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So, my boarder (my only boarder right now) has three horses here - and the pregnant mare just gave birth to a gorgeous foal tonight!! So...my question is...when do I start charging board for the foal, too? When it's weaned?! Thanks!!

I certainly hope everyone is OK. We had a scare here, a tornado warning, but nothing really happened way up in Dayton, Ohio. We got ready to go to the basement, but didn't have to go. I have friends near Cincinnati and in Northern Ky...and a few of the little towns I grew up around are...

Ooh, karma, ouch! The first time my arab/appy mare reared and went over with me, my head landed right on an extremely sharp rock. I was knocked out for a very short (I think) period of time. the damage to my riding hat scared the living heck out of me! I won't ride without one. now, I've...

So, this morning I was awoken at 5am (as my husband went to shower and get ready for work) by a dog squirting out disgustingly smelly diarrhea on my bedroom floor. :hit I know it was Mia, our small, red border collie cross...because Jessie was laying on the floor next to me, and Bear was laying...

So, to start, I will introduce you to my "herd" Here are my chicks! There are ten of them...and I named them after Harry Potter characters...:gig My three puppies. The large tan is a 1.5 yr old, female GSD/Great Pyrenees cross named Jessie. We got her a couple weeks ago from a friend who...

Hi! I'm new here, and thought I'd start a journal since I just got my first batch of chicks! It'll be nice to follow their progress, as well as the progress of my horses, dogs, and future bunnies ;-) Me: I'm 29 and have a BS in Agriculture with Equine Science concentration...I'm so excited...

So cool! I've always wanted bees...but I hate getting stung...LOL.

She does look a little downhill in that picture...but it also looks like she may be standing on a grade. It's an old picture, I'd definitely get some better pics of her, maybe. My QH mare is blind in one eye, and has a sway back, but she'll be great for trail riding...so, downhill or not...she...

She's so pretty! She looks a lot like my big, gray, stocky QH mare!

The only horse I recognize in her lineage is Three Bars. I've been told that is a great blood line. I had a QH mare for my first horse whose name was Double Easy Bar...and had Three Bars and Easy Jet in her lineage. Good, sensible horse. But, of course, that lineage is so far back...good...

Wow, this forum is a breath of fresh air. As a PP said, if you'd posted this on a 'horse only" forum, they'd have been after you like a pack of dogs! It's nice to come in here and read people being civil to one another! I've been riding for ten years, but I don't consider myself a trainer...

I've fallen more times than I care to think about in the ten or so years I've been riding. I had an Arab/Appy mare once who liked to rear and flip over backwards with me - put me in the hospital once. Otherwise, I've never been too badly injured. Two and a half years ago, when I was still...

I think the racing industry does a lot of good, but as has been said by others, there is really some bad, too. I had a beautiful TB who steeple-chased as a youngster. When I got him at nine years old, he was a sweetheart, but was quite messed up. He had a terribly out of alignment back due...

I'm loving this thread - thanks for asking! I'd been considering a few goats for milking, and I just may talk to my husband about it now :-)

We rent a small seven-acre farm. The barn is a LARGE converted garage. About six acres of pasture, about an acre of yard. Currently, we have six horses (three ours, three are boarder horses), three cats, three dogs, and I just bought ten chicks (I'm thinking I might buy more). I would really...

I believe in a lot turnout...however, I've had both 24/7 pastured horses and stalled horses. I prefer having a stall for my babies...I worry in bad weather. I remember one time my arab mare was out, at an old boarding barn, and we had a huge ice storm. I didn't sleep, paced, all...

Hi there! I just joined backyardchickens.com a few days ago...and when visiting the section for equines, I found a link to this site. I am a horse person, and have a degree in Equine Science - we have three horses (two quarter horse mares who are 15 and 16 years old; one grade pony...he...