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The Saturday ride really energized me! This morning I took the thoroughbred out. He's a bit of a giraffe and I was alone so we stayed closer to home, but it was still beautiful and a wonderful ride. He' 30 now so I let him set the pace, mostly walk with a little trot. New next door neighbors were ha...

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I know exactly how you feel! I have a wonderful conditioning trail around my property that follows the natural contours and has good footing. Yet I rarely canter on it and definitely don't gallop. Just plain old honest to god fear!

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Stifle injuries seem to be the current injury going around! Nasty. You are the third person I know who has gotten that diagnosis in the last couple of months. Unfortunately the stifle is hard to get clear ultra sounds even when hauled in to the hospital to use a more powerful machine. Last acquainta...

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I don't ride as much as I used to. I'm 66 now and it takes a lot of energy especially with 5 horses to care for. However, yesterday I texted my friend Alice and said "let's ride tomorrow morning". I'll clean after. ". I went out at 7am to throw hay this morning and Alice was already t...

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Older well pumps don't necessarily have the shutoff feature. Our old one didn't but the current one does. Do you have to do paperwork to declare your old well "dead" before they will give you a permit for the new one? We did. It was actually faster to get the permit to dig the new well on ...

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Received my tickets earlier this week! A friend and I are going and really looking forward to it. It would be nice to meet some of you IRL. Did you see that Vegas got it again in 2020 in a new venue.

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Our new well was $20,000+ but we had to go 800 feet deep. The bladders are in your pressure tanks that create the water pressure that moves your water to your various faucets. If/when they break the pressure tank fills with water and no pressure. Pressure tanks need to be replaced about every 10 to ...

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So sorry! Been there done that had to redig well. Took several days plus $$$$. (Also nightmare of county paperwork.). Do you have a storage tank or was yours an "on demand" well? There are companies that will send out trucks with potable water to fill tanks, usually about 2000 gal. Not too...

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I used to have two of my senior guys on Adequan but when I needed to add a third it was too expensive. So I researched Pentosan and sent all my research to my fairly conservative vet. He read it and said it wouldn't hurt and could help and wrote me a script for my compounding pharmacy. My guys have ...

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This seems to be the week for walkabouts! My Mariano who is ALWAYS a perfect gentleman with excellent manners was being a little pushy and rushy when I was returning him to his stall. He knew his food was waiting. Anyway I made him stop, backup, and walk politely with me and boy did it piss him off....

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You sound like a VERY caring owner who is doing everything possible to care for her horse. Keeping a senior horse active and working is the best thing you can do. The former owner sounds like someone who is not able to let go. No advice on how to deal with her, but please stay and enjoy your time wi...

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I had one made last year too! I love it! Yours is beautiful! Creater was based out of Cavecreek/Scottsdale Az. Same person?

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Gift certificate to Cabellas?

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Minis have LOTS of coat (ask me how I know when I clip mine each March) unless she is ill or immuno compromised I wouldn't worry about her...especially if she's been outside. BTW if in the future your daughter thinks she needs a sheet/blanket I've been very happy with mine from Schneiders. My mini i...

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There is something about the age 33. I lost my Stubby at 33 after 17 years. I started to cry again when I read your post. We love them so it is hard to let them go. But you know when it is time so they don't suffer any longer. You have my heart felt sympathy.

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Always unlocked for safety reasons. Never had one slide off on its own altho occasionally had a struggle getting them off for cleaning or changing!

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I think it's an individual horse thing. Conformation ally some horses have flatter feet and or thinner soles. My vet recently xrayed feet on two different horses for different reasons and was thrilled that the laminitic mare had 1.5 and 1.7cm of sole depth. The other horse is not laminitic and had e...

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Good for you!

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Other possible option that I thought of but did not implement. Give everyone 30 days notice that you are doubling (or tripling) their board in order to hire someone to help with the chores. Give them the date the new board is due. Then if anyone chooses to stay at least the hassle might be worth you...

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When I made my decision to get out of boarding the hardest part was getting rid of the boarders. Basically I just told each owner that I was getting out of the boarding business. I told them that there was just too much work involved and since my profit had been tiny or non-existent it put me in a v...

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Three of my closest friends were all diagnosed within one year. They are all now at 10 years plus. Then in the following two years four other women I worked with were diagnosed. (It is a female dominated profession and we were all becoming paranoid!). All survived after a variety of surgeries, chemo...

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Healing thoughts and wishes going your way. Stay focussed on your health and getting through this. I have four close friends who are now at 5 years plus as breast cancer survivors. It's tough, but you can do it. Come "see" us here when you need a distraction.

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BTDT....After 4 years of boarding 6 to 7 horses plus my two and fearing the IRS since I was making minimal profit I came to a conclusion. The ONLY way to make it work was to expand, board MORE horses and hire good help for at least 20 hours per week OR get out of the boarding business. It just isn't...

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i have a good friend (not a horse person) who traveled to two of the Las Vegas World Cups with me (and enjoyed herself) so when I heard it was going to be in Omaha, where she has family, I said "do you want to go?" We have our World Cup tickets. They are quite a bit cheaper than Las Vegas,...

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My stalls are 12 x 24 and I put in a 12 foot gate/door that goes to the turnout in each stall so I can scrape them out with the tractor if needed as well as get to a down horse. Another smaller door goes to the aisle. Not sure how feasible that is with your weather, but it has been very worthwhile f...

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I'm still riding Freckles at 29 two to four times weekly for about 30 to 45 minutes a ride. During the summer here in Arizona we let him decide how intense and how long he worked. Until a year ago he was still doing 3rd level work. I rode Stubby until he was 28 and then retired him due to arthritic ...

