Help with buying a horse

[elalexander]

Morning Spiveyman. If I remember the 4 and 5 plank fence in Ole Kentucky was a light color. (Wish I had taken some pictures of our ride through horse country). Anyway, around here most peolpe with horses have them in with their cattle with locust or Tee post and barb wire fence and the ones with more horses seem to have 3 to 4 planks on thier fences. With the one man sawmills seems wooden fence is growing slightly. Most of the lumber goes to machine shed, pole buildings etc. Now if I go south through Winchester, Warrenington and Charlottesville Virginia you see 3,4 and 5 plank fence on the horse farms and a good deal of it is black. I don't know if that is oil, creasote or what but it looks great. Also I live in the mountains of Western Maryland when I go outside I darn near have to look up. So as we travel South we too enjoy the rolling hills and big hay fields. I hope that answers your question.

Cotton hawk... Love the Shepard as your avitar. We have had two and they are wonderful. Currently have a Mini Pin. God how hyper, but one good little friend.

Lastly, Apply girl, where do you have your piece of heaven? Any pics?

 

[Spiveyman]

...I too have had a couple of opportunities to cruise around Lexington. I say WOW on the fencing and the next statement I say is " must be expensive". LoL Lots of those barns are to die for and yep probabley more then my house. Has anyone ever priced a Morton building ? Don't go there if you want to feed your family! But hey if you have some spare change, why not!

Again great photo of the pasture and what a great ride it must be! Funny how I thought 10 acres was alot until you start putting horses on it, but I sure love my little piece of heaven and am very greatful.

Well, let's just say the $$$ isn't exactly spread out evenly around here. But the way I look at it, if it's 10 acres, 100 acres, 1,000 acres - if it's yours and your doing something you love on it, you're light years ahead of many in this country, so enjoy it.

 

[Spiveyman]

Morning Spiveyman. If I remember the 4 and 5 plank fence in Ole Kentucky was a light color. (Wish I had taken some pictures of our ride through horse country).

Yep - usually white. Know why? You may not see this in every part of the country, but around here it's thoroughbred country. We have every other breed imaginable too, but the T-breds run the show. They are VERY spirited, as you can imagine you'd want a race horse to be. They run a plenty out in the fields and at night will run right through a black fence. 'Round here they paint them white so the dang T-breds can see them when sprinting around the pasture at night. At least that's the way it's told here. You do see a ton of black 4 plank fencing too, but the big T-bred farms and the horse park use white fences, posts on the outside, and never have square corners all to keep their million dollar investments from knocking themselves silly.

 

[Reg]

BIG project if you've never owned or cared for horses before.
From your postings (as Grandparents) maybe you have some time on your hands ?
A couple of ideas;
You need to be fairly quick on your feet around horses, especially young ones.
Your balance and anticipation need to be "all there", even at 3 months this critter can push you around and knock you over - if you let it.
Board it somewhere very close to your place, spend as much time as you can there and get the folk there to show you basic horse care and handling. Can you even catch a horse ? Learn how to.
Learn how to pick out the hooves too, this is something the 3 month old will have to learn with you (learn to let you do it).

I'm not saying don't, I'm just saying do it with guidance/training.

 

[elalexander]

Hi Reg and thanks for the advice. We are glad I started this post, boy do we, (I) have a lot to learn. For now we can't house a horse on our property but we haven't given up on owning one. There are some folks up the road out of city limits that have horses. I just have more, much more homework to do. My TBN friends sure gave us sound advice and I am glad I asked for it.

 

[Appygirl]

Elalexander my piece of heaven is in Northern lower Michigan on the westside 20 miles from Lake Michigan. Right now we are in a drought so the pictures on my website are more"GREEN". If you would like to take a gander URL is in my profile; it will give you a glimps of home.

Yep, you are right Spiveyman, my 10 acres is like gold because this is a dream come true and I have to give credit to my wonderful husband who puts up with me and the 4 legged friends I have. Along with the 2 dogs, 2 cats, and 7 chickens...Grin..
Ah, your children are young and so lucky! My baby is 16, 6'3" and the size of a lineman, but not a football player which the coaches would love. Yeah, I have to jump up for hug now.

Back on horses Elalexander, there are some great books out there by Cherry Hill and others about horse keeping and I am sure there are some great books for your granddaughter to read....wait How old is she? Maybe you'll need to read them to her. Grin..

Time to get, Burning daylight sitting here.

 

[Cottonhawk]

Elalexander,
My horse is my buddy (his name is Sinamanscribbles) and my GSD (his name is Ryland von Knighten Haus) is my best friend (pic in avitar).
We live on a small ranch and there is plenty of room for Sinaman and Ryland to stretch their legs.

 

[Cottonhawk]

Appygirl,
I visited your web site. You have beautiful appaloosas and very nice looking ranch.
Good luck to your breeding business.

 

[Appygirl]

Thank you Cotton and I have to ask what is your horses nick name? Sinaman?
Your shepard has a regal pose in your avatar, yes he's a handsom boy! My neighbor has 2 female who I believe are of German decent from looking at their confirmation. Nice dogs to be around Not that I know anything but they are sure different in confirmation then other shepards I've known. Its like they are lower to the ground. Does this make sense to you?

 

[Cottonhawk]

The full name of my horse is "Sinamanscribbles" and we call him Sinaman in short. He is of quarter horse blood line and a registered Paint and a Pinto.
My GSD is a registered AKC and USA shepard with full German blood line. Both of them are very good company.