From Broken to Beautiful: The Miraculous Recovery of a Neglected Horse

now I need to door [Music] up he's choosing violence today the girl started crying and then the girl that was there to support her started crying o you ready to see Dr [Music] Jim [Music] [Music] he [Music] [Music] so Nate what are we doing today weird it sounds like or can I just go what are we doing I don't know not to be rude see if we can figure out how to install this paneling yeah we'll see so the paneling will go on the outside and hopefully like the majority of the walls in here and it's just like what is it called like milk house well line of milk house panel or polywall panel utility panel yeah like plastic easy to clean yeah so it'll make it like super easy to clean things in here here since it is quarantine we don't want germs sticking in the walls um but we do want the paneling sticking to the walls we do want the paneling to stick to the walls see if we can figure that out paneling yes germs no right sorry what are you doing put the adhesive on the wall and then we'll troll it out and see if it works image let's see how this goes get there that looks nice look at us go huh look at us go yeah time will [Applause] tell guess that's all we can do till we get more one piece short so now we are going to attempt to install the door temp a t attempt number one watch it be too big there the Door's in yeah well that was not nearly as hard as I thought it would be well it's not really completely installed yet well don't you just like shim it and screw it in I think so Andre Vu huhuh Andre Vu Andreu that's French for I think you may enter Garfield has come to check on our progress perhaps to grab a bite to eat bite to eat yeah that looks good yeah [Music] cool we got a door put in now you need a door [Music] up I treat you so terribly so now we are pulling off the old Plywood And that in quarantine here and getting ready to start putting up the wall insulation there's the old door for the goats yeah long time [Music] ago still too big so that way didn't work out the best we ended up having to trim my hair off and then um had to cut it in half to get it placed in here so we're going to try something else this is why we are not Carpenters but we [Applause] [Music] try [Music] I think that way works a lot better mhm good deal turns to attack turns to attack so we're trying to move maram out and to the round pen so he can move around some he's choosing violence today miramac stop it I don't think whatever makes maram happy don't think anything makes maram happy he's just tolerant of all of nothing yeah you know you want it bud you says but I don't will we let you clip it if you just work it off that lead rope him think it's the same d anger okay all right we're going that way off we go you know how to leave how many trainers does it take to lead a mini mule this is where yeah don't do it oh no my ah we're doing all right little dude's got to move around some after his boy berries were taken he can't just be in a stall he needs exercise whatever thany calm yourself I can do that too maram Mac okay watch and learn dude go oh than here's your mini mule good job ish good jobish can have some credit no maram he behave just one oh my gosh girl there you go happy Ray is working with happy she had been getting some weight in the stirups but now Ray's putting some weight on her back seeing how she reacts she's doing well yeah she's doing better than last time trying to be as gentle as possible so I don't freak her out right good job happy we're going to try one more time and then end on a good [Music] note yay good job girlfriend good woohoo gold star today can I gu get right on today this is the second time getting on her right third third third okay I think you missed the third time okay was witness nothing exciting happened I just hung out on her back for a while and got her used to the pressure she didn't want to move forward so I didn't push her that time we did go in some circles but you got it girl she feels less tense at least that's good she doesn't really want to move but are you there you still there not just go side to side or what leans as far far as she can [Music] yeah you want to leave me down Kylie going to try leading her around on her bucks just watch out I'm no I'm expecting you to spin her in a circle and not let me die Fair Happy's First Steps Happy's First Steps happy says I can't she I'm broken good girl there you go good girl good kind of squeezing her so she gets the concept L honey you got to move your body she just has everything planted o nice save woo why oh girl on you so I appreciate you not letting her do that nice job girls stop oh my goodness you're all right honey well we were off to a good start we were that's all right lesson learned huh may be happy so sorry she's not not sorry at all so Ray's just going to sit on her and hopefully end it on a good note and we'll see what we can do next time good girl good girl good good happy all right so Doug is arriving with two new owner surrenders we've got Andy and Rainey they are both Peron Mars in their 20s and we'll get them inside oh a black one and a white one we'll get them inside and Dr Kristen will be out to take a look when she can the girl started crying and then the girl that was there to support her started crying I I got to get out of here sorry girls Mar is shaking