Sunflower aka Ellie
#228
Chestnut Arabian Mare.
Star. Appx. 14.3 hands. Will be 8 yrs. old
April 2001. This is a sweet/curious mare. It is not known if
she rides.
- Sire WRA Shah
Elegance
- demure elegancepc #491289
- Dam Providencia.
- Foaled 9 Apr '93. Sire line Egyptian, dam
line Russian.
This
lovely little mare will be going to her new home shortly! Her
new mom and dad (Leslie & Steve) are also the proud parents
of RBJ Madonna (El Tahawi Dahman x RBJ Manhalima), whom they
also rescued from a feedlot.
http://www.tierrescue.org/Maddie.htm
Demure
ElegancePC will have a wonderful home where she will be treated
with love, kindness and patience. There is no doubt that she
will be given the opportunity to be the best she can be. Thank
you so much Leslie and Steve for opening your home and your
hearts to this lovely mare.
Update
3/8/01 - Just to let everyone know, Maddie's Uncle Carl
went and picked up Ellie (228) aka Sunflower. She is covered
with mud and God know what else. We started cutting the mats
out of her mane. While running his hand down her leg, her Uncle
Carl discovered two wounds, caked in mud/feces etc. The wound
is draining and the vet has been called. Like Maddie Mae, the
first thing she did was roll in her stall full of shavings.
She is very pretty and sweet. We found out from the paperwork
at the feedlot that she's had 4 foals. Well, now her job is
to reest, heal, eat and play.
Maddie and Ellie/Sunflower's mom
Update
3/15/01 - The vet was out yesterday and gave demure elegancepc
(aka sunflower ellie) a clean bill of health except her teeth.
He said she had vampire teeth and is scheduled to have them
floated in two weeks along with Mama Swing. Her feet get a much
needed pedicure this weekend. Aside from that, she's eating
her alfalfa, oats and sweet feed and playing with Swing and
Kidd in the arena.
Maddie
and Sunflower's mom
Update
4/14/01 - Sunflower (Carl started calling her that and it
stuck) is just fine. David trimmed her hooves a few weeks ago.
He got quite a work out. Someone hadn't really done anything
with her feet in a long time and it took David; Lee, Marla,
Mike, Stevo and myself to do one little horse. The wash rack
was not yet set in concrete so she had lots of wiggle room.
Stevo held her lead line wrapped around a pole--kust to give
us a little leverage, Mike rubbed her star fast and furiously
to distract her, Marla held the carrots in her hand for Sunflower
to nibble and I made sure David had plenty of coffee. At one
point I came back and David had his backside pushing against
her rump. In the end she gave in and got her feet done. This
week with Carl there calling her darling, she let me have all
four feet ot clean without any problems.
She's
very sweet and her great grandfather-Morafic and Maddie's great
grandfather Ansata Ibn Halima were half brothers.
Update
4/28/01 - I just wanted to let you know how the girls are
doing.
Annie
is doing great in her new home. She settled right in with no
problem but I don't think she's terribly fond of her stablemate
Ella. She tolerates her but I think she would have chosen someone
else! She is getting a little sassy, but is still sweet. She's
starting to nicker to me every time I come out of the house
but more so at meal time of course. I have been working with
her on standing still while mounting and she's getting really
good. I just want to take it slow with her because who knows
what she's been
through, and I'm in no hurry. Her winter coat has all shed out
and she looks so shiney she even has dapples on her butt! We're
also working on getting used to fly spray. She doesn't even
like to have it wiped on but she's getting better. The flys
really bother her so she better get used to it. A neighbor is
giving me two fly sheets - she got a bunch for free (long story)
- so that should help. We'll see how Annie likes that!
Ella
is doing great now too. It took her about a week to settle down
and stop pacing and she was in heat the whole first week too
so that didn't help. But now she just stands calmly in her corral.
She is really comming out of her shell. She actually puts her
head over the top rail of the corral and looks excited when
I come out! She will look right at me and will let me pet her
head without turning it away. I even set the baby on her back
one day (holding her tight with both hands of course) and Ella
just stood there perfectly content. I'm really happy about how
good she's doing after only two weeks! I think she's a real
sweetheart inside just waiting to come out.
One of these days I'm going to call Lydia Hiby the "animal
communicator" and try to find out what these girls have
gone through in their lives!!!!