $500ish to asure a great home. What do you think?



amazing looking horse if you ask me.

[ChieflaStables]

if he was still a stud i'd keep him, but i got him cut about 6 months before he went lame... :-( he's registered as well, not that that matters though ..

[Ginger_Nell]

what causes his lameness

[Stormyheart6160]

In todays market, if you are serious about adopting him out, then I would give him away for free with a contract stating that you have the right to take him back should they not want him anymore.

Sound horses are being given away for free everyday now, so why would someone spend $500 on a lame one?

I have several rescues here that I have been trying to adopt out for quite awhile now. My highest adoption fee was $200. Nobody was adopting. So, I waived the adoption fee, but there is still a contract, and in one week, I have adopted out 3 horses!

My concern isn't so much the money, it's that they get good homes where they will be loved and treated well, and my strategy is working very well!!

[guess who]

I actually think making it free would be more likely to assure a better home. you can check the homes properly, and choose whether you are willing to send him there or not. In the contract though, write up a section stating that if you are unhappy about his care, or if they no longer want him that you can have him back
I don't think people will 'adopt' a lame horse for a fee. I mean..I bought my perfectly sound TB with no faults for about 500 dollars

[doodlebug]

I know somebody who adopts out horses and what she does is for freebut for the first two years the papers are still in her name and she has the right to come at any time without calling to check up and you have to pay feed any vet farrier shots and if after the two years if she is satisfied she signs the papers with an agreement that if for any reason you cannot keep the horse you will give it back to her.

[ChieflaStables]

Originally Posted by stormyheart6160

In todays market, if you are serious about adopting him out, then I would give him away for free with a contract stating that you have the right to take him back should they not want him anymore.

Sound horses are being given away for free everyday now, so why would someone spend $500 on a lame one?

I have several rescues here that I have been trying to adopt out for quite awhile now. My highest adoption fee was $200. Nobody was adopting. So, I waived the adoption fee, but there is still a contract, and in one week, I have adopted out 3 horses!

My concern isn't so much the money, it's that they get good homes where they will be loved and treated well, and my strategy is working very well!!

I've sold a horse before for $300 with a contract saying they would take care of her, and if she was to be sold again I would be the first to know and have first say in if i wanted to buy her back, but I end up going by their place one day and she wasn't there anymore, I found her online again, she had been traded after they starved her and beat her trying to get her into a trailer, some nice guy saw them treating her badly and stopped and asked to trade, then later had her back on the market and i found her and had to buy her back for $500 and end up selling her finally to a good home with a contract to good people for $500. but the contract doesn't mean squat to people, so it sure doesn't mean anything to me to just give him away for free with a contract, It doesn't matter if he sits here with me for 2 years before someone decided to get him for $500, I just want him to go for some fee and a contract to a great home when the right home comes around.

[ChieflaStables]

He was taken to the NC state vet school in Raleigh, NC about a year 1/2 ago and was treated for a cyst in his rear left leg, in an unusual spot, and it was the largest cyst the vet school had ever seen, they couldn't remove it because they said it would be risky b/c there would be little bone left and that bone would probobly break when he went to stand up after the surgury, so they had a few other solutions and they end up laying him down and injecting him, to stop the growth of the cyst, and hopefully keep him from going lame again, thankfully he stands in the pasture and isn't lame, but like I said he occasionaly goes lame, I took him out on a trail ride about a month ago, across a creek through the woods,ect and was out for about an hour, and he never went lame, but being when i see him run real hard in the pasture, and he starts favoring that leg, it worries me, I keep wanting to take him back to the vet school, to get it x-rayed to see whats going on in there, but have to wait until we have the money being the first time we went there it was over $3000 like i mentioned, not including the fee for keeping him there for almost a week.

[ChieflaStables]

the vets did mention that maybe over time he might be rideable again, and they told me it would be good to ride him, to start him over like a new colt, start at a walk for 15 mins a day then go to 30 mins and then eventually start trotting and so forth, and they said that if he didn't go lame once i did that, that i could do what ever i wanted with him, but in the beginning i didnt ride him at all, then for several months only at a walk, then my vet said start trotting him! so i did, but he went lame the next day, i havnt trotted on him in a long time though, so i really want to get him back to the vet school so i can be sure he is ok to be ridden still.