too there lead ropes on them so okay just grab one on each side and right I'll take this one let me know when you're ready oh goodness girls back girls back girls back back girls there you go back girls come on back back back not I'll back her up watch on they step off Kylie cuz she can of jump when she you got it guys there you go they're old ladies not kids okay yeah than me there you go step step step maybe if you hand me the step there you go there you go me the May good girl there you go well hello she's here she's here all right good job ladies all right [Applause] ladies okay you guys are going to be right next to each other good you're okay honey up all right you ladies go ahead and settle in so we are on our way to pick up two owner surrenders they are both mules um girls rose bud and Thelma uh we just stopped in kadat to get gas and every single gas station is shut down so we are keeping our fingers crossed that the next town will have gas or we will be stuck okay so we just stopped at the next town for gas and there's even signs that say pumps open but nothing's open and we are definitely getting low on gas at this point point so there are cars pouring into this gas station in hopes that they can get gas and this one is broken as well I think a lot of people are about to be on E on the side of the road truck okay so we finally found a gas station where at least the pumps are open so thank goodness for this but that was terrifying for a minute yay our turn so we are here to get thma and Rose Bud they're in the barn over here so we'll grab them and get them loaded hello who's who uh this is Salma okay yeah and then that one's Rose Bud okay and you're Rose Bud hi it is snowing and it is cold all right ladies all right Rose Bud good girl check it out good job how about you thma she says I'll go right on in good girl Thelma so we are back at the shelter we're going to get Thelma and Rose butt off the trailer and into some stalls for the night honey you're not stuck there you go stop careful step again there you go going to get Rose butt out okay she's turning around hey girl here we go you're like OB all right ladies you going to say [Applause] something hi Rose Bud you have actual eyebrows yes look at that Halo arrived here on April 29th as an owner surrender we did not know at the time that she was part of an ongoing investigation we were quickly contacted by the humane officer in charge of the investigation and she asked us to not share Halo's whereabouts or share anything about her on social media or our website or anything um Hala needed a lot of work her feet were in terrible condition the girl told us that her feet were a work in progress um and so yeah without being a let anyone know she was here we were not able to ask for any help with her cares it has been several months of working on those feet with without knowing what the outcome was going to be for her and we are just happy now to be able to share her story with you and you'll see what the outcome is how long have you had her um we've only had her through weeks up next here we've got Miss Halo hi honey you ready to see Dr [Music] Jim and x-ray that you can peek at oh okay it's rather old their feet don't look like they do now she's a part of a Humane investigation oh great ready come out wow how long has it been since your fever last trimmed holy crap the X-ray image that we have they look decent and obviously obviously not since last July wow really drop back on your heel on this one she's kind of wearing slippers yeah right now oh what ises she know she looks like it yeah tall enough to be a thorough bread I'm surprised those ligaments aren't sore just by the way you're walking on your heels like that here can you pick your foot up come on that are feet are work in progress when when they starting I don't think they look like they've been dmed for a while look at them things look at the overgrowth there jeez look at those heel oh yeah the heels are all collaps on her BS they're all collapsed flat yeah Paul you got work out out on this one her ligaments aren't sore see I'm pinching right on her dispensary ligament right now she doesn't she doesn't feel it doesn't hurt how do her knees seem oh look at this that's un B arthritis too boy she's really good over here on this one anyway this one is the one I'd be more suspicious of she's a darn straight on it wow well probably those heel bulbs are collapsed so it's probably the same way on the other side be my guess girl what are you thinking huh man oh girl come on see she can bend her knees look at that I mean doesn't hurt but holy crap same thing see these heel bulbs are all collapsed way overg growing chop the whole front of that off but see our heel bulbs rolling under and they're collapsing cuz she's back on them so much I hav see any signs of arthritis either one of those knees fat locks were fully flexible I well back here oh girl come on you can do it it's a little sore isn't it it's a little sore up here in a stifle stifle I think it's a stifle yeah a little sore up there but um that foot's way overgrown too at least the bulbs the heel bulbs haven't collap but she's walking up on these feet she's not way back on her heels poor girl going to do the same thing over here or is this one better come on girl my leg this one doesn't hurt though that one over there I think hurt a little bit up