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[paintponylvr]

Chanda - glad your sales went well! How was the Quilting ?

How is BayBe doing now? Every time you mention the weather or show any pictures, I feel a very strong "pull" and a desire to visit MT again!! This month, it's been 10 years since I was back. I only lived there "permanently" for a little over 2 years (Cut Bank and Shelby), and visited Wolf Point for about 5 months, but that "pull" is still there... Hmm, haven't talked to Mom in a while - maybe I should give her a call.

 

[chandab]

The gals were having a ball at the Quilt Retreat, the got together for 3 days straight and quilted, I just went the one evening to sell fabric, eat supper (OMG wonderful food) and talk for awhile.

No change with Baybe as far as I can tell, just fat and crabby, and I'm hoping the crabby means she is indeed pregnant (after she lost her foal last spring, and I knew she wasn't pregnant, she was very sweet for a few months).

 

[chandab]

Got a phone call inquiry about the boys today, they left a message and I called back. They are out in the western part of the state. They don't have a computer, so I'm printing some pics to mail out; they don't do the boys justice, but I don't have time to get better prints (my printers suck for pictures - mostly screws up the colors, but also sometimes a bit blurry - they look great on the computer and then I print them...).

Better get off the computer soon, its raining pretty good out with a bit of thunder. Neighbor 6 miles straight west got hail, so I'm guessing we might too. Coming almost straight down.

 

[paintponylvr]

Me, 2!

 

[chandab]

I'm still having a hard time with the idea of selling any of my little boys, but I really don't need all three of them. Here's hoping they pick one, preferably not Monte, the little stinker is my favorite.

 

[chandab]

I'm through my first bag of vit/min supplement, I kept track and it lasted 6 weeks for 8 horses (25# bag), and at $55/bag that's not too bad compared to the 5 bags of extruded feed I was going through every month for the same horses. I think they are looking pretty darn good; I don't have any current pictures, but only one is fat on this new diet, and one a little plump, the other 6 are about right (the 6 mares are on about 4 hours grazing, 1 gelding goes out all day, and 1 stallion gets hay with minimal grazing). I also went through one bag of whole oats in the same time frame; so this makes a decent decrease in my feed bill and a whole lot less empty bags to find something to do with.

 

[chandab]

Oh, and I found out the kitties I rehomed are very well loved and one did move in with the grandma. My MIL ran into the gal at the fair and she was just gushing over how cute and friendly the kitties were, and they are just having a blast with them. Made me feel so good, as I've wanted to call and check up on them, but at the same time I don't know the people well enough to be calling.

 

[AnnaC]

Great news about the kitties, you could give them a call now that contact has already been made?

And thanks for reporting how the new 'diet' is working, it sounds as though it is going to be a success - are you just feeding the oats plus the supplement and nothing else (apart from the grass and hay)? Interesting.

 

[chandab]

Great news about the kitties, you could give them a call now that contact has already been made?

And thanks for reporting how the new 'diet' is working, it sounds as though it is going to be a success - are you just feeding the oats plus the supplement and nothing else (apart from the grass and hay)? Interesting.

I really just wanted to know the kitties were ok, and I know that now, so I no longer want to call to check on them. Its like a weight was lifted off my heart and mind. I'm so glad they are loved.

Yep, the horses are just getting the vit/min supplement, oats plus hay/pasture. I do have a couple on Remission (a magnesium supplement that is supposed to help laminitis prone horses) and one is on a joint supplement; but other than that their feed buckets are pretty empty. And, they don't seem to mind. The get the vit/min supplement and oats once a day; and graze for about 4 hours in the morning, and get their hay at night. Come winter, I might add flax back into their diet, I like how it helps them shed in the spring. Too bad the other 3 adult horses can't have a simple diet; two are on a special low-carb diet as they need more calories but can't have much sugar/starch, and the third is on senior. [i was wrong there are 9 adult horses on the vit/min supplement, but Baybe does get a little scoop of the senior mixed into hers instead of oats.]

 

[chandab]

Except for paint, the barn itself is finished, I still have corral work to do before winter, but the barn is done.

 

[AnnaC]

Oh well done - it's fabulous and looks totally professional!! Brilliant!

 

[chandab]

Thank you ladies, although if you saw it in person, I don't think you'd say it looks professionally done, but that's ok, it'll do its job very well.

I'm off to deskunk a dog, talk to you later.

