[Ag-eq] garden, chicks, horses

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Jewel:

I didn't realize that New Zealand had wild horses.  I think I learn something
new from you every day!

Nella
Quoting Jewel <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>:

> 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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