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Excellent! Thanks Tayja

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Everyone's heart broke when we saw Starbucks on the Gibbons farm. Starbucks stayed in Alberta for recovery with the Wild Rose Equine Rescue Society and made a full recovery.



Apollo also arrived from Gibbons with a smaller hernia which was operated on. He had a mysterious possible neurological problem and passed away in his adopted home a little over a year later. RIP Apollo, we miss you little one

 

Mercedes, older feral mare, arrived very starved and in foal. She was adopted by her foster care home on the island and gave birth to a beautiful little filly named Marika.





Ally, weanling, was handled as soon as she arrived off the truck. The vet was summoned immediately for Ally and Tinkerbell. Ally had a joint pucture wound that was festering with infection. She was given shots of penicillen and the wound tended to night and day. She made a full recovery and is living happily in her adopted home today with 3 other Gibbons herd members.











Echo from Gibbons. Echo, a scruffy weanling arrived off the first truck as an orphan. She was adopted by a wonderful couple who adopted her. She is three years old and going for training this spring.

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Paint mare-Alysan Longmore-Happy Pet Lodge
red roan yearling-Alysan Longmore
Tri-paint mare(N filly adopted by Kelly and Baron-Cedar)
Injured Buckskin destined for slaughter (in foster care with Theresa-Cedar)
Clydex yearling, blood bay, lightening bolt stripe marking(Mel? working on it..lol)
2 grey arabs(adopted to Tessa Fry of Metchosin)
2 Injured foals(Jeanette Steves Port Alberni, Jackie-Metchosin)
1 Black draft mare and yearling(Cheryl & Steve-Nanoose)
Dark Bay draft(foster care)
Black drafty mare with white star (foster care)
Ghost Mare (grey Paint)
Older Mare.She is recovering from an abcess in the left hoof..congrats Christine!..she is a beauty, looks very Morgan..loves attention..Nicolas will be thrilled..
Black Mare with cresent star adopted by Brenda and Sarah of Cedar.
Porsha, mustang from Sushwap Mountains?? Adopted by Tammy in Errington
Wigwam-Whisper Farm-Qualicum Beach
I am probably forgetting quite a few here and will put together a full list at a later date..other than the horses listed there are about 25+ horses still up for adoption..that includes the abandoned horses rescued from Vancouver Island. 

Mare 16 - aka Wigwam is now with me at Whisper Farm, Qualicum Beach.   Her name is now Montana.

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Brown colt, yearling. Was fostered up Island then returned. Was again adopted with a family who also took a lovely Belgianx yearling when he jumped into the trailer with her!



Angel. 2 yrs old. Arrived as a very skittish supposedly halter broke mare. She was attacked by a cougar in her adopted home and was relocated for treatment. As her attack was in the hind she was even more difficult to handle due to psychological issues. She was sent for handling by a coach/trainer and vet. Then was started under saddle and is a much quiter and completely sound horse today.

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Third trailer arriving. The herd enjoyed a run through the sprinkler!


http://s115.photobucket.com/albums/n307/tayja2/Truck%203/?action=view&current=Truck3027.jpg

Link to third trailer Gibbons

Link to Gibbons

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2005438&l=8394a&id=1181207798

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I don't think those horses moved from those rounds for a year, I remember having to order 12 rounds every three days..like feeding a herd of elephants..lol..but can you blame them, they just came off the trailer and went FOOD!



This is Abby from Gibbons. There is another photo with me trying to teach her to lead to load on the trailer in my profile pics. She was adopted and was under saddle then resold a month or so ago by the owner. There were three tri paints out of the herd, Wigwam, Abby and a little foal named Destiny, actually Destiny was a black and white, pinto and Ghost was an unusual grey and white. In this photo Olivia, O filly (in behind Abby), yearling was adopted by Doris Kangas, Dark horse equine Taxi several months and continues to receive training.

Third trailer load of the Gibbons herd following off loading.

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Ghost

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Thats Lal, poor Lal had a 4 finger hernia and coliced. He looks so healthy running in this album but the vet said he needed a big operation, then passed away before he could get it..we miss him alot, He was Indies colt.




Indie having a roll, the herd in behind



Lazer now called Macaroni

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Bump..IERRS History..