she just died in a stall last night and
it's cold it's very very cold here that's something that should be said -
is that her heart rate was really high and she was cold
yeah so but either way the situation that we have to deal with now regardless
of how the horse actually died is that she is in a stall and frozen and because
she died during the night and so now we've got to deal with how do we get her
out my mom was she's absolutely I want to
see traumatized my mom's had horses her entire life and gosh in 30-some years
has only lost a couple of horses besides two very very old age
when my dad built this barn how many years ago thirty years ago he built it
with the plan of having to someday take a cell wall down in case of emergency or
it you know like we've we've made it he made it so that all of the stalled like
the dividing walls between the stalls they all come out and the fronts and the
stalls can very easily be taken off it was very simple to take the front of
this stall off so these are not prefab stalls these are all everything was made
by hand and built to come apart one of the issues we were dealing with was the
amount of snow that we had luckily we had the Bobcat to plow a trail for the
backhoe another thing too is the Bobcat was small enough and could go directly
down the barn aisle and through the smaller gates to get the past year but
the backhoe is too big so luckily with the way that these pastures are laid out
there's a variety of different gates and they're all plenty large enough for big
equipment to get out of the car sir so that's definitely something to think
about if you're planning pastures we were very thankful that the ground
wasn't completely frozen and we were able to dig a hole pretty easily we did
bury a horse last winter and this was not the case it was extremely difficult
to get a hold of because the ground was completely frozen solid where this year
was so much easier so we're very very lucky for that
I always feel like the way a horse is laid to rest is really important and
since we weren't exactly happy with how she was laying there my husband was kind
enough to climb down in the hole and reposition her and then of course he had
to have a little bit of fun and and get lifted out of the hole in the bucket of
the backhoe so yesterday morning my mom came back here because the this horse
was missing and we're back right at the edge of the woods and she found the
mirror back here
down and it's very matted down her so she clearly you know what's up and down
a lot but when my mom got out here the horse got up right away and very
willingly walked back to the barn with her so um and they got a vet out right
away and the vet tubed her checked her temperature they got blankets on her
call that stuff and the horses body temp was down to 97 but her heart rate was
very elevated she wouldn't drink anything she did
start to eat some hay and actually you know when we just buried her she has she
had a mouthful of case still so to see that happen it really only makes sense
that you know she may have had a heart attack and the way that she was in the
stall there was no struggle it looked like she just laid down but she had a
mouth full of hay so doesn't appear that she had choked but she clearly was was
eating when she died the way that they planned 30 years ago to make their burn
so if something bad does happen it could easily be taken apart and she her head
was right here this is where the stall door was installed
and then her body was against here and her tail against the back so and she was
laying there like she had just laid down there's no no sign of struggle or
anything like that in the saw and she wasn't covering sweat nothing like that
when my mom found her and another interesting thing is that she had a
mouthful of hay so it just appeared like she was eating and then just drop dead
when Mom was out here late last night and the worst seem to be doing much much
better so she was she was extremely surprised this morning to find her find
that she had passed the stop but what I want to show you is how easy it was to
get her out of here this is something that a lot of people don't want to talk
about because it's traumatic but it's reality and I want to educate as many
people as I can about what you do in a traumatic situation like this
so basically when my dad built this barn he greased all the four by fours when he
put him in the ground and so he cut it off right at the bottom here and then
cut it right here and these boards just popped right off very easy so none of
this had to even be touched so a neighbor has a bobcat piece of machinery
and brought that over drove right down on the barn aisle and we got a tow strap
around the horse and when he drove out of the barn just pulled her right out
and since it's the end stall it was very easy because she wasn't driving on the
concrete and got rid out there and was able to be pulled out into the field
where she was gonna be buried so it was such a fast process and I want to tell
you when I was in high school a friend of mine her horse had died in its stall
in the middle of the night and we have very bolt cold temperatures around here
today it's about negative 13 or so I think yesterday we had
negative 20 so it's and that's without windchill with windchill it's like
negative 30 so it's been cold but anyway in this friend of mine in high school
were forced died in the stall and froze solid and the only way that they could
get the horse out of the stall because of how everything was built the location
everything they had to cut it up with the chainsaw to get it out so you know
my dad really put a lot of thought into building this barn and knowing that he
had to make things so they could be movable in case of emergency situation
so my my word of advice is if you're gonna be building a barn think about
those things in advance because it's really hard when you're in the moment
and have to make decisions like that to try to think what you're gonna do and
you know especially when it's freezing cold out you know it's so cold that the
last thing you want to be doing is standing out here trying to figure out
what to do in a situation like that what I want to know and when all the viewers
want to know too is share your story have you ever been in a situation like
this and what did you do how did you handle it help us educate others as to
what they can do if they ever find themselves in a in a in a tragedy like
this where they've got to make a decision but don't know exactly how to
go about it so let's help as community teach others as to what options there
are so comment below make sure to let us know your story
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week and I never know what it's gonna be so today I didn't know that I was gonna
get a phone call from my mom this morning saying that there was a horse
dead in the stall but you know and I look at it as a opportunity to help
educate others so you know I I filmed what I could and what I felt was
appropriate to share with others and of course I wanted to keep I didn't want to
have any footage of the horse herself in there because I don't think that that
needs to be shared but you guys get the point so anyway thanks so much for
watching
I feel very lucky that I have my partner-in-crime along for the ride with
me anytime anytime something happens he is there on the spot ready to come with
ready to help in any way so big thanks