in the stifle this one's pretty good that one's pretty good yeah okay good okay everything else is [Music] good okay boy vola sucked in on you but that's because you're so skinny okay other than that other than that yeah no problems right yeah oh yeah so these are the x-rays they took in July see obviously the feet didn't look that long right she said some butter thos I don't know if she's talking oh yeah see those two little bone spurs right there see those two mhm yeah they're in the no probably in the flexor tendons there on this one but you can sure see it there okay maybe a little bit in the front of that joint but the joint itself is pretty clear both of them there's some bone squares back there how in the world that's from July to now this is July her H's got that overgrown think if she was kept on like a confined area and just couldn't walk around much yes holy crap I can't believe it grew that much in well it's five it's almost year I guess never mind for eight 10 months already so I guess it could be so what do your thoughts just try working on them feet or sure can try it yeah and see if we can just trim them back back and do you think first I don't know the x-rays are going to show you a whole lot different I don't think she's rotated I think she just pling dropped on these these ligaments had dropped down so bad mhm you can see she was already broke back a little bit there see you can see it was already tipping out H that be interesting see if you can get that off I don't know what he's going to do to rebuild those he S I wonder if he' try wedges like he did with garette that's what I'm thinking he's probably going to have to try it and see if you can take a little this pressure off of there so it's not dropping so bad man I can't believe it's that much different x-ray wasn't just too bad there she's a little long in the toll holy crap I looked at that and I was like you sure that's the same it is her name is there but wow got a straight from the that too yeah sure wow that's quite a change yeah that'd be the other thing though is to try and build that up so you can take the pressure off those tendons and get try and get that thing instead of being like this to try and get it like this a little bit anyway you think the arrus in there is going to cause an issue or that's more a performance type thing I think okay that she's doing stuff I yeah it's going to maybe bother her but can't tell right now feet are so long it's like wearing clown shoes right but um it could you know for different performance stuff and I've seen other horses that have them and they're perfectly sound too so it's a little hard to evaluate that one but it's not in the joint so that's a good thing right worse because it's putting more stress on that tendon so it's going to make it calcify worse she's W is that the left front too yeah I'm pretty sure this one I don't know my glasses so I can't see what you looking for I'm pretty sure I see the yeah left yeah that's the left front yeah that's the one that's broke down the worst so that's putting more stress on that so that's going to make that little more worse too so I would sure try it you know if he wants to you know chop those feet back and probably put a wedge under see if we can get that up so that those heels aren't boy those heels growing out it's going to take a while yeah where they're roll rolled under like that boy that's going to be an effort unfortunately I think it'd be better to keep R in a stall for now I don't know if it's going to make a whole lot of difference to be honest with you I don't think she can run around anyway with those shoes on with those feet at should her shoes she's got clown shoes maybe we can put her right out right here or something here you know or she can just get a little exercise anyway white one or the other one the white one yeah probably they're not going to be overly useful cuz they're from the so we're shooting this guy [Music] at is she is she old uh I think 20 something and for whatever reason they only sent the one foot guys so these were her feet in July okay I have like I think Jim thought if anything it was a little kind of going that way yeah but now obviously her toes are real here and she's kind of on her heels so we're going to take a lot of toe and leave as much heel as possible so it's going to be a zoo yeah cuz she's really MH okay okay and I thought maybe her feet cuz the girl when she brought her said her feet were work in progress so I thought oh she must be terrible for lifting her feet up she's no problem for Jim cuz he was she said she had um bad arthritis in her front legs he checked all her joints she's like all the way up to Elbow so she has an investigation going against her too so no one can know that Halo's here right now yeah holy [ __ ] yeah but you saw the just like could she not move around ever or what oh hi is that the horse yeah [Music] okay it's okay baby I think she does end up getting SW on the other foot obious jeez careful I will okay you're okay baby all that [Music] okay yeah I know one wow look at that look at that honey that's yeah that's a g one I've had in a lot but like look at already how she's standing yeah is it up I mean I think so more than the other one I mean am I crazy or no that's cuz we took like what two in a toe and half inch yeah I mean she's almost all the way down on her B that