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pdj47 wrote: lot of horses (& people) don't like to be fooled with when eating. I'd just hang a bucket on the fence, feed him & stand close on the other side of the fence while he eats & don't mess with him. That will usually make them relax. If you have to walk into the pen to feed, carry a club & use it....
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Sierra wrote: 4H&H - "....Ya gotta do what you gotta do." - AMEN TO THAT! I do like the pvc pipe idea. I think I've even got a couple pieces in the barn. I don't mind him getting a stinger if he tries something. I don't think he cared that I got a stinger!
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goflippr wrote: I seriously want to kiss NG.
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Nightgames wrote: My mare used to be terrible about biting me when I would bend over to grab the straps for her blanket. She had great timing, and perfect aim. I would slap her every time, and make a huge noise, then go back to doing what I was doing. It really didn't phase her. She's a 1200lb monster, and I'm human. Someone suggested taking the bristle brush we use to clean the BBQ, and when she bit me, smack her on the nose with it. I thought, OMG that's awful!!! I am not going to do that. One day she nailed me friggen good. I had a huge lump, green, black, blue, purple, yellow, icky bruise. The next night I used the bristle brush, drew 3 pin pricks of blood, and she hasn't tried it again. I still feel bad about it, but it worked. Sounds cruel, but we really can't hurt them by smacking them. She's also food aggressive sometimes. I have learned to just feed her through the panels. She gets in trouble still for being a bully about it, but it's easier for both of us to just feed her and let her be.
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justbloo wrote: Few years ago I moved our two horses to a boarding facility that was quite large. Many paddocks, small pastures. Neat lil set up, you could rent the perfect size pasture/paddock for your situation. Couple of people had 4, 5, 6 horses in the almost appropriate sized section Two people over the course of the 20 months we were there ended up with extensive face injuries, one lady in ICU for days. They would go out to grain their horses in rubber tubs in the small pastures, horses gathering around them as they did it. Fights ensued at times, and these ladies would get pretty roughed up from the horses going after the grain. One lady broke almost every bone in her face when she reached down to pull a tub over, and one horse spun around and fired off with both hind feet. Needless to say, it became a rule in my paddock that feed buckets were to be hung on the fence, or the grain put in the feed-trough of the hay feeders.
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TrickRoperDeluxe wrote: I like to live on the wild side. I feed all of mine in the open whilest wearing flip flops =) With a dog next to me an goats milling about an soon some free range chickens. Im a wild one alright.. NOTE: I agree that for most feeding this way ISNT safe at all , it works for me only because I am able to take more then enough time to keep things peacefull.
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