Comments on: New Family Members http://ca2pr.com/2008/11/05/new-family-members/ Our life in Rincon, Puerto Rico... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:14:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeff http://ca2pr.com/2008/11/05/new-family-members/comment-page-1/#comment-9934 Jeff Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:23:22 +0000 http://ca2pr.com/?p=719#comment-9934 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 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

]]> By: Cindy http://ca2pr.com/2008/11/05/new-family-members/comment-page-1/#comment-9885 Cindy Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:34:31 +0000 http://ca2pr.com/?p=719#comment-9885 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. 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.

]]> By: jeff kruse http://ca2pr.com/2008/11/05/new-family-members/comment-page-1/#comment-9870 jeff kruse Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:34:43 +0000 http://ca2pr.com/?p=719#comment-9870 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) 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)

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