Search:

OP:if your tack room is closed off from the barn proper, you could always try the large version of the ( small wall hung ) metered fly mister. I have two in my barn. They take a large refill and a...

Jingles for a quick recovery. At 9 weeks it must be awful to be stuck in the "cone".

I use this:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Ortho-Orthene-Fire-Ant-Killer/16888872

It's a very fine powder that does not have to be watered in. Use it very sparingly... smells goddawful, but a...

I always carry a "break-down" package as well, road flares or some type of strobe light, reflective triangles, some red flags as well. Nothing like being along the side of the road wondering if...

All I can say is prepare for the best and expect the worst... the only time we shipped a puppy by plane was very trying. We made all the right preps.... breeder drove three plus hours to get the pup...

This is a very interesting discussion to me in that I have recently begun to wonder the same thing about euthanizing a dangerous horse.

I bought this horse (OTTB and ex-polo pony) when he was 4. ...

:):):) That is just cute overload !!!!!

Practically everyone around North Central Florida burns off their pastures. Most first plow a wide strip all around as a fire break, and most with the really big pastures use some kind of...

You might take this to Flahorse.com to ask for help.:)

Nine years ago, when I got my new truck, I needed a cover to protect my hay and grain that I had to drive long distances to pick up. I researched all sorts of covers, and settled on Truxedo.

My...

:yes: Last time I used a commercial shipper, it was to move my band of five horses to my new farm. I followed about an hour behind the van and when I arrived at the farm, the horses were all happily...

Not arthritis, but I used acupuncture to help a mare recover from a broken hip. Really did wonders to encourage muscle relaxation. Took a year of treatments and rest until we could ride her again,...

Thanks for making me feel less like a "wet blanket" . It's so hard to try to teach the young ones when all they see is the horse of their dreams. . .

I'm thinking scam, but promised I'd put it out for the wisdom of COTH.

Granddaughter calls me tonight all excited because her friend is taking a road trip to Mississippi to look at a free adoption...

As I read this thread I thought about my situation. I will donate what I can to those that seem really to need the help, sometimes it is more, sometimes less, depending on my own financial...

My morning started out with a bang when going to put the grandkids' paint mare out to pasture and found that somehow over night she had ripped her eyelid two thirds of the way off. Nice . . . didn't...

Over 30 years, I've tried it all !

Paper: very absorbent, dry and dusty; not a favorite.

Rice Hulls: love these for the ease of cleaning a stall. Slippery little things that just fall...

My horses and I live in Florida. I have decent grazing almost year round, but because I am particular about my horses well being, and because they are all older, I provide hay three times a day...

We have them in North Central Florida as well. My teenage barn help was bitten (or stung) by one because he would not stop tormenting the thing. Mat was a very muscular teen ager who worked out a...

Luckily, I had been warned by the nice saleslady at my tack shop about the huge increase in the price of straight Vitamin E. . . and bought two tubs at the time at the (still) lower price. . .

My 7 year old Wire Fox Terrier has had a history of petite mal seizures, very infrequently, perhaps three over a period of some years. Last summer he suffered a grande mal, with the effects lasting...

Just over $11,000 for a colic surgery on my Andalusian stallion. (Almost $900 per day for hospital care following) He died on the sixth day following surgery and upon necropsy it was discovered...

I can't even pronounce that ! (And I'm a medical transcriptionist!!):lol::lol::lol:

Best of luck with your surgery and recovery and hope it does what it's supposed to do for you. :)

Wilson will probably be relieved to know there will be another to watch out after you.:)

This sounds like my first horse. Bought a red-head TB mare, 3years old, basically untouched. Moved her to a 7 acre field with another mare for company. Mare would not be caught, could not be...