With day temperatures falling to the 80s in October, I started to cast around for hay. I called my local hay farmer, recalling big bales were $80 last year. Today she quoted $200. I was really shocked.
I have been doing rehab exercises at a hospital over the border in Texas, and the folks there...
If this question was directed to me - I cannot say I have used zeolytes though I know they are used in ion-exchange columns to filter water and extract contaminants.
My horse contracted EPM. The statistics are not encouraging. By some accounts, mortality is about 50% with behavioral deficits in survivors.
I could not support the state-lab suggested treatment at $1000, so I ordered the available treatment drug from China. Meanwhile, I tried fenbendazole...
Interesting! Does she favor Reiki, or acupuncture, or touch therapy, EFT tapping, somatic experiencing, or polarity balancing, or chakra balancing , or crystal healing? Some of these modalities are getting into the mainstream,.
I looked at the picture of a Kingston cart in this thread. I notice that the nuts used there are lock-nuts - with a circle of plastic pressed into the nut. This prevents them going loose. Even better than a lock washjer, and available at a hardware or auto parts store mear you!
Horse people do more than strictly necessary. I read of sheath-cleaning, for example. This seems to be a mostly female thing.
Not something I would do, certainly. But I do peel chestnuts, those remnants of mammalian thumbs (as I think of them.)
I am not sure it does much for the horse - but I...
The set screws on the shafts are funny, you need an Allen wrench to tighten them but there are also nuts on them, which you can't use to tighten them adequately and frankly I'm not even sure what the nuts are there for.
[BEWARE, MANSPLAINING IN PROGRESS....]
I am visualising a set screw that...
Here is a source that may help with choosing between salt, salt & mineral and "Himalayan" salt:
https://www.horsehealthproducts.com/horsemans-report/nutrition/salt-vs-mineral-block
Salt blocks are easy to find and attractively priced, and salt with added minerals are in the same league. There are also blocks which offer protein etc, at a considerably higher price. These tend to be gobbled up quickly, so I think of them as candy and avoid them. The others are normally...
I think I see the issue with spectator interaction - the top is shielding you. One way I suppose this could be changed is to trim the top so it finishes above eye level - no longer a conestoga certainly, but it till evokes the idea that way!
Hauling long boats on the Canal system is not the occupation of spoiled, pampered horses. This is what Old Billy did for most of his long working life and it doesn't come as a surprise when I hear that hundred year olds do daily chores which keeps them moving too...
Here's Old Billy in his later years, looking a little gaunt with hips and ribs in evidence. I imagine having only your middle fingers and toes may help the bone count?