[Ag-eq] garden, chicks, horses

[Jewel]

I remember my brother, Evan,  telling me that if you watched carefully in a wild horse stampede
sequence in a Western movie, you could, sometimes, see the sun flash off their * shoes!  I wonder
how often the farriers went out into the Rockies and such to shoe the wild mustangs?
We do have feral horses here:  the Kaimanawa horses living up on the Waiuru Plateau in the volcanic
centre of the North Island.
Occasionally, the herds would be thinned out a little by private people going out and capturing a
few of the likely-looking ones to be trained as sport horses and eventers, but, having no predators, 
cougars, wolves
and such, the numbers were getting a bit out of hand and the environment was being, severely,
damaged, so it was decided that the horses which, after all, were just a mixture of various
domesticated breeds and had nothing special to recommend them, would be rounded up and what could be
sold as hacks would be and the rest would be squeezed into dog food cans.
There was an enormous outcry over this decision, so it was watered down a little.
I think that the benchmark number is 250 and it is kept at that number by an annual muster.

        Jewel--------------------------------------------------
From: "Jody Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 3:10 PM
To: "'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] garden, chicks, horses

Hi Nella,

I think that Maverick is the leader of the two horses.  He was more of a
boss when we first got them but now that they are following us they are less
bossy to each other.

They are very close which is why we got both horses at the same time.

I just called the ferrier this afternoon and he will be here on Monday to
trim their hooves.  They will be barefoot.  We have a dirt road so riding on
it will not be a problem with bare feet.  I will get boots if I ever want to
take them on a paved surface.

JODY


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