other yeah she's already up freaking the jam my armop oh bruising right there uhhuh I would assume that's just from being on our heels so much oh yeah quit hey don't don't stop she's like jumping forward now hey God damn it come on now ew [ __ ] on first I'm going [Applause] quit y I was about to say now that Halo got her feet done we're going to take her outside you can start learning how to use those legs right [Music] again hi this is a stethoscope you're okay oh her butts just really sunk in there cuz she's so skinny well maybe you'll just let me put the speculum in and then I'll rinse you at that point but you are seeming pretty alert we'll see what you think of all this game usually that's a pretty good sign if they don't take their tongue back I'm ready to get started let open your mouth for me thank you that was very good get your tongue out of the way this dispensary is a lot thicker and there's some puffiness up the sheath and versus this side is that that's been like that okay yeah I mean you can just you can just see the the difference yeah cuz I mean she's even got a little bit of puffiness in the fetlock and everything she's just like she's just going to buckle on us yeah all right kid let's do this again I'm just going to float your teeth real fast okay cuz I think you just got some big points like a she doesn't like water in her mouth woohoo well she's half asleep and drunk and you go to try to touch touch her mouth and she doesn't like it points yeah yeah I'm going to go after him she's going to decide to behave right that's what I decided yeah look at that bad boy got your camera I'm trying girl okay there look at that thing right there oh yeah I see it up there isn't that wild look how long that one is same on the other side not quite as exciting but it's still long oh good she's just sharp otherwise all right girl you going to let me do my job quick I think she'll get used to it quick though good except for the part of your tooth is in my eye now that's a little sharp you're being very good it's just taking a minute that's okay that'll keep the dust out of my eye she's doing so much better like this to form it's the big one good girl yeah you're doing excellent I think the that bottom tooth in the very front tickles so much cuz it's near where the tongue attaches so they always like you know well we took care of that hook sitting there tickl there if you can see that way that hook gone oh yeah show feel better good girl otherwise she has all her teeth Halo you have teeth yeah so let's look at your iners and decide upon your age yeah she's older though I think we have 20 in there yep 20 looks good to me I wonder if you would let me better she's got them all so she's just sto like all right I'm done this is not for you and for how bad she was it's not going to be fixed in you know the first time but and you guys know have that knowledge so well if you think if you think it's worth a try let's try it I wouldn't waste your money if I don't think it was potentially yeah I mean it it would help so front I'm more worried about well let's do this this is the work first one we'll do this one first come in [Music] honey I just got to make sure that Wall's not brittle that's the only thing that's scaring me cuz everything's grown so forward that if we go to put a nail and I'm just scared it's going to split instead of having an upright so the nail drives in nice it being forward it's just going to pop out so shallow clinch them upside down that's going to be different so what is your like thought process with the shoes like where are we hoping to go from here okay so I look a little stupid working on a horse like this and believe me it feels stupid but my goal is to so generally I'm going to go a size up on a horse like this and I'm going to set these back a little more that way that suspensory isn't so down and being she's so set back anyways she can't I don't think she can reach forward and clip them but the goal is to over time is to get her up more obviously but if we were to put a wedge in here right away we do more harm than good because she's set back so long she's worse than garnet and everybody's seen that horse so in time but definitely doable it'll take her a little time to get used to the shoes with her suspensory for how long they've been so down on her bulbs almost I mean I think that might even be part of the reason why she had an abscess there is just the pressure of walking on the bulb and now that we got her up a little bit she's going to walk goofy cuz she probably hasn't walked like that in a couple years and now that she's walking like your standard Track horse with no heal I'm hoping in 6 months we have her more up girl so I Halo knocked her hay bag down and now it's caught on her shoe oh shoot Kylie can be the nice one to you looks like good cup back cup be nice this isn't a good situation we got to help you honey you can't walk around with with a hay bag as a keychain on your shoes okay let me know when you're ready I'm good all right kill me girl all right come on oh watch fingers where is a c girl you got to work with your deer though you got to bend honey so she can come on girl know Stu this one got to be this one huh yeah it looked like it was caught on both oh I'm taking the vage I cut it might have to cut the hay bag got Loop down pretty good all right we'll get it girl I