Search results

old Morgan

The only practical access to my horse is through a 15 ft farm gate. This fell off its hinges some time ago, and so I tied the hinge side up with rope pro temp. It is now too rickety to open without risking a fall. The landowner mentioned the local volunteer fire service may have played apart in...

With day temperatures falling to the 80s in October, I started to cast around for hay. I called my local hay farmer, recalling big bales were $80 last year. Today she quoted $200. I was really shocked. I have been doing rehab exercises at a hospital over the border in Texas, and the folks there...

Horse people do more than strictly necessary. I read of sheath-cleaning, for example. This seems to be a mostly female thing. Not something I would do, certainly. But I do peel chestnuts, those remnants of mammalian thumbs (as I think of them.) I am not sure it does much for the horse - but I...

At Stillwater (OK) this week.

I was interested in equipping a light (synthetic) saddle for my16H Morgan. I prefer 'mud' or 'overshoe' stirrups, so I found an eBay lot of three used 'wide' resin stirrups. But they were small women's or children's size about 4 inch tread. The seller was apologetic and refunded, and asked me...

I am finding DIY hoof-trimming is getting to be a nuisance. I noticed a hydraulically actuated nipper; just the job for rock-hard, dry hooves? Then I saw the price...not good. Next I noticed an ad for garden shears, with a scimitar blade driven by a geared electric motor. I thought this might be...

I have been sad to see several miniature horses with grotesquely curled hooves which provided at best a halting gait; one was within my power to trim, but I was held back by reading that a plain cut through an extended hoof with e.g a sawzall could intercept an invasive blood vessel or - who...