[AT] what's out there

[Cecil Bearden]

That is what I always liked about my old Morgan horse!!  He had ATTITUDE 
  !!!!!  He would steal Dad's water jug out of the truck cab.  He would 
get into any food that Dad had in his truck.  One time he even chewed 
the paint off the hood of Dad's truck.  However, he never did anything 
with my stuff.  I always fed and pranked with him and Dad was always 
hollering at him to get out of somewhere or something!!!   I guess it 
proves who was the smartest!!

Sure miss my old horse, he died last year with a twisted gut...  The 
place just seems empty without a horse...

Cecil in OKla

Bruce Moden wrote:
> Roy,
> 
> Best to get that dug well covered & secured, that's a tragedy waiting to happen (mostly from wandering neighbors)!  I would think now days with "trex" deck boards a dug well could be covered better than in the past, with a small deck like structure & put in a pump to water livestock & gardens.  I don't know what your water district is like (if your close to the village) but in many communities it pays to have a 2nd water source if you're doing much outside watering.
> I had a nice (needing repair) horse drawn cutter (sleigh) and in 1995, after we moved our 3 story gambrel roof barn, it was struck by lightning & burned down.  We lost about a century of wooden tools, ladders & equipment.
> Miniature horses need to be less than 48 inches at the shoulder to be registered as miniatures (at least that was what the breeder told us).  We had the farrier trim his hooves but he still was about 1 inch too tall!  
> Our miniature would gain a lot of weight if we let him steal grain or too much hay in the winter, they are notorious for being escape artists and getting into places they shouldn't.  Local kids would get into the paddock & not secure the gate, then about 3:00 AM I would get the call from the local police.  When you have a 500 pound miniature horse you can't ride him home (I'm 6' 7" tall) & I didn't have a vehicle large enough to put him in, so I had several long (3 mile) walks home with the horse after my wife would drop me off, to some police officer standing in the road holding my horse.
> 
> Bruce 
> 
> 
> --- On Sat, 9/6/08, Roy Morgan <k1lky at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: Roy Morgan <k1lky at earthlink.net>
>> Subject: Re: [AT] what's out there
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 9:18 PM
>> On Sep 6, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Bruce Moden wrote:
>>
>>> thanks Roy,
>>>
>>> I used to have a few ponies & minature horse (too
>> tall to be  
>>> registered but born a minature)!  The ponies were far
>> more crazy  
>>> than the min. horse.
>> Bruce,
>>
>> The neighbor from two doors down stopped by to warn us of a
>> dug well  
>> out back. He'd been born into the house we have and
>> grew up there.   
>> Said his Dad raised quarter horses - some went to Roy
>> Rogers, he says,  
>> and they had the best ones on the East Coast.  Anyway, he
>> frowned at  
>> ponies.. said they are very unruly compared to horses.
>>
>> Truth is, the particular two ponies we have are nice. One
>> is quite  
>> small - I dunno how tall, but not a mineature.  He's
>> "retired" from  
>> being the pony of a kid now grown whose family could
>> apparently afford  
>> to get a very nice animal for him.. This pony is trained to
>> pull  
>> (darriage and/or sleigh).  We have a needs-work sleigh and
>> so I'm  
>> looking forward to making it right.  (the seat is all to
>> pieces from  
>> age and wood rot, but there's enough to make a
>> reproduction.)  We will  
>> need harness.
>>
>> The other pony is the fat hafllinger (wholefllinger) and
>> was bought by  
>> my wife who couldn't pass up such a nice animal.  That
>> one we got for  
>> our now 6-1/2 year old.  When we got him, her legs would
>> sort of stick  
>> out straight, his back is so broad.  He hunts and jumps,
>> too, so Celia  
>> can do things with him beyond just lead the young girl
>> around on a lead.
>>
>> Did you ever hear of a miniature fainting pony?  
>> Apparently there is  
>> such a thing.
>>
>> Roy
>>
>> Roy Morgan
>> 13033 Downey Mill Rd
>> Lovettsville, VA 20180
>> k1lky at earthlink.net
>>
>> NEW address:
>> 529 Cobb St.
>> Groton NY, 13073
>>
>>
>>
>>
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