5 Nov 2008
New Family Members
We have two new additions to the CA2PR family! Check out the momma horse and 3 month old baby horse that are now munching and roaming our property:
We actually have these two cute horses on loan from a friend (they needed a bigger place to stay and we needed some lawn mowers), and I can’t remember the momma horses name, but I am calling the baby horse “Jackson” because he has a sweet afro mane.
We fenced in about 1/4th of our property for the horses to graze and it seems to be working out well. Kinda nice to be able to test drive some large farm animals before we commit, but so far Stefan thinks having horses is way sweeter then hours and hours of machete work…:)
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November 6th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Careful careful with the horse thing. That isn’t enough land for even one horse so you need to rotate them. They will only eat good things and new growth on good things so you will end up with vines and the bad trees only. They tend to stand in only one spot and urinate (it stinks stinks stinks)there. You will end up with a bare spot that will wash away in the big rains. They also carry TB so don’t use the crap for compost. We LOVED having horses on our upper area but they really screwed it up. Now we have a NO CABALLOS sign and the land is recovering nicely! We do miss the snorting, whinying etc. If you plan on doing something with the horse portion reconsider. sorry, katrina (do some web searching)
November 6th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Please consider putting up some other kind of fence! Horses, especially foals can get hurt on barbed wire very easily and it is not a pretty sight. Poly tape is pretty cheap, safe and easy to install.
Horses DO NOT carry TB. No clue where Jeff ever heard that one. We have had horses for 19 years now, and no vet has ever told me that. In fact our current vet gets compost from us in the spring for his garden.
November 7th, 2008 at 6:23 am
I am not sure Katrina meant TB. Maybe she meant Tetanus. The way some people treat animals here I doubt the horses that came on our property were properly vacinated. Good thing Stefan just got a Tetanus shot (I just got one also and went through the same insane procedure)
We now have 11 or 12 cats that we are careing for. They just show up. None of them have been fixed and I would bet 100:1 that none of them had any shots.
Jeff