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Gotta keep both eyes on a stallion....
Had night shift last night, off and home at 0730. Water tanks unthawed and everyone fed and ready for the beaurocrat visit at 1000. Last thing to do was a quick brush on the horses and all I could think about was a hot cuppa Joe. Brushing the stallion while he was eating (I know better) without him being tied. Took my eyes off for a second and he shared his frustration with me through a carharrt vest, carharrt sweatshirt, and another sweatshirt and Tshirt. I woke up real quick and we had a quick come to Jesus session and everything is fine now except the bruise.

Done pouting now...

Dave

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Like horses, no little about them...was that a hoof print? That horse doesn't like anyone touching him while eating?? Just curious..
 
(quoted from post at 11:43:47 01/07/10) Like horses, no little about them...was that a hoof print? That horse doesn't like anyone touching him while eating?? Just curious..
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That's a bite.... He's normally a baby, just with the girls all pregnant and one on each side of him testosterone is at a highpoint with nothing to do with it. And I was in his space. Had I have been awake and thinking, i'd have tied him outside the paddock "in MY space" and everything would have been OK.

Dave
 
most horses dont like to be fussed with while there eating, ive had a few reminders too, and ive made my displeasure known to the horse too
 
Last injury I got from one of our horses was a bite like that on my neck. I was bent over working in the barn, she tried to bite me on the neck. She went down the road the next week.
 
(quoted from post at 11:58:02 01/07/10) Calls for a 3 foot 2X4 to the nose!
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Doesn't prove anything..... I should have known better. However, I don't think he'll be anxious to try anything with me anytime soon.

Dave
 
Remember the "alpha male" concept...and a stud horse will always challenge folks, until you show--or remind--him who's boss. Just the nature of the beast.
 
Reminds me of one of Mom's horses that was mine to ride all the time I was growin' up. Handy, we called him. I never saw him give a woman or even a little girl the least bit of sass, but with a man, it was forever a contest. We had an understanding, but it would take the first coupla minutes EVERY day to get things sorted out so that I was gonna be the boss.

I was bent over cleanin' out his left hind hoof one day when he came around and gave me a hard nip on the butt. I came up up all in one move and my aim was to catch him with the back of my hand across his nose, and if my class ring caught him, all the better. Instead, I caught him in the teeth with the hoof pick. He never so much as nipped at me again.

As far as the girls? Same horse. We'd bought him as a 6yo, and he'd only been gelded the year before. He was a foundation type quarter horse, so he was pretty studly and, come breedin' time, we used to use him to tease the mares. We did this for about four years until one day he blew up in his stall as we led the mare up. Didn't seem right. We called up the folks we had bought him from and they allowed as how even before they gelded him they'd noticed that he seemed to only have one, and assumed that he'd lost the other one in a truck accident he'd been in as a yearling. Right. This was before ultrasound, but we took him up to Ohio State. They opened him up and found the other one. Poor old Handy. Four years of havin' mares in heat paraded past his stall. I mighta been a little testy, too.
 
Is it possible this stallion is a nnalert? From the look of the bite, his teeth are straight and he is not that old. My stallion is 22 and his bite doesn't look that good.
 
My gosh that looks horrible!!

And that's a nasty looking wound, too.

Just kidding - glad it wasn't worse.

I like to look at horses - in someone elses pasture. NEVER was around a good one, that is until we got a new neighbor last summer. They have three horses, and somehow one slid the gate latch open and I found them in my hay field. Had NO idea what to do with them, but decided to try to bait them like I would my cattle. Talk about three big babies - VERY nice animals. Changed my general view of horses. Still don't want to own one. . .

Paul
 
He"d already be on his way to the dog food plant and glue factory had I been his victim.
 
That's gotta hurt! Like some of the other guys, I don't know much about em.

I had a learning experience one time when I went by my neighbor's place and saw his eight or ten belgians out of their pen, right by the county road. I stopped and knocked on his door but no one was home, so I snooped around and found a little corn for bait and a bucket. I got hold of the halter of the first one and took it to a stall in the barn, then I went back out for more. I knew nothing about the lead mare and the second one I grabbed happened to be her. I got her in the barn and the rest of these one ton giants came piling in right after her. I'm 6'2 and these things were taller than me.The barn was filling up fast and I had nowhere to go but over the top of the manger. I got them tied in their stalls and then I left, felling lucky I hadn't been flattened like a pancake between two of them. Jim
 
"Still don't want to own one". Reminds me of my dad. He farmed with horses 'til 1943 and then bought a JD 'B'. Kept the horses until about 1956 (and used them) and then sold them.

He missed them a lot, and when my brother took over the farm, I suggested to Dad that he remodel the barn a little and board horses. He replied, "I don't want to own a bunch of horses". I said, "I said board them, not own them".

He replied, "Same thing...feed and boarding bills don't get paid and soon you own a bunch of horses".

Stan
 
Heheheh. Good work! WE had a neighbor up the road in the Catskills who had two nice Belgians, Dave and Major. Neighbor had a nice barn for them but no real pasture. We had plenty of pasture, so he'd string a wire every spring and he'd bring them over every morning and take them home every night during the week. If we were there on weekends, we didn't mind, as long as we were going to be there, letting them stay overnight. He'd still come over and grain them.

Had a pickin' party one weekend, maybe 15-20 people up. I was taki' a break from the music to strt gettin' the food laid out and looked out the ktichen window and see "the boys" out grazin' on the lawn, some distance from the pasture. There wasn't any catchin' to do, I just walked out and got Major by the halter and went to lead him back down, but of course folks had to come over and meet him. Just once while we were standin' there, he went to shift his weight and started to put his foot down on top of my own. He felt it even before I could start to yelp and picked his back up and found a much better spot for it. You can't ever lose your respect for them, but it's okay to let them be gentle.
 
can't you just get the sperm, freeze it then take him out back and shoot