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The Silly Things That Annoy You Around Horses And The Barn

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  • #41
    I have small hand syndrome, too. The kids curry glove is just a little too tight and the other one comes right off with every stroke...
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    • #42
      head whacking

      bending over to get something from the floor of the tackroom and whacking my head on the metal saddle rack when I straighten up

      ducking under the dividers in our trailer and coming up just a little too soon (head whack again)

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        #43
        OMG Thomas, too funny! I'm guessing your wife gets many chuckles out of you! I get the same chuckles from my husband only when I realize he hasn't been hurt. One of my all time favorites is when he was trying to burn a bunch of old hay former owners had left. I was in the kitchen doing dishes so I saw the following without sound.

        Hubby decides fire isn't really burning "good" enough. Decides in a moment of stupidity to add more petrol on the burning fire. Now plastic can ignites and hubby is now trying to fling it off into the fire or anywhere away from him. Amazingly he just burned the hair off his arms and some of his eyebrows were missing. But it was quite the scene from the kitchen window!

        And a couple of weeks ago while throwing down hay in the hay barn, he stepped backwards where he thought a bale of hay was. Only it wasn't and bam, down he came. I passed the barn just as this was happening. Honestly, he does amaze me sometimes. I think I'm the klutz, but he has his moments.

        Terri
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        • #44
          Originally posted by Thomas_1 View Post
          Stepping over the electric fence and discovering it's still switched on and getting a shock in the wedding tackle!
          I backed into an electric fence TWICE while pregnant. Had to go to the hospital both times to be monitored.

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          • #45
            I can't stop laughing at this one. Classic!




            Originally posted by Slewdledo View Post
            When you get all set up to bring your horse in and work with it because you feel bad that you and the horse have been lazy butts all winter and the horse REALLY needs to get worked with. Hell, horse hasn't really been groomed since...January? So you assemble all your tack (horse is not broken, so just saddle, chifney bit, grooming tools), get halter and leadrope, and go out to field.

            Horse and horse's friends decide it's a greaaaaat morning to run and run and run and run. Horse's friends finally get tired and come over for scratches. Horse does not.

            So your goal goes from "Bring horse in, groom horse, tack horse, take horse for walk, give horse treats, put horse back"

            to

            JUST F-ING STOP F-ING RUNNING LONG ENOUGH THAT I CAN AT LEAST TOUCH YOU WITH ONE LOUSY FINGERTIP.

            Did I mention it's pouring down rain, windy, muddy, and cold enough that it snowed the previous night? And the horse has never, ever run away before?

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            • #46
              Originally posted by glitterless View Post
              Does anyone else cut themselves with their hoof pick? I've done this a few times now. They aren't even that sharp. I don't know how I manage it.
              YES!

              I have a horrible habit of picking hooves in the wrong direction (toward my hoof-holding hand instead of away from it) so I have a semi-permant bruise dot on the inside of my arm from the occasional (and surprisingly painful) hoof pick stab.
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              • #47
                These are all great and have me laughing on a nasty house bound weather day.
                Mine are:
                My Andy always decides to lift tail and pass wind when I'm picking the hind feet, as if, this is what I think of you.
                He also ALWAYS, never fail, decides he just HAS to crap when I am giving him a bath. Of course this is annoying because it's pain in the arse enough to clean up the poop balls, but when they have been moistened by the bath water....grrrr.

                And my stupid moment: I was taking his boots off after riding and was too lazy to walk to other side to get his right boot off so reached under him. Well he decides to step back, right onto my foot. As I am trying to get him off my foot I lost my balance and literally fall under the front of him to the other side as he starts jumping backwards. Of course someone on the other side of the barn hears the noise and I hear a yell, "you need help?" No, we're fine, just a blond moment!!

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                • #48
                  Drives me nuts when I ask one of the boys to do a job and they end up asking me to help them.

                  For instance - can you take the ATV and turn it around - request from the son as he hops onto the atv and starts it - "can you get the doors for me?".

                  NOOOOO - I asked you to do the job - I am doing something else


                  As I am typing this my husband is reading over my shoulder - he says when he asks them to open the door for him they never open it enough so he might as well do it anyway.

