My wife, Pat & I picked up the Mustang on July 16th (my birthday!) at the Mississippi BLM pick-up site. We got to the pens at 9:00 am. I was very satisfied to see the horse I'd drawn. He was a good size and had a beautiful, big soft eye. When it was his turn to be cut from the herd and run into the chutes, he cut his left eyelid open on the slide gate. Then he attempted to come over the sides and escape the chute. We were able to spray a little iodine into the wound before running him onto the trailer for the long journey to his new, temporary home. Although he was scared to death, he was remarkably calm on the trailer. We hardly knew he was back there the whole way home. We stopped every couple of hours to allow him to rest and drink water. He didn't drink a lot along the way, and the hay we had provided appeared to be untouched. We pulled into our driveway that night at 12:30- exhausted. We left him on the stock trailer overnight since we had called our veterinarian, Dr. Roger Holt, and arranged to bring him in the next morning to deal with that eye.
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