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<blockquote data-quote="Running Arrow Bill" data-source="post: 95077" data-attributes="member: 9"><p>Appreciate everyone's comments! Keep it up...helps a lot!</p><p></p><p>I am not considering any 4-H or High school kids due to our insurance package and not want anyone under the age of 18 to work here. Even though Texas equine law is good, it doesn't always protect one (can still end up in court or with a civil lawsuit if something happened).</p><p></p><p>I can only work at physical things about 3-6 hours a day with rest breaks. Wife does about same. She vaccinates, moves cattle, photographs animals, picks up & delivers livestock as needed, attends occasional show, mows pastures, feeds, and is involved in our marketing and breeding activities. I do repair & maintenance, mow, watering/irrigation, occasional feeding, advertising, accounting, website management. Our "non-physical time" is spent in mental & paperwork things. We have 42 head of cattle & 9 horses on our 23 acres--all seedstock registered. All activities considered we put in between 8 & 12 hours a day each. Our daily schedule is worked around the weather (moisture, wind, heat, cold, etc) and not unusual for something unexpected to come up that messes up your "hoped for" time with the horses. We do a lot of rotational grazing and moving animals on a weekly basis.</p><p></p><p>The training/ranch facilities within 4 to 8 hours drive from here that we have contacted are either not taking any new horses for training, their prices are way above the "going rate", or they are too busy showing & hauling their own horses to want to bother with outside horses. And, some places have not even bothered to return our calls or reply to our e-mails.</p><p></p><p>With all of our infrastructure now in place (new fences, sheds, corral, irrigation lines, well, etc) that we contracted out, perhaps I can get up enough energy to spend an hour or so every day doing something with our horses. I can only ride my Peruvian Paso mare due to health & experience limitations. Our others (PP & TWH I can't ride or they are too young or not saddle trained yet).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Running Arrow Bill, post: 95077, member: 9"] Appreciate everyone's comments! Keep it up...helps a lot! I am not considering any 4-H or High school kids due to our insurance package and not want anyone under the age of 18 to work here. Even though Texas equine law is good, it doesn't always protect one (can still end up in court or with a civil lawsuit if something happened). I can only work at physical things about 3-6 hours a day with rest breaks. Wife does about same. She vaccinates, moves cattle, photographs animals, picks up & delivers livestock as needed, attends occasional show, mows pastures, feeds, and is involved in our marketing and breeding activities. I do repair & maintenance, mow, watering/irrigation, occasional feeding, advertising, accounting, website management. Our "non-physical time" is spent in mental & paperwork things. We have 42 head of cattle & 9 horses on our 23 acres--all seedstock registered. All activities considered we put in between 8 & 12 hours a day each. Our daily schedule is worked around the weather (moisture, wind, heat, cold, etc) and not unusual for something unexpected to come up that messes up your "hoped for" time with the horses. We do a lot of rotational grazing and moving animals on a weekly basis. The training/ranch facilities within 4 to 8 hours drive from here that we have contacted are either not taking any new horses for training, their prices are way above the "going rate", or they are too busy showing & hauling their own horses to want to bother with outside horses. And, some places have not even bothered to return our calls or reply to our e-mails. With all of our infrastructure now in place (new fences, sheds, corral, irrigation lines, well, etc) that we contracted out, perhaps I can get up enough energy to spend an hour or so every day doing something with our horses. I can only ride my Peruvian Paso mare due to health & experience limitations. Our others (PP & TWH I can't ride or they are too young or not saddle trained yet). [/QUOTE]
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