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The Eyes Have It 2007-04-07 19:24:00 Another eye, Is this a good one? I think so. Even when the white is showing.Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Kind Eyes 2007-04-07 04:33:00 A kind eye. You can see a kind eye. It's soft. Mello. And usually the horse behind it is unworried, easy to handle, has trust in you. Are these kind eyes?Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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In His Own Likeness 2007-04-06 22:29:00 Steve and I had this stained glass window made when we finished our addition a few years ago. It is of Dakota, my first horse that I ever purchased. Not that this really has anything to do with horses and their care, but I thought I'd share it anyway, because I think it's well done. The glass is about 4 foot by 3 foot and framed in solid oak. It replaced the old outside window to the barn. We thought we'd make a feature out of the hole in the wall rather than cover it up.Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Clean Kola 2007-04-10 03:10:00 This is one of the first times I saw Kola before I bought her. Nice and clean. Looking at the camera, "Look at how beautiful I am, Come buy me!" Last summer at Timmermann's Ranch where I got her from.Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Jess's Jake 2007-04-09 17:00:00 This is Jess's big gelding. He is such a big boy. His name is Jake. He was very noisy when I took this photo a couple of weeks ago. I was in the middle of taking the photo and he whinnied and it was so loud and unexpected that I jumped.Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Some People Need to See a Therapist.....Really 2007-04-12 04:12:00 I recently went to google to search other horse blogs and came across one that turned up on the first page. I'll not mention the name of the blog because I don't want to give the poor little boy who writes it any traffic. I checked this blog out , only once to get an idea of what it was. It's a hate blog, of not only horses, but of other races and cultures. It amazes me how someone, even someone who is allowed to express their opinion can get away with this crap. I did notice however, the little baby boy had disabled his comments. Apparently, he cannot take the heat. I think the poor little baby must have gotten kicked by a horse as a little tike and hasn't gotten over it. Perhaps the horse that had kicked him intuatively knew what he might grow up to be. Hate is such a strong word. Grow up little tike, grow up.Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Mid-April? 2007-04-11 15:46:00 I took this pic this morning when I got home from work. April
11th, winter storm warning here in Wisconsin for the next 24 hours. The ground had been void of all snow since the beginning of March. We're due to get 6-10 inches in the next 24 hours. Boy, does this suck. And this is only the beginning. The snow has only been falling for about an hour. I can't imagine what it'll be like this afternoon. The girls always back their butts up against that corner rather than go in the lean-to. That's the goat pen butted against the horses and the goats were piled into their house. They hate getting wet. "Sissies!" say the girls.Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Spider Oak 2007-04-10 23:51:00 Believe it not this is Jake's daddy. How we ended up with a 16 hand horse out of 2 that were 15 hands and under I'll never understand. Most people like to make their stallions all pretty and shiny for pictures, not me. He is an athlete and enjoys what he does, so that's how I like him to be in his pictures. I can cover a mare with him, jump him on the trailer and go show. He's my special horse and he does get spoiled from time to time. He loves grain more then mares so it's not hard to keep him happy.Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Who's Your Daddy? 2007-04-13 01:38:00 Who's your Daddy
?I had a wonderful opportunity to have a professional picture taken at a recent horse show. Spider had three of his "babies" there. Spider is far left, then Mia Oak, Spiders Angel Oak, and Cassidy Oak. Cassidy is a stallion and is being trained for the NCHA Futurity. Mia earned her COA that weekend for winning over $1500 in completion. Angel is my 2 year old mare in training. Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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The Spot 2007-04-12 19:23:00 Well, our winter storm in mid-April is over for now. We did lose power now and again. I went outside to open the pasture for the girls so that they may have a good leg stretch. I never miss an opportunity to take pictures of them. Thought they might trot around a bit but no. I've got more pictures of nostrils than you can imagine. They mill about me, poking noses in the little camera, waiting for that long awaited behind the ears scratch and then impatiently take turns for their "spot" rub. All horses have a spot. A certain place on their neck or body that they love to have scratched. Kola loves the top of her forehead right between her ears scratched and Misty likes the left side of her neck about 1/3 of the way down from the top just under her mane. You can see all the marvelous snow that fell yesterday. I love that my girls would rather spend their time hangin' by me than trotting away from me.Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Badger 2007-04-12 18:25:00 Badger was about a 16 yr old gentleman who was here on trial for about a week. He has the most beautiful color. He did have a dun dorsal stripe. I love duns, buckskins especially when they dapple and when they have a little chrome as well. This boy was a big, tall boy. I think we measured him at 16.1 hands. He looks beefy too. Jess found him a good home with some light weight little kids who just adore him. A good place to retire. Jess rescued him from up-north along with Rocky.Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Senile Dogs 2007-04-12 15:18:00 Do old dogs get senile? I'm attempting to recover from a night lacking sleep. Lately this old dog, Fido, who faithfully comes to bed with us every night has been waking at about 2am in which he promptly begins drinking water out of the toilet bowl,(we have an on-suite bathroom to our bedroom) ignoring the bowl of water filled for him, opens up the bedroom door and proceeds to bark loudly at ????? Who knows. He barks in every room in the house for hours. Downstairs, upstairs, it doesn't seem to matter. And then he comes back upstairs to our bedroom door and stands there and barks until I get up and let him in and this will go on for hours. Ignoring him is not an option. Of course, my husband sleeps right through it. Now to understand my frustration fully, you must know that my husband has taught this old dog that it is ok to bark when he wants something whether that be a full food dish, to go out, to go into the bedroom by indulging the creature every time that he barks and then cater
Why Not Butts? 2007-04-15 10:54:00 " I like big butts....and I cannot lie....." I just thought if I had eyes and noses, why not butts ? My girls' butts have never been that important to me, just so long as they're working (no body's colicking) or such. Everything is flowing smoothly, but not too smoothly. As I keep my girls on my property, I am able to keep close track of such matters. Having had brushes with colick, especially in winter months, I do keep a watchful eye. One thing I have noticed this year is that a salt block really does help. My horses always drink less during winter months and keeping diligent about the salt block has made a huge difference. Funny enough it is important to pay attention to those horse apples in the pasture. Too dry, too loose could mean a serious problem. Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Buying a Horse? 2007-04-16 15:51:00 Buying a horse over the Internet. Hmmmm.........I've done that. Actually, that's how I found Kola. I surfed many a horse for sale website. Equine.com. Horse
ville. AgDirect. Horsetopia. I believe it was Horseville where I found her. However it was through a relatively local ranch that had Kola for sale as well as many others. A ranch that shows up here at the Walworth County Fair every year, but it wasn't until I got to Timmermann's Ranch that I realized who they were. And funny enough, the other horse that I was interested in which I also had found over the Internet was private sale and owned by the mother of a girl who worked at Timmermann's but I did not know that until I went to see Kola and started talking to those people. After I had bought my first horse and was on the prowl for a second, I learned allot. One thing I learned was trust your gut. My husband and had never actively bought on our own before and were on the hunt for who is now Misty. I looked locally at first. Wen Read more:Buying
Vet Visit 2007-04-16 13:29:00 Well, I'm up early this morning. Got to take the kid to school and the vet should be here around 9am for the girls. Coggins, shots, etc. Thought I'd go out there and clean them up a bit first before he gets here as these days alot of vets are taking digital photos to go along with the coggins papers. I usually give my own shots in the fall but figure if the vet is here to draw the annual coggins, I may as well just have them administer the spring shots while he's here.Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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What a Face! 2007-04-18 20:06:00 What a face! My little Spotter. It's as if he was posing. He just cracks me up. How could you not love this face?Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Yesterday 2007-04-17 21:09:00 I know this post has nothing to do with horses, but I must say how horrible and so very sad I feel for the family and friends of the innocent people killed at Virginia Tech yesterday. I cannot fathom the immense sorrow all of these people must feel. My heart and prayers are with them.Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Border Collie 2007-04-17 16:18:00 Spot, the BorderCollie
