horses anyone?

[pandora's lily]

hey does anyone else here have horses or is interested in horses? i have six right now and was just wondering if anyone wanted to talk about one of the most interesting animals on earth...besides fish of course

 

[Pointy_kitty]

i've never owned them per say,
but i have relatives who own them and i use to go riding lots
beautiful creatures but they got some attitude to them
tried to buck me off on several occations when i wouldn't let them stop for the millionth time to eat grass
(that was just one bratt in perticular that use to do that)
there was also a bad mare on a riding ranch i use to help out on
when they were waiting for hoof trims they were put side by side in tiny pens so that we could catch them
but the sprinkler was close to them and if the water hit the mare she would kick the palamino behind her

i'm not sure what she was (very mixed)
its always the mutts with the attitudes

 

[De Plano]

I use to board horses.
(not for very long)

I found I like horses more than the people who own them (no offense)

There was one that was a real pain, and his owner stiffed me for three months worth of boarding fees, and I fed them every morning and night. That is the one that got me to quit boarding horses. Well that and one of the other owners vandalised my propery, 14 year old girl.

I only had them for 4 months or so, but it was not worth the effort for the money I was getting. If I had horses of my own it would have been different.

Opening the bottle of tequilla at 2:30 in the morning and then getting out of bed at 7:30 to have two horse hooves where your chest was just a second before was one of the final straws. Then, like I said the owner stiffed me on rent for the entire time the horse was here.

 

[pandora's lily]

hi pointy kitty, i hear ya there about some of the attitude stuff, but i'll let you know, i have a purebred quarter horse mare and a purebred arabian mare and they both have enough attitude to.....i dunno, but they can be pretty bad i love them though anyway

hey de plano, i'm sorry to hear about that guy stiffing you, not all of us are like that i assure you, unfortunately its those who give us the bad rep. i can understand though, about not wanting to put up with trouble like that, we were thinking of boarding ourselves because we had a few extra stalls, but it was horror stories like yours that we heard from our friends that turned us off the idea.

having horses of your own, however, is absolutely great, there is pretty much nothing better, but you have to enjoy them. i love my two and the other four we have are a joy anyway. one of them is preggo right now, due to deliver in a month and i absolutely can't wait for the baby! we had a foal born a couple years ago but unfortunately he died of something very rare, he is sorely missed. however, horses overall are an absolute joy and i couldn't spend a day without them

 

[BeautifulGoodbye]

I own 3 horses

 

[jams.alaskan]

Boarding a large paint/TB mare for a young lady. Own 4 ponies myself:
37 year old Babe, grade pony, black, mare, 12.2hh ridden by several kids in pony club -
20 year old Lady, welsh mare, blind in both eyes, cream colored, broke to drive and ride, currently on permanent loan to friend that does all kinds of petting zoo things, 11.2 hh - free to me/rescue 6 years ago
15 year old Poco, poa gelding, cushings horse that is recovering from 2 bouts of founder in ALL feet. Given to mee for free. ridden in pony club, 12hh. rescue 2 years ago
7 year old Muldoon, welsh/suffux/curly, 13.2hh gelding my 9 year old rides in pony club - can jump the moon - I bred for him and have had him since birth.

Many others in the past 20 years - I do not ride anymore, I prefer to shovel/build and feed.

ALASKA

 

[pandora's lily]

hey jams.alaskan, congrats on your 37 year old! i hope mine live to a ripe old age like that!

i have a 6 year old arabian mare, a chestnut hunter, named Pandora, she started as kind of a project horse for a friend, but i fell in love with her instead.
my other mare is a quarter horse mare, 16 years old, her name is Doll and she really is one, another chestnut hunter, i have a thing for chestnuts

my mom owns another QH mare, she's the preggo one, after she delivers and has her baby weaned she'll become another chestnut hunter its what i do, mostly i train horses for friends, right now our other three horses are colts that we are keeping for a good friend, i'll be showing for him this year and i'm so excited about that! its gonna be so much fun

i love all the cleaning and feeding stuff too, some people don't, its just the fun part to ride the horses, but i love ALL of it

 

[jams.alaskan]

Yeah - I have luck with OLD horses the first horse I had was 16hh mare I got when she was 30 (starved, no teeth, at least 400 lbs under weight)- she died at 38 and was still taking the kids to horse shows and trail rides. She was the perfect teacher for children and adults - super good for the new to riding and sparked up if she knew you could handle it! Miss you Tamasham!!!
The 37 year old is a pony - have had her for 8 years - she does not know that she is old. Leader of the herd and very good to my daughter while she learned to ride. She really treats me like a slave "clean here, rub here, feed here - now get the heck out of my space". Runs from me at catching time - trots up to any kid and places her head in the halter. Rotten Babe!

ALASKA

 

[Sasha]

I love horses! I've been riding for 10 years at my local farm, but I don't own any horses. I recently switched over to a dapple grey throughbreed named Lance and he's huge. . . like 16 hands tall. My goal is to start jumping and I did it a few times in the past. Horses are amazing animals!

 

[pandora's lily]

yeah horses definitely are great, some of the best animals on earth, and jams.alaskan i hear ya on your pony. my arab mare is just about the snottiest thing on earth sometimes and nobody really likes her except me, but once you get their trust and friendship, they'll do anything for you pretty much...but you better be ready to rub here, scratch there, etc. .........

and i would love to learn to jump too! i can get myself over one on a trail if absolutely need be, but its not a beautiful picture i'll bet it would be a lot of fun though!

 

[Peachybrown]

i got two ponies and two horses, then on my dads yard we got like six stables in use out of the fifteen....its just our friend that keep ponies or horses there. i also gota few jumps in the field atm...

 

[Kribensis]

Hiya, i have had a 16 year break from the saddle but have now decided to get back into it again, im looking to buy a 15.2hh gelding Cob, its pretty easy for me though as my hubby's family own a livery yard.

 

[adcs]

I don't have a horse but I used to work in stables with mainly Welsh Mountain Ponies and a couple of other breeds (shetlands, Irish Thoroughbred, Connemara etc).

Y'know, I got fish 'cos I assumed they'd be less hassle to keep than a pony, but sometimes I wonder...

 

[Peachybrown]

I got a thorough bred and a welsh pony -- cob.

I know.. but i took the tv outa me and my bf's bedroom and replaced it w/ a tank

 

[jams.alaskan]

Had a new patient from the vet arrive last wed. She has at least 12 inches of foundered foot on the fronts and 9 inches of toe on the hinds. We've done the exrays which show some rotation but not as much as we expected. She's not been trimmed in 2 1/2 years... On Easter Sunday we worked at getting some of that foot off - It went very well, she's sore but now in a slip on wedge shoe with impression material inside, new exrays show that we still can take more toe but we are getting her close to where she needs to be. In the next week we will slap her into some rocker shoes but her pen must be ice free and right now we are in the middle of Breakup (Spring in other places).
She's very overweight, but a pretty bay. Morgan/QH, 15 hh and about 12 years old.

ALASKA