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!
Well DANG! I can’t see the pictures from here. I’ll have to wait ‘til I get home. I’ve about decided that if the pictures are in an album that has a video clip in it that it’s somehow classified differently by our server and it blocks me. Pisses me off is what it does!
Aaaahh, the joys of puppyhood! Everything you own has teeth-marks on it.
It did not do much for jake eitehr, but then with him it may have just been more supportive to prevent infection from the COPD. I am going to try the Auromycin this year on him. He would not eat the sulpha powder well, we had to mix it with Calf Manna.
Anything else I can do? Could I attach them to an email?
Well, you ARE aren't you? After all, they are our Overlords! ;o)
Yeah, e-mail ‘em to me. You’ve got my work e-mail don’t you?
Yeah - I’ll do that in a minute here... if that’s doable.
I am not planning to post them anywhere else, just wanted to show them to you.
I never had any trouble getting any of mine to eat the sulfa, but they always looked like they had been snorting a boat-load of coke when they got done. ;o)
You can't add ANYTHING to Jakes feed without him turning his nose up at it, which kinda surprises me since he is such a food fanatic. You shoulda seen mine after the Co-Op spread the lime in the pasture. Talk about snorting coke! I should have taken some pictures cause it was like that for several days since we did not get any rain.
Faith’s the only one of mine that will eat whatever you pour on her food. I will get another bag of that Amycin stuff if Trouble isn’t better soon. He really wants to go in with some horses.
I told you about the time I went up to pick up Bob from the trainer’s and he had put him in a stall that he’d just spread Quick Lime in to neutralize the ammonia and Bob promptly tried to eat some of it. Compaired to the regular dolomitic lime that they usually spread on pastures, quick lime is a fine powder and very caustic. They actually use it to sprinkle on decomposing carcases to kinda help “disolve” them. So needless to say, it was burning his mouth pretty bad. The trainer and I were just standing around talking and I noticed Bob had white powder all over his lips and was slobbering like crazy. That’s when we realized what he’d done so we got the hose and started washing his mouth out. He was fine, but it still turned his gums real red and I’ll bet it was pretty darned sore for a while. Troy said he’d been doing that to his stalls forever and had never had a horse try to eat any before. Leave it to BobTheBiter to be the first!
Bob tried to tase everything, such a little boy. The Co-Op guy told us it would not hur the horses but I felt much better after it rained some and they did not look like coke heads.
Hey, maybe I should get a red one, it would match my horse! Frog needs a blue one.
I guess Frog will be ready for some kind of dog when she gets the FLYING PIG going. One'd probably get run over if she didn't have a place for it now. I keep waiting for Tallulah to chase me down the driveway, but so far she just stands and watches me drive off. (This, of course, is after the 1st 8 days of sticking her in a cage with the top not latched that she can struggle out of while you sneak and drive off while she is occupied.
TOO MANY!
I don’t see how your little Yorkies have lived as long as they have. They scare me to death every time I come over there, running around like they do. They aren’t as big as my foot and wouldn’t even leave a decent-sized grease spot if you did step on them. ;o)
Yeah, Hal calls them choice names every time we pull up. They run straight at you and peel off right before you get to them and you can’s see which side they go to. I usually try to get out and watch when he starts backing the trailers up, but Prowler seems to know to watch and stay a few inches away from the tires. At least Petey has some height so he shows up better.
Heh, Prowler’s so little that he can’t even pee on the letters on my tires, much less the rims, but he sure tries! ;o)
So now that you’ve got a good shoe-job on Bay, when are you going riding? You’re riding season is half over and you’ve barely been at all.
I’m going to give him a couple days to get used to his feet on his own and then start prepping him. Might go on a light ride this weekend if it works.
Yeah - something or another has conspired against us this year!
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