Horse club

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

These are a few more that I’ve taken. I probably have hundreds of chickens and horsesView attachment 2076739View attachment 2076740View attachment 2076741View attachment 2076744

So lucky!!!!!!

 

[TropicalBabies]

Don’t rub it in! I am not allowed any more chickens. I’m currently down to 3 hens and a rooster but sadly mum says no to more animals that includes horses

After all that has happened to you this last year + I don't blame your mom. That was a lot of scares to go through. Give her time to un-stress and enjoy some nondramatic normal for a bit.

I have to get rid of a few of my hens if I want to keep the pullets and cockerels. My BO's don't do well in the heat of my town. They suffer the summers so was thinking of rehoming 3 to a cooler spot on island. But 2 are my first chickens and their ages are 2++... and I would feel like a bad chicken mom if I did, plus BO's are just so cool. Oh well, gotta ponder. Seems many people want to start raising chickens for eggs now. I know that I feel better and safer having chickens around lol. I like eggs.

 

[Feathered_Texans]

I think I worded that last post a little weird, I didn’t mean that I had hundreds of chickens. Haha I meant that I had hundreds of photos of chickens. I’ll go fix that right now.

 

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

After all that has happened to you this last year + I don't blame your mom. That was a lot of scares to go through. Give her time to un-stress and enjoy some nondramatic normal for a bit.

I have to get rid of a few of my hens if I want to keep the pullets and cockerels. My BO's don't do well in the heat of my town. They suffer the summers so was thinking of rehoming 3 to a cooler spot on island. But 2 are my first chickens and their ages are 2++... and I would feel like a bad chicken mom if I did, plus BO's are just so cool. Oh well, gotta ponder. Seems many people want to start raising chickens for eggs now. I know that I feel better and safer having chickens around lol. I like eggs.

True. We had a hard time moving them all lol

 

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

look how vividly green the grass is compared to a few months ago (and take note of the absolutely adorable puppy in the middle )

 

[littledog]

Hi everybody, I've been meaning to join you guys for awhile, and now I have more time, lol.
I've been riding for - let's see - 50 years off and on.
As a kid I took lessons for a couple years, then did eventing on a leased pony and then a horse, but during high school/college/twenties I could only afford to take the occasional lesson or trail ride.
After I graduated I started taking regular lessons again, leased an experienced hunter/jumper horse and competed on him, Then moved here (Puget Sound region) took a few lessons here and there until I found the right place, then spent a couple years as a student/employee with an awesome eventing instructor, where I learned everything I could about caring for horses and rode all kinds of horses, including helping to start young ones. I also enjoyed being involved in Pony Club as a horse management judge at rallies and an intern at ratings.
Finally, I bought my own horse - a Trakehner/Arab who I bought as a weanling and my instructor helped me start as a 3-y-o. We had many fun years eventing, as well as trail riding and horse camping in our beautiful mountains. I still have him - he's now 26! Retired from competing, but still a lot of fun to ride non-strenuously.
I also had an Appy mare, a $600 auction horse. I don't recommend auctions as a good place to find horses normally, but all I was looking for was a mare with a calm temperament to be a pasture buddy for my colt while he was growing up, and sound enough to ride around our local trails. She turned out to be WAY much more than that! I have so many stories about her, but I'll save them for later, because this is already getting too long.
I also had a 4th-level dressage Trakehner stallion who taught me so much (the sire of my colt, another long story how that happened) as well as the younger full brother to my colt, who I started and sold to an awesome girl, - they went on to have lots of success in Dressage.
Lastly, an OTTB mare who another trainer friend of mine rescued from the kill pen and sold to me for $1 after I'd been riding her for a couple months and we got along. My trainer friend had tried to use this horse in her lesson program, but the mare was not at all suitable for students, in spite of her sweet nature on the ground. Super sensitive about any pressure on her mouth, to the point of flipping out, but very responsive to seat/weight aids. She's now 21 and I still have her, as well.
I'm close to 60 now, and not as competitive as I once was, so I'm happy to just do low-level schooling horse trials and derby events, to have fun, and keep learning!

