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Athena (In- Memory)

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Purred: Tue Sep 8, '09 7:22pm PST 
I don't think anything the scientists come up with is very good. Mother nature does such a better job!

Are your horses' winter coats coming in?
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Lady Sophie- of the Great- Hunt

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Purred: Fri Sep 11, '09 6:33pm PST 
Not that you can really tell unless you really look hard and feel them. I do think they are getting a little more of a fluff feel to their hair.
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Athena (In- Memory)

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Purred: Tue Sep 15, '09 7:54pm PST 
Senator's hair never got very long in winter. It got a little wavy once the Cushings came on, but he was never real bushy.
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Lady Sophie- of the Great- Hunt

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Purred: Thu Sep 17, '09 10:03am PST 
Their hair is definitely thickening up now, not long but thicker for sure.
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Lady Sophie- of the Great- Hunt

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Purred: Sun Sep 20, '09 8:24pm PST 
Have you ever seen a horse get porcupine quills in the nose?

My outdoor furblings got into it with a porcupine for the 4th time and this time they all three got quills and Mom had to take them to the city cause it was at night and she can never get a local vet after hours around here. Then another pup on dogster said she had heard about a horse that got quills all over it's face.shock
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Athena (In- Memory)

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Purred: Wed Sep 23, '09 7:15pm PST 
Oh, ouch!!! eek

I've never seen it personally, but I read about it. Did you have to give them antibiotics, too?
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Lady Sophie- of the Great- Hunt

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Purred: Sat Sep 26, '09 7:53pm PST 
One time when it was just Red and we took her to an after hour vet they sent antibiotics home but this vet didn't and they did fine without them. She said to give them some Benadryl for a few days so I did. She said that might make them sleepier so they would rest and not want to go out hunting around as much and it worked. They tended to just stay in the garage and sleep more. You could tell their mouths were a little sore for a few days but they are fine now.
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Lady Sophie- of the Great- Hunt

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Purred: Sun Oct 11, '09 9:42am PST 
I have a question about winter feeding. What is the worst part about feeding in winter....dealing with icy water or getting the hay out?
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Athena (In- Memory)

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Purred: Tue Oct 13, '09 9:23pm PST 
Since I had only one horse, it wasn't much of a bother to lug a bucket of hot water every time we went to the barn. One household bucket of hot water from the house into Senator's stall bucket, add cold water from the barn, and it was luke warm -- perfect for Senator. And it really encouraged him to drink enough during the winter. We never had problems with icy buckets. Only a few times did Senator's bucket freeze solid.

No problem with hay either, since I had a big barn with only one horse in it. My hay man would always put it up in the loft (I have an old-fashioned barn with a loft), but the last few years, he and I were both getting older laugh out loud so I had him put it in the stall next to Senator.

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Lady Sophie- of the Great- Hunt

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Purred: Fri Oct 23, '09 10:33am PST 
My cousin bales big round bales and I've been getting hay from him, it comes from a pasture just down the road and he doesn't have to haul it far to bring it over for me but you have to have a tractor or pickup with a bale spear. My old tractor was giving me such trouble getting it started and the hydraulics would barely lift the big bales off the ground. I finally had to give in and have it taken to be worked on, then they said it needed so much work and was going to cost so much that I decided to trade it in on a newer one that runs really well. It makes such a difference to have a tractor that runs good. It is so much easier and now I don't have to worry over whether or not I'll be able to get a bale out when they need one. I also need to get a few small bales to have in case it is really snowy and I want to feed them in the barn but the place I used to get them seems to be out of business as I can't get ahold of them. Around here most people bale round bales and very few do the small square ones anymore.

We have a stock tank down at the barn and it sometimes does freeze over but we keep an ax down there to break the ice and then I try to pull out pieces so there is a big opening that won't freeze back right away. In the past I have occasionally taken hot water down in buckets and they really do appreciate it. In Ohio when we just used an old bathtub for a tank and it would freeze up completely in the winters there I got a heater that usually kept it from freezing. I really should see about getting one of those for the bigger stock tank. I know the horses would like it.
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