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Location: SW MO | Hey guys and girls. Just for fun- how many of you have a horse that has no maintenance or light maintenance? I really have been through the ringer on horses the past few years; so here is the million dollar question: Are there any horses out there who don't need crazy maintenance all the time? |
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 Miss Laundry Misshap
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| Majorly depends on what you call maintenance. |
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| Nateracer - 2017-02-27 11:54 AM
Majorly depends on what you call maintenance.
Agree. I have to keep up on one particular supplement, and Adequan. But that to me is light maintenance. |
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| Nateracer - 2017-02-27 10:54 AM
Majorly depends on what you call maintenance.
Agree , when I think no maintenance I think of a horse that just gets fed hay, maybe grain, and kept in shape to run. I think things like Adequan, or Legend just to help joints while competing is considered light. I might even throw in hocks done 1-2 x a year as light. Anything above that is maintenance. Having said that, I have 1 with zero maintenance, and one with extremely light ( hocks 1x a year). |
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Expert
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Location: WI | It's hard to define no maintenance, light maintenance, and crazy maintenance. I can tell you I've never had a no maintenance horse! |
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The Advice Guru
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| All I have are young horses, during the winter they are on nothing.
During the summer I have them on daily Lubrysin nothing else. |
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 It's not my fault I'm perfect
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | My 25 year old. He just got Legend for the first time last year, he's been running since he was 6 with me and the past few years I handed him over to cousins to lightly compete. This will be the first year he isn't hauled consistently, but only for my leadliner <3. Obviously he has been on joint supplements etc., as a preventative but he's never been injected or lame.
They don't make them like him anymore! |
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: SW MO | I would say for me injecting is my maintenance. Chiro, Teeth, supplements, etc I don't generally count that. I have had some that needed injected every 3 months in more than 3 joints. That is a little excessive to me |
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: SW MO | It kills me when I read for sale ads, people want to advertise horses as "no maintenance" or never been injected. Meanwhile I'm sitting here like, "Is that possible? Or have I just had lemon horses for the past 5 years" |
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 Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | I have one that is basically no maintainance. I keep her tummy full. Keep her legged up. And she's a happy girl. Never been lame. Never been injured. She actually seems to only be improving and seems to love her job. She's one of the few horses I've had that sees a halter and comes over to stick her face in it. She gets chiropractic work from time to time. No injections. Feed thru joint supplement and ulcer prevent with her THE MM. That's about as far as I've had to go with her. |
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| Mine. Hes 8. Just gets teeth done, shoes, and alfalfa, wormed. Although I am planning to take him soon to see if he will need injections. |
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Married to a Louie Lover
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| We have 6 who get no extras other than a good feed program and regular vet/dental etc. No injections.
I am trying my 2 on Platinum but I consider that more of a ration balancer/vit/mineral. The same 2 also get semi-regular chiro work.
The other 4 are rope horses and general pasture/sale barn/young horses getting wet saddle blankets.
I feel pretty lucky and hope I didn't just jinx myself. |
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 Not Afraid to Work
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| A good family friend has two mod 20's barrel horses, one still competes with younger kids and one retired 2 years ago but neither one have been injected. They are fed a 12% mix from the local mill and free choice grass hay. Both 1d/2d horses. Had regular care, teeth, farrier and vacs. One has always been barefoot, the other I cant say for sure.
I know another mare who wasn't injected until recently, she is 27. She ran barefoot mostly but did shoe her if hauled a lot.
My gelding requires a lot of maintenance but mostly just harder work for me. He has KS and terrible front leg conformation. Corrective shoes is the only cost really. He gets exercised 5-6x per week on longlines, neck stretcher or martingale. Massages if he gets tight but that's only like 2-3x a year max. |
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| My gelding is almost (what I consider) 0 maintenance =] He gets his shots once a year...thats the only vet call I've ever had to make for him. No injections or anything. But he is on a couple weight supplements, but nothing super spendy =] The only reason I wouldn't consider him ZERO maintenance, is that he loses front shoes like no other horse I've seen haha |
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 Good Grief!
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Hahahahahahaha now thats funny....;)M |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 788
| I really have come to realize that the more you want to take care of your horse, the more "maintenance" you will have on them. |
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 Take a Picture
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| I consider teeth and shoeing the most important things you can do for your horse. I have my horses shod every 4 weeks an teeth done every 6 months to one year depending on the age of the horse. I guess most people would not consider that maintenance but I do. |
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 Georgia Peach
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Location: Georgia |
I have a 22 year old that has never had an single injection. He still competes and loves his job. I also have a 19 year old that has only had her coffins injected once about a year ago. She has been running barrels since she was a 4 year old. I know that counts as "maintenance" but at 19 years old, thats still pretty impressive lol. |
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 Texas Taco
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Location: Bandera, TX | 
Mine are the worst.... a continous state of disarray at my barn. 2 pasture ornaments, one of them is 26 so yes she gets some feel-good stuff, the other is only 10, so she is the only one who gets nothing.
My three so called "riding horses" keep having issues. Usually only two of them are useable at any time.... As of yesterday all three are sort of back to riding.... but I won't count my chickens yet.... it's depressing. |
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: SW MO | The only reason I don't consider teeth and shoeing maintenance is because I feel like that is something that is a given with caring for a horse; that is just my opinion. For me, that is just part of the basic care any horse needs. Not something extra, that falls into maintenance. Nutrition/teeth/shoes is not something that is extra for me. |
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