The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FIVE

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[HairOfTheDog]

*New* 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 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.

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

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]

Vet also said that spaying is not a simple procedure at all in horses, and that there is a 10% mortality rate on the surgery if done traditionally with the horse on her back.

He said the Universities and other clinics were now doing spays standing, with the entry point in the loin, rather than from underneath, and that that was better, less bowel and other tissues in the way that are susceptible to infection and hemorrhaging. He said he wouldn't do it - not trained in it, and that he'd have to refer me... I'm not really interested anyway.

Just more grist for the mill...

[RMDupree]

Bob is one good-lookin' horse, even if he is nicknamed "The Biter". :-D

I hope you can get pics of his daddy!

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I know the feeling:)

I still find it hard to believe that we did not find ~something~ of that foal, that in one night she had it and something drug it off...beyond mysterious.

Becky

[RMDupree]

I don't understand why they can't create a birth control patch for horses like they have for people.

Or even pills, if they could be given once a week or once a month.

~shrugs~ I dunno. I'm horsey-ignorant. :P

[FrogInABlender]

...doing spays standing, with the entry point in the loin...

Wow! I can't imagine doing that to a horse that was awake enough to stand up. I know they operate on cow's stomachs that way all the time, to take out foreign objects that they've eaten, but STILL!

[HairOfTheDog]

Maybe they've got them drugged in a sling or something.

[HairOfTheDog]

There are oral and transdermal hormone treatments that work. He said they were expensive... $3 per day for the oral kind. A little less in the long run for a implant-Norplant type thing that goes in their neck.

[squarebarb]

Good afternoon all, haven't been on here for days. Like many others got too busy with work around the place.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Did you ever get your horse bred?

I rode this morning and haven't been doing much since. Still recovering from a cold.

Becky

[FrogInABlender]

Maybe they've got them drugged in a sling or something

I wondered the same thing. I'll have to try and remember to ask my vet if he's heard about it and if so, how they go about doing it. I'll see him in a couple of weeks when I take Bluebell to be ultrasounded to see if she's bred.

[RMDupree]

Well, there's always the old-fashioned way to get rid of heats for a while.

Have her bred.

*smiling to myself thinking of a mini-Cyn running around*

[squarebarb]

I was loooking at a horse to buy two days ago, and a guy I trusted was handling the sale. He took me down to the pasture show him to me. I said, "I have my saddle and bridle in the trunk, let's see how he goes."

He looked great. I put the saddle on him and when I cinched it up he sprang into the air, bucked, and then stood on his hind feet.

The man said, "Oh, you cinched it up too tight."

I said, "Then you do it. Take it completely loose and cinch up."

He did the exact same thing. He looked like a circus trick horse or something.

So, there went that sale!

[HairOfTheDog]

Heh... that's never a good sign ;~D

[squarebarb]

Wow! He does have a long neck!

[squarebarb]

Yes. When I took my mare the first time I stayed away. Then the THIRD time, there was another woman there to help her father handle my mare, and so I thought, 'Well, if she's welcome, I must be too.'

But as I think I said, to no avail; my mare had been sewn up.

And thank you all for your advice on that matter.

[squarebarb]

No, I didn't. As I mentioned above, after she had thrown a fit twice, and then the breeder (an elderly man) got some people to come help, they twitched her on the lip, on the ear, and blindfolded her, and then it became evident she had been sewn up!

Yikes.

My vet is coming next Weds. to undo it.

What do y'all know about artificial insemination? The breedere told me it could cost up to $2,000.

[Rose of Sharn]

I gave hime a frozen dinner to take to work with him! Is that good enough for his birthday? He is unfortuantly working tonight till 11:30pm ......... : (
Still i have been doing a job that he has been dreading. With Mamas illness, we never got a chance to "winterize" our pool so it is a swamp. I drained it to a 1/3rd and have been wading about, brushing the bottom to get the algae up. I then added algecide, am going to top it back up and SHOCK it big time. Hope all the above works! : )
Oh and Believe me , cleaning out a swampy pool should be on fear factor! LOL I kept hoping and praying that no snakes were in there..........
Happy birthday Deaconjim!
As for a treat, I will probably cook him up something special tommorow night as he is not working then..... : )

[FrogInABlender]

Whew! Better you found about that little trick now than later. Did you cinch him all at once, or a little at a time?

[HairOfTheDog]

Oh yeah - that's just what we need! Another small horse without a job around the place!

Heh... I'd like for ecurbh and I do go through a birth sometime... someone else's birth that is... So you never know, we may hit her up. I'd want to breed for a little more size and bulk than she has... either a Quarter Horse (that would produce an unregistered grade foal) or a big Polish Arab of Bay's size and heft (that would produce a registerable foal). I'm hesitant about trying to breed size into a small mare, although I'm told foals don't grow too big in the womb, I'd think they might have a harder time bred to a stallion larger than themselves. Thoughts anyone?

[HairOfTheDog]

What do y'all know about artificial insemination? The breedere told me it could cost up to $2,000.

Some registries are finicky about it.

I've seen on websites that many mares that are sewn up in a caslicks procedure are bred that way, that it isn't sewn ~all~ the way up, and it only needs to be undone before birthing. Is yours sewn all the way up or is it just too small a target for the stallion? Is she a maiden mare?