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Monoveros6 wrote: Pdj, she's not in a stall more than 6 hours a night, she doesn't get any supplements and she's worked regularly and consistently. Free choice hay with little grain, at least for an OTTB. However, if you'd like to buy me a place near Columbus with a bunch of acreage so she can go be a "ranch horse", be my guest! I'd love it. Edit : no blanket, either! I guess I'm not a frou-frou english rider enough to have problems then :P Right now she seems fine. She's passing some manure, and wants to eat! In the meantime, I'm trying to get fluids into her (fruit punch for my pony!) and just keeping an eye on her. If this place had a shower, I'd never leave. I can look out the lounge window to check on her, which is great, cuz she's finding that pawing dramatically brings me running, then rattles her feed pan. Thanks for the heart attack, mare!
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erika wrote:It's an interesting way of showing the city slickers that nuggets don't grow on trees though. I kinda think it's funny. OMG!!! There's CHICKEN in my CHICKEN McNUGGETS!
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pdj47 wrote: Monoveros6 wrote: Pdj, she's not in a stall more than 6 hours a night, she doesn't get any supplements and she's worked regularly and consistently. Free choice hay with little grain, at least for an OTTB. However, if you'd like to buy me a place near Columbus with a bunch of acreage so she can go be a "ranch horse", be my guest! I'd love it. Edit : no blanket, either! I guess I'm not a frou-frou english rider enough to have problems then :P Right now she seems fine. She's passing some manure, and wants to eat! In the meantime, I'm trying to get fluids into her (fruit punch for my pony!) and just keeping an eye on her. If this place had a shower, I'd never leave. I can look out the lounge window to check on her, which is great, cuz she's finding that pawing dramatically brings me running, then rattles her feed pan. Thanks for the heart attack, mare! Look I'm not picking on you but I'm just pointing out how so damn many people on here that do all of the stuff I mentioned have such trouble with colic (look at how many have posted that have had one in a few days on here). In my life I have had a gelding get a mild case after I got him real hot in a wild bull chase & roping, a mare that I had just weaned a colt off of & a yearling, both died & I don't have a clue what caused it but this is with hundreds of horses I've owned or rode for someone...I don't know what to do about it but it sure shows me horses handled more naturally get along much better.
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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.
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When I ride my horse I get to forget I have a brain injury I was the daughter who wouldn't lift a finger in the house but cycled madly off in the pouring rain to spend all morning mucking out a stable.
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