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    How cold is too cold?

    Tonight it's suppose to be around -15 and the wind is blowing about 20-30 mph. My coop is a 8X16 shed converted into a coop and is pretty well draft free. I have it divided in half and at night I shut the inside door along with the outside door to keep my 10 birds in a smaller area with the...
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    Horse people - need some advice

    I have a 30 X 50 barn with a 10 foot sliding door on both long sides. It's always just been a run in barn, no stalls or anything. But because of the different feeding needs of my 5 horses, I'm going to divide it up into stalls. OK, so I have 5 horses........I could divide it into 6 stalls...
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    Cleaning your waterer

    Does any one use bleach when you clean your waterer? I've started doing that because I'd get poop in the water.....I have a big 5 gallon plastic one and no matter where I put it and how high I put it, there always seems to be poop in the tray! I think I have some one perching on top of it...
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    My dog is gone!

    We have a scottie that is a year old - Seamus. We also have 2 big dogs - a rottie and a 1/2 german shepard, 1/2 american bulldog - and they were all on an electric under ground fence collar. Well the scottie discovered that he could run fast enough to get past the "shock zone" and run off. So...
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    I thought he was a she!

    Until I saw her/him mount one of my other hens.:o I have what I thought was a RIR hen. He/she has never crowed, was rather calm, never threatened or attacked anything.......he/she was bigger than the other hens, but I thought maybe it was just the breed since I've never had a RIR before. He...
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    Was going to let them out this morning......

    My chickens, that is. I started back towards the coop before I left for work and that's when I heard them........ Coyotes. So they spent the day in the coop. No way am I going to provide coyote lunch to a pack. It has been getting cold and rainy anyway, so not only were they safe and sound...
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    Our latest Endurance Ride

    I wanted to post a picture of me and my mare, Stormie, from our latest endurance ride. It was in Sturgis, SD (a week before the motorcycles all come in) at Ft. Meade. I must say, it was by far the toughest ride we've done so far this year. She and I have 160 competition miles this summer and...
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    Would you look at that!

    My son and I (16 yr. old) were working out in the yard this afternoon.......him in the front yard, me in the back......when he came screeching around the corner of the house. "Mom, Mom....did you see that????? There is an antelope chasing a fox up the hill!!" So I ran over to look around the...
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    Going on Vacation

    We leave next Friday for vacation and I'm trying to get everyone set up so the girl who's coming to feed and water will have an easy time. Right now, I have a small enclosed area for my cochins who are 7 weeks old and their coop is half of a 8X16 shed. So I figure they have plenty of room...
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    First Ride and I Finished!

    Yep, I did my first Limited Distance Endurance Ride on Saturday. And I finished! The AERC's motto is, "To Finish is to WIN!" I did 25 miles in 4 hours, 16 minutes. Not a screamin' fast time, but since it was my first, we weren't really sure how hard to push. But the horses finished with...
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    How to make her stand still! Oh, the things you can find online......

    I suddenly started having problems with my mare standing still while I got up in the saddle. She kept sliding away from me everytime I would start to step up in the stirrup. I thought maybe I was doing something wrong, though I had been getting up in the saddle the same for the last 6 months...
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    I thought I had a tragedy!

    The first thing I do when I get home is check my chicks. I have three brooders. 2 - 44 gallon rubbermaid tubs and 1- 35 gallon tub. I check water, food and stir the bedding. So I check my smaller tub quickly when I come in....it's in the laundry room by itself......ok, good water and food...
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    They came in today!

    I got my Easy Boot Bares for my mare today! Yippee! Tomorrow is a training day, so we will try them on for the first time. I've been studying the video on how to put them on her and I keep reading how after the first couple times, they go on pretty easy, so we'll see. I looked at the Boa's...
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    My Dad.......

    and Mom just finished working at a horse park in Indio, CA. It had shows from Christmas till end of March. He worked the gates back by the stalls and my Mom worked in the Gift shop. And because he worked in the back -- tried one day to keep Tom Selleck out of the VIP section :o -- he said...
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    Husbands!.....LOL

    We went to our local co-op because I needed some complete feed for our horses. Of course, I had to walk over to the tanks with the chicks in them to see what they had there. While I was cooing and talking to the chicks, my husband walks up behind me, makes a disgusted sound and said, "don't...
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    Sent them outside!

    My original 6 chicks got a new home today. They were just getting too big for the house and their brooder. They are almost 5 weeks old. So I went out to my chicken coop, put a 2x4 about 3 foot high across the one side that doesn't have the windows and is the most draft free, covered the half...
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    Pasty Butt?

    What causes pasty butt? I recieved the last of my chicks on Thursday and last night I had to clean every single one of their butts! Some were so bad I had to soak them to get the poo off. They liked the warm water soak, didn't like the picking off of the poo too much. Then I blew them dry on...
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    4 weeks, 2 days.....

    till my mare, Stormie, and I do our first Limited Distance endurance race - 25 miles. (Funny how Stormhorse23's mare is Stormy, too!) We've been training since Christmas, but the weather has been so bad this winter that we've mostly been riding inside. Today was finally nice enough we went...
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    I lost a baby........ :-(

    I got home this afternoon and one of my white crested polish babies was laying in the waterer, dead. I had 15 chicks that are 6 days old. I don't know if she had gotten caught under the other chicks when they were drinking or if something else happened. I just have a small water and I...
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    Chick poop sticks!

    My 6 chicks that are 23 days old are getting too big for their brooder but our weather is still VERY cold. I don't think it got above freezing today. So it's still too soon to put them out in the coop. So I thought, Hmmmm.....how about the extra bathroom? No one uses it and I can just sweep...
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