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Posted on 03/21/2005 7:18:04 PM 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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I also have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and Becky pings everyone most mornings. Let Becky (Paynoattentionmanbehindthecurtain) 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.
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Night
The computer we got is a Hewlet Packard Pavailion, with Windows ME.
From what I understand ME is the third version of Windows 98. Is is any good, have you heard of any problems with it?
Becky
ME Is generally regarded as a dog. In a bad way. I don't know exactly why, never used it. Hopefully, for what you need to do, it will be just fine.
Well I'm gonna turn in too. I'm "dog tired:') Besides, I don't eat after 7PM and I'm wanting one of those peanut butter cookies on the stove. My will power getting weak! Night.
Well, Mack has been working with it, and he thinks it's going to be fine for what he/I need. I guess there is nothing wrong with the computer itself, my dad could just not get the font to print large. Mack says tho, if he has one problem with it he is going to throw it in the floor, jump up and down on it till it is smashed to pieces, then going out and buying a mini Mac.
Becky
Good morning
Becky
With the grass this lush, do you still give them grain? I'd cut the grain out for the months that you have good grass.
Yeah, feet do get hot when they founder, but I don't know if what you are describing would happen.
Becky
Happy Mother's day to all you people and horse Mommys
Good morning all.
At last a good rain here in the Texas Hill Country. Now the cactus will bloom out beautifully. I am going to get pictures.
Yest. went down to my newly-leased 70 acres with friends and pulled up old wire embedded in grass, got it ready, and moved mare and donkey onto it. Barbecued steaks --- anybody ever hear of a marinade called Daddy Hinkle's? It's great!
Yes, the mammary glands go all the way to where the girth or cinch would be. My mare once had her mammary glands swell up just because she was in heat.
I thought I had cinched her too tight and caused it to swell. It looked wierd.
There is also heat founder here in Texas.
My son and DIL were telling me that that stuff was good. May have to give it a try.
Becky
From getting too hot or the feet gettng too dry?
From getting too hot. In one of my posts last night I said that George will founder in the heat so I hose him down several times a day when the weather is especially hot.
Yeah, heat a problem here too. Not so much pasturing but during workouts. I do what I can to reduce risks of foundering but I have problems with their hooves drying out too. One came from Bandera and I had the same problems as the one that came from Oklahoma so I guess it's a deep south problem. I will start them back on corn oil next month. Some people told me it only shines the coat and won't help the hoofs but it did. Other factors invovled but it did seem to hype the mare up a little though. I figure if I can keep them cool and keep their feet from cracking, oiling the bowels and a shiny coat a nice bonus:')
we've cut way back on grain... cut it back to dry COB, with only a little senior pellet mixed in... and at the moment, only giving them enough to get Bay's pills and supplements in him and keep the others happy.
Not to worry you, but Windows ME is full of bugs, and it has the potential to crash frequently. Microsoft created it just to make more money. I'm not all that thrilled with XP either, the interface is really all over the place, at least in my opinion. And I hate the blue and green theme that they have going. It reminds me of a cartoon.
Ok, I'm off my rant now.
What I do is to let the stock tank overflow so that the area around it is wet, and then when they come to drink it wets their feet.
My farrier approved, said it was a good practice.
When I put Hooflex on them, I really plaster it on around the corona band, so that during the day it gradually soaks down into the hoof.
I have only heard about heat founder. But you know what, it just occured to me, what I meant was heat Colic!
Sorry; heat colic, not founder.
Yes, corn oil is great. I buy huge jugs of the cheapest kind. I think it helps the hooves.
But keeping the area around their water tank or tub or whatever wet, makes it messy to clean hooves but it's good for their feet in a hot, dry climate.
I'd keep an eye out on the horses when the grass is particularly lush, but I wouldn't worry too much otherwise, because they're used to being out on it. The only way that you would have a problem is if you suddenly turned them out on it after they haven't been on it in months, or never before.
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