I wish I had better pictures, but I got a new computer recently and haven't gotten around to salvaging many of my horse pictures. But here are a few of my two current horses: Komet (Arab/Trakehner, 26) and Fiona (OTTB, 22) hanging around in the pasture.
They look so similar, except Komet is a bit taller. I definitely have a thing for dark bays, lol!

As I get older, my next thing might be driving. I've only driven horses in a cart or carriage a few times, but, wouldn't these two look good as a matched pair driving a carriage?

 

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

Hi everybody, I've been meaning to join you guys for awhile, and now I have more time, lol.
I've been riding for - let's see - 50 years off and on.
As a kid I took lessons for a couple years, then did eventing on a leased pony and then a horse, but during high school/college/twenties I could only afford to take the occasional lesson or trail ride.
After I graduated I started taking regular lessons again, leased an experienced hunter/jumper horse and competed on him, Then moved here (Puget Sound region) took a few lessons here and there until I found the right place, then spent a couple years as a student/employee with an awesome eventing instructor, where I learned everything I could about caring for horses and rode all kinds of horses, including helping to start young ones. I also enjoyed being involved in Pony Club as a horse management judge at rallies and an intern at ratings.
Finally, I bought my own horse - a Trakehner/Arab who I bought as a weanling and my instructor helped me start as a 3-y-o. We had many fun years eventing, as well as trail riding and horse camping in our beautiful mountains. I still have him - he's now 26! Retired from competing, but still a lot of fun to ride non-strenuously.
I also had an Appy mare, a $600 auction horse. I don't recommend auctions as a good place to find horses normally, but all I was looking for was a mare with a calm temperament to be a pasture buddy for my colt while he was growing up, and sound enough to ride around our local trails. She turned out to be WAY much more than that! I have so many stories about her, but I'll save them for later, because this is already getting too long.
I also had a 4th-level dressage Trakehner stallion who taught me so much (the sire of my colt, another long story how that happened) as well as the younger full brother to my colt, who I started and sold to an awesome girl, - they went on to have lots of success in Dressage.
Lastly, an OTTB mare who another trainer friend of mine rescued from the kill pen and sold to me for $1 after I'd been riding her for a couple months and we got along. My trainer friend had tried to use this horse in her lesson program, but the mare was not at all suitable for students, in spite of her sweet nature on the ground. Super sensitive about any pressure on her mouth, to the point of flipping out, but very responsive to seat/weight aids. She's now 21 and I still have her, as well.
I'm close to 60 now, and not as competitive as I once was, so I'm happy to just do low-level schooling horse trials and derby events, to have fun, and keep learning!

I wish I had better pictures, but I got a new computer recently and haven't gotten around to salvaging many of my horse pictures. But here are a few of my two current horses: Komet (Arab/Trakehner, 26) and Fiona (OTTB, 22) hanging around in the pasture.
They look so similar, except Komet is a bit taller. I definitely have a thing for dark bays, lol!

As I get older, my next thing might be driving. I've only driven horses in a cart or carriage a few times, but, wouldn't these two look good as a matched pair driving a carriage?

Hello! Welcome to my thread horse club. Beautiful horses. After the recent bushfires and floods I am not allowed anymore animals so I can’t get any more horses. But Hudson is enough for me. I’m glad you have joined, the lot of us crazy’s always have fun here.

 

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

If you guys could have any breed of horse what would you have?

 

[9SpiceyChickens]

Here’s some of my best pictures. It’s a lot, but I love that horse so much! His name’s Sunny and he’s retired with Arthritis, so I used to take him on trail rides after/before my lesson to get him out, and get him grass. Luckily, I might get to go to the barn and take him out and trail ride and graze with him, so I’m really excited!

 

[9SpiceyChickens]

If you guys could have any breed of horse what would you have?

Oldenburg or Gypsy Vanner