Nevadans?

[RulerOfTheSkies]

Finally! The answer to the age-old question: Why did the chicken cross the road?

LOL

 

[NevadaRon]

Actually that was 15,000 FlamingChicken! Or 1500 pages!

I know if Sunny was feeling better she would say congratulations to everyone who has contributed to this thread!

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[NevadaRon]

Well I've had two disasters this week. I lost another RIR. I don't know what it was since it wasn't really that hot anymore.

Then, yesterday, "wild" (or "feral" as my friend Cynthia [another horse person] constantly reminds me

) horses started eating my corn!

#$%^&*! mangy glue factory rejects!

 

[horseshowmomnv]

Well I've had two disasters this week. I lost another RIR. I don't know what it was since it wasn't really that hot anymore.

Then, yesterday, "wild" (or "feral" as my friend Cynthia [another horse person] constantly reminds me

) horses started eating my corn!

#$%^&*! mangy glue factory rejects!

Yes, those feral horses are really becoming a problem. There are too many ignorant people "feeding and watering" them so they stay down low, and around neighborhoods. I love horses, has I have my own, but I am constantly on guard with our mare and the stallion. They frequent the neighbors land because he feeds and waters. All I have between them and my horses is no climb wire and electric fence when mine are turned out for the afternoon. While I have not lost produce or a manicured lawn I am becoming annoyed. I enjoy seeing them... in the right environment!

 

[NevadaRon]

Cynthia calls them "feral" because she says many of them are actually domestic horses people have turned loose because they either could no longer afford to take care of them or simply didn't want to. She says they are so mixed genetically with the original "wild" horses that those animals don't really exist anymore, especially in an area like this. Also, horses were never indigenous to North America so in a sense they are all feral, and actually can be considered an invasive species because they use habitat that would otherwise be available to deer, antelope and other native species. Cynthia is a horse lover too but she worries that the feral horses will transmit diseases to her horses. Does your neighbor know that they are breaking federal and state law by feeding and watering the feral horses?

 

[horseshowmomnv]

Cynthia calls them "feral" because she says many of them are actually domestic horses people have turned loose because they either could no longer afford to take care of them or simply didn't want to. She says they are so mixed genetically with the original "wild" horses that those animals don't really exist anymore, especially in an area like this. Also, horses were never indigenous to North America so in a sense they are all feral, and actually can be considered an invasive species because they use habitat that would otherwise be available to deer, antelope and other native species. Cynthia is a horse lover too but she worries that the feral horses will transmit diseases to her horses. Does your neighbor know that they are breaking federal and state law by feeding and watering the feral horses?

Unfortunately here in the foothills there are so many people who feed and water, and no one to police it people do what they think is best. When are horse was hit several years ago on Toll Rd, it almost took and act of God to get someone to come out and remove the dead horse... no one would take financial responsibility, which only leads me to believe they don't care if anyone is feeding or watering. Yes, they have diseases, and hence a big concern for us, along with the feral stallion and our mare. Yes these horses where here before our houses, regardless of how they got to the "States". We have intruded upon what was their natural grazing area's. Now we have problems!

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Missy, I'll have Wednesday off is that okay for the grapes? I won't have much time other than that though because of the drawings we are having at work.

As long as it's in the morning, that's perfect. I need to be done by 1pm since I have some afternoon clients. I'll let you come load up, and if you don't take all of them then I can offer them again to other families.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Does your neighbor know that they are breaking federal and state law by feeding and watering the feral horses?

There are so many people that get all soft-hearted about wild (or feral) animals, thinking they're going to starve... Any time we go camping in a California forest, we see campers feeding the deer by hand. It really bothers me, after growing up in the backcountry. Then the animals forget how to forage... the weak and sick ones are kept alive to breed more weak and sick ones... next thing you know, you have horses tearing down your garden. Or jackrabbits spreading toxoplasmosis. Or wolves attacking your dogs while your children walk them. (<------- True story, but it didn't happen to me. It happened to a LOT of people in my hometown, and a couple teenage girls got attacked by wolves. All part of an ill-thought-out wolf relocation project into Idaho. So when Idaho opened up the hunt to the wolves, you could pretty much hear ranchers and parents cheering at the tops of their lungs.)

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Aw poo Ron. Sorry bout your bird. One of my super ultra rare expensive Mille fleur leghorns was not in th coop last night. I looked for a while but figured it was probably futile since they're so cautious and flighty. I hope I see her when I get home from work today.

 

[Peep_Show]

Ron,

I myself only drink one glass of it per day. I do have a friend that quoffs one at every meal. I don't know if less is more.....