Friends.. Welcome to the new latest arrivals at Elina Stables. The 2 new thoroughbreds bought by Uzair & Nrupal from the Giveaways of the Pratap Stud farm.
A word of caution though, thoroughbreds are design bred horses and very unlike our native breeds in terms of temperament and hardiness.
Post event write-up...
The intelligence of our marwari's or Kathiawaris is well known and legendary. I found the TB's rather dull and non connected. The size was massive and the build impressive but the glint of recognisation in the eye or the mischief in the air was missing.
And as was apprehended, these animals fell very very sick soon due to change in food culture from a rich studfarm breeding diet and medications to a Marwari dry feed.
One TB developed severe nasal infection and my god, I have not seen such proffusive discharge or coughing in my life. We lost her soon.....
The other one developed I dont know what.. but she shed all her body hair and turned into a pure leather horse, real scary but weird. The shedding was at the extreme level. Checked her for all symptoms but to no avail, the moulting continued. Started all sorts of supplements and skin dis irritants ... Linseed, etc..
Suddenly just as they disappeared, they again started coming back. But the transitionary phase was scary. The owners lost interest in maintaining the animal as its feed requirements and medical needs were highly intensive and it required high level of dedication.
The animal was ultimately consigned to a shelter. What comes Free is rarely valued.....
A word of caution though, thoroughbreds are design bred horses and very unlike our native breeds in terms of temperament and hardiness.
Post event write-up...
The intelligence of our marwari's or Kathiawaris is well known and legendary. I found the TB's rather dull and non connected. The size was massive and the build impressive but the glint of recognisation in the eye or the mischief in the air was missing.
And as was apprehended, these animals fell very very sick soon due to change in food culture from a rich studfarm breeding diet and medications to a Marwari dry feed.
One TB developed severe nasal infection and my god, I have not seen such proffusive discharge or coughing in my life. We lost her soon.....
The other one developed I dont know what.. but she shed all her body hair and turned into a pure leather horse, real scary but weird. The shedding was at the extreme level. Checked her for all symptoms but to no avail, the moulting continued. Started all sorts of supplements and skin dis irritants ... Linseed, etc..
Suddenly just as they disappeared, they again started coming back. But the transitionary phase was scary. The owners lost interest in maintaining the animal as its feed requirements and medical needs were highly intensive and it required high level of dedication.
The animal was ultimately consigned to a shelter. What comes Free is rarely valued.....