, of the purebred nature, showing his natural talents, watching the horses in which he knows that is all that he is allowed to do. But I do like this pic because he has that intent Border Collie look on. He's quite good at herding the goats as long as he is not distracted by his soccer ball.Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Misty 2007-04-19 00:50:00 I love this pic of Misty
. ( Sorry, changed pics, like this one better)Misty is a Quarter Horse/Morgan cross. She is 12 years old and in my opinion worth her weight in gold. A couple of years ago I took Misty and Toots on a local trail ride which doubles as a bike trail. I brought my daughter Becs with me. We parked the trailer and truck and unloaded the horses and saddled up, mounted and started off down the trail which is an old railroad track. We had gotten about a mile and a half down the trail. A nice leisurely walk and Misty stopped dead in her tracks. I urged her forward. I spun her a couple of times and she kept backing. I could not get her to move forward further down the trail. Becs on Toots stopped and waited. Of course this argument with Misty was dangerous as there were steep embankments on both sides of the narrow trail, so I opted to leave as is and we turned around and headed back. She was on high alert all the way back. I couldn't figure out what was going on. This was
More About Vaccinations 2007-04-21 20:15:00 I've been vaccinating my horses for as long as I've had them. A steady 7 years. And there has been a fair few here. I come home from work this morning after a 12 hour shift and a 45 minute drive both ways to find Kola extremely lethargic. The girls were vaccinated on Monday and she's been increasingly lethargic throughout the week. Laying down more and more. So I check her out and call the vet because she's just not right. We concur over the phone that it might be a reaction to the vacs and I go out and give her a little over a gram of bute. She gets gaggy and even more sleepy. I call the vet back because now she's wobbly on her feet and unbalanced after about an hour and a half of watching her. So the vet comes out to see her because now I'm wondering if she's collicking because I've seen Misty drink at least five times in two hours and Kola not a drop. She hasn't pooped or peed and I am confused. He checks her out. Of coarse now she poops in front of us, but it's loose. He Read more:Vaccinations
How Do You Vaccinate? 2007-04-21 12:03:00 Has anyone ever noticed whether or not their horses get a bit lethargic after spring shots. I usually give my autumn shots myself but in the spring I have the vet because they have to come and draw coggins anyway. So in spring, they get east, west, central encephalitis, west nile, flu/rhino tetanus. Maybe more. Anyway I notice that they get lethargic for a few days after the mother load of vaccinations. I usually give a strangles vac a few days later( the intranasal). Now my vet said to give the strangles orally. Apparently giving it orally it only takes 2 hours to reach the lymph nodes and giving it intranasally can take up to 12 hours. What do you vaccinate for? And how often? Now my mares are not bred and won't be. I usually vaccinate twice a year and if there is an injury they'll get a tetanus.Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Farriers, Do Horses Eat Their Feet? 2007-04-28 00:52:00 The farrier here today. He did a fine job. I was very pleased. I did warn him though that I wanted the girls scooped out a bit and rasped. Very, very pleased. Thank-you, Jeremiah. And we have a rather unconventional way of doing things here, anyway. Because I don't have a barn, we do the farrier work in the paddock or the training pen and in this fine spring rained soaked, trampled ground, it's the highest driest spot we can find. I catch one and halter her, hold her with a lead and Jeremiah has the pleasure of wet muddy feet and he never complains. While we do the feet of one mare, the other stands right there poking at her and us and visa verse when I hold the second mare. Now here's the interesting part about today, Kola was done first, with little complaint. All and all, she was very well behaved. She groans through it. Started on Misty, who likes to press her nose over my shoulder and snug in close throughout the procedure and turned to see Kola with a piece of her own hoof in Read more:Horses
