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Location: Somewhere between the badlands and worselands | This makes me sick. I don't understand what is wrong with some people or how you could let things get this bad. And just throw their hay on top of it everyday like you don't see it. This woman should be forced to live in the same conditions
http://www.ratemyhorsepro.com/news/horses-in-knee-deep-mud-feces-le... |
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| Poor horses. I just don't get it, why have animals if you don't want to take care of them |
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| That's not KNEE deep, that's ELBOW deep!!! I have places where the horses eat that are knee deep right now, can't help it with all the precip we've had. BUT, not ELBOW deep, and they are able to escape to drier ground.
I don't think I've ever seen such deep muck - except pig pens. |
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Location: Paradise , tx | rodeomom3 - 2015-02-05 4:59 PM Poor horses. I just don't get it, why have animals if you don't want to take care of them
That's what I always think when I see things like this. Get a boat or RV, or something that doesn't eat and require daily care  |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | I don't what they are going through but it breaks the heart. May they get to dryer ground |
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 A Gopher's Worst Nightmare
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Location: Southern Oregon | I think they all have been placed into rescues. One of the BEST oregon rescues that is local to me has at least one of them. Its a super nice looking horse..... for having mud fever and being 5 years old and barely touch able it is a NICE looking horse. I really hope they all get a chance to go through the local rescue. She does an amazing job working with local trainers in EVERY discipline. She actually fosters most of the horses out to trainers and they start them and make them adoptable. She does great work. |
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 Ms. Marine
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Location: Texas | How awful... |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | They look well fed at least but ****--how do you let it get that bad?! |
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A Gopher's Worst Nightmare
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Location: Southern Oregon | hammer_time - 2015-02-05 9:11 PM
They look well fed at least but ****--how do you let it get that bad?!
I will not make excuses for anyone....but here in OREGON the mud is OUT OF CONTROL! Especially if you are in a "run off" area. I have one pony on 5 acres with a little run off and when it rains hard here our ground just slops. I have to watch his pasture super close because of the mud. Its very unfortunate. From what I understand these horses where also in super small outside pens and cramped full. I really cant imagine mud like that in my field. Although I picked up a gelding three years ago in hock deep mud. It is sickening |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | Horsekeeping in wet areas like western Oregon is different than some other areas. To do the job well, you must provide a dry, covered area for them to get out of the mud and rain. That's why I have stalls to clean and bed. I feed them in their own stalls and they have their own pastures to graze. Someone else who lives in a dryer climate gets to leave their horses out in the pasture or pen and feed outside. Here if you don't have shelter the mud gets deeper and deeper. It hasn't even rained that much this winter. It's trying to make up for that now though. The topic of this thread is what happens when someone doesn't know anything about horsekeeping or they are new to the area. |
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Location: MS | I think those horses are knee (and elbow) deep no matter what "camera angle" you use.
My outside pens, that my horses only come in to get fed twice a day, get muddy after a rain and I don't even like them having to stand in them long enough to eat. I can't imagine them being shut up in them all day everyday. |
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Location: Montana | OregonBR - 2015-02-07 10:47 AM
Horsekeeping in wet areas like western Oregon is different than some other areas. To do the job well, you must provide a dry, covered area for them to get out of the mud and rain. That's why I have stalls to clean and bed. I feed them in their own stalls and they have their own pastures to graze. Someone else who lives in a dryer climate gets to leave their horses out in the pasture or pen and feed outside. Here if you don't have shelter the mud gets deeper and deeper. It hasn't even rained that much this winter. It's trying to make up for that now though. The topic of this thread is what happens when someone doesn't know anything about horsekeeping or they are new to the area.
I'm in the valley just north of Salem, my pastures are ridiculously muddy. I have even added hog fuel and taken other measures like adding French drains. And the worst is they won't competely dry out till mid July. My horses are allowed have access to their stalls when out on pasture and that's just on the days where we are have sun breaks. Otherwise they are locked in 24/7 because I can't risk them pulling a muscle or injuring themselves in the mud. We had a gelding hyperextend his hock one year in the mud. It sucks shoes off like crazy! We have a clay mix and last spring I was having the Shoer out every other week to put shoes back on. It seems no matter what hoof conditioner and supplement I use the mud around here just sucks them off. |
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| I also am in PNW and it can be horrible. My pasture in town with my saddle horses is a mucky mess. In fact when it firms up we are getting a mini excavator and putting french drains and sand in. It is so annoying and it is clay that holds water like a sponge |
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