                  I can relate to so many of these but thankfully not all

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                  • #49
                    My husband does that...he insists on doing a chore or repair that I was already doing but I HAVE to stand there and watch him do it and hand him everything he needs and then he just wants to do certain parts and walks away with it unfinished. For some odd reason he adores having me watch him do stuff...like rake the paddock. If I walk into the barn and start other chores he keeps calling me back out so I can stand and marvel at his tractor driving skills....which doesn't bother me overly much because at least I'm handy to go grab the tow chains and truck for when he inevitably gets the tractor stuck, LOL! *sigh* Spousal machismo requires an audience.
                    You jump in the saddle,
                    Hold onto the bridle!
                    Jump in the line!
                    ...Belefonte

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                    • #50
                      There have been so many winter-related ones that I can't really relate to all that well living in Atlanta, but I have plenty of summer annoyances

                      - bedding stalls in the heat/humidity of the day and having the dust stick to your sweatiness
                      - FLIES...ew
                      - The feeling when your jeans stick to you after you get done riding

                      Year-round annoyances?
                      - hitting the pitchfork on the mat/door of the stall and spilling all the poop
                      - carrying water buckets and spilling it on you
                      - dumping water buckets and finding huge bugs/dead mice floating in them
                      - MUD
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                      • #51
                        Originally posted by MistyBlue View Post
                        My husband does that...he insists on doing a chore or repair that I was already doing but I HAVE to stand there and watch him do it and hand him everything he needs and then he just wants to do certain parts and walks away with it unfinished. For some odd reason he adores having me watch him do stuff...like rake the paddock. If I walk into the barn and start other chores he keeps calling me back out so I can stand and marvel at his tractor driving skills....which doesn't bother me overly much because at least I'm handy to go grab the tow chains and truck for when he inevitably gets the tractor stuck, LOL! *sigh* Spousal machismo requires an audience.
                        LOL! Oh my gosh I think we are married to the same man! He will even say he's going to do so and so do you wanna come and watch me? LOL! He says he feels better just knowing I'm there even if it's doing something I can't help with.

                        And klutz, well that is my middle name. Every week at work they are waiting to see what large bruise or ripped ligament or broken limb I have, or what exciting stories I have of being stepped on or falling or getting caught in the electric fence...

                        One time when stepping out of the feedroom I stepped on a small rock and my ankle twisted and snapped and I hit the ground just as hubby rode by on the golf cart, he looked down at me, as I am grasping my ankle, and says what did you do NOW?? I gasped out I twisted my ankle and feel. He looked up and forward, shook his head and drove off to finish feeding. I soon picked myself up and helped. One week later went to the Dr as still swollen and purple and it hurt to put weight on it and I had BROKE it. Needed a cast. Boy I caught hell about that at work, about walking around for 7 days with a broken ankle.

                        Also when riding if I get bucked off he just stays in the saddle and waits while everyone else is freaking out. They'll say something to him and he just says "I've learned by now, she falls so much I just wait, she's tough, she'll get back up, if not then Miss Independent then will ask for my help."

                        He really is a good man a loves the hell out of me, so don't think of these things as cold or uncaring, he's just learned to wait and see, if I need his help I'll ask.
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                        • #52
                          Forgetting what I was going to write re this thread..................

                          Having the dog roll in a pile right before we are leaving for town. Then want to give me a kiss.

                          Trying to explain today to 1300 lb draft x that no, it is NOT ok to put her two ginormous hooves in the feed trough and stand in it just so she can reach the hay that fell off the edge and was laying against the fence. Wanna bet she won't want to step in the trailer this Spring?

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                          • #53
                            Going to feed the horse in the paddock, reach for his feed pan, that lo and behold has peed in it! Ofcourse it is not an isolated incident. Note to self: put feed pan in barn after each meal is done. Then there was the Pinto; every spring the barn looked like I had sheared Skunks! This horse also liked to leave me presents in his water dish(Poop!) The number one annoying thing for me is; When any horse in the barn has thrush and I end up with the Purple hand of death.(i.e. Thrush buster dying my had purple). I also have a purple stain in the vehicle and in various tack holding places!!
                            Strange how much you've got to know Before you know how little you know. Anonymous

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                            • #54
                              Putting on eight thousand layers of clothes to go to the barn in winter, and then having to pee.
                              "Remain relentlessly cheerful."

