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Closed eyes?

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Are you talking about the ones that look like a boat?

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The mare has been sold.

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Managing CPL in horses:

http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/elephantitis/management.htm

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Jac – what are the symptoms that your horses are exhibiting?

Charly – I was watching that slideshow (did I do something wrong or is there no audio on the slideshow?) and frame #31 bummed me out because, while the leisions definitely showed improvement, it looked as though the horse was foundering.

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The whole ad is screwy but the assertion of “mostly bullet proof“, in particular, made me chuckle because

1.) The term is “bombproof” and not “bullet proof”

2.) There’s no such thing as “mostly” bombproof. Either is or isn’t. And

3.) How on earth would they know whether she is or isn’t bombproof if they haven’t really done anything with her?

So maybe I’m mistaken and she actually *is* bullet proof. Comes with Kevlar turnout?

I wouldn’t try to deduce anything from this ad except that the horse is probably a little pushy right now and the seller’s assessment of the horse cannot be trusted. It will be entirely up to the purchaser to evaluate the animal’s ability and personality. Which, I suppose, is good to know up front so that one isn’t tempted to cut corners and take the seller’s word on things. Not that the seller is dishonest, just not knowledgeable.

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I do the same as jac. I make a bight and tuck it behind the spider on the horse closest to me. I leave the tails long so they make an easy target to snatch. The simple bight ensures the lines pop right out.

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Can you do step-in posts and electrobraid or hot tape? 200-250 feet is a lot of step-in posts, as far as my budget is concerned, but that hot wire a foot and a half above the snow sounds dangerous.

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I once had occasion to borrow someone else’s set of thin, shiny biothane lines and I did not like them. I thought they felt floppy and dead in the hand, similar to a plain nylon strap. No body to them and I had a harder time maintaining contact with the horse’s mouth. I also didn’t like how slippery they were, with that gloss finish.

I have some thicker, textured, matte beta biothane lines that I love. They are similar in width, thickness and heft to my leather lines. Unlike my leather lines, I can drop them in a bucket of bleach when they get scummy. They also do not get slick when wet, like my leather lines do.

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I had previously written that this horse was in her mid-teens. I don’t know how I could have gotten that so wrong. She’s 8.

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Carl, would you be so kind as to edit this thread title to reflect the date and location of the event?

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That’s a neat find! My money would be on it being a piece of McCormick history. It does bear some resemblance to the logo they were using just before the merger in 1902 (with Deering, Champion and others) to become International Harvester.

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullimage.asp?id=4285

Maybe if you contact the Wisconsin Historical Society they will be able to shed some light on it.

I know that the competition between harvester companies at that time just prior to the merger was really intense. When the machinery was being demonstrated, the salesmen and their animals – as representatives of the company – were spotlessly turned-out (so as to emphasize the lack of toil involved with using these new machines) and I would not be at all surprised if some logo hardware was made and supplied to the salesmen to sport during the demonstrations.

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A horse that is kept in good working condition will age much more gracefully than one that is worked harshly or only intermittently… or not worked at all.

So it really depends on the life history of the individual animal.

Sorry for what might seem like a cop-out answer, but there really is no way to simplify the situation with any useful accuracy. I’ve seen 20-year-olds that I wouldn’t hesitate to take out on a 5-day wagon trip through the mountains and one 9-year-old that was so badly used-up that he needed the kindness of a bullet.

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Very neat!

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Can you get your tongue-carrying team in tighter suspension to get the neck yoke and tongue higher? Or does the 3rd horse throw that off? I think the jockey yoke should be higher.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13269039@N04/1360758601

I know that this photo shows regular sidebacker and not a d-ring but I think that by shortening your side straps (jockey yoke to D-ring) you should be able to get that tongue to float higher, closer to how it sits in the photo above (except held out away in front).

I don’t know about you, but the way I fit my bellybacker harness, the britchen doesn’t press in tight when the horses are in forward draft. The britchen just makes contact but doesn’t press until the horses are holding or backing a load. I believe that with the D-ring harness, if you want the weight off the horse’s neck and onto their backs you have to have the horse pretty firmly snug in suspension. When you are using both a D-ring and a belly-backer on tongue, you will need to either put your belly-backer horse in tighter suspension or use those little drop-straps on your sidebacker harness to get that horse’s side of the neck yoke up.

I think that’s how it works. Not 100% certain.

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