Horses!

[Pampered chicken girl]

Great! I'm riding bareback exclusively for a while so Max's back can get figured out and he can exercise without the pressure of the saddle. I don't miss the saddle at all! Trot's a bit bumpy, but other than that it feels fantastic. It's fun isn't it, such a wonderful way to connect with your horse! Just a warning though, if you think she's clean, brush her more before getting on! I thought Max was clean one day after I'd brushes him a while, so I hopped on. When I slid off, you could see a perfect outline of the muscles I used, in dirt. The muscle use is no joke! I'm sure people at Walmart afterwards thought I was sooo weird!

Sometimes I put a folded towel over Mines back to keep the dirt away, I love bareback

 

[Farmgirl283420]

Yeah it’s definitely a lot of fun! i want to do it again before she goes back and hopefully trot and canter.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

Question, is it common for people around you to feed hay to their horses from random weedy fields and ditches or is it a Midwest thing? My neighbors keep telling me just to bail my ditches and weedy field (even has wild marijuana lol) because that’s what everyone around here does? Maybe it’s because I’m from the East coast, but this just seems bonkers to me and like a recipe for disaster? Don’t get me wrong we bailed our own hay, but we were always very particular about walking the fields to check for toxic plants or any plants that could cause abscesses in the horses mouths every spring, all of our fields were originally tilled up then seeded heavily with Timothy and fertilized/reseeded with Timothy as necessary. We would use a horse safe weed killer in the fall after bailing and rotate which fields we baled alternating every year. Maybe I’m the bonkers one? I thought what we did in the east coast was normal, but everyone here looks at me like I have four eyes with how particular I am

 

[ShrekDawg]

Question, is it common for people around you to feed hay to their horses from random weedy fields and ditches or is it a Midwest thing? My neighbors keep telling me just to bail my ditches and weedy field (even has wild marijuana lol) because that’s what everyone around here does? Maybe it’s because I’m from the East coast, but this just seems bonkers to me and like a recipe for disaster? Don’t get me wrong we bailed our own hay, but we were always very particular about walking the fields to check for toxic plants or any plants that could cause abscesses in the horses mouths every spring, all of our fields were originally tilled up then seeded heavily with Timothy and fertilized/reseeded with Timothy as necessary. We would use a horse safe weed killer in the fall after bailing and rotate which fields we baled alternating every year. Maybe I’m the bonkers one? I thought what we did in the east coast was normal, but everyone here looks at me like I have four eyes with how particular I am

That sounds really weird to me LOL them not you!

 

[Farmgirl283420]

Question, is it common for people around you to feed hay to their horses from random weedy fields and ditches or is it a Midwest thing? My neighbors keep telling me just to bail my ditches and weedy field (even has wild marijuana lol) because that’s what everyone around here does? Maybe it’s because I’m from the East coast, but this just seems bonkers to me and like a recipe for disaster? Don’t get me wrong we bailed our own hay, but we were always very particular about walking the fields to check for toxic plants or any plants that could cause abscesses in the horses mouths every spring, all of our fields were originally tilled up then seeded heavily with Timothy and fertilized/reseeded with Timothy as necessary. We would use a horse safe weed killer in the fall after bailing and rotate which fields we baled alternating every year. Maybe I’m the bonkers one? I thought what we did in the east coast was normal, but everyone here looks at me like I have four eyes with how particular I am

I’m not sure but In my opinion it’s better to be safe than sorry! How’s your painting coming along?

 

[HollowOfWisps]

That sounds really weird to me LOL them not you!

Okay I’m glad it’s not just me. I just have never heard of people doing this before??

 

[ShrekDawg]

Okay I’m glad it’s not just me. I just have never heard of people doing this before??

I never have either lol btw I am also east coast so maybe it is just us LOL

 

[HollowOfWisps]

I’m not sure but In my opinion it’s better to be safe than sorry! How’s your painting coming along?

I had to stop for the week. Husband was out of town on business and have been taking the kids to doctor, dentist appointments all week and back to school shopping since they start next week. Next week I will have plenty of the free time to paint finally!

 

[ShrekDawg]

I had to stop for the week. Husband was out of town on business and have been taking the kids to doctor, dentist appointments all week and back to school shopping since they start next week. Next week I will have plenty of the free time to paint finally!

Ah that makes sense!!!

 

[HollowOfWisps]

I never have either lol btw I am also east coast so maybe it is just us LOL

You would have thought I had ten eyes when I said I was tilling up the field, taking soil samples and re-seeding it all Timothy.