[QUOTE=2DogsFarm;7536844]
Maybe I can add DVM to my name?
I always sample meds to find out how much disguise may be required.
Bute: bitter
SMZ-TMP: BITTER-ER!
Pasteworm: icky, but not bitter
I never bothered to try MSM as my horses eat it top-dressed w/o any fuss.
Maybe I’ll taste-test it tomorrow…[/QUOTE]
Now, I’m fine with a lot of what people posted on this, but I’ve got to say that tasting meds seems like a HORRIBLE idea.
RugBug - “taste” means a grain or two, not a spoonful.
And also understand I have some pharmaceutical knowledge of what the tasted med is made of, intended to do and contraindications for humans.
For instance: I had no desire to sample the Isoxsuprine prescribed for one horse.
No dilation of my blood vessels needed.
I wanted to see what the fuss was about when feeding certain meds.
Trust me, I’m not taking a dose.
[QUOTE=glitterless;7535908]
I couldn’t find my lip balm while at the barn one day. I did, however, find my container of Vaseline that I use for lubricating thermometers. I made sure to dig out a clean-ish area of Vaseline to apply to my lips. [/QUOTE]
Effax Lederbalsam and aloe vera vet cream also make very good emergency lip balms. You’re welcome!
I cancelled a prestigious speaking engagement to attend the yearly tack store warehouse sale.
[QUOTE=2DogsFarm;7536932]
RugBug - “taste” means a grain or two, not a spoonful.
And also understand I have some pharmaceutical knowledge of what the tasted med is made of, intended to do and contraindications for humans.
For instance: I had no desire to sample the Isoxsuprine prescribed for one horse.
No dilation of my blood vessels needed.
I wanted to see what the fuss was about when feeding certain meds.
Trust me, I’m not taking a dose.[/QUOTE]
Still not something I think is a good idea at all. Feeds? no problem. Meds? Hell no.
[QUOTE=billiebob;7536970]
Effax Lederbalsam and aloe vera vet cream also make very good emergency lip balms. You’re welcome![/QUOTE]
Bag Balm works great as a lip balm!
As for using horse meds, other then dipping in my horses’ SMZ tabs, I haven’t “tasted” anything else since my early 20’s…
My trainer has the muck rakes that may be useful for expert-level muckers like herself, but an amateur like myself needs the ones that have a basket. After chasing one errant poo ball halfway down the aisle, I ‘helped’ it along with my hand, thinking the riding glove I was wearing made it okay. Until I realized a few weeks later I hadn’t washed that pair of gloves yet (and had definitely swiped at my face, messed with my hair, etc in the meantime).
I also, when alone, drank from the water bucket, face first, then realized trainer’s teenage son was home and can definitely see into that stall from their house. Ah well.
In high school I’d sleep in my riding clothes for the next morning, just to maximize sleeping time. Polo, sports bra and tights are actually comfy sleepwear…
Just today I wasn’t feeling well after returning from the barn and took a nap in my jacket and shirt i rode in. I only changed pants because they were absolutely covered in hair and mrb would have noticed…
I went through a stage where I was making horse cookies twice weekly to bring to the barn, even taking extra trips to the grocery store for fresh ingredients. I experimented with ingredients and came up with some (might I say) pretty creative combinations. Presentation was important as well.
…I have yet to go through a stage of cooking food for humans more than twice a week, and extra trips for picking up needed groceries? Eh probably not. Presentation? Is it on a plate? There, it’s presented.
Yes Freebird, banamine is nasty. Even when you try to disguise the taste in a glass of coke to drink it for a migraine. It worked though!
I’ve peed in most of the places mentioned in this thread, and will add another. In between the 2 opened doors of a crew cab truck, on the side of the highway, on the way home from a horse show.
Some funny “confessions”
I am guilty of many!
Something not mentioned is sleeping with the horses.
I have slept with, yes curled up in a stall, wrapped in a horse blanket, SLEPT with a horse quite a few times! Slept with one of my show charges while grooming at a show when a big storm came up suddenly. He was a sweet guy and kept pushing hay towards me, LOL!
Slept with my orphan foal many times also. In her stall I would simply sleep in the shavings with her. Outside I would doze in a law chair.
I had a groom once who used to dose himself with .25cc of Banamine in his coffee for a hangover. I’ve never personally tried it. However, we did have a vet out today to look at a mare who I thought was having stifle problems, the trainer thought SI. I jogged her and the vet said that the mare was fine, but I was definitely off. LOL! He said she had some major muscle knots and advised us to contact the massage therapist. I suggested Robaxin until we could get the mt out here. He said yes, 7 for the mare and 1 for yourself. LOL!
