Prophet's Thumb Ranch
Established 1998.
Please see notice at the bottom of this page!
Sometimes people reach the end of their ropes with lame horses. Sometimes it's honestly more than the horse is worth to pay vets and farriers to work on her for months and months, only to have a horse who is still unsound. After all, you bought a horse to ride and have fun with, not to worry about and pay board on for no use.
If you find yourself in this situation, but would like the horse to have the best possible chance for a future, consider sending her to Prophet's Thumb indefinitely.
We're not a retirement home for hopelessly crippled horses. But, as a farrier and an author, I am always looking for opportunities to push the envelope in lameness management, and am more at liberty to do so when the horse doesn't belong to a client. Likewise, there are veterinary treatments that the veterinarians here haven't had enough experience with to suggest to clients, but which they may be willing use on subject horses for us. We are not talking about cruel experimentation here, but cutting-edge attempts improve the horse's condition.
If the horse can be restored to usefulness, you will have the chance to buy her back for a price based on what it took to get her back up to speed. Otherwise, we'll either put her to work here or find her a good home elsewhere. Whatever the outcome, the horse gets a better chance at a new lease on life than she would've had otherwise.
Email us at: LongTerm@MillwaterPublishing.com
NOTICE: Due to the ongoing weather disaster and responses to this page, we have all we can possibly manage for the time being and cannot accept any more geldings until further notice.
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