Jack very thin, with a long horsey face which sports a blind left eye. It looks as though he may have been kicked or suffered a severe infection, as that eye is sunken deeply in his face. He has no vision in it at all, as witnessed by all the bite marks on that side of his body showing that he never saw his attackers coming. He is also easy to handle and mostly interested in food, of any sort. He loaded into the trailer easily and stood chomping steadily while we struggled to get his friend and protector, Lucifer, loaded. Jack is remarkably unspooky for a one-eyed horse; but in part, it is his singled minded fixation on food that makes him seem calm. I believe a hurricane could occur, but as long as it didn’t blow his food away, he’d ignore it.
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April 27
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Jack is also progressing well - he still is single-mindedly fixed on the next meal. He also has a very thin coat coming in. He has become very much more aggressive toward his pen-mate, Luc, and because of this my plans for their stalls have assumed a new urgency. An equine vacuum-cleaner like Jack could easily eat his own AND Luc’s ration, and I have to be able to provide Luc with a place to eat in peace. Jack loves to be groomed, stands calmly for the farrier and to have his blanket placed and removed, and has finally begun to call to me when I come down the hill with the next meal. He seems to be quiet, but strong minded, and is filling out to be quite a large TB, but more normally proportioned than Beau who is all legs.