Oh my gosh! I was just roadtripping with a friend, who I thought was asleep, when all of a sudden I heard “what’re you counting?” from the passenger seat. Rhat was hard to explain…
[QUOTE=CaitlinandTheBay;7537223]
Oh my gosh! I was just roadtripping with a friend, who I thought was asleep, when all of a sudden I heard “what’re you counting?” from the passenger seat. Rhat was hard to explain…[/QUOTE]
This reminds me of of going on a trip as a little kid in the back seat with my parents in the front, holding my hand out in the draft from the car and swinging it up as we passed trees or houses. I was “jumping” them. Thanks for that memory. Horses, horses, horses, all I thought about was horses.
My sister and I had an entire life outside of our real life - we had everything planned out, down to the dresses we wore for our proms. We planned the barns, property, horses, house, tack…I’m talking like D&D but all horse. We had conversations and pretended that was our life. We were being raised by a barn manager named Jacob. Seriously, we had an entire life planned out.
I can’t believe all of you did the same thing with the car - I would always pick the path beside the car and was jumping over things as we cruised along the highways and roads.
Lifelong dream to have my horse and it’s sweeter knowing how long I wanted it and how much it really does fulfill all that I thought it would and MORE.
Another confession:
We have our high school reunion in different places all over the country. It’s now year 26, I think? I whined about it being near me…and now it’s here, at an amazing resort, literally 5 miles from my house.
And guess what…I have a horse show that weekend…several hours away. I’m going to the horse show. And I ride TRAINING LEVEL. We’re not talking up for any big awards. Or even any small awards.
:eek: :eek: :eek:
My friends aren’t too happy. I think I might be late to the horse show. But still.
ETA: Oh, and S? You’re welcome to stay with me out here if you decide to come!
[QUOTE=billiebob;7536970]
Effax Lederbalsam and aloe vera vet cream also make very good emergency lip balms. You’re welcome![/QUOTE]
LOL thank you for the advice! I don’t know about Bag Balm, though, Freebird. I had a bad experience with a lanolin nipple ointment when I was breastfeeding. I had a bad cold and my nose was rubbed raw. Someone told me to use lanolin on my nose, so I applied the nipple cream. It really felt like my face was on fire. I had to wash/wipe it off…it was definitely more painful than the original raw skin. Maybe anything would have stung badly, though.
Honestly, I don’t find any barn-related stuff disgusting. I routinely have cow manure on me…I have been bathed in amniotic fluid after calvings, lol. It’s not that bad. I’m actually a nursing student now and find that I do really well compared to my classmates with the bad wounds and feces. I’ve still seen worse with animals than I have with people.
I compulsively buy horse training books. I own at least two dozen but haven’t actually read them all!
I’ve ridden my horse in yoga pants/jammies on more than one occasion when I decided to go to the barn on whim.
I’ve done my daily yoga at the barn in a field before when I knew I was going to get home and crash otherwise :eek:
I collect helmets and other riding gear even when I don’t “need” new ones.
I do pelvic tilts and exercises to loosen up my hips while driving to the barn. I’m sure that anyone in an SUV beside me thinks I’m doing something vulgar.
Here’s another: I am so OCD about stalls, that when cleaning, if I can’t get a stray terd to stay on the pitchfork, I have no problem picking it up with my bare hands, and chunking it in the wheelbarrow.
Townes’ favorite poop spot is his old non-functioning automatic waterer. This is talent! It’s high & the angle is awkward to try to get it with the rake, plus its heavy! The only good way is to pick it ip with your hands. As if I’m going to stop what I’m doing and go get a glove or something.
It’s usually from the night before and not like its fresh, so you KNOW I just pick it up & toss it in the wheelbarrow with my hands. Grosses everyone out but I’ve seen my 9yr old daughter picking up the stray mini-pony-poos she can’t get to stay on the pitchfork lol.
Truth be told, when everyone else is slopping up their disgusting mare-messy stalls, I consider this a shavings-saving courtesy and appreciate his gelding-neatness.
Yeah I love this horse lol
I used to do that as a teenager when I was living at home and the horses were right there. Some mornings I’d go to the barn to feed, and end up riding - braless. I soon learned my lessen as it’s very painful and looks rather odd when I ride down the trail with an arm over my chest trying to hold everything in place.
I still get comments on my odd riding apparel, though. A friend of mine laughs at a FB picture where I’m riding in big green rubber boots. The thing is, mud season is so messy and it doesn’t make sense to change footwear in between catching my horse and actually riding…so I just wear rubber boots for everything. Problem solved 
Well, I have done more than I realized.
Happy riding,
Jessie
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