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[Ravynscroft]

The problem with just using Block as a solution is that some people can get so 'passionate' about something that they make others feel like they are 'wrong' for choosing a different method... passion can sometimes lead to blindness to other solutions... and a narrow view tends to lead to narrow mindedness...

Offering different methods towards a satisfactory end is what asking opinions is all about... condemning or judging someone for choosing one method over another is not...

@ronott1 I sincerely apologize for bringing you into that situation...

 

[chickadoodles]

Had a truck driver Ernie Brown can't believe I remembered his name only came in for one summer about ten yrs ago, he was I guess in his later 70s told many stories of riding broncs in rodeos. Said his sons did also. He was missing all his fingers on one hand. Asked him if he lost them riding. Nope, said a butter press in a dairy plant when he was young, back before there was safety guards, had quite the story laughing about how the women were screaming and passing out. Another driver in his 60s had a bum hand, fingers were all there, sewed back on, was a farmer and had them chopped off in a barn cleaner. He was struggling trying to hook up our big milk hose to his trailer one day, Ernie offered him a hand.. Seeing both of them fighting trying to get the threads started I of course started laughing, I apologized laughing still and offered to do it for them. NOPE! And when we get done we're going to whip some young whippersnapper butt! They laughed about it also Lol! Good times out there. Now I have no one to talk to here at work but my phone :-D

That's sad Beer can.

This first year I moved here my husband still had a barrell hug from two trees and a wooden dance floor out in the back pasture where they used to have bonfires and dance.
He taught his boys to ride using the barrell.

 

[chickadoodles]

The cows that commit murder....and the calves that get stuck and cause all sorts of issues......

That is why my grandpa always had Herefords....great gentle beasts and small calves that just slide right out!

My husband said they all used to have Herefords around here until the farmers started mix breeding them.
What cows we do have will likely be sold if we do decide to do more traveling in a few years.


Political center I know a gentleman up in N. Alabama that has some beautiful Dexter cows he has started a very nice heard.
He raises his for beef. Boy are they STOUT!

 

[chickadoodles]

Question, and I wonder if this is against BYC rules...Am I the only one that has trouble with beekissed? She replies to some of my posts rather offensively. I do not have trouble with too may people but sometime....

We may be getting into it on a thread about heating light alternatives. That won't happen though because I will ignore her from now on.

I know she got an attitude on an old thread that is no longer due to a car wreck. She was pretty pushy about all the post's on that thread. I personally have not had much interaction with her.

 

[WVduckchick]

The problem with just using Block as a solution is that some people can get so 'passionate' about something that they make others feel like they are 'wrong' for choosing a different method... passion can sometimes lead to blindness to other solutions... and a narrow view tends to lead to narrow mindedness...

Offering different methods towards a satisfactory end is what asking opinions is all about... condemning or judging someone for choosing one method over another is not...

@ronott1 I sincerely apologize for bringing you into that situation...

Exactly! Its especially sad from seasoned veterans with many great ideas to act that way!

 

[Bunnylady]

Call me spineless, or whatever, but when people ask me for a recommendation about something, I usually say that, in my opinion, there is no "best," just "best for you." I may then go on and tell them what has worked for me, and what other people have said about what they do (the classic business of "If you ask 4 horse people, you'll get 5 opinions")

Mentioning such things, I just saw this story:
http://www.wect.com/story/34350171/horse-is-left-behind-survives-6-weeks-in-wyoming-wilderness

In a nutshell, an outfitter was bringing a group of horses out of a wilderness area last fall, and one horse, a 6 year old mare, was down. They left her behind to get themselves and the others to safety, but went back looking for her the next day and didn't find her. She turned up 6 weeks later, some distance from where she'd been left. Some people are up at arms over this, an investigation has been launched with possible criminal charges pending.

I'm like, for cryin' out loud, people, this is a horse, not a child! Not very nice to leave her, true, but there was the safety of others (including people) to think about. Nobody on the ride had a gun; what were they supposed to do, stone her to death?! Rough country and eventually really rough weather, but as she so clearly demonstrated, a country horse can survive.

 

[perchie.girl]

Call me spineless, or whatever, but when people ask me for a recommendation about something, I usually say that, in my opinion, there is no "best," just "best for you." I may then go on and tell them what has worked for me, and what other people have said about what they do (the classic business of "If you ask 4 horse people, you'll get 5 opinions")

I am of the same opinion... Bunny. and its not spineless to use diplomacy. seen from the sidelines some discussions that would curl your hair over "opinion"... Where nothing was learned from either party... so sad.

deb

 

[Peep_Show]

Sounds like politics!

 

[perchie.girl]

Sounds like politics!

Yep....

 

[casportpony]

Hi everyone!

@ronott1 , what are the dimensions of the large Premier brooder plate?