Squirrelgirl88
Loving the herd life
If Nina finds out you are sick she'll use it to her advantage. Don't show any signs of weakness! 
ThreeBoysChicks - Sold Sheep and Guineas, what to buy.....
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ThreeBoysChicks
Loving the herd life
I pulled the "Your dad is really sick, please help me". Both of my boys that are at home went to he barn with me and they did all the work. Nina and I took a walk. She love to walk around the yard and eat grass and the occasional weed if she can find some. Her belly looks like it has dropped more. Her udder continues to grow. She is such a love bug. We tried to get a picture of her girly parts, but she has a six sense about that. She walks around with her tail up until you get the Camera out. It is like she knows and keeps her tail down tight.
autumnprairie
Owned by the Rotten Heifers
hope you feel betterstopping by to say hi
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ThreeBoysChicks
Loving the herd life
Let me start at the beginning. All my life I have wanted horses of my own and not just any horses, but draft horeses. As a child, I had a friend that had horses and I would go riding with her. Then as a teenager, I started helping with a gentleman that had some race horses. Early twenties, got married, started having kids, etc. Ten years ago (2002), we moved to our current home and the plans were already in my head, where the barn would go, how the fence would be placed, where the chicken houses would go, etc. Soon after the barn was built, we bought our first two horses, not drafts but horses. Eventually, we got our first Draft Chantilly (a rescue) who was a dream horse, confident, but easy to handle. We lost her several years ago and two and half years ago, we got Blue and Luna, again rescues. While I have some farm land near us that we can ride on, I have always wanted to be able to go riding in the national and state parks near us, etc. But try finding an affordable trailer that will hold two girls that weigh over 2,000 lbs each. I have shopped craigslist and our local horse auction, but never found anything that could hold them or that I could afford. Oh and my wife had to approve of its appearance.
Skip to last week. My father-in-law works at a local Auto Auction. He called to say that they had horse trailer for auction 4/5. He and I went to check it out. It was nice; tack room in front, back ramp, human doors on both sides, everthing padded and big enough to fit my girls. I thougth I would never be able to afford it as I was trying to stay below $2000. Last night, he called to say "I have good news and bad news, I bought the trailer but paid $3,600 for it. I almost dfied. I said, my wife, your daughter might kill you. But, it turns out, she had called him and said, bid to $3,200 for it and he took a little liberty and went to $3,600. So the trailer below is mine. I will get more pictures later as it is beautiful inside but not yet home.
So now to get it tags and title and plan our first outting to the battlefields of Gettysburg. I can not wait. And on a positive note, the trailer had been donated to Good Will Industry, so the proceeds of the sale will actually be going to a great cause.
Skip to last week. My father-in-law works at a local Auto Auction. He called to say that they had horse trailer for auction 4/5. He and I went to check it out. It was nice; tack room in front, back ramp, human doors on both sides, everthing padded and big enough to fit my girls. I thougth I would never be able to afford it as I was trying to stay below $2000. Last night, he called to say "I have good news and bad news, I bought the trailer but paid $3,600 for it. I almost dfied. I said, my wife, your daughter might kill you. But, it turns out, she had called him and said, bid to $3,200 for it and he took a little liberty and went to $3,600. So the trailer below is mine. I will get more pictures later as it is beautiful inside but not yet home.
So now to get it tags and title and plan our first outting to the battlefields of Gettysburg. I can not wait. And on a positive note, the trailer had been donated to Good Will Industry, so the proceeds of the sale will actually be going to a great cause.
SuburbanFarmChic
Overrun with beasties
That is AWESOME!
daisychick
Overrun with beasties
Nice trailer! I always wondered how big trailers needed to be to haul around a few draft horses. Riding around at the battlefields sounds like a lot of fun.
elevan
Critter Addict ♥
Congratulations Ed! That looks like a nice trailer at a good price (even if it was over budget). And a great deal that the proceeds went to a good cause.
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ThreeBoysChicks
Loving the herd life
It is official. I received my ADGA membership info. Our Tattoo is LMFD was stands for Lind Family Maryland. Come on Nina, give me a beautiful goat baby to register.
20kidsonhill
True BYH Addict
Congratulations.
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ThreeBoysChicks
Loving the herd life
It was a good day.
So after have bronchitis earlier in the week, it was not a great idea to clean out the barn, but it needed to be done. I cleaned the horse stalls out and have one set up to be Nina's birthing stall and then where I will keep her and her babies for the first couple of weeks and then when I want to seperate the baby / babies from Nina so that I can milk her.
Gave the horses a try with the new trailer. Blue went right no and Luna quickly followed:
A picture through the window from the tack room to the trailer.
Loaded - And of course Luna had to poop while I was taking the picture.
Trimmed all of Blue' feet.
Luna will be trimmed tomorrow and I need to move some chicks / chikens around.
So after have bronchitis earlier in the week, it was not a great idea to clean out the barn, but it needed to be done. I cleaned the horse stalls out and have one set up to be Nina's birthing stall and then where I will keep her and her babies for the first couple of weeks and then when I want to seperate the baby / babies from Nina so that I can milk her.
Gave the horses a try with the new trailer. Blue went right no and Luna quickly followed:
A picture through the window from the tack room to the trailer.
Loaded - And of course Luna had to poop while I was taking the picture.
Trimmed all of Blue' feet.
Luna will be trimmed tomorrow and I need to move some chicks / chikens around.
