attachments for horse care

[Anonymous Poster]

I havent heard a lot about tractors and horse care. I would like to know if anyone has ,or made any special attachments for caring for horses? Any cool tricks you have learned, or ways to speed up the less glamorous part of horse maintenance?

 

[MikePA]

Thus far, the FEL for loading the stall cleanings into a manure spreader or moving the piles of composting stall cleanings. Also use the FEL for moving jumps around and setting T posts. Use the tractor for pulling a drag harrow around the riding ring.

Plan on buying something, probably a post hole digger, in the spring for installing new fencing.

 

[cowboydoc]

I guess it all depends on what you are planning on doing? What are you looking specifically for help on? It also depends on what you mean by horses and tractors. As far as tractors go they don't really help alot with the horse itself but to maintain the facilities to keep the horse.

 

[bgott]

Well, I don't know if they make an attachment specifically for caring for horses but they make an attachment for pulling stuck calves out of cows. I guess it might work on a horse if you really needed it.

 

[cowboydoc]

Yea nothing like a morning 10 below and having both arms up to your shoulders in a cow trying to turn a breech calf and having the cow have a contraction!! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

 

[Bird]

Richard, I'll bet most of these guys have never pulled a calf and just don't know what they've missed./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[cowboydoc]

Yep just don't know what they're missing do they Bird. The glory and splendor of the ranch life. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[MDNick]

Never done that for a cow, but been there with sows. Nice that you don't have to reach as far. Dad was pulling a pig once. Sow had been laboring for a long time, Dad decided he needed to help, figured the pig was dead. Reached in, pig was head first. Couldn't get a hold on anything, finally reached in the mouth and grabbed hold. Got bit HARD for his efforts. Something in there has teeth. Humongous piglet once he got it out, then the rest of his normal sized siblings followed along easily.

 

[bgott]

When I was about thirteen I was playing cowboy and the guys I worked with showed me how to do it. Or, rather, cussed me through it. They told me to get after it and I was like " You want me to stick my hands where?" As far as I was concerned things went downhill from there although everybody else seemed to be having a real good time!

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Pulling calves, YIKES! will a 30 horse tractor do /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif?, I am not that advanced a farmer yet. I have a trough on the back side of my lot and I just fill my tractor bucket with water and drive it there, I have no water there and am not motivated to run lines. I guess I just wanted to learn how other people use their tractors to take care of their animals.