[QUOTE=JBD;7922347]
True dat[/QUOTE]
:yes: Chickens give me the creeps. Birds are very close relatives to dinasours; they’d kill and eat us if they could.
No, you can’t bury your euthanized horse in my manure pile (that you shot to put him down when he broke his leg).
[QUOTE=Spyder;7923443]
No, you can’t put your euthanized horse into my manure pile (that you shot to put him down when he broke his leg).[/QUOTE]
Adding to that
No you can’t leave your deceased horse in the paddock for another 3 days in the middle of summer until you get paid so you can pay for the backhoe to bury him.
[QUOTE=Spyder;7923443]
No, you can’t put your euthanized horse into my manure pile (that you shot to put him down when he broke his leg).[/QUOTE]
Holy cow, someone asked that??
Although, wait…wasn’t there a thread about how fast a body decays in a manure pile? Not that one should of course, but it was a pretty amusing discussion…
OK, these last two win the prize. I say give them a smashed chicken…
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The farm where I board does public trail rides. 98% of the horses are fine with people petting them in the stalls. Mine does his best flirting face to get attention and smiles. There is one horse that has a sign saying “CAUTION HORSE BITES” in front of the stall and we tell people. Yet they still try to pet him and he tries to bite them.[/QUOTE]
Many years ago, I boarded in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. One gal had a Morab mare that had a vile temperament. She had a stall guard across the top half of the dutch door and a carved wooden sign with a shark fin design that said,“This horse bites - Keep away.” And OF COURSE, people HAD to lift the bottom of the stall guard and peer in at the vicious horse. Fortunately, most were quick movers…
Yes, indeed. Happy to say that the fellow (who happened to be renting my other barn at the time) is now gone. Woot!
From the barn I used to board/work at:
Don’t bring your girlfriend out to the barn to ride your wife’s horse. It will end in a bitter, nasty divorce during which you will have to sell your midlife crisis Porsche to pay your lawyer, lose your house then when all the money is gone the girlfriend will dump you and you’ll just end up alone.
And here is a definite “DO” for boarders:
DO know which horse you are leasing because the one that sort of looks similar to him isn’t even remotely close to being broke to ride, in fact he broke the collar bone of the last person who tried. How you even caught that one and then managed to get a saddle on him is still a mystery but I’m guessing you won’t make that mistake twice since he threw you into the fence before you even got your butt in the saddle. Oh and do fix that fence you landed on please.
Not a boarder but…
I came out of the barn one day to see a man in a very large, expensive Mercedes pull into the parking area and take his 3 year old +/- daughter out of the car and walk over to where my three horses were standing by the fence. He proceeded to have her feed them carrots -which of course got my blood boiling - but I decided to be polite (he could have been a neighbor) and walked out, introduced myself and showed him how to feed the carrots so the little girl wouldn’t lose a finger or two. Then explained this was not something they should do again. Dad said thank you - the carrots had been consumed- and I walked back into the barn assuming they would get back in the car and go home. I was so wrong…I happened to look out a few minutes later to see the little girl standing on the top rail of the fence with Dad about to swing her unto the back of the yearling filly. Holy S#%T!!! Fortunately the filly had the presence of mind to get out of the way and the Dad was left with the little girl dangling. This time I ran screaming out of the barn telling him he was a complete idiot and was he trying to kill his little girl…he quickly out into his car and thankfully I never saw him again. I had a bit of a melt down later when thinking about how his ignorance could have caused a horrible tragedy. The no trespassing signs went up the next day.
[QUOTE=Spyder;7923443]
No, you can’t bury your euthanized horse in my manure pile (that you shot to put him down when he broke his leg).[/QUOTE]
I did the bold
Not sure if the bold part was put there for extra info or because you feel that shooting a horse that has a broken leg is a bad thing.
Just have to say that I had to have DH shoot my horse when he broke his leg because it would have been well over an hour for the vet to get there and I didn’t want him to suffer any longer.
Agreed about shooting a horse to put it out of its immediate misery, but the man was not someone I would have had confidence in to do anything with … anything. And he did wait a couple of hours before deciding to shoot him.
I could go on about other, um, interesting things about this person but I thought I would just highlight the most memorable.
That is so sad Spyder. I could not let a horse wait hours, that was way DH did it right away.
From today - please don’t leave leftovers in the barn fridge for weeks. And, no, don’t give them to the barn cat - she won’t eat spoiled food either.
Please wash your saddle pads once in a while. Don’t leave them next to the heat in the tack room so it stinks the room up to high heaven.
If I McGyver a halter or a blanket with a double sided clip so your horse can go out, please don’t keep using them that way for the entire season. There are tack repair places.
Ok gotta chime in…
To my boarders:
Please don’t throw your used pads and/tampons in the barn trash. Take them with you.
Please don’t feed the barn cats people food. Or anything else. It encourages them to beg and discourages them from doing their jobs, which is eat the mice.
Please don’t kick my barn cats when you come to visit my barn in hopes of boarding here.
Please don’t tell me my husband is hot and you’d do him in a heartbeat when you come to check out my place to board.
[QUOTE=Chachie;7926976]
Ok gotta chime in…
To my boarders:
Please don’t throw your used pads and/tampons in the barn trash. Take them with you.
Please don’t feed the barn cats people food. Or anything else. It encourages them to beg and discourages them from doing their jobs, which is eat the mice.
Please don’t kick my barn cats when you come to visit my barn in hopes of boarding here.
Please don’t tell me my husband is hot and you’d do him in a heartbeat when you come to check out my place to board.[/QUOTE]
OH GEEZ…really? Oy vey,:eek::lol:
Cross ties in wash stall is Not for your Dog.
Don t borrow and leave tack sitting out in the rain.
Do remember to tell BO/BM your horse struck and kicked injured people last place you boarded.
Do tell BO/BM your horse is obsessive destructive fence walker.
Wall eating butt spinner in stalls ear pinning aggressive paddock behavior…
Riding at 9:30 in the dark.
Why I don t have boarders…
Worst thing I ever did was in cahoots with the BM/BO.
Drove my carriage past a bunch of dressage horses. No one was riding but rider freakouts ensued.
Uh… I’ve never had to take tampons with me when I leave. Does the bathroom not have a trash can?!
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Uh… I’ve never had to take tampons with me when I leave. Does the bathroom not have a trash can?![/QUOTE]
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that was a little weird.
Back to the very first thread - as long as you don’t flush it, just put it in the trash, I am happy LOL
