We have broke & started a lot of colts in the past but decided not to break this one. Send him out to a reputable training facility in north Texas. All we wanted was a nice handle no Barrel training... So We took our beautiful 3 yr old colt to the ZAAL RANCH in Collinsville TX for 60 days of training from 6/27 to 8/25. What we got back was a skinny back sore colt that has lost his spirit... that bit at us this evening hes lost more than a few hundred pounds of body weight.. Dexter has never bit anyone or attempted to be aggressive ever!! I'm 100% sure he ate nothing but hay if much of that in 60!days and probably spent most of his time saddled in a dry lot... He has a severe case of hunters bump on his spine Praying his back doesn't end his career.
She shared a couple videos of his journey with us and all seemed well - even messaged us how smart he is and a good boy also said he never once bucked or bolted under saddle (because he didn't have the energy too) in the videos he looks tired we can't really tell his loss of weight under saddle in her pics or videos .
We even messaged her asking to up his feed when we noticed weight loss.. no way he was fed 3x a day as her response in the text.. now that we confronted her with her training techniques of our colt and his condition she's saying he's vicious and mean spirited. Said he charged, kicked and bit at them. Wtf this colt doesn't have a mean bone in his body - Her response was they all loose weight - yeh but they get muscled and fit. They don't come home like a sale horse skeleton missing a tag..
I'm royally pissed and sad for Dexter at the same time. Who does this? In text asking to increase feed also asked to put a d**n o-ring in his mouth because in the video he was in a hack (she claims it's a bosal in video it's not it's a d**n hack with a curb change) We told her before we decided to bring him to her facility we wanted him soft and in an o-ring and tonight she messaged saying I don't believe in putting a bit in a young colts mouth... Are we not the client??? Now she's messaging my adult MAN son saying he's afraid of this colt wth? We raised this colt - He's been has handled since birth - not a mean bone in this colt and my son has never been afraid of any horse.. Poor Dexter didn't deserve this. This is not a backyard trainer that we needed to visit our Horse to make sure he was FED & SAFE THIS is a reputable farm that has weekly barrel races.. TRAINERS that STARVE a horse to train it are NOT TRAINERS they are animal abusers.. DO NOT TAKE YOUR HORSE TO ZAAL RANCH for training they are clueless!!!
Zaal Ranch Reviews
We have broke & started a lot of colts in the past but decided not to break this one. Send him out to a reputable training facility in north Texas. All we wanted was a nice handle no Barrel training... So We took our beautiful 3 yr old colt to the ZAAL RANCH in Collinsville TX for 60 days of training from 6/27 to 8/25. What we got back was a skinny back sore colt that has lost his spirit... that bit at us this evening hes lost more than a few hundred pounds of body weight.. Dexter has never bit anyone or attempted to be aggressive ever!! I'm 100% sure he ate nothing but hay if much of that in 60!days and probably spent most of his time saddled in a dry lot... He has a severe case of hunters bump on his spine Praying his back doesn't end his career.
She shared a couple videos of his journey with us and all seemed well - even messaged us how smart he is and a good boy also said he never once bucked or bolted under saddle (because he didn't have the energy too) in the videos he looks tired we can't really tell his loss of weight under saddle in her pics or videos .
We even messaged her asking to up his feed when we noticed weight loss.. no way he was fed 3x a day as her response in the text.. now that we confronted her with her training techniques of our colt and his condition she's saying he's vicious and mean spirited. Said he charged, kicked and bit at them. Wtf this colt doesn't have a mean bone in his body - Her response was they all loose weight - yeh but they get muscled and fit. They don't come home like a sale horse skeleton missing a tag..
I'm royally pissed and sad for Dexter at the same time. Who does this? In text asking to increase feed also asked to put a d**n o-ring in his mouth because in the video he was in a hack (she claims it's a bosal in video it's not it's a d**n hack with a curb change) We told her before we decided to bring him to her facility we wanted him soft and in an o-ring and tonight she messaged saying I don't believe in putting a bit in a young colts mouth... Are we not the client??? Now she's messaging my adult MAN son saying he's afraid of this colt wth? We raised this colt - He's been has handled since birth - not a mean bone in this colt and my son has never been afraid of any horse.. Poor Dexter didn't deserve this. This is not a backyard trainer that we needed to visit our Horse to make sure he was FED & SAFE THIS is a reputable farm that has weekly barrel races.. TRAINERS that STARVE a horse to train it are NOT TRAINERS they are animal abusers.. DO NOT TAKE YOUR HORSE TO ZAAL RANCH for training they are clueless!!!