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Maybe see if she could stay over? I'd want a person in the house overnight just in case.

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Yes roof is white, yes stripes and roof trim can be any color. I gave them the paint code from my truck and they matched it

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Just a thought, depending on size and whats growing, rooftop gardens can be quite heavy, so factor that into your building costs.

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Freeway used to tell me. When it was the in-between season, I would turn him out for the night naked. After the sun dropped behind the hills in the West, if he wanted his blanket on for the night, he would leave Phantom and come back and stand at the pasture gate. I would go and put his mid weight o...

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I'm not a doctor but yeah I'd think a booster would be a good idea for you. I wind up getting one every once in a great while because of some kind of injury ;) I am a big HUGE sissy about shots. HUGE. Especially lidocaine. I once had to have two stitches in my cheek. I opted to skip the lidocaine an...

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Gorgeous horse. First thing I'd do is run a strand of hot wire across the gate ;) Do you have the option of keeping him somewhere more in the manner to which he is accustomed? I don't know where you live but it's summer, my horses are turned out 12 hours a day nearly year round. NONE of them would b...

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Is MHP going to continue on? I thought you were the program? I mean that it was your facility/barn/program/horses?

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I've hauled 18.1 2,000 lb Jet and 15.1 Freeway in my XXL Hawk together many many times. I've also hauled large hunter ponies in my Hawk, and many many Arabs. I have adjustable height chest and butt bars, no other modifications were made or needed. If the smaller horse is tied, it's not an issue. If ...

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Congratulations!! Persistence and patience paid off!

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It's likely that when his hock joint is folded, as when he's lying down, that there *is* a protruding bony bit there. It's less common than point of hock rubs, but it happens. Treatment is same, put some greasy ointment on it and give him a softer place to lie down

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Do not get a puppy when you still have your older dog. Wait. It will be hard on the oldest dog. And think about the source of your next dog. Absolutely stay away from craigslist "breeders". Either go to a legit rescue org or shelter, or do the research for the carefully-bred purebred of y...

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Freeway had this sometimes. Not related to gassiness. His appeared to be intolerance of long fibers for lack of a better explanation. He got hay pellets, which totally solved the problem. He always had hay available recreationally, but the bulk (hah, punny) of his diet was good quality (not all are,...

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Congratulations and you sooooo need to get yourself one of those "Life is good" t-shirts

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Yes and I'm not sure it was being bitten by a bat or just that she had a mortal fear of getting rabies. I can picture her face, can't remember her screen name. If I'm thinking of the correct person she had a Lusitano, lived in New England….Sol was the horse and her name was Gabby?

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What Tarlo said. You'll be doing him a favor.

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i can think of few horses less appropriate than an Azteca.

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Thanks!

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Thanks for the great update. Can I ask where you got your Navajo? I'm resurrecting my 25+ year old Cutter Collection pad because nowadays the Navajos all seem so...garish. I like yours?

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And is she getting abscesses or white line disease? Those aren't mutually exclusive but are not really the same thing.

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Pics?

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Just reading this thread. So sorry about the experience at the clinic, but…unless I'm misreading this thread, I know nothing personally about Hoekstra but from googling he fancies himself a bit of a BNT, I'm not sure how that was going to go well. It sounds like you and your horse are not really rea...

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I love the look of vines growing on houses, but I am violently allergic to spider bites, so no. Nevermind all the bad things vines do to a house structurally. I do love the look though!

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You've seen this site I'm sure?
https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm

Yeah flying into OR and driving down might be a lot easier.

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I have not taken pics since starting to work on him myself and am amazed how much I can see needs to be done. So these pics are from a year and a half ago? Or am I misunderstanding? Are you kind of near Lansing? I'm not familiar with Michigan but there are quite a few CJFs within what I'd consider ...

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Hope the ABs do their job

You gave me a chuckle with the hay in bra. Glad to see your sense of humor is intact!

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Gorgeous horse and super fab braids! Thanks for sharing!

