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Quick prevention for 1100 pound beavers eating rails or edges of shelters. If your horse is chewing any unprotected wooden edges and you do not yet have metal strips, the very solid type, with a ninety degree bend with screw holes to protect the w...
The gaited mules are in the future as I have a young, spotted mammoth jack who will just be breeding for the first time this spring. I have raised horse babies in the past, but a couple of years ago decided to start raising mules, which entailed b...
Lots of trail riders in Canada, too, Marti. We'll be plungin through the snow not too long from now, Sigh. Trail is what I do most for pleasure, with raising babies, some endurance and some showing thrown in. I have National Spotted Saddle Horses,...
Have any of you used geotextile grids, or fabric or the more expensive cube-like grids for parking areas and for grassy roads or the expensive, clip-together squares? I am trying to decide what products to purchase for new paddocks, for parking ar...
What and where is the earliest endurance or CT ride in BC for 2010?
Aimee, tell us what kind of riding you want to do, what kind and how much riding you have done, how the horse will be kept (e.g. in a stall so needs to be a calm personality that is used to being in a stall, one that won't go to bucking from needi...
Welcome CM. Lordy ONLY 2000 km to truck a horse. I hear of people lothe to bring a horse from the coast of British Cloumbia to the interior-about 500 km. How do your horses truck in your hot summers? Do you have problems with any diseases as a res...
Evidently a lot of murderers of humans begin by injuring animals, then killing them, and then move on to humans. Jails aren't great but, perhaps, if there is mandated psychotherapy in the one he goes to, some good will come out of it. Let's hope h...
Thinking of our life spans and the shorter ones of the horses we love reminds me of what a mule breeder told me 5 or 6 years ago, before I got into breeding mules myself. It's a lovely twist. He looked me firmly in the eye, when I said I was inter...
The cat is sitting on my lap, kneading me while I try to type legibly. I am feeling a bit old tonight as I just had put down today my Polish Arab whom I have owned for more than 18 years. The farrier teared up, when he was last here, upon hearing ...
Tough being an owner who has had a horse 18 years and finally has to put him down. Today I put down my Polish Arab as he slowly failed due to kidney problems. He was one of first 5 horses to be trained for Search and Rescue in Canada, endurance ho...
Arab broodmare to purchase or lease, open or bred, for spring 2010; need not be sound to ride, just sound to breed. Must be a really nice nature; 14:2 or over and under 15 years of age. Prefer endurance bloodlines. Ann gallopingpen@shuswap.net
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I live in southern central BC, the north end of the Okanagan Valley. I will be looking for a registered Arab broodmare this coming spring. If she had foaled one or more times so much the better. She may not get ridden, just used as a bro...
Good for you on your rides, Amy. I have a couple of friends very happy with their Tuckers. It is a lot of fun pushing to new limits, for your horse and for yourself, isn't it?
I have ridden a lot of horses and feel more comfortable physically on a draft or draft cross. I am 5'9" so I am a bit taller than average and the drafts I have ridden have been 16.1 or so and wide. I have and do ride dressage, jump, both stadium a...
Amy, You asked what I am selling off in the way of saddles, just a couple of inexpensive synthetic English saddles. they are adequate for some riding but not elegant. They were just wide enough for the Arabs, who have very wide flat, short backs w...
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- I am 56, a lifetime rider/owner/sometime trainer and breeder. I have ridden some dressage, endurance, show jumped, done flat classes, a bit of Western, etc. My love is trail riding/camping. I am just starting to raise spotted gaited mules for trail and larger sport mules. The mammoth jack, some of the broodmares, a couple of geldings and a mule are to be found on our old place in central southern BC, in the north end of the Okanagan Valley.
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- At 12:11pm on August 12, 2009,
Over Fences said… - So Draft X Spotted mules by a spotted jack? Is your Rose Grey mare going to throw grey mules? Does that happen ? I've never seen a grey mule I dont think. Have you tested any of your broodstock for color zygosity?
- At 7:12pm on July 13, 2009,
Lynne Wiser said… - Hi and welcome to Donkeys are Equines too!
- At 10:55am on July 11, 2009,
Heather Sansom at Equifitt.com said… - Hi Anne, I just saw your question posted in the over 50 rider....I'd like to invite you to post some questions on my Ride Fit blog. I would say that most of my riding clients are over 45yrs old,and perhaps in clinics most are over 50. You've asked some good questions, I think I'll respond to them in the blog this week. I'd invite you to ask more since there are so many people out there with similar needs. You can also post photos if you'd like individual recommendations.
- At 8:40am on July 4, 2009,
Barbara Sky Horse said… - HelloOOOOOoooo Ann!!!
...*waving* ...
Welcome to Barnmice!!
Spotted gaited mules ....hmmmmm ... How Interesting!!
I hope you'll share how you happened onto "that" path.
Ohhhh and Pictures!! ... Please Post Loads Of PIctures!!!
Barnmice is a Great Place Ann, I hope you'll wade right in and make yourself at home!!
By the way, if you're interested, there's a couple of specific groups you might want to check out ...
( I belong to them both by the way ...lol ...)
The "Over 40 Rider" and the "Over 50 Crowd" ... Loads of Fun!!
Again ... Welcome BIG Welcome!!
~ Barby
- At 7:32am on July 4, 2009,
Barnmice Admin said… - Welcome Ann! It sounds like your mules must keep you pretty busy! Good thing you live in really good wine country for your time off! ;)
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Well said, slic2!
There are two sides to every issue (sometimes there are more), and we need to be aware of all of them.
I agree that there are horses who benefit from being ridden for short periods behind the vertical, which, as you say, is RAD...
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