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In my lifetime I've had 3 horses with 4 white feet. None of them had hoof issues as far as horn quality/weakness goes.

My homebred had issues with scratches until I put him on MSM and flax. It did...

I feel for you vxf111!

We had a momma racoon who somehow managed to make a nursery for her 5 babies in the section of our house that has a "bump out" between the first and second floors.

For...

Snow,sleet,freezing rain forecast here, too. DH always has to go away on business whenever the weather gets bad (and he doesn't plan for it that way, either, ironically enough!!). Anyway, discuss...

Did you ever notice that we don't walk in the winter? We trudge! I really think the people that go south aren't doing it totally for the warmth and continued training- it's hoping the untrainables...

Keep your chin up and laugh (only after the unteachables leave,though-they tend to get bent out of shape if they think you're laughing at them)
When I was in sales, I keep about 4 pages of my...

I'm glad to hear that you like the area. When I first started boarding I got the equivalent of the "unboardables"-PITA horses/owners that had cycled through every barn and the area and there was...

My neighbors get a good laugh out of me, too. I had 15 tons of permaflex(rubber) footing delivered (years ago, when I was in a bit better shape) and had to move all the rubber, by hand, around my...

My friend has a name for clients like yours-she calls them "the unteachables". I guess that would explain the frustration-you are stuck teaching the unteachables!!
I hope things get better-maybe it...

Hahaha!!! My husband has a friend from Texas that sings the Green Acres song to me every time I get on the phone! Thanks for the laugh!!

Bluey makes a great point.
Mroades-I'm actually in the process of writing a book(when I'm not on COTH or in the barn, which is most of the time!!) There was a great article in this week's Time...

The moles my dogs caught had blue(?) flipper looking front legs-they were really wierd looking-didn't look like mice or voles for sure! My barn cat loves to catch voles-they have small holes in the...

I'm laughing even more...(obviously my reading comprehension skills a bit lacking)

FWIW I'll through my 2 cents in. We had a border collie before we had our daughters. A young child cornered my border collie and frightened her-she was nervous around children ever since. When we had...

I used to say that living in Southern Jersey wasn't bad because the winters, while not fun, were generally ridable in that the ground never seemed to stay frozen for very long...what happened?...me...

Paintedtrails- I worked full time(60 hr/wk job) the first 2 years of my eldest daughters life-that was really hard and stressful as I wasn't good at delegating house/childcare responsibility to...

Wow-this has been a fantastic thread! I always wanted to do horses professionally but was talked out of it by everyone close to me(no family/loves ones into horses). For 20 years I did "responsible"...

It's like in Gone With The Wind when she holds up that piece of dirt and says(Oh I can't remember what she said but it had something to do with the importance of land so of course I teared up a...

Hahaha! You guys both have me beaten!! Yes the fire on the fenceline was a doozy-before I fenced in my back acreage I had the fields planted in a pasture mix-well, the husband got drunk with his...

Keeping our fingers crossed for you-would love to hear justice served for you and Flint

Rabicon-we all need to rant sometimes. I fully understand your emotions-most people get really upset when something happens to their children(2 or 4 legged)and go through lots of emotions-shock,...

pj-OMG my neighbors had a go cart,too!! But it was one of those cheapy kind that every time it hit a bump, it looked like some huge prehistoric bird trying to take off!! My horses really hated that...

OMG that makes a total difference if they knew better-what an @#$hole! I would call the cops in that case!

There must be something in the air lately-lots of postings from people ranging from mildly frustrated to scared for their lives over neighbors! That is absolutely scary as #$%@-I think there are...

Paintedtrails and Dance to Oblivion-I've lived on my farm and raised 2 daughters and it can be done. I did barnwork while pregnant-in fact, right up until the time I delivered. My farm at that time...

Thanks pj- you actually made me feel a whole lot better. I know these are nice people and they just don't understand-and I don't want to be the @#$% who complains every time they want to do something...