[drafthossluvr]

be careful poking your horse with pliers or with hooks etc..! i don’t know what kind of horses everyone else has but ours aren’t half dead and wouldn’t take to that too well. you may want her to get over, but think of your own safety as well. if one of ours does that then a good holler of get over there does the trick fine.

[drafthossluvr]

hi, i could get raw cows milk, there is a dairy farmer up the road and i am sure his milk is fine, he sells it. do you give your kids “probios”? i saw on a site that someone did, like very few weeks..?

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ok. well two makes sense, i wouldn’t wnt to be completely alone either. i really want to bond with them though, and want to begin training them young (to lead) and would really like bottle babies, but is that to risky? what are the odds i would lose one or both of them? i have bottle fed lambs before. are weanlings better? thanks!

[drafthossluvr]

hi, wether it is rain rot or not, go ahead and put some Seven Dust on it, the stuff you use for your garden. we had a lady come to us and her mare’s back and rump were covered in what you described and we gave her the dust and it was all clear in a month.put it on until it goes away. it won’t hurt her, we have used it ourselves on our horses and dogs. good luck 🙂

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ok, i will check those sites out, thank you. i was hoping to use one of them in a cart, single. would i be able to do that if i got a pair? or would he balk upp and not move if he was alone?

[drafthossluvr]

That is awesome, I guess I have underestimated goats… you have definetly sparked a new interest in me and I am planning on getting myself a wether a.s.a.p and a cart and harness to go with him!

[drafthossluvr]

Logging with goats!?

[drafthossluvr]

amish broke horses will stand all day. most of them anyways, lol

[drafthossluvr]

I’ve been told that mules are more sensible, but more sensible or not i will take a horse anyday

[drafthossluvr]

i am 5′ 4″ and only 15, i can harness our 18 hand belgians with a bioplastic harness just fine. no way can i do our leather harnesses though!

[drafthossluvr]

hahaha, so just like us human females then!;) i have plans on going with steers, i’d rather have an even tempered one to start out with and that was my original plan anyways. Thanks!!

[drafthossluvr]

we pulled a moose out for a guy 2 or so years ago, he had never done it before so before we brought him into the woods we put colgate mint toothpaste all around his nostrils (we didn’t have any Vicks) so that he could not smell the blood. he did fine, he was broke single of course. i wouldn’t be hesitant to go ahed and give it a try. if you put vicks or colgate on his nose, and he is already broke single and not a complete crazy horse he should have a problem. good luck 🙂

[drafthossluvr]

Definetly do what Donn said with the lines and try to hook closer, it will help to pick the logs up in the front and will make pulling easier. looks as if you did good, a word of advice though, watch out for the logs when you are pulling them, walk off to the side a ways and not infront of the logs or directly beside them, you would be suprised how fast they could roll and break one of your legs.

[drafthossluvr]

we drive from behind our team all the time, never out in front. no matter where you are driving from you need to know “the lay of the land” and know what obstacles you have and know your skid trails. we make our skid trails big, enough room for the horses and for us to have walking room on the side, there isn’t anything worse than going along well with your horses that are hooked to a log and tripping on a piece of brush and breaking a leg and having the horses run off.

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hi, we feed selenium to our horses when we notice shaky legs, or they are “soft” and not “hard” and we are building their muscle. We buy it in a big tub with a scooper. also, if we get a horse that is thin and vitamin/mineral deff. and we know it then we will automatically start give him a scoop at his night time graining.

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