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 02/07/2007 10:13:15 PM · #26
Originally posted by Marjo:
adding: Thanks for the dvd tip, Ristyz. I should get it....or read any one of the thousand books/magazines that my horseperson has all over the house.
I think....and I hate to admit this....I'm pathetic and you spell it l..a..z..y. I would rather read how-to books on photographing horses.
I want a push-button, self-feeding, picks their own stalls and hoofs kind-of-horse. Actually, my horse (Mister) is pretty cool and he knows it. He's too smart and causes the most trouble but keeps me laughing and I wouldn't give him up. I just wish owning horses wasn't so much work.


That's why I recommended the DVD... EZ! It's not cheap, but the fist DVD in the set was sooo worth it! ....and, yes, that consistancy is hard work.... not to mention the shoveling, the raking, the tossing feed, the learning to sit up straight and correct..... guess it keeps me a little humbled!

A little trick on how-to photograph horses.... read the other crap, um stuff your horseperson has laying around... it all helps! Half the trick to getting thier pix is understanding thier behavior and all that proper sitting up straight work!
 02/07/2007 10:21:58 PM · #27
One thing to remember: horses have a whole lot more free time than we do, and they think up the stupidest things to do to hurt themselves. So it pays to anticipate the problems in their stabling and care to outfox them a bit.

Halters are called head collars in the UK, I think. My horses are rather too "in my pocket", would never need to leave halters on all the time.

Obviously you have not discovered Zen and the Art of Poop Scooping. I find it rather restful for contemplation when it's not a zillion degrees or whacked out windy. And flinging feed can be fun too. ;-)


02/07/2007 10:35:01 PM · #28
Originally posted by lynnesite:

Obviously you have not discovered Zen and the Art of Poop Scooping. I find it rather restful for contemplation when it's not a zillion degrees or whacked out windy. And flinging feed can be fun too. ;-)


lol...is it a book? I'll have to buy it, too.
My zen consists of muttering a constant chant, "I hate scooping poop!" over and over and over. We allow our horses to run in and out of their stalls all day and they seem to always come into their stalls to do their business.
My neighbor says she actually enjoys the barn chores for the same reason you mentioned. I think you're both crazy. Big wink!
02/07/2007 10:50:56 PM · #29
Not a hijack but I just wanted to share this with other horse lovers. Our horses got out of the pastuer today due to a gate not being latched properly. One of them, my best buddy, found a roll of wire that was laying around and got it caught around his legs. He cut himself up so bad trying to get free that he had to be put down. The blood loss was so bad that the vet could not understand how he was able to walk in. He had a hard time finding a vein to administer the shot. Anyway, I just wanted to share my loss. Watch your animals carefully and take good care of them. Leaving head stalls on all the time is a bad idea. It only takes one accident and you could lose a good friend.
 02/07/2007 10:53:37 PM · #30
Ah, barn stalls. Greater degree of difficulty not to mention higher expense!

We have two varieties of "poop birds", which if there is grain in the poop will carefully winnow out all of it, creating the most fluffy remains. One set are starlings, the other a migratory one we haven't identified. They do most of their business between 7 am and 9 am. Alas, only mare and foal get the feed with the individual grain, the birds don't find anything useful in the pelleted supplements the other two get.

Gets me off of the chair in front of the 'puter! Vitamin D! It's sunny here 300 days of the year (we won't talk about the wind...) and the horses have a good sense of humor, keep things light.

You could always make a "litter box" outside. I do that when I haul my horse to an endurance ride and he has to stay in a small pen, by dropping a small pile of shavings in a corner. He'd rather poop and pee there in order to not get splashed.
 02/07/2007 10:56:36 PM · #31
Originally posted by JamesKW:
Not a hijack but I just wanted to share this with other horse lovers. Our horses got out of the pastuer today due to a gate not being latched properly. One of them, my best buddy, found a roll of wire that was laying around and got it caught around his legs. He cut himself up so bad trying to get free that he had to be put down.


James, I'm so very sorry for your loss.
 02/07/2007 10:58:06 PM · #32
Soooo sorry to hear that James. Very sad.

Originally posted by JamesKW:
Not a hijack but I just wanted to share this with other horse lovers. Our horses got out of the pastuer today due to a gate not being latched properly. One of them, my best buddy, found a roll of wire that was laying around and got it caught around his legs. He cut himself up so bad trying to get free that he had to be put down. The blood loss was so bad that the vet could not understand how he was able to walk in. He had a hard time finding a vein to administer the shot. Anyway, I just wanted to share my loss. Watch your animals carefully and take good care of them. Leaving head stalls on all the time is a bad idea. It only takes one accident and you could lose a good friend.
02/07/2007 10:59:39 PM · #33
Originally posted by JamesKW:
Not a hijack but I just wanted to share this with other horse lovers. Our horses got out of the pastuer today due to a gate not being latched properly. One of them, my best buddy, found a roll of wire that was laying around and got it caught around his legs. He cut himself up so bad trying to get free that he had to be put down. The blood loss was so bad that the vet could not understand how he was able to walk in. He had a hard time finding a vein to administer the shot. Anyway, I just wanted to share my loss. Watch your animals carefully and take good care of them. Leaving head stalls on all the time is a bad idea. It only takes one accident and you could lose a good friend.


So sorry about your loss >.< Our horse Gypsy implaed herself on a star post last year thank God she did no serious damage and made a full recovery and is now having a foal in June ^_^
 02/07/2007 11:00:30 PM · #34
Originally posted by JamesKW:
Not a hijack but I just wanted to share this with other horse lovers. Our horses got out of the pastuer today due to a gate not being latched properly. One of them, my best buddy, found a roll of wire that was laying around and got it caught around his legs. He cut himself up so bad trying to get free that he had to be put down. The blood loss was so bad that the vet could not understand how he was able to walk in. He had a hard time finding a vein to administer the shot. Anyway, I just wanted to share my loss. Watch your animals carefully and take good care of them. Leaving head stalls on all the time is a bad idea. It only takes one accident and you could lose a good friend.


So sorry for your loss.

I will talk to my husband about the halters...
 02/07/2007 11:04:23 PM · #35
Thanks for the kind words. I am going to start a new thread for my particular post. I did not want to take over your topic. But do consider the words about the halter/head stalls.
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