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| EqualRanch - 2015-04-15 4:13 PM Calves are expensive; you could buy a herd of donkeys for the price of a calf. Lio oh I'm not buying them. He is. They're to raise for beef though. I just asked for a jersey cause I want one
lol a friend is going to give me a jersey calf when hers are of the tests.
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Location: Where I am happiest | Having ONE person to board can actually be a blessing. It gives you someone to have there and to ride with and they can feed and care for when your gone. Just be selective on who you let in and the horse or 2 horses they have. Dont be afraid to "interview" . Plus it does help with your own horses feed bill. I agree having multiple boarders can and is a pain, but ONE works perfectly. |
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| ThreeCorners - 2015-04-15 8:16 PM Having ONE person to board can actually be a blessing. It gives you someone to have there and to ride with and they can feed and care for when your gone. Just be selective on who you let in and the horse or 2 horses they have. Dont be afraid to "interview" . Plus it does help with your own horses feed bill. I agree having multiple boarders can and is a pain, but ONE works perfectly.
Well my best friend of ( 18 years) is actually getting into horses, since I've been having her out at the barn I board at. She's been riding lesson horses. She's taking lessons as well at a barn where she lives. She's talking about getting a 'steady eddy' once she feels confident to take that step. So after the fence is done and I have the barn up, I'm going to suggest the idea of her boarding at our place. It can be at a great price, because I love her to death, and it will solve the problem of a companion. I would also trust her to be as OCD about my horse as she is about her animals.
Thanks Ladies for all the suggestions! I have some serious mulling over to do still it would seem. But I have a couple months before everything is finished with the fence. So I have time =) |
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Location: Arkansas | americanpride08 - 2015-04-15 9:28 PM
ThreeCorners - 2015-04-15 8:16 PM Having ONE person to board can actually be a blessing. It gives you someone to have there and to ride with and they can feed and care for when your gone. Just be selective on who you let in and the horse or 2 horses they have. Dont be afraid to "interview"Â . Plus it does help with your own horses feed bill. I agree having multiple boarders can and is a pain, but ONE works perfectly.Â
Well my best friend of ( 18 years) is actually getting into horses, since I've been having her out at the barn I board at. She's been riding lesson horses. She's taking lessons as well at a barn where she lives. She's talking about getting a 'steady eddy' once she feels confident to take that step. So after the fence is done and I have the barn up, I'm going to suggest the idea of her boarding at our place. It can be at a great price, because I love her to death, and it will solve the problem of a companion. I would also trust her to be as OCD about my horse as she is about her animals.
Thanks Ladies for all the suggestions! I have some serious mulling over to do still it would seem. But I have a couple months before everything is finished with the fence. So I have time =)Â
I have tried to answer your pm and I don't think it's going thru!! June would be better for me cause my bf has back surgery in two weeks and would need to have at least a month to recover. But if he's able we'd love to come.
Now back to regular our regularly scheduled thread. . . . |
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Location: SE Louisiana | EqualRanch - 2015-04-15 8:13 PM
 Jersey's are worth their weight in gold, especially this time of year!
Yeah.. If your fence is good enough to keep one of those smart things inside of it.. |
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| komet. - 2015-04-16 2:51 AM EqualRanch - 2015-04-15 8:13 PM Jersey's are worth their weight in gold, especially this time of year! Yeah.. If your fence is good enough to keep one of those smart things inside of it..
LOL. Yea my grandmother said their smart. It was so awesome, one of our neighbors cows had triplets. they had to bottle feed one of them. Wish I had a place to keep it. They offered it too us for free. Though I've heard bottle calves are seriously time consuming |
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Location: Silver Lake, MN | My mare is alone while my gelding is at training and she hangs out with a cow/calf pair we have up at the barn. They are in seperate pens but she hangs out with them and the cow licks on her. It's so funny I come out every night to ride and you can see the swirls on her butt where she was licked. LOL. She seems to be doing fine with them. My gelding is only 4yo and she is 13yo and sometimes my gelding would pester her so bad I think she is glad he is gone. |
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Location: Texas | komet. - 2015-04-16 2:51 AM EqualRanch - 2015-04-15 8:13 PM Jersey's are worth their weight in gold, especially this time of year! Yeah.. If your fence is good enough to keep one of those smart things inside of it..
A good ol' fashion 5 or 6 strand barbwire fence will do the trick. Same fence everyone uses that runs yearlings and calves. |
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| CarrieH77 - 2015-04-16 12:29 PM My mare is alone while my gelding is at training and she hangs out with a cow/calf pair we have up at the barn. They are in seperate pens but she hangs out with them and the cow licks on her. It's so funny I come out every night to ride and you can see the swirls on her butt where she was licked. LOL. She seems to be doing fine with them. My gelding is only 4yo and she is 13yo and sometimes my gelding would pester her so bad I think she is glad he is gone.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | EqualRanch - 2015-04-16 12:48 PM komet. - 2015-04-16 2:51 AM EqualRanch - 2015-04-15 8:13 PM Jersey's are worth their weight in gold, especially this time of year! Yeah.. If your fence is good enough to keep one of those smart things inside of it.. 
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| Southtxponygirl - 2015-04-16 1:13 PM EqualRanch - 2015-04-16 12:48 PM komet. - 2015-04-16 2:51 AM EqualRanch - 2015-04-15 8:13 PM Jersey's are worth their weight in gold, especially this time of year! Yeah.. If your fence is good enough to keep one of those smart things inside of it..
Honestly, I've never had an issue with barbedwire and any live stock. Dad refuses to run anything else however, regardless of me offering to buy the other fencing.
However, he runs a hot wire on the middle and top strand of the fencing about 1 inch before you come in contact with the barbed fencing. Half the fencing is horse fencing, the rest is barbed wire and hot fencing. |
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