think on the other one too work with us might need a third good girl oh girl I know girl can you just slice it right like just cut it just s yeah just slice it I want to cut you there that one three and then just slice somewhere I know hold still honey got to hold still and C me no bitings we're trying to help you we're almost done this is a lot you're okay you're okay if I you're okay honey you're okay if I I just don't one cut a huge chunk and it's right I know I know on the clip I know you guys get do the dumbest Stu sometimes yeah no kidding almost last [Music] one oh my goodness oh oh oh girl almost done honey all there we at least got the hay bag off okay and I'm going to take this just for a minute come here girl here we go I don't know if I can oh my goodness oh girl you're okay if I hold it you going to use my knife or no so I had to hop off camera we had to pick up her feet and cut out the little strings that were in there but we got it out we got it off please don't do that again [Music] okay reset okay so when we first started working on Halo the first time we've seen her her bulbs are pretty much touching the ground uh each time we do her we're she's going to be high maintenance for a while we're just going to rebalance the heel leave as much as possible bring as much toe back eventually after we get you know her tenons and ligaments and internal structure getting used to it we might throw a wedge in but depending where the X-ray shows at but for now we'll just keep bringing that toe back and one day at a time [Music] be fine I'll take some spr out what are you doing uh clinch cutter you drive that against the side of the hoof wall see how it's tapered and then you just to break the clinch or cut it um that way it pulls off a lot [Music] smoother and here's another thing I learned too over the years is you'll see a lot of faers kind of work the shoe down when you're pulling I've always liked to go from side to side cuz one you're not going to break a lot of hoof wall off if it's brittle hard like this time of year cuz we've had no rain and you can't pull or stretch a tendon and the flexor tendon cuz you're rocking it like this you've got more cushion here than you do like that so what's our plan from here with her well when she first came she was so like not even on her heel on her bulbs and her knees were all buckled and swollen now that we've got her St walking normal I'm hoping as soon as we can you know use this as relief and support I'm hoping by you know spring maybe even if we're lucky by Mid Winter we can pull the shoes cuz her feet will will be more angled and this time we took all toe and no heels so I mean that's quite a degree change slow down there you go good job good job so when I first seen Halo she had she was basically walking on her heel bulbs extremely overgrown um extremely thin too which was unfortunate on her part um since then we've put shoes on the fronts um obviously she's not the best behaved since she's in this but I don't want to die today um yeah we're coming along she's probably going to need shoes the rest of her life until we get you know if we can get something built up here but she's been so thin so long her nutrition has been shot so her feet aren't exactly you know in the best state either so is it possible yes but it's going to take a lot longer than a normal horse [Music] so are shoes the rest of her life just going to be for comfort yeah and like for riding or like could you do Barefoot well didn't I I would suggest keeping shoes on her you know three seasons out of the Year pull them in the winter um to give this this some support cuz that will shift over time with that being open um more or less because her feet were so unhealthy you can see her you can see this Ripple line here her heel was completely complely collapsed so when she came that's why it was so soft is one poor nutrition I don't know what else she had going on probably a variety of things but uh this will offer some support for that to kind of heal almost as a cast in a sense and just offer support all around and then uh get her more upright what did she do oh sorry your whole thumb is in it yeah do the thumb goes do you got a empty syringe with like some iodine there you [Music] go no the pocket is only as deep as [Music] like it uh the pocket is only as deep as my [Music] thumb she's got a nasty abscess here oh snap and I'm wondering if that worked its way out straight up um so I'm going to see if I can't get that to drain out backwards okay start there then so we squirted some more hydrogen peroxide down in that hole after we cleaned her foot up and no noticed that there was an abscess that had worked its way up kind of the outside wall so what we did is we just squirted it down in there after I cleaned it out and it did work its way back out so my guess is she had an absess and that's where it blew but it had collected some sort of pocket and the blood had gotten real curdled um yeah real nasty so we got it cleaned out and being her heels are finally hard and not so soft and the where it's collapsed we've got that trim off I think next time when we shoe her she's going to get graduated to a wedge so really get her how she needs to be but we couldn't do that being her feet were so soft it would just collapse it more

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Published: Wed Nov 15 2023