No, I meant the exterior of the barn where the horses broke out. Even if he didn’t have the money to replace the boards, it’s free to fix those nails. No excuse for that.
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And, frankly, if he doesn’t have the money to replace the boards with new, he should be yanking boards from further up and replacing the lower ones with them, as the lower ones are the risk.
OP, I’m sure he’s a really nice guy but he’s clearly not a horseman. I’d be moving my horse.
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Totally had the same thought. Not sure if those boards will come off, though, without just coming apart…
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You probably wouldn’t even need to pull the nails, just pull the board and the nails would come through. Off set to get some fresh meat, use something with a bigger head, done.
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Got it! Thanks for clarifying.
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It’d certainly be worth a shot! A lot better than leaving all those trappy holes (and nails sticking out 
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“far enough from me that Citiot complaints shouldn’t be a problem.”
Hoping those don’t become my Famous Last Words
Up that same road are subdivisions that border a forested area where hunting is permitted.
Several years ago there was an outcry when deer wandered into someone’s yard to die after being shot.
Yes, shame on the hunter who didn’t follow up.
But the hysteria sparked… Spare the children!
was really out of proportion to the fact.
I spent nearly ten years on the city’s Planning and Zoning commission mainly to clean up some ordinances and insure that livestock had a future here by protecting the zoning.
Recently the specific ordinance for all animals was updated to adhere to new state laws (specifically what was a dangerous dog), while that was being done wording in the old ordinance was also clarified. I attended all those meetings actually taking a horse and pony to one meeting asking the animal control officers to tell me which was a pony and which was a horse, they all identified the pony as the horse and horse as pony. Pony was 14h while horse was 15.1h. (The “pony” was recently described in the Morgan horse magazine as being “well built” in the article about the winners of world championships in 2024. )
The reason the officers misidentified which was which occurred because the old ordinance did not define what was a horse or a pony it was just assumed that the officers would know what they were looking at. Problem was for the homeowner by ordinance the allowable number of horses was a third of that for ponies.
Our “ponies” were being counted as horses. We have several who are less than 14.2h.
So wording was replaced with a specific height measurement and method of how to make the measurement. (their desired height less than what I wanted but workable as it was easy for the officers to understand and there would not be any ambiguity for any one to understand.)
So rewritten ordinance now considers one large animal (over 50 inches at the withers) is equal to three small animals (any animal less than 50 inches tall…goats/rabbits whatever)
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This is 
true. Ugh i know all of this. I do have options i just need to find the best one for Dollar. Ironically the other day when i was visiting him, i told him i would move him closer soon. And here we are.
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depends greatly on how the operation is set up
For about nine years we leased our barns and land to “the farm” which was an independent C Corporation. This corporation ran the boarding of the horses my other company owned that had the horses for advertising (this was a S Corp)
The C corp was paid by the S Corp. The C Corp paid lease fees to us personally
The legal firewalls between these corporations and us personally were not breached. Each had their own banking accounts, each filed/paid their own taxes.
There were multiple reasons for this being done, the primary reason was to separate assets and liability. For the average person everything looked to be just a home with a backyard barn and horses however what they actually saw was three separate independent operations .
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I doubt this sort of asset protection and liability shielding was even close to being on the radar of the OP’s boarding barn owner.
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I wouldn’t make this – or any – assumption about the BO. You may be right, and you may not be. I don’t find speculation to be helpful.
I find speculation is what derails a lot of COTH threads . . . (Hasn’t happened to this thread, yet, thankfully).
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Last time I looked, definition just restricted the number of “Large Animals”.
Included cattle, horses.
AFAIK, poultry, pigs sheep & goats weren’t included.
Assumed this was because those were normally kept in larger flocks/herds.
well here the law is the ordinances that specifically defines what is considered a large or small animal
Horses in the state may be a pet or a livestock depending use
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And handsome, too!! 
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Quick update-
My friend is able to take Dollar back. This is great news as he will be closer to me and 5 min from my other barn and very close to our vet hospital and clinic (friend works there too). She has also made an outdoor since I was last there.
I think it’s perfect for Dollar and me 
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Yay!!
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Wonderful! So glad it worked out 
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Dollar update! He is all moved and settled in. My friend ended up needing to put her aged gelding down this past Monday. We were set to move Dollar a few days later, but her mare was pretty worked up so my friend asked if she could pick up Dollar that afternoon. I said sure, but wasn’t able to go with. She and her daughter went to get Doll and when I stopped over later, he was all settled in like he’d never left (he was there briefly a few years ago).
So happy he is closer! 5 min from our clinic and my other barn.
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