Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[Kusanar]

when evaluating potential breeding sires in anmals it becomes necessary to evaluate physical attributes including reproductibe organs. one would not want to get an expensive animal home with bad conformtion, or lacking a testice.

you will find similar pics on swine sites.

there are many more experienced goat people than myself here that may comment. he wont be collected til saturday.

Makes sense, I guess it's odd that you DON'T see pics like that of horses? Sometimes they are standing so that you can't see any reproductive organs... They do conformation shots, but not those. They have a bad habbit of having genetically passed on retained testicles, so you would think that would be an issue... Maybe horse people are too "prissy" to want to flip through a catalog and see horse parts in their face?

 

[MistyMountain]

Makes sense, I guess it's odd that you DON'T see pics like that of horses? Sometimes they are standing so that you can't see any reproductive organs... They do conformation shots, but not those. They have a bad habbit of having genetically passed on retained testicles, so you would think that would be an issue... Maybe horse people are too "prissy" to want to flip through a catalog and see horse parts in their face?

A horse is quite an investment, and if you are spending big bucks on them you would normally have a vet check done pre-purchase. That said, if you are paying for the pedigree, you would also know where they come from and where they have been as well through show records, points and such. I can understand not seeing those pics in equine advertisements, but I am sure they would be provided if asked.

Also,

from Botetourt!!

 

[HighStreetCoop]

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LOL! Given what you have to do keep a male horse clean, I don't think prissy is the word for horse people. Quite shocked my gran though.

 

[anjovi6]

Hello all,

I am finally here in the Philippines with one day of rest. Checked out my coops here --- WHAT COOPS. It is going to be a task to get things back to normal and restart my flock. But it will be a labor of love and eventually Oz can add a marker to Cagayan de Oro.

All caught up on all the post since I left the USA. Nice looking Billy, Oz. He should do very well for you.

Jimmy

 

[Kusanar]

A horse is quite an investment, and if you are spending big bucks on them you would normally have a vet check done pre-purchase. That said, if you are paying for the pedigree, you would also know where they come from and where they have been as well through show records, points and such. I can understand not seeing those pics in equine advertisements, but I am sure they would be provided if asked.   

Also,   from Botetourt!!

Lol, I was thinking more about stallion breeding advertisements. Actually, I have run into a few people that had no business with horses advertising stallions for sale with some of the oddest pics.... the ones that know what they are doing though only post conformation.

What part of botetourt? My horses (and where I grew up) are in troutville, and I just bought a farm in thaxton

 

[perchie.girl]

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LOL! Given what you have to do keep a male horse clean, I don't think prissy is the word for horse people. Quite shocked my gran though.

Been there up to my elbow scrubbing away when "tourist" wander through the barn showing the kids the horsies... and I had a horse that enjoyed being cleaned.

deb

 

[scottcaddy]

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LOL! Given what you have to do keep a male horse clean, I don't think prissy is the word for horse people. Quite shocked my gran though.

Been there up to my elbow scrubbing away when "tourist" wander through the barn showing the kids the horsies... and I had a horse that enjoyed being cleaned.

deb

I have to ask, just how do you train a horse to like that?
Scott

 

[scottcaddy]

Hello all,

I am finally here in the Philippines with one day of rest. Checked out my coops here --- WHAT COOPS. It is going to be a task to get things back to normal and restart my flock. But it will be a labor of love and eventually Oz can add a marker to Cagayan de Oro.

All caught up on all the post since I left the USA. Nice looking Billy, Oz. He should do very well for you.

Jimmy

It's good to see you made the trip from NC ok!! I hope that fixing the coops will not be too much trouble, sometime it's better to start from scratch.
Good Luck.
Scott

 

[perchie.girl]

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LOL! Given what you have to do keep a male horse clean, I don't think prissy is the word for horse people. Quite shocked my gran though.

Been there up to my elbow scrubbing away when "tourist" wander through the barn showing the kids the horsies... and I had a horse that enjoyed being cleaned.

deb

I have to ask, just how do you train a horse to like that?
Scott

Well I still had to "Go IN" but he enjoyed the skritching part.... He would wiggle his upper lip and get dreamy eyed and even hold out a hind leg... He even didn't complain when i stuck the hose in there for a rinse out... Gently pinching the opening closed so it would fill up with water...

I did start with him as a foal though. he was very accustomed to being handled and inspected and brushed in that area... then eventually he was introduced to bathing making sure he was ok with all his body getting washed and rinsed. I didn't start sheath cleaning till after he was gelded and was showing signs of time to start. Even then I just did a little wash and a rinse. And progressed to a full cleaning over the next few times.

by the time he was four he was a pro. I never used anything but good old Ivory soap and clean water.

And He did in later years develop beans... I was able to manage those as well. That he didn't like but he only wiggled a little. For what its worth thats a job for small hands... and no fingernails.

deb

 

[ozexpat]

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