Welcome to this interactive Equine blog

Here we hope to offer horse Tales, Equine sales of all kinds and tips on horse care and training.
What would you like to share or what horse items are you wanting to sell ? Simply post it !
Here is my first tip: Do you have a problum removing thoes nasty bot eggs in the fall ? Try a sponge saturated with rubbing alcohol. Scrub the eggs with soaked sponge . I do it several times . Eggs that don't come off will shrivel and If ingusted won't hatch.

Friday, November 14, 2008

The humor in owning a horse + or -

Owning a horse has its plus and minuses. We all have had good and bad experiences in ownership, for instance ; The Worming Experience ,one in mind, was the other day, poised and ready to worm one of my horses that is usually docile and obedient. I approach my horse with the wormer tube at my side as to not disturbe my horse with a foreign object . I grab hold of the halter slip the wormer in my back pocket and proceed to pat and scratch the horse around his face . Then holding the halter as he is relaxed ,I remove the wormer from my back pocket and slip it in into the corner of the horses mouth. Accepting the plastic tube for just a moment he realises its foreign and backs up only to plop half of the wormer on the ground like a splat of bird poop! So now I have a half wormed horse . I retreat to the barn for an additional tube of wormer setting the new tube for half a dose . I return to my horse and this time tie him! Standing before my sweet gentle but wary horse I wonder how I'm going to plunge the half dose into my already wise horse. I again retreat to the barn for some treats and proceed to feed him his favorite treats . I again plunge the wormer into the side of his mouth ,he steps back spits what remains of his treats and the wormer out only to land on the top of my boots! SIGH, I return to the barn wipe off my boots and go back to my horse with whats left of the second wormer tube . Now I'm serious . I get hold of the halter, back my horse to the end of the rope, push his head in the air and shove the last of the wormer in his mouth, push the plunger and hold his head up while he slobbers the wormer down! Having finished that chore I proceed to clean hoofs Not to mention I have 11 more horses to worm and deciding I'll do those chores tomorrow! It must not be too bad , because I still have horses!