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Page 4 <strong>Oxford</strong> <strong>Hills</strong> <strong>Observer</strong> April 2013<br />
www.turnerpublishing.net<br />
Jess Small<br />
It’s been several months<br />
since I have updated everyone<br />
on Chance and<br />
her recovery after being<br />
rescued from the kill pen<br />
in September. I am very<br />
happy to report that she is<br />
a very happy, healthy, and<br />
energetic 3 year-old. Her<br />
mane was trimmed and is<br />
now growing back thick<br />
and healthy, her winter<br />
coat is being shed out leaving<br />
a new glossy beautiful<br />
coat, her hooves are healthy<br />
and the stress lines are almost<br />
all grown out, and<br />
her weight is doing excellent!<br />
She enjoyed her first<br />
Christmas Eve candy cane<br />
bran mash and survived her<br />
first Maine winter.<br />
Chance has been growing<br />
like a weed and I recently<br />
taped her at 16.1<br />
hands high. She is full of<br />
life, running, bucking, and<br />
rearing in the pasture daily.<br />
She is learning patience<br />
and I am remembering<br />
once again how three year<br />
old horses has no patience!<br />
Until my riding arena is<br />
cleared of water and snow,<br />
we have resorted to ground<br />
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Nothin’ But Small Talk…Chance’s Journey<br />
training in the yard and<br />
learning manners while<br />
being led in hand. Walks<br />
down the driveway proved<br />
to be exciting with squealing,<br />
head tossing, and rearing,<br />
then she is reminded of<br />
her manners. Lucky for me<br />
someone taught her to cross<br />
tie prior to shipping her to<br />
the kill pen auction and she<br />
enjoys her grooming sessions<br />
along with all the attention<br />
that comes with it.<br />
Although I am pretty sure<br />
that if she keeps growing I<br />
will need a step stool to be<br />
able to reach her back!<br />
This is my first experience<br />
with a owning a<br />
Thoroughbred and dealing<br />
with their weight. She still<br />
is slightly ribby but she is<br />
getting her grain, beet pulp,<br />
and endless hay. I have<br />
never known a once emaciated<br />
horse to be picky about<br />
hay, but she is, and is very<br />
wasteful. She is growing<br />
like crazy so I am taking<br />
that into consideration as<br />
well. Dental work, chiropractic<br />
work, and spring<br />
worming are on the agenda<br />
for April and I am sure will<br />
make a difference as well.<br />
Chance continues to play<br />
with my two year old Australian<br />
Shepherd, Beckett.<br />
He barks and nips at her<br />
nose until she chases him.<br />
She has never once tried to<br />
bite or kick him, although<br />
he’s had to make a few<br />
quick exits under the fence<br />
for fear of being run over!<br />
It is quite the scene as they<br />
both thoroughly enjoy running<br />
around the pasture like<br />
crazy animals with each<br />
other. My hopes are to turn<br />
my 7 year old mare, Cocoa,<br />
out with her in the near future<br />
so she can enjoy some<br />
play time and interaction<br />
with another horse. I wanted<br />
to wait until she was at<br />
a good weight before pasturing<br />
her with a friend, for<br />
fear they would eat all her<br />
food.<br />
Spring and summer plans<br />
for Chance are to continue<br />
teaching her the groundwork<br />
that was left out in<br />
her prior life and then moving<br />
to under saddle training<br />
sessions. It is hard to think<br />
about, but if the right person<br />
and the perfect home came<br />
along, I would re home her.<br />
Chance is a young, well<br />
built, very nice moving<br />
horse with unlimited potential<br />
and deserves someone’s<br />
devoted attention. She has<br />
recovered fully from her<br />
near death experience and<br />
is on her way to being a<br />
super star…a definite diamond<br />
in the rough. I feel<br />
blessed to have been able to<br />
save her and bring her back<br />
to health. Now it’s on to the<br />
next chapter in her young<br />
life! n A Second Chance, a 3 year old rescued Thoroughbred, is thriving 7 months after being<br />
pulled from a kill pen that was headed to slaughter. A sure diamond in a rough, Chance<br />
is a super star in the making!<br />
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