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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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.
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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.
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New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!
Send me the number. I’ll call for you.
Yup! That’s a neck! Haha :-)
Nah that’s alright. Thanks though :-)
When we got her she was an awfully scrawny thing, with no muscle at all on her topline. At least now she's muscled up nicely, especially her neck and shoulders.
I bought big beach balls today on sale and threw one out for each of them. I'm waiting to see what they do with them - Blue at first thought it was going to get him. Now he's ignoring it while he concentrates on food.
Take some pictures of her for us too. She sounds pretty.
Oh, I am so sorry about your mom. Prayers that all works out okay.
Okay, what’s the information on Bixhoma??? Inquiring minds want to know.
Bixhoma lake was the water supply for Bixby. But they finally had to shut it down for that use several years back, because they could never get the water to pass purity tests. The town now buys it’s water from Tulsa.
I’m not sure if that is what 2J was talking about, but that’s what I know about the lake. I swear when they were using that water in town, I’ve seen water come out of the faucets that was so red and cloudy you couldn’t see thru it...it was bad.
Becky
That is a really nice picture, and she does have a long neck, but I think it’s pretty.
I’m kind of surprised tho...isn’t that an English version of a tie down you have on her? I didn’t think you liked them?
Becky
I ordered a new item yesterday that will be nice to have for The CTR’s
http://www.horse.com/products/gift-0__sku-BNH65.html
The picture is wrong, but the description is right, I called.
Anyway, Celia has had one of these for years and was looking for some new ones. I’ve always like the ones she has. At a CTR we have to have the horses tied to the trailer with the snap just touching the ground. That’s so the horse can lay down if he wants too, but is less likely to get tangled. Anyway, tying with a lead, is one hard to get it exactly right with out having to retie several times, then when you do get it right, after some time the horse can pull it enough just moving around that it gets too long, and that is of course when the judges come by and check you:)
I’ve looked and looked for these type of ties in stores, but never found adjustable length ones. Trailer tie straps are way to short. I did not know that these were called cross ties, Celia thought they were for hot walkers. Anyway, I searched the other day when she said she was looking for some new ones, and finally found these, so we each ordered 2.
Becky
A guy apparently murdered and dismembered a little boy out there several years ago. Still, kinda creepy...can you imagine peacefully fishing and stumbling on to something like that?
The water was terrible, you’re right. We ended up getting bottled water and still do.
I’d turn on the tub water and black chunks would fall into the tub, I kid you not. I think it was charcoal...Overtaxed is a chemist and that’s what she thought it probably was.
Oh, yeah, I remember that...we were hauling trash around Leonard when that happened. It was a scary thing. I think they caught the guy tho didn’t they? Several years later?
Becky
He's still got that very young horse look to him, especially his head.
Becky
He does look like a baby there... How old is he now?
I like the new tie... That would work really well, take the guesswork out of it. :~)
Good morning.... it’s a little drippy here, but Dad’s going to come down this morning anyway, and give us a chainsaw lesson.
The reason I don't like the typical tie down is that it is permanent and rigid, so that the horse can't use his neck and head when he needs to (i.e. in the air over a fence). Since it's rigid, the horse also gets in the habit of leaning on it and permanently bends his topline the wrong way (inverted neck, above the bit).
The German martingale works like draw reins, but is a little easier to manage.
The martingale attaches to the breastplate and/or the girth in the usual way, but it passes through the bit and clips to the reins. That way, if you loosen the reins it immediately stops the martingale from working. It's adjustable by tightening or loosening the reins, just like draw reins. The disadvantage compared to the draw reins is that it's not completely independent of the reins so you have some limits on how much you can tighten or loosen (you can see the extra D rings for adjustment on the snaffle rein) -- but to me it's worth not having to keep track of two completely independent sets of reins, especially out in the field!
I probably don't really need it on her any more, but when we were first breaking her she had a tendency to throw her head up and invert her spine when she got quick, and when I'm hunting her I always use it in case she gets full of herself (which she does every now and then, even though she's a good mare). In that picture, she's sort of pulling a little bit, so she's got the martingale taut.
Especially the neck. He’s lengthened nicely — although that’s not entirely a fair picture because he’s holding his head funny.
No wonder the water is red. That is horrible and would haunt me being around that lake. It probably has a real negative energy around it now.
I’ve never seen those before, I guess I didn’t pay attention to the catalog that closely. Those would be really handy to have around.
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