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[Oklahoma windy]

I don't know dut they wont be gettin any chickens from my famliy. The only vet i know that does chickens around here i have to drive 30min to get to so i'm guessing not many vets do chickens, i know my livestock vet wont even though he takes care of my dogs,cats,horses,cows,sheep, goats.

How is owning chickens going to help your son decide if he wants to be a vet when he grows up? Unless you assume that any chickens for free or dirt cheap are going to be sick and he could practice his vet skills on them.

Heck alot of vets don't work with chickens anyways.

 

[ange92040]

Just want to say that some people need to use a dictation program to overcome handicaps. They do pretty well, but they are not perfect. And some people are just bad spellers or poor typists. Heaven knows I find typos every time I hit post, despite having reread my typing. While in the military I worked in our shop office for a few months. I could not believe the bad spelling from E7s!
Of course none of this is to say you should not trust your instincts about a response. I use a free online email for stuff I consider more risky. My main email is another free account, and my home email is just close friends/family.

Thank you I have dyslexia and spelling is really hard for me and I do try to use my spell check but sometimes I either forget or just miss the red line under a word before I hit the send button. I have learned to sound out my words and sometimes I do spell it wrong.

 

[Stormy Autumn]

I'm wondering if maybe you should call animal control about this... The guy wants someone to come to his house FOR FREE, take care of his horse and buy his horse feed for him... And on top of that, the horse is skinny and nervous! You can see in the corner of the photo there is another horse, too... it makes me wonder what kind of shape that one is in, too.

Horse for Lease

Date: 2012-04-30, 7:07PM PDT

I'm looking to lease out my 4yr old Quarter horse mare. Possibly consider selling her to a good home. I have gone quite far with her training, but now don't have the time to work with the fine tuning. She knows the basics but is still green and has some spook, so experience rider only. I will consider either a part care or full care lease of her. She can be boarded right here with me at no cost except feed. Will consider selling her to some one after they have leased her for 6 months so that I know that it would be the right home for her.
If you would be interested, please e-mail me with your number and I will get back to you to arrange you meeting her.





I just wanted to ask you horse folk, for a QH, isn't she a wee bit skinny?

 

[GableBabble]

I just wanted to ask you horse folk, for a QH, isn't she a wee bit skinny?

4 yr old mare

4 yr old Gelding

Just depends on breeding. But yeah she is skinny.

 

[Oklahoma windy]

I just wanted to ask you horse folk, for a QH, isn't she a wee bit skinny?



Yea she is, very skiny if you look at her next to my QH but my horses are all chunky.

 

[zzGypsy]

around here most of the horses look like that in the spring... they've been pastured over winter and they're thin. but now they should be picking up weight.
what really catches my eye is the vertical muscle you can see popping out in her hip - I've got a horse with chronic stifle problems who has just that look... he's the only horse I've ever had that looked that way and he's a pasture ornament because of it...

 

[zzGypsy]

I'm wondering if maybe you should call animal control about this... The guy wants someone to come to his house FOR FREE, take care of his horse and buy his horse feed for him... And on top of that, the horse is skinny and nervous! You can see in the corner of the photo there is another horse, too... it makes me wonder what kind of shape that one is in, too.

I don't think this one would inspire me to call animal control. the horse is thin, but not that thin. there are sometimes reasons to keep a horse this thin... joint issues, founder or foot problems, reasons to keep the weight off.
and *lots* of horses are nervous.
this arrangement doesn't strike me as odd, that you'd want to lease a horse before selling it is not a bad idea. and that you'd want to keep an eye on it while it was leased. I've seen some very sad results from leasing a horse to someone who keeps it where you can't follow up... they occasionally come back from the lease with real damage. if they come back.

 

[babymakes6]

Also, it is expensive to board and feed a horse. If I found someone who would keep a horse on their property, with me feeding and training it, I would jump at the chance! That is, if I had more time!
She also may just be a hard keeper.

 

[missydcpc]

Black Cuckoo Orpington Chickens - $4060 (Upper Bucks County)

Date: 2012-04-30, 1:50PM EDT
Reply to: [email protected] [Errors when replying to ads?]

I have project chicken pairs, currently 3 roosters and 2 hens, juveniles at 12 weeks old but LARGE (hatched Jan. 17th). These are large breed fowl that will give you large brown eggs by early to mid summer. They carry the cuckoo (barred) gene as well as recessive for Lavender and White. I only need a few for my project.

They are currently nearly as large as my langshan hens, and the boys are just starting to crow a little. The hens are getting some red on their combs now. I am ideally looking to trade for other pairs of unique poultry...welsummers, cochins, marans, ducks, etc. Anything but bantam or OEG birds.

I might also be interested in trading for a group of quail or purebred larger breed rabbits. (Does).

Let me know what you have, very open to offers. These pictures were taken last week and the roosters are already MUCH bigger. $40 pair, $60 a trio.

Now obviously in the last line they clarify that it's 40-60...but wow!

 

[galanie]

I don't think this one would inspire me to call animal control.  the horse is thin, but not that thin.  there are sometimes reasons to keep a horse this thin... joint issues, founder or foot problems, reasons to keep the weight off.
and *lots* of horses are nervous.
this arrangement doesn't strike me as odd, that you'd want to lease a horse before selling it is not a bad idea. and that you'd want to keep an eye on it while it was leased.  I've seen some very sad results from leasing a horse to someone who keeps it where you can't follow up... they occasionally come back from the lease with real damage.  if they come back.

Got to agree. I've seen horses that animal control carried off and they were a Much thinner than that one is. I've seen them at the SPCA where they were literal bags of bones. That horse is just showing a bit of rib is all. Yes it needs a bit of weight but it's not that bad.