Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT 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, usually about our horses, sometimes about our dogs, gardens and other stuff we do. :~)
I have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and MissTargets will ping everyone most mornings. Let MissTargets and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list.
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.
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
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread NINE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread TEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11
New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!
That’s really cool about Shelly figuring out where the ball was going to BE! Anybody who says that dogs can’t THINK should try to explain THAT behavior.
Anybody who says dogs can’t think should leave a steak on the backsplash of a kitchen counter or in the sink, and watch my dogs figure out how to get at it! (as a last resort, they call in the cat and offer to divide the spoils with her.)
I'm the one in the straw hat with the black band. It was too hot for a helmet! I was riding Grace this time.
She's shaping up to be quite the little Horsewoman too.
She's got her own little pink hoof pick...
Terrific pictures! That horse looks like a gem with that little girl :~)
Ella’s cute as a button that’s for sure. I think she’s 4 or 5. I posted her picture a while back, laying on her back on the back of a big roan Clyde/Quarter cross. Made her look like a gnat on an elephant. But she loves horses more than any kid I know, and ain’t afraida nuthin. Ya gotta love a kid like that!
Actually, I like that nice pink skin around the margins!
I am having a hard time not pulling that scab off! We are supposed to start the ointment again this Saturday but if it still looks like this I don't think I will. It is pretty moist under that scab. Luckily the flies are not bothering it.
Man, that’s nasty looking! I think I’d have to see if I couldn’t get that scab to come off, maybe soak it with the hose and see if it wouldn’t loosen up. But I definately wouldn’t just pull it off either.
Those are great pictures.
I was wondering do you all have trouble with flies when you ride?
They have really gotten bad here the last few weeks. I’ve noticed the horses during the day will venture out of their stalls for a bit, then suddenly go running and bucking back to the stalls. Rocky’s neck is covered in bites:(. There just isn’t much you can do about the big horse flies. I’m going thru a quart bottle of fly spray about every 10-14 days, and I only spray when I ride.
Becky
Well, it looks like it’s working. How many treatments will you have to got thru?
Becky
MY HORSE has a special hat he wears to protect his ears from flies. Although FROG laughs at him! The flies are bad in some places and not so bad in others. One place we go has awful deer flies. Last weekend they were not bad at all.
maybe just the one, but the jar says possibly two applications. Will have to see what it looks like when the scab falls off. The vet said to let it happen naturally. This is just an herbal ointment, kinda scary how it makes the skin slough off. When I applied it I did not think to wear gloves. I did wash my hands afterwards but if I do it again I will definitely wear gloves after seeing what it did to his skin!
You know last year when we had drought conditions the flies didn’t seem as bad. They are back here tho with a vengence this year.
Becky
YOUR HORSE looks like a mule when he wears said hat! Poor dear, I'm sure it gives him a complex to be made to walk around like that! ;o)
Especially when you look at the pictures of those people who applied a similar concoction to their noses and it made their nose fall off. DANG! That's some seriously caustic stuff.
Jake and Blade wanting in on the photo shoot
Here he is parking out. He started to move before I could step back and get the shot but you can see he stretches way on out there.
He would not get one if people did not laugh at him. He thinks he looks cool.
Sorry, should be fireman.
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