Saturday, November 9th marked the first time Double K Ranch had consigned a few of our good ranch geldings to the TV horse sale put on by Superior Livestock Services. This was a pretty novel step, and a fairly exciting one, to think that folks all over the country could sit in their homes and watch our horses sell on RFDTV. We were all looking forward to it... (it turned out to be a very good thing that Abi didn't have to lift a finger selling the horses that day... she wasn't up for it at all!)
Of course, with Abi's accident on the Wednesday right before; and her subsequent days in the "heavy convalescing" stage... the horse auction on Saturday was sort of robbed of it's shine by the whole family fussing over our (mumbling-ly uncommunicative) youngest sister.
But we still wanted to see our horses "debut TV appearance".
We don't keep up with a TV here at the house, but we had arranged with our neighbors to the south (retired, and not the same from Ab's teeth ordeal) to watch it with them on their set.
(A very nice set it is, too!)
We had planned to ride down, (and I was looking forward to accompanying Abi in the training cart with her blue roan pony she's been harness training...)
But since she was in pretty sad shape, that was all out the window.
Nevertheless, we settled in around the neighbors' living room and watched Abi and Anne, with their horses, in their first TV appearances.
If anyone asks them now if they've been on television, they can both say "Yes."
(Believe it or not, that was a question we were asked earlier.)
The phone was ringing and ringing the whole way through, and I can't believe how nervous I felt, even though it was completely removed from the usual hustle and bustle a sale is usually tied to.
In the end our geldings topped the sale; with WA Apache Como going to a lady in Kansas for slightly over 10k.
Leo came in at a very respectable 5900, headed out to Virginia.
And Flynn brought a easily predicted 4500; going to a fellow in Kansas.
After being quiet keyed up with all the events, it was a relief to have it all said and done, and Anne was on the phone with buyers and bidders alike, doing after sale wrap-up.
We would like to congratulate the winning buyers of these three nice geldings... and also say a big thank-you to everyone who bid on our horses.
We appreciate your continued confidence in our offerings, and hope to see you around the ranch for something a little later, perhaps!
And thanks also to Superior Livestock Auctions, for having us!
Double K Ranch Horses; from old-style working ranch where "horses are more than a ride." Greenfield, Missouri
Monday, November 25, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Abi vs. Heifer: She takes it in the teeth. Literally.
Life in the "hinter lands" can sometimes be startlingly swift with it's lessons... and when you work with big critters the possibility for injury is always lurking.
Well, last Wednesday Abi tried to stop a cow with her face... and got her front teeth forcibly re-arranged...
Some of the family were helping the neighbors work cattle, towards the very end a two year old heifer barreled through Abi's attempt to block the runway... poor kid came out of it with a serious hole in her "smile"; the 2 fronts and one on the left were smashed pretty bad. The teeth looked like they had disappeared, but actually were pushed up into her gum pretty far.
It looked really, really ugly, blood all over, and some significant swelling going on by the time she got home with the Mrs. neighbor.
She was a trooper through it all, and actually said "It doethen't hurt muth!" while we packed it in ice and then went straight up to the "big city".
Thankfully we've got access to a great doc and his team, who got her fixed as well as possible right away. They got the teeth back down mostly into place, and set a "cast" on them. Two are broken somewhat, (I can't see them with the cast on, but they looked like less than half is missing.) Those two will need reworked at some point, (if they all heal back in at the roots as hoped, those poor things were pretty disturbed!)
Spent a good chunk of the day in town with that, but Abi kept saying she had very little pain, so that was a blessing!
Got her home that evening and she was on meds and ice packs for a few days there; will probably have to have one or two teeth rebuilt a little... but it could have been a lot worse! (So I get to do all her chores for a while! )
We're so thankful to have such a great oral surgeon here... The doc and his team got her right in as soon as we got to N.P. and had her shaped up first priority. What a blessing to have great people to work with during emergencies like this!
The moral of this story is, as always: bovine creatures are amazingly powerful, and should never be underestimated!
Thanks for your prayers everybody, we appreciate them! And yes, she is drinking healing herb teas and doing everything possible to speed recovery in that way. I have been passing on everyone's responses and encouragements to her, and she really appreciated everyone thinking of her!
She went back in on Monday for post-op, and they said it looked good so far.
So time will tell!
Again, we appreciate all the prayers offered by everyone... and with the Lord's blessing, I am confidant this will turn out well. She is a great kid, and a good-healer; so we'll go forward from here!
Contrary to "internet requirements", we didn't take a picture... that is the sort of thing Mom doesn't want to see twice. Once was too one too many!
Well, last Wednesday Abi tried to stop a cow with her face... and got her front teeth forcibly re-arranged...
Some of the family were helping the neighbors work cattle, towards the very end a two year old heifer barreled through Abi's attempt to block the runway... poor kid came out of it with a serious hole in her "smile"; the 2 fronts and one on the left were smashed pretty bad. The teeth looked like they had disappeared, but actually were pushed up into her gum pretty far.
It looked really, really ugly, blood all over, and some significant swelling going on by the time she got home with the Mrs. neighbor.
She was a trooper through it all, and actually said "It doethen't hurt muth!" while we packed it in ice and then went straight up to the "big city".
Thankfully we've got access to a great doc and his team, who got her fixed as well as possible right away. They got the teeth back down mostly into place, and set a "cast" on them. Two are broken somewhat, (I can't see them with the cast on, but they looked like less than half is missing.) Those two will need reworked at some point, (if they all heal back in at the roots as hoped, those poor things were pretty disturbed!)
Spent a good chunk of the day in town with that, but Abi kept saying she had very little pain, so that was a blessing!
Got her home that evening and she was on meds and ice packs for a few days there; will probably have to have one or two teeth rebuilt a little... but it could have been a lot worse! (So I get to do all her chores for a while! )
We're so thankful to have such a great oral surgeon here... The doc and his team got her right in as soon as we got to N.P. and had her shaped up first priority. What a blessing to have great people to work with during emergencies like this!
The moral of this story is, as always: bovine creatures are amazingly powerful, and should never be underestimated!
Thanks for your prayers everybody, we appreciate them! And yes, she is drinking healing herb teas and doing everything possible to speed recovery in that way. I have been passing on everyone's responses and encouragements to her, and she really appreciated everyone thinking of her!
She went back in on Monday for post-op, and they said it looked good so far.
So time will tell!
Again, we appreciate all the prayers offered by everyone... and with the Lord's blessing, I am confidant this will turn out well. She is a great kid, and a good-healer; so we'll go forward from here!
Contrary to "internet requirements", we didn't take a picture... that is the sort of thing Mom doesn't want to see twice. Once was too one too many!
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