Monoveros6 wrote:
I know you're not trying to pick on anyone, PDJ and dainty, but coming in and saying "I told you so!" doesn't really help.

I have my guys out as much as possible. There's not a lot of pasture, and we've got what we've got. Is it better to have 10 horses on three acres all the time, or to rotate? Do I want completely muddy mucky pastures, or some grass? We've compromised, because I want my yearling out 24/7. If we had more room, I would have her out too.

Similarly, I've worked at both western trail riding places and higher end English places. They're different types of horses. What I can do with my QH mare I can't do with my OTTB. They're just different. I went into getting my OTTB thinking "Bullshit, a horse is a horse!" and that has proved inaccurate. Hell, even my race-bred yearling, who has never been raced or stalled much, is more like my OTTB than my QH. Just different.
This is what I get for trying to be nice & just make a point. Well fuck it you people that keep horses at rent barns with the lowest paid people on the plant taking care of them but yet feel fully qualified to pass out your "free advise" make me want to puke. Just look at this incredibly small cross section of people on here that have had horses colic in the last fucking week!! A bunch of animal abusers if you ask me!

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