The Horse Thread

[Campgottagopee]

Well, to be fair, they generally weigh over 800 pounds, have the IQ of a 4 yr old, the communication skills of a 2 yr old and are pretty well armed with hooves and teeth. Horse explosions are rare but if you see one you’ll remember it forever.

I'm neighbors with a farmer, and he has a few horses. I don't know anything about them other than, at times, they'll get riled up over something, and holy frig. Will they make some noise!

 

[tirolski]

Saratoga in the UpState is hosting the Triple Crown Belmont Stakes this Saturday,
Gonna be a tad shorter race.

Belmont on Broadway concert draws thousands ahead of historic racing weekend in Saratoga Springs

After months of anticipation, the four-day Belmont Stakes celebration is off to the races in Saratoga Springs.

www.wamc.org

 

[Harvey]

 

[Harvey]

 

[Brownski]

I read some place recently that a horse’s electromagnetic field is several times larger and more powerful than a human’s and that this somehow explains the therapeutic effects of being around horses.

 

[tirolski]

I read some place recently that a horse’s electromagnetic field is several times larger and more powerful than a human’s and that this somehow explains the therapeutic effects of being around horses.

Didn’t horses help invent horse shoe magnets?

 

[Brownski]

Heh
This is for the actual horse person here…

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[tirolski]

2026 is The Year of The Horse.
So we got that going for us.
Ride on.

 

[wonderpony]

It has been the year of the horse for me for a very long time. The other day, I figured out that I have been doing daily chores for at least one horse since 1992. At one point, I was trading part board for doing stalls for 15 horses. I was eating Big Macs and not gaining weight. Now, it's just Draco, (mine), Josie (a companion horse that I adopted and adore), and the farm owner's son's horse. I get a few days a year to sleep in. Sometimes, I get tired of the cold, the heat, the rain, the bugs. You name it. But it is so worth it.

 

[tirolski]

It has been the year of the horse...

They run thru in 12 year cycles, Kinda like the sun’s cycles,

for me for a very long time...I figured out that I have been doing daily chores for at least one horse since 1992...

It’s been dog years' for me since I can remember.

Sometimes, I get tired of the cold, the heat, the rain, the bugs. You name it.

Not as big of chores with dogs and a dog can hang in the house. In Sud Tyrol folks kept their farm animals under the house where they could just walk outside.

But it is so worth it.

For sure.