No horses

[HOSS]

I an officially out of the horse business. The last one was sold today. She is going to go to a good farm to spend the rest of her days as a brood mare. No more fly spraying, trimming, shoeing, combing or tooth care. I will miss riding a bit and I will miss the beauty of seeing them trot across the pasture but overall I am glad to close this chapter.......besides......I will have more grass for the cows now.

 

[M5farm]

Congratulations,

 

[Nesikep]

So she went to Sky's place?

 

[skyhightree1]

So she went to Sky's place?

may everyone of you making fun of my situation find 15 horses in your pastures tomorow morning. :mrgreen: :hide:

If that doesnt happen I will go to the auction Alan goes to and buy some and deliver them personally :lol2:

 

[Nesikep]

wow, that's determination... a 10,000 mile round trip to deliver horses to me?

I live between 2 indian reserves, and the drift fence needs fixing,... there actually is a significant chance of horses in my pastures tomorrow morning!

 

[skyhightree1]

wow, that's determination... a 10,000 mile round trip to deliver horses to me?

I live between 2 indian reserves, and the drift fence needs fixing,... there actually is a significant chance of horses in my pastures tomorrow morning!

10,000 mile trip is nothing compared to the shenanigans i will be facing with horses so watch out lol Catch them and ship them somewhere they can be eaten. I bet the tenderloin on a horse is good. :hide:

 

[Nesikep]

I'm going to start raising mountain lions.. Apparently they prefer horse to cow.. problem solved!

 

[skyhightree1]

LOL Let me know how it works out for you I may be interested in having 1 imported from you.

 

[Nesikep]

I can export lots of horses :hide:.. don't know about mountain lions though... I've only seen a pair of yearlings here in 25 years, but the indians routinely tell me about horses getting eaten by them... a fellow further down the canyon has 25 cows or so and a handful of horses.. he's lost several horses but no cows

 

[pdfangus]

LOL Let me know how it works out for you I may be interested in having 1 imported from you.

no need....they are here....

 

[skyhightree1]

LOL Let me know how it works out for you I may be interested in having 1 imported from you.

no need....they are here....

I haven't seen any yet.

 

[backhoeboogie]

I an officially out of the horse business. The last one was sold today. She is going to go to a good farm to spend the rest of her days as a brood mare. No more fly spraying, trimming, shoeing, combing or tooth care. I will miss riding a bit and I will miss the beauty of seeing them trot across the pasture but overall I am glad to close this chapter.......besides......I will have more grass for the cows now.

It has been several years for me. Most I ever owned at once was 7. I have never regretted getting out of that business. Thought I would and it was hard to let go, but once I did it, don't know why I waited so long.

 

[skyhightree1]

I have never regretted getting out of that business. Thought I would and it was hard to let go, but once I did it, don't know why I waited so long.

guy I bought 99% of my cattle from said the exact same thing.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

I have never regretted getting out of that business. Thought I would and it was hard to let go, but once I did it, don't know why I waited so long.

guy I bought 99% of my cattle from said the exact same thing.

About cattle or horses?

 

[skyhightree1]

I have never regretted getting out of that business. Thought I would and it was hard to let go, but once I did it, don't know why I waited so long.

guy I bought 99% of my cattle from said the exact same thing.

About cattle or horses?

Double T he was talking about cattle

 

[Workinonit Farm]

LOL Let me know how it works out for you I may be interested in having 1 imported from you.

no need....they are here....

:nod: :nod:

And don't believe what any wardens from Dept. Game and Inland Fisheries tells you.

The last time it was discussed with one of those guys he was trying to convince us (me, co-workers and farm mgr) that the tracks we found, the partial pics on the game cams and the scat and carcass pieces we found all came from "an escaped pet from an old petting zoo"......yeah......o.k.

Katherine

 

[Dave]

I can export lots of horses :hide:.. don't know about mountain lions though... I've only seen a pair of yearlings here in 25 years, but the indians routinely tell me about horses getting eaten by them... a fellow further down the canyon has 25 cows or so and a handful of horses.. he's lost several horses but no cows

Youngest son and his hunting partner shoot a lion in Nevada. The area has lots of deer and lots of wild horses. The lions belly was full of horse hair. So I guess we know what they prefer. So eat a horse, 10,000 mountain lions can't be wrong.

 

[3waycross]

10 years ago my Father offered me his horse herd. 13 Registered Quarter horse broodmares and 1/2 interest in 7 or 8 ranch broke gelding that he owned with a long time partner. I looked at him and said "What the heck did I do to you to deserve that"

I told him give em all to Gary(the partner) and if I need one I will borrow it. Been 10 years I haven't borrowed one yet. Unused horses are the bane of the west. I would send 90% of them to slaughter tomorrow if I could.

 

[pdfangus]

LOL Let me know how it works out for you I may be interested in having 1 imported from you.

no need....they are here....

:nod: :nod:

And don't believe what any wardens from Dept. Game and Inland Fisheries tells you.

The last time it was discussed with one of those guys he was trying to convince us (me, co-workers and farm mgr) that the tracks we found, the partial pics on the game cams and the scat and carcass pieces we found all came from "an escaped pet from an old petting zoo"......yeah......o.k.

Katherine

yeah...they pulled the same crap years ago when people were seeing bears all over around here. We have no resident bears and any sightings are juvenile bears passing thru....Any rational human would question from whence did the juveniles arrise then. Did then wander in from tennessee? (I am an eight hour drive via interstate from the closest point in Tennessee) Then for quite a few years there were the annual tee vee stories of bears in the City of Richmond....got so common place that they finally had to admit that yes we have bears....now there are sightings in my neighborhood weekly....Last week four adult black bears between the church and the day care in the village of Beaverdam. Beaverdam is really more of just a cross roads.

I am really not too concerned with black bears.....

cats are another story though....they eat people an dhorses and livestock

so the lie has now switched to lions....the lion you saw was not actually a lion....it was a bobcat or a mega squirrel....the real question is how did the squirrel get the partially eaten deer get twenty feet up in the tree. I have an aquaintence who has seen two in his yard...and he has lost calves to them......I think I may have had one on my property once but I can not prove it...
The DGIF peopel always end their denial with a warning that, while there are not any here, if you see one you can not kill it. I just look at them and say, No worry then, How could I possibly kill something that is not here?

 

[skyhightree1]

PDF hilarious yea mine out here tells me man ypi would be surprised what's in the woods but never elaborated. Maybe 5 years ago someone killed a wolf that has a tracking collar DGIF quickly said it was a fluke and told guy don't do it again.