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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: JC5123 on December 04, 2013, 12:47:55 PM
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So as most of you know, the western states are in the grips of arctic blast. So Monday night I went out to blanket the horses before the temps dropped to below 0. As I was walking out to the run in, I could see my saddle horse, but not my fiancee's yearling colt, but I could hear banging. The young whipper-snapper decided to roll inside the shelter and had gotten himself stuck under the side wall. (Don't ask me how) So I have a horse down and stuck. I call for back-up and begin to get him untangled. After we got him rolled over and he stood up it was time for wound checking. Well, he'll live, but he did a little damage.
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Hanging out in the warm garage getting doctored up.
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Doing better this morning despite the cold.
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Horses ain't the dumbest critters around (can you say cows?) but boy they sure do find ways to get stupid at times!
Hope he heals up OK.
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Horses ain't the dumbest critters around (can you say cows?) but boy they sure do find ways to get stupid at times!
Hope he heals up OK.
I think he'll do alright. He's not favoring that leg. And we caught him this morning harassing his big brother. (his favorite thing) Plus he's young and well tended. So I think he'll heal pretty well. I agree, horses are pretty smart, but they can find some pretty ingenious ways to hurt themselves.
Horses: Smart enough to get into trouble
Cows: Dumb, but usually too lazy to find trouble
I think we are going to try a few goats this spring. That will be a whole new level of chaos and mayhem.
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Sounds positive for him... Good.
I don't know what I'm seeing in the bottom picture.
Is that some kind of small shelter? Looks like I'm looking into a barn door with no barn around it?
Goats have to much fun.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattbellassai/goats-who-cannot-believe-theyre-really-goats
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Sounds positive for him... Good.
I don't know what I'm seeing in the bottom picture.
Is that some kind of small shelter? Looks like I'm looking into a barn door with no barn around it?
Goats have to much fun.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattbellassai/goats-who-cannot-believe-theyre-really-goats
It's a 16' x 16' 3 sided shelter. Unfortunately when we moved onto the new property, there was nothing large enough for horses to use as shelter. I have all of the materials to build a 20' x 40' barn, but as you can see, I ran out of fall weather. So I threw up the shelter to get them through the winter. Once the barn is up I am going to attach wing walls and a big slide door onto that run in and convert it to hay storage. By my calculations it should hold 5 tons of small bails with a little room to spare. The 2 horses consume about 8 tons a year, between that and the extra room in the barn I should be able to store a years worth of hay at any given time.
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Horses are like kids, always needing attention.
Glad to see he's ok. :)
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The really great thing about goats is their spectacular edibility.
Roasted...
Braised...
Marinated and grilled...
You could find yourself just looking for goats with unacceptable behavior problems. ;)
I'm just sayin'
Crusader Rabbit