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                              • #55
                                Originally posted by SarahandSam View Post
                                Putting on eight thousand layers of clothes to go to the barn in winter, and then having to pee.
                                Ain't that the truth!

                                More annoying than silly is when I'm bringing in three of my younger horses to grain. They are let in, in the same order every time, and have appointed stalls they've been fed in for ages, yet at times they'll go into the wrong stall. Get chased out, only to go into the next wrong stall...or mill about trying to 'figure' it out.
                                Is it me or do 99.9% of cowboys just look better with their hats on?
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                                • #56
                                  1. Trying to halter a rambunctious weanling who was in a rearing stage. So I back up smartly. And back my bare neck into the hotwire. Eyyyyyyow!

                                  2. Putting brand new saddle on horse. Horse being rank. Horse rearing in stgall. Saddle sliding to floor of stall, shavings and hay. As new saddle owner leaps for the new expensive leather, horses tail rises and out comes a prodigious amount of poo. Such language my friend made that day! I couldn't even help her, I was doubled over laughing.

                                  3. Leading the retired ISH out to pasture on a cold day. The driveway is frozen and I am walking verrrry carefully. But not carefully enough. Imagine road runner on ice and you have me aslipping and asliding while stupidly HOLDING the lead rope. Humans do not normal move this way so the ISH spooks. And slips too on the ice. So now the the two of us are doing road runner ice capades. Finally I give up and hit the ground. Owwie! ISH makes it to the grass, but will. Not. Let. me. Near. Him. Had to have a friend turn him out that day. I'm still sure he hasn't forgotten my "special dance".
                                  Do not take anything to heart. Do not hanker after signs of progress. Founder of the Riders with Fibromyalgia clique.

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                                  • #57
                                    Originally posted by 2DogsFarm View Post
                                    MistyBlue: I think you may have invented the first Winter Olympic Equine sport:
                                    Poop Luge
                                    Bwahahahahaha!

                                    I used to do the Shin Meets Wheelbarrow Bar thing until I switched to a Rubbermaid Farm ToughCart...whew, one less thing.

                                    Worst is dropping the hose and it lands on the sprayer handle so you get BLASTED with the water and always in your face and/or crotch.
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                                    • #58
                                      Applying DMSO and discovering there's a small hole in the rubber glove...

                                      Thinking you've completely drained the hose after filling the 100-gallon water tub, only to stumble out the next morning in 10-degree temps and discover the freaking thing is somehow full of ice and completely blocked. Then having to carry buckets by hand, sloshing it all over yourself in the process.
                                      "Dogs give and give and give. Cats are the gift that keeps on grifting." –Bradley Trevor Greive

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                                      • #59
                                        Originally posted by copper1 View Post
                                        When the simple task of taking out the hose to water the indoor becomes an argument with an 150 foot long rubber serpant with a mind of it's own that likes to spit at you from various joints on it's body and then get a kink that you can't twist out and you drop it as the wter comes spewing out again of course all over you!
                                        OMG, your serpent has progeny, and it lives in my barn!

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                                        • #60
                                          Originally posted by Thomas_1 View Post
                                          That was actually a memorably funny day because later on I took delivery of a horse in for training and the first time I went to release it's head collar when it was turned out, it tried to whip away to charge off and because it was so muddy it pulled me up and out of my wellington boots!! I got deposited standing about 3 feet away from my boots and up to my shins in mud!
                                          That one made me lose it!

                                          I have had the mud suck my shoes off before. Not a pleasat feeing, especially when the mud is a lovely slurry of snow, ice, manure and urine. Eeeeeewwwww!

                                          One of the dumbest things I ever did was go to put the halter on my mare and have her slam her head into mine. So what do I do, well try to put the halter back on again, of course. Only this time we had shifted and I was standing next to a fence post, so when she swung her head into mine, my temple bounced off of the corner of the fence post, so I got nailed from both sides .

                                          And why was my normally well behaved mare slamming her head into mine? Well, after I stopped seeing stars and I could breathe normally and stand up again, I investigated and discovered that somebody had tried to bite her right ear off. I felt so bad that I had been trying to unknowingly put a halter over that ear.

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