Re: The things I wake up to
[Re: KeithC]
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10/21/20 02:28 PM
10/21/20 02:28 PM
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The fact that the horses mostly had halters on makes me think they were recently transported. Most people with a lick of sense won't leave halters on a horse long because they tangle up and catch on things. Keith There I fixed it for ya. I see a lot of horses in halters running along fences with T posts. It's a great way to see blood and gore. Same as handling a shod horse in flip flops but it's done every weekend
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Re: The things I wake up to
[Re: KeithC]
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10/21/20 09:01 PM
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Are the horses still on your land? Keith na they where gone this morning ,they did an amazing job edging up around my house though lol, gonna scoop up all the poop tomorrow for the worm bin
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Re: The things I wake up to
[Re: KeithC]
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10/21/20 09:04 PM
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The fact that the horses mostly had halters on makes me think they were recently transported. Most people won't leave halters on a horse long because they tangle up and catch on things.
Somebody likely took the horses somewhere to sell, where they got loose, or dumped them.
What are you going to do with them?
Keith Actually it's super common practice around here to keep halters on horse for months at a time. Also alot of folks will add a length of stout rope to the halter some the horse purposely steps on it, apparently it's supposed to make them easier to ride or something. Honestly just seems ignorant and lazy to me but then Shaun's the horse I've ever had basically just walked around with the cows their whole lives so what do I knwo
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Re: The things I wake up to
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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10/22/20 11:38 AM
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Golf Ball, I have lots of riding miles/years to go ! I am in my prime, and anyway, there is a technique to that swing up . That , howevah, doesn't apply to the huge warmbloods I rode in Olympic class dressage and cross-country jumping. Bailey, from Ireland, was 19 hands tall . The only way I could get in the saddle was with help from a stair stool , truck bumper, fence rail, or a leg up from a fellow rider . If they're not too tall I can do it Some folks leave that dragging rope with the thought of it training them to stand "ground tied" if needed. Others do that in hopes they can catch them easier. Either way, a recipe for disaster. I carry a big sharp knife in my truck just for the occasions of finding a horse with the halter either stuck halfway on their face with buckles frozen from rust, that they have to be cut off. Sheesh....
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Re: The things I wake up to
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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10/22/20 01:20 PM
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I will go ahead and say it Sharon, there are lots of people who have economic success in the city, buy a rural acreage, and stock it with animals they know very little about. Horses turned out in halter's that have buckles rusted shut would be a good indication of what I am talking about.
I carry a folding knife with a serrated blade, it comes in handy if when the wreck is on. Horses hung up to a post or bull riders with a spur hung to the top of the flank rope (where you cannot get to the slip knot), or a calf tied hard and fast to a horse who has lost his mind when the rider got off and missed the flank are times you either have a knife in your hand or it is too late.
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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