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Any of yall horse people?
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:50 pm
Posted on 5/12/24 at 10:50 pm
I might become one.
I met 2 mares this weekend that may have changed me.
I met 2 mares this weekend that may have changed me.
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Posted on 5/12/24 at 11:40 pm to auggie
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I met 2 mares this weekend that may have changed me.
Posted on 5/13/24 at 3:35 am to DownSouthJukin
My friend has horses. about 10 of them I think.
Now, I've always been OK with horses, but it always seemed that they were more trouble than they were worth.
Anyway, I'm at my friends house the other day and he asked me to feed these 2 mares their rolled oats and medicine. They are in a pasture by themselves.
They've got those individual square feeder buckets that you just hang on a strand of the fence.
Well, apparently I didn't do it correctly. One of those mares started stompin her foot and the other one was pushing the feeder buckets with her nose.
So I did some re-arranging and I guess I got it right, because they both laid their heads on my shoulder after that. I petted them some and went back to the barn.
It was pretty surprising to me how they acted about that.
Posted on 5/13/24 at 4:19 am to auggie
Horses are like boats
You are never going to use it as much as you think you should and the upkeep is going to pile up quickly.
Even if you just want pasture pets, hoof trims, vaccinations, and lord forbid an injury of some kind which is pretty much an annual thing. I don’t know. Never again for me.
You are never going to use it as much as you think you should and the upkeep is going to pile up quickly.
Even if you just want pasture pets, hoof trims, vaccinations, and lord forbid an injury of some kind which is pretty much an annual thing. I don’t know. Never again for me.
This post was edited on 5/13/24 at 4:23 am
Posted on 5/13/24 at 6:44 am to Purple Spoon
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lord forbid an injury of some kind which is pretty much an annual thing. I don’t know.
Poor boxer… thought he was going to the vet and ended up at the glue factory.
Posted on 5/13/24 at 6:44 am to auggie
I hope you have unlimited funds as raising horses can be a money pit. It also requires cleaning stalls, and feeding 2x’s per day regardless of rain, sleet, snow, or shine. Otherwise beautiful animals that can be therapeutic to their owners .
This post was edited on 5/13/24 at 6:45 am
Posted on 5/13/24 at 7:42 am to Purple Spoon
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Even if you just want pasture pets, hoof trims, vaccinations, and lord forbid an injury of some kind which is pretty much an annual thing. I don’t know. Never again for me.
I took in a retired thoroughbred shortly after moving out on a couple dozen acres. Not my wisest decision ever. He found a better home after a year or so, with other horses to hangout with, as there was no way I was getting a 2nd one to keep him company.
Posted on 5/13/24 at 8:57 am to MoarKilometers
Racing bred thoroughbreds are the worst to me. They are hot and get rank after a few months in the field. If you don’t work them regularly they are a bitch to handle.
Posted on 5/13/24 at 8:33 pm to auggie
My family had a few horses over a couple of decades.
It is a very expensive and demanding undertaking.
I am glad to have had that experience, but also glad to not be carrying that burden anymore.
It is a very expensive and demanding undertaking.
I am glad to have had that experience, but also glad to not be carrying that burden anymore.
Posted on 5/13/24 at 8:44 pm to Purple Spoon
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Horses are like boats
fricking worse. No one is giving their boat away. You can find “free” horses all the time lol.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 6:46 am to auggie
I know three people who were doing well financially, had money in the bank and small businesses that were on auto pilot. They decided they wanted a or a couple of horses. They were bankrupt, divorced and ruined financially within 4-5 years. I don't think it was the horses, it was the financial management that lead to buying horses that did them in.....
I live close to South Carolina horse country and the barns and the pick ups that those people drive have to put a serious hurting on their finances. The barns are a thing of beauty...timber framed, huge beastly things. They are constantly for sale.....
I live close to South Carolina horse country and the barns and the pick ups that those people drive have to put a serious hurting on their finances. The barns are a thing of beauty...timber framed, huge beastly things. They are constantly for sale.....
Posted on 5/14/24 at 8:19 am to auggie
nah, I'm just a regular human sort of people.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 9:04 am to mtb010
Figure at minimum car payment a month for each horse you have in the family budget. That's what they cost to keep.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 9:17 am to BigBinBR
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fricking worse. No one is giving their boat away. You can find “free” horses all the time lol.
You can also simply forget about a boat if you are a mind to....to neglect a horse in that manner would probably lead to you being tossed in jail and if it didn't it probably should.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 9:57 am to auggie
My grandparents had 3 horses when I was growing up. I loved being around them but hated taking care of them. Two of them were old plow horses. All three of them just liked hanging around and would follow you everywhere you would go.
When my sister started making noise about buying a horse for my niece and keeping at my parent's house, my dad went out and took the whole fence down around the pasture. That's how much he didn't want to have to mess with a horse.
When my sister started making noise about buying a horse for my niece and keeping at my parent's house, my dad went out and took the whole fence down around the pasture. That's how much he didn't want to have to mess with a horse.
Posted on 5/14/24 at 1:11 pm to auggie
Currently have 5 horse and a donkey. If you have access to plenty of grazing pasture the cost isn't bad, as long as they stay healthy. I have owned as many as 14 at one time. I do all my own hoof work, based around the natural shape of Mustang hooves. No shoes, no bits, and no sugary feeds.
This post was edited on 5/14/24 at 1:19 pm
Posted on 5/16/24 at 5:52 pm to bgoodwin
horses are like women. It's best just to rent them.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 10:48 pm to auggie
Grew up in a family that raised show horses… with that being said. frick that. Dad used me to break horses bc I was a skinny light weight little kid. Been bucked off and thrown and stepped on so many times it ain’t funny. Didn’t turn me into any kind of cowboy. Just gave me a disdain for all things equestrian. Horses are insane animals.
Posted on 5/19/24 at 1:58 pm to Griffindawg
I love my horse. It’s a Yamaha Grizzly. Just feed her gas and change the oil and filter.
Posted on 5/19/24 at 8:43 pm to auggie
We owned one for over 13 years till we had to put her down.
Costs - cost of buying the horse, full board, vet, farrier, tack, supplements, riding gear (wife rode dressage), and misc. F150 & horse trailer were optional but came in handy.
I always told people, the cost is somewhere between a car payment and house payment depending on type of board and health.
Costs - cost of buying the horse, full board, vet, farrier, tack, supplements, riding gear (wife rode dressage), and misc. F150 & horse trailer were optional but came in handy.
I always told people, the cost is somewhere between a car payment and house payment depending on type of board and health.
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