PapSett - When you’re ready, a horse will be there.
ETF - Yep, I’m feeding Nakota TC Senior. How much do you pay per bag? Irish and Phelan (my mare that died) were both such easy keepers that I got used to thinking grain was more of a treat than an essential part of their diet. Irish maintains easily on 2 lbs of cheap sweet feed a day. Nakota’s getting about 9 lbs of TC Senior a day, but she is gaining.
StG
Wow, that’s a lot of grain! My guys get three cups – yes, that’s cups of TC Senior once a day with their supplements – joint, hoof, feed-through wormer, vitamin E/selenium, and flaxseed meal – and they each go through about half a bale of hay a day. We’re just beginning to get them out on grass. Last year my TB kept his weight just fine on the three cups and grazing over the summer with very little hay, but the Morgan, having foundered in the past, presents a problem with giving them unlimited grazing turnout even when the first flush of spring richness has gone by. I do have one decent-sized paddock that they’re already grazing down to nubbins; I can keep them loose on that and open up the adjoining field to them for limited amounts of time.
I’d have to check a bill (and I can’t find one) to be sure, but TC Senior goes for I think 18 or 19 bucks a bag here north of Boston.
ETF - When I got her, the previous owner said she was getting **3 scoops **of grain twice a day. That’s 4 1/2 gallons! I cut that back, because it didn’t seem safe. She hasn’t lost weight since I’ve had her, and on the TC seems to be gaining.
Have you tried a grazing muzzle on Commander?
StG
His previous owner gave me a grazing muzzle and I will probably try it out. But he’s a very smart horse and I suspect he’ll figure out how to get it off without much trouble. We’ll take it day by day and see how it goes.
Has anyone been able to get Shaum’s camera to work? It just keeps loading and loading for me, and I had sent it to a friend this morning before work and she said she couldn’t get it to load either.
Same here; I get an overlay message of “stream not found”.
Here’s a link to the Mare Stare board, the last page of Magic’s thread. The first post has a link to YouTube video of the birth. Lower down is a huge picture of Shaum!
The Magic foaling video is about 7 minutes and begins with one person pulling. Person two comes in about the one-minute mark and starts helping about 30 seconds later. That gets Shaum out. Damn – that for sure was a hard birth.
Thank you!! Saved that pic for sure.
I have spent the evening poking around on line, looking at boarding stables. Found one here in town that is having an open house the 24th of this month… guess who’s going to be there? 
Nothing’s loading for me again. My computer better watch it - it can be replaced.
StG
LB looks like she’s delivering pretty soon.
I think I see a little hoof!
Yep, it’s coming! Here.
Yay! Caught this one too! Don’t guess I’ll ever get tired of seeing it…
ETA:
IT’S A BOY!
It’s out! Much darker than Mom.
It’s a colt! (Too bad, the owners really wanted a filly)
PapSett - I’d also think about 6 months of lessons before you get back into horse ownership. It would give you relatively inexpensive horse time and boost your self-confidence, so when you do buy a horse you can enjoy that aspect of it. Having a quiet, dependable schoolmaster retrain your muscles is a good thing.
StG
PapSett - Looking at Evansville Craigslist, I see this stable advertising English and Western lessons for only $20 for a 1/2 hour private lesson. And look at that first school horse - as loud a paint as even you could ask for! I would even pay for your first lesson if you wanted to give it a try.
StG
Damn! I’ve been checking on El Bee for days now, and doesn’t she go and drop it while I’m at the barn taking care of my boys!
Thank you!! I have saved that site; I have seen some of their rescue hgorses for sale, didn’t look at their site. Personally I LOVE that 2nd lesson horse, the roan Paint! He is purty!!
I will call them this weekend, and talk, maybe even take a drive out there… Lessons are a great idea!
El Bee’s colt has a star! A little one.
The Witt’s mare is still holding onto it.
Silver Creek really needs to clean their cams. Cam 2 has the preggo mare, CeCe.
Centaur is jumping between two stalls, Double Freeze and Greetings.
Aniya at Bowman Ranch is still holding it in.
Pacific Pintos has a panel of four showing simultaneously, and number 4 is no longer Lady and her colt; there’s a new mare in there, Black Lace/Lacey. I’ve been emailing with Joanne and she’s about at the hair-tearing-out stage waiting on those girls! With more crowding right behind them.
For sure! When my friend Anne in New Hampshire was recovering from knee replacement surgery, and was ready to get back into riding again, she wasn’t comfortable trying to ride her own horses, so she borrowed my Nick for a couple of months that turned into the whole summer. It worked out great.
Ha! Bowman Ranch, just clicked in to find this placard sitting on the straw of the empty stall: “Mark ~ she’s out sunbath’g.”
Nothing much happening right now, except that at Centaur Farm Double Freeze is having her tail braided and wrapped, and the Tweet says: "Now we have both Double Freeze (grey mare) and Greetings on cam. Both are looking due withing 12 hours of each other. " – which was posted eight hours ago. The cam feed is still jumping between the two mares and is still crappy.
Oh, and Niya at Bowman Ranch is still out sunbathing.