A Good Day 2007-04-26 05:24:00 Yesterday one of the mare's that I'm foaling out had a very handsome stud colt. He is one of Spider Oak' s colts so of course I'm going to think so. One problem, the mare had a "dummy foal" the first time she foales and it turns out this one was too. Tonight he latched on to his mama and nursed on his own. It is truly a good day! My wonderful boyfriend did most of the mare milking and feeding of this colt while I slept to go to my full time job. As if raising horses isn't! So after dealing with this I had to do a little research and found out he had a very mild form of neonatal maladjustment syndrome, that is the most common of the scientific names. All and all it still scares a person. I cannot stress enough about the importance of making sure the foal is truly nursing. We had someone check the mare thru the day because I was fairly certain she was going to foal. They heard him suck and his head was in the right spot, only it was the bag he was sucking on not the nipple. She h Read more:Good Day
Barefoot or Shoes? 2007-04-26 02:33:00 Are your horses regularly shod or do they go barefoot? Mine go barefoot. I'm lucky that way and I only light trail ride, so the horses really haven't had a need for shoes, nor have they really had any foot problems. I do find, however, that finding and keeping a good farrier that isn't burnt out is an ongoing endeavor. Often I've had to stand over watch and dictate what exactly I wanted done or there would be shortcuts taken. My farrier, Jeremiah is good and does a good job generally. He's a horseman and a good one. I have had angry, impatient farriers in the past, but I've now had Jeremiah a good few years now. Jess has fired a few farriers in her time. As well as that she has over thirty head of horses at her place now and has taken on a few convalescent old mares previously foundered that she's had to have special treatment for and as kept up have done quite well, hence the few farriers fired. Most the athletic horses are shod. Good hoof care is a must. I especially have to Read more:Barefoot
On The Mend 2007-04-24 22:52:00 Well finally today Kola is back to her normal self. Complaining that the food isn't coming fast enough. Alert, trotting around and sounding off. Whew! I still haven't received the bill yet. Can't wait to see it. Yippee!Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Celtic Horses 2007-04-30 18:59:00 Celtic horses. A piece of art I purchased in Eugene, Oregon at the Saturday craft fair. Epona and Macha are Celtic horse Goddesses who watch over the land. They protect the land's abundance and insure a good harvest, hence the seasonal plaque. The other piece I also bought in Oregon while traveling along the Pacific Coast. It is made of Myrtle wood which is only found in Oregon and in the "Holy Land" and is mentioned in the Bible. I love horse art and any chance I get to purchase it while traveling I will.Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Still More Babies 2007-04-30 18:15:00 Spike. He is the baby that Jess previously posted about as having trouble and having to be bottle fed for a couple of days. Now he's doing just fine. He's here with his mom, Ka'Ching.Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Another New Baby! 2007-04-29 20:06:00 I've eaten and I can't get up. This is Emma, another one of Jess's new foals of a week or so old. This was taken shortly after breakfast. She was napping after exerting herself eating. She was born to Kansas.Please visit http://midwesthorse.blogspot.com/index.html
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Pecatonica Horse Auction! 2007-04-29 00:45:00 Today I went to the Pecatonica Sale Barn for a horse auction. This is located in Pecatonica, Illinois. These are a couple of pictures I took amongst many more. The rear-ends with the number tags are yearlings. The others are two year olds. The highest price payed for the two years olds was $250.00 . They all had papers and were primarily bred for color as you can see. A lot of dun factor on those two year olds. A few Impressive bred AQHA. Most people looking at registered Quarter Horse
s stay away from Impressive. Most the horses here were in relatively good shape. The horses that were broke and ridable priced all over the place. As low as $750.00 each for a couple of Paints on up to a no-sale at $3,500.00 . A black stud sold for $2,500.00, bought by the owner of the sale barn. And a three month old "surprise" out of a registered mare (not sure who the daddy is) sold for $95.00 and she was cute. Looked like a quarter/pony. Tack was sold first, starting at 10:00 am..........Bridles $20.0 Read more:Auction
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