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Mine, or rather my horses, have always been molars, so no real aftercare of significance to be done on my part. It's been so long I'm trying to remember. Maybe we put them on ABs for a while? Always been older horses and tooth ready to go. When I had my own wisdom teeth out at the ripe old age of 35...

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There's quite a lot going on there. Suggest you see if you can get him to a good farrier for some assistance.

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Generally it's the trim. Sorry. A skilled farrier can generally make the corrections needed in one trim and not make a horse sore because they are after all, restoring the horse to where it should be. Skilled. There's no need to drag out the corrective process. Or as my farrier said when I FINALLY t...

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I had one for my Shire mare. It worked, it was OK, I didn't looove it. I later bought an XW close contact dressage from Sheryl Lemke, SDL saddles. That I did looooove. So much in fact that when I got the Iberian cow ponies, I bought same saddle in MW for them. I'm really hoping not to have to ever b...

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As a former History major, I love this!

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khall I am so sorry. A tremendous loss to you, his other students, and family, and to the horse world in general.

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Hair is hair. Dark feathered legs and the skin underneath require just as much care as the white once, though I suppose staining won't show as much. BTW, in case you come over to the hairy side ;) in horses, feather is singular. Horses have feather, birds have feathers. "That horse is nicely fe...

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I've known some Dales which are very similar. I think they come from the same county originally or close to. They're neat, if I were going to get a small hairy pony, that would be one I'd look at but I'm a terrible snob about the Gypsies ;) The Dales and the 2 Fells that I knew were pretty cool, but...

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Jingles!

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I understand your fear of steroids, I've seen quite a few cases of steroid founder over the years. More from pred than dex, but pred is usually used longer term so… Never had any luck with trihist, have a fair bit of success with hydrox BUT it's always been used in conjunction with (to knock down th...

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No advice cause I'm not a techie but its good to check your credit once in a while.

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Can't see pic but foot part I'm guessing straight bar shoe and inner tube type pull on bell boot?

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Not pinchy, weighted. I knew there was something goofy about that brand. It's Equifit D-Teq. They make weighted liners for their boots, because…there aren't so many Hackney horses available for cross breeding as they've gotten quite rare. The liner in the cover pic isn't weighted, just comes high en...

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Are those the boots that bite a bit or something like that?

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I have zero experience with gorillas but a little experience with "exotics" and sedation, as well as dart guns, which I'll echo DJR is even less predictable than measured and controlled sedation. Even dart gunning a domestic nice QH in a stall, it's nothing like giving them a tidy IV injec...

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I suggest you look into Precor, it's an IGR (insect growth hormone regulator) not a pesticide. It's very safe, and not messy. I used to be a sales rep for one of the biggest flea and tick product companies. I'm very comfortable with Precor/methoprene. I don't use spot on products on my dogs. I would...

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There is no "tiring her into relaxation". Like! My horsey consigliere for…gosh a quarter of a century now...she's an equine veterinarian and an FEI dressage rider, said something once that really stuck with me, though it didn't stick so well that I'll be able to quote her exactly but it w...

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Really I think the greatest danger in this situation is that another AA showing Training/First may make a shiv out of a sweat scraper and stab you in the restroom at a show for showing against her/him on a going FEI horse, so I'd watch my back if I were you

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I hacked quite a few FEI horses when I worked for a dressage trainer (and I do mean hacked, I've never been nor every will be an FEI rider myself!) and I rode my vet's FEI (he was showing Int II at the time) horse when I farm sat for her. In my experience, for what it's worth, they quite like bumbli...

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Oh, and could someone (Bascar?) post Sparkleby's Bombay chicken recipe? Thank you thank you

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Tonight we're having French toast with fresh from the field strawberries and whipped cream. Last night we had eggs Benedict. It's apparently a breakfast for dinner weekend

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Got it, PMing you back

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I don't have a PM from you, can you resend it?

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Cob as in Welsh Cob or Gypsy Cob? Anyway, you're Sierra Foothills as in Gold Country? If you want, you can PM me a better idea of where you are (it's a big area

) and what vet you saw if you care to share and I may have thoughts for you as I'm familiar with most of the vets in that area.

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