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I've used Saccharomyces successfully for similar problems. It's one of the few products thought to help hind gut problems. You can find it at some human health food stores. The Vitamine Shoppe carries it. I just open the capsules and add to supplements, about 8 capsules (4 x 2) daily depending on we...

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I think libraries will still be around in 10+ years. Throughout my career that was always the threat, but libraries evolve. We may not recognize or even like what they evolve into but the need to connect people and information will remain. A retired librarian friend just emailed me that her city's n...

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Okay...another librarian here! I got my MA in Librarianship from Univ of Ca Berkeley back when it was accredited in 1973. I took cataloging classes and "typed" catalog cards! (OMG). I spent 30 years in a Public library doing everything from children's librarian to history specialist to Bra...

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Since no root not likely to be a major issue. My horses love to have their mouth's washed out with a syringe of warm salt water usually twice daily after tooth procedures for 2 to 3 days. I syringe 3 to 5 syringes on eac side. They all like it and one will even rinse her own mouth in the bucket of l...

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I got the Samsung RFG297HDRS/XAA with French doors and water in the door. Oddly the water in the door model is less expensive than the model without it, IF you can find one without. Consumer Reports said the ice makers and water in the door features were the most likely failures in most refrigerator...

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I bought one last year when my old one died suddenly. I did the consumer reports research. I wanted a bottom freezer like my last two. At that time LG and Samsung were the top two rated for efficiency and fewer problems. I ended up with a Samsung since I got a better price on it. I love it!

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Freckles is a 29 year old OTT who became a jumper at 7. He didn't quite make it to Grand Prix but did well in the mini prixs. Then he was leased for 2 years by a junior who won the Southern Ca Equitation Championship on him. He has always been an athlete. He was retired to pasture at 17 until his ow...

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Taking a cruise is like going to a resort for a vacation. The food is wonderful and their is a choice of popular entertainment things. If that is your thing. On my cruise of the Greek islands I was frustrated since we were never able to spend as much time at the places I really wanted to see since w...

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I agree with Fatcat. Mine get their hay in slow feeders four times a day while turned out on dry lot.

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CORRECTION it's chromium yeast by Patinum Performance...I don't know where I came up with potassium chromide!

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Texsuze I asked our managing pharmacist about kitty grooming and transdermal gels. She said that most of it is absorbed within the first hour so that if you separate them for an hour after applying and then wash off the ears another kitty grooming shouldn't be a problem.

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I have two that have tested high on occasion, but not consistently. I am careful with their diet (a mixture of grass hay, with small amounts of Timothy pellets, beet pulp pellets, and the minimum amount of a ration balancer plus other supplements as needed by each individual). I also add potassium c...

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Sorry although I was tempted I think I better pass. I pulled out my girths and really looked at where the buckles fell in relation to the elbows. On the 30 inch the girth just barely touched the dressage pad, with the 28 the buckles fell midway between the pad and the elbows, and with the 26 inch th...

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I've also been tempted, but hesitated due to price since I'm just a dressage hacker. I read some where that these run small and you need to size up. Is that why you need larger? I ride my guys in a variety of girths from a 26 to a 30 going up or down a hole and when I saw your ad I was afraid a 26 m...

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Interesting question abt the grooming and the transdermal gel. I'll ask one of our pharmacists when I'm back at work next week. I'm off this week while my father is having surgery.

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Vet compounding pharmacies can make most meds in a liquid which is easier to give. Get the med in a high enough strength so that the dose is a tiny amount ie 1/4 ml. However the BEST alternatives are transdermal gels! Not all meds are effective in this format, but if the one you need is GO FOR IT. Y...

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Heaves used to be the common name for COPD which now has another name that I can never remember. I have a 24 year old mini stallion who was diagnosed with it several years ago. Most horses fall into one of two sort of "seasonal" types: Summer/ outdoor allergies to pasture type pollens etc....

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Once I started using real sheepskin girth covers I no longer had this problem with my sensitive thoroughbred.

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At the Atlanta Olympics they did several studies and came up with a heat index and recommendations for working horses in the heat. Basically you add the humidity to the temperature and the result is your heat index. I can't remember the exact recommendations, but a heat index of 120 (temp in Farenhe...

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The suspension phase of the gallop is known to be the most ground covering so it makes sense that a horse who could throw in some extra suspension phases would be faster. What I thought was interesting was that in that study it was seen only in the one furlough tests and not the longer tests. Obviou...

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Since they didn't have slow motion photography and they did have coursing hounds, I think it would be very logical for him to have assumed that horses gallop like coursing hounds when moving at their fastest (ie two front feet together and two rear together). Since many artists portrayed the extende...

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Jingles jingles and more! My brother's dog had a similar problem and recovered without issue, but she is bigger (60 lbs), but about the same age. If infected anal glands are also a problem my compounding pharmacy makes a series of Rx's with different med combinations depending on what your Vet wants...

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Pipe rail panels are more common in the West than the East, similar but not the same as panels used for round pens. Those are usually livestock panels of a more temporary nature. Pipe rail panels most commonly have 4 rails, but can have 3 or 5 rails and the metal gauge can vary. There are 3 legs, on...

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Stall dividers don't have to be solid. I use pipe rail panels and have kept every thing on a 12 foot basis including the gates. My standard stalls are 12 x 24 with a 12 foot gate on both ends (one into the aisle the other into a turnout) that allows the tractor to strip the stalls. However, I have e...

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