The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread NINE

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[HairOfTheDog]

The FreeRepublic Saddle Club - Who's Who *pics*

This is a horse chat thread where we share ideas, ask for input from other horsemen, and talk about our riding and horse-keeping. We have a lot of different kinds of riders and horses, and a lot to share. In the previous threads we have had a great time talking through lessons, training, horse lamenesses, illnesses and pregnancies... and always sharing pictures and stories.

I always have a link to this thread on my profile page, so if you have something to say and can't find the thread in latest posts… look for it there and wake the thread up!

I also have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and MissTargets will now be pinging everyone most mornings. Let MissTargets and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list. As FreeRepublic is a political site, our politics and other issues will probably blend in…. There are many issues for horsemen that touch politics… land use, animal rights/abuse cases that make the news…. Legislation that might affect horse owners.

So... like the previous threads, this is intended as fun place to come and share stories, pictures, questions and chit-chat, unguided and unmoderated and that we come together here as friends. There are lots of ways of doing things and we all have our quirks, tricks and specialties that are neat to learn about.

Previous threads:

The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - thread ONE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread TWO!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread THREE!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FOUR
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FIVE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SIX
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SEVEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread EIGHT

New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!

[HairOfTheDog]

Those are cool pics, I also love the swings!

What do people raise goats for? Milk and cheese?

Love the saddle with the black seat... You know... you could have gone with the pink :~D

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

You know I considered that:), but that would have made me such a girl:). I have a few female hormones and I like pink. But, alas, I knew it wouldn't have stayed pink for long:)

No actually, I think people raise goats to sell for meat. Alot of the illegal aliens in this area buy them to eat.....pretty gross huh. Then they use them in shows alot. It's rumored that Stanley has sold goats for several thousands of dollars.

We have several very large goat farms in this area.

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Oh, I meant to ask you, you said you were going to dig some ferns up today....do you have some right on your property????

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

They sure don't seem like they's have a lot of meat on them. They kinda look like they'd be lean and tough... Like eating a mule :~D

[HairOfTheDog]

Yeah - I've got lots of ferns out in the woods. The ones ~in~ the back forty fence are pretty well trompled and eaten, but there's at least two acres of unfenced woods where there's lots of them. :~D I'll take pics of the ones I pick before I dig them up :~D

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Wow:), do you have any around your house for show. Or are they just too common there to use them in a garden.

Becky

[Duchess47]

It's interesting that they are all intact. Growing up I never realized how odd it was that we only had stallions. My dad wouldn't own a mare or a gelding so I learned to ride and then always rode stallions.

Must have been an old country thing - he was portuguese.

[Duchess47]

Thanks for the website and the pictures. I like the saddle. I'll be curious to see how the ferns do in your part of the country, I'd love to plant some around my house.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

The thing about it is the ones that they sell for meat to people, the people who buy them butcher them themselves. Some of them will do it right at the ranch.

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Thanks, now that the initial dismay of having to buy another saddle is over, I'm looking forward to getting it. It will be pretty on my horse:)

Becky

[FrogInABlender]

Thanks for taking us along on the trip to the saddle shop. Those swings are cool. I saw some like them at the big flea market in Nashville a while back and thought about buying one, but since I don't have a house yet thought I'd better wait a while.

The goats are Boer goats, you can tall by the white body and red head. I hear they are the best kind for meat. I don't know why, other than maybe they've got more muscle or something. We've got quite a few Mexicans around here too, working at the chicken plants, and they seem to like to eat them. A registered Boer will bring quite a bit so a lot of people have started raising them. You don't have to have as much as land as you do to raise cattle, and they'll eat anything, so your pastures don't have to be as good, but you've darned sure got to have a good fence and good goat dogs to keep the coyotes away.

I got a chuckle out of the saddles with pink and blue seats. There's no accounting for taste I guess. To each his/her own. But I wouldn't be caught dead in a pink saddle/bridle/halter/saddle blanket/you name it. ;o)

[FrogInABlender]

Hey, I just realized that the all black metal swing was shaped like a giant curb bit on the sides. Cool!

[Duchess47]

:) One of the endurance riders on our circuit rides with all hot pink. I'll try to remember to get a picture of her next ride.

[ShakeNJake]

Yep, the portugese are the same way with the Lusitanos. I think it is a way of life in the "macho" cultures.

[HairOfTheDog]

How odd...

[FrogInABlender]

LOL! I guess I'm just a neutral kinda person. When we first started scuba diving, I used to hate those day-glow fluorescent colors that dive equipment came in, but I found out in a hurry why that was. As you go deeper in the water, the light spectrum gets filtered out and colors look different. Red and Blue look black or gray and if you're wearing them, you can't be seen as well. But that shocking pink and green and yellow don't change that much and lets you be seen from quite a ways. So I guess there's something to be said for loud colors. ;o)

[HairOfTheDog]

do you have any around your house for show. Or are they just too common there to use them in a garden.

I use them in landscaping, I just haven't done a lot of landscaping here. - You can't really buy them, or at least, people don't. But they do leave them, or move them around when they've got them.

I planted them over the graves of Logan and Zulu. - Where the [green] Fern Grows :~)

This was right after I moved them. They don't look this good now, Homer likes to pee on them and they're lookin' a little trod on and humiliated. I hope Logan and Zulu don't take it personally. :~D

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

LOL, I considered the pink for just a minute, but then, I knew it wouldn't last, and I didn't want Harley to look gayish:)

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I thought that swing cool too, but also a bit gaudy:) It would take the right setting, like at a barn or something.

Becky

[FrogInABlender]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking about using them for, under the porch of the barn. Of course I'd want little metal cutouts of Walking horses on mine. ;o)