 

[chandab]

More or less off topic, but I'm off for a parts run shortly. I can go this afternoon or Shayne will go first thing in the morning (elevator for feed isn't open on Saturday); well I also need some horse feed (could make a trip next week) so I'm off to town to get baling twine, horse feed, calf feed and peroxide (used the last that I had in the deskunking formula). We'll see what else I come up with when I get there, but as long as I get the baling twine and feed, it doesn't matter where else I stop. I'm going to try a new mix on the calves, they aren't thrilled with the calf pellets, so I'm going to pick up some alfalfa pellets, COB and store brand of Calf Manna and mix my own and see if they like it better (and all those ingredients are safe for horses, so peace of mind for me; I hate having cattle only products in the feed shed, too easy for someone else to feed the wrong thing and cause problems). I think I might just mix everything up ahead of time, so all I have to do is scoop; will probably do an even mix of COB and Alfalfa pellets and then add the appropriate amount of the store brand CM pellet.

Guess that's all for now. Better go bring the girls in, so I'm ready to head to town when my MIL shows up, she's going to ride along (the company is nice on those long boring drives to town).

 

[paintponylvr]

O, do I remember those long drives! It's so weird being here in NC w/ all these different stores available now (but less and less "open" land).

I LOVE that barn! Looks great.

Glad that the kitties are doing good! I get to see some of ours now and then and it's nice.

Has one of your boys sold yet? Let us know if they pick one! How did they find out about him (word of mouth, local advertising, other advertising, referral?)?

 

[chandab]

No luck with a sale, yet; the most recent was from an ad in a regional magazine. [Don't know if it was around before you left, but its the Rocky Mountain Rider magazine, they are based in the western part of the state some where.]

My parts run was down to Wolf Point.

Thanks for the compliments on my barn.

Gotta run, Shayne wants me to ride along to check cows, then we'll go to lunch.

 

[chandab]

Got a little more work done in my barn area today. I put up windbreak a couple years ago, but never got to the stabilizer board that goes across the top, so got that up today, they are crooked, but the windbreak boards were crooked so not much I can do about it. Shayne will notice and comment, but I don't care, I'm just glad the job is done.

Before winter I have a small section of windbreak to put up, then I'll wait and see what else needs to be done to the barn area; need to see what winter does with the new barn (how the wind blows around it and where the snow dumps) before I know what is next.

 

[AnnaC]

You really are having a busy few days - not that you dont seem to be busy most of the time. LOL!!

Hoping that this coming winter will be a bit kinder to you than the last was - rain included!!

 

[chandab]

What a day...

I made plans to go to town today and have lunch with Mom for my birthday,
made a hair appointment, and an appointment to have my pick-up looked at.
I'm not a morning person, but the only appointment time I could get is 9:30,
I know that doesn't sound early, but its an hour drive to town, and my
morning chores typically take about an hour (to cut down on that time, I
planned to just turn everyone out to grass and skip their little bit of
grain for breakfast). Usually when I get up, Shayne is already gone for the
day or at least gone before I go out to do chores; due to this morning's
early start, he was still home, and I'm glad for it. I went out to do
chores, headed over to the gelding corral and could see from a distance that
something wasn't right, the divider panels were out of place and when I got
a little closer I could see the hay feeder (half circle round bale feeder my
BIL made for me a couple years ago) was very out of place. Get a little
closer, and I see that J
unior is stuck in the hay feeder; he was facing out, so that means he
managed to get in just fine, but then got hip locked going back out. He was
stuck between two of the feeder bars at his flank area, so the feeder bars
were in front of hips and behind his ribs and he was stuck worse than Pooh
in the honey tree. He was fairly calm, and I could see that there was no
way to unstick him without help, so went back to the house to get Shayne (TG
he was still home); he grabbed a couple pry bars and I grabbed a halter,
unfortunately that didn't work, so we decided to try a bottle jack. We
placed the bottle jack between the two bars and jacked it up til it bent one
bar, moved it and jacked some more til the top weld gave way and Junior was
able to pop out of his tight predicament. He was very jumpy and upset, but
seemed unhurt. I put him in the barn to check him over and long enough to
go to the house and get him a dose of banamine. Since he seemed fine, I
turned him out on gr
butt with the other boys for the day while I was gone figuring the movement
would be better than confinement. And, it was, he was moving pretty good
when I got home; I did notice a little scuff on the front of one hind leg,
but nothing too serious.
Got to town, got my haircut, dropped my pick-up off for diagnosis and
went to lunch. Pick-up needed a u-joint and a tune-up and down the road
I'll probably need a new fuel pump, but its running better now than when I
went to town.

[sorry that posted a bit weird, I copy/pasted what I already posted to another forum, and it doesn't want to edit nicely.]

 

[Wings]

Glad he's alright! How these shorties don't manage to kill us with their random acts of attempted death I don't know, they seem to have a knack for getting into trouble.

Love your barn, mine will be jealous if they see it. They'll be lucky to have a single wall up this year let alone the others and the roof!

 

[chandab]

Give 'em a padded room and they can still manage to get hurt.

I'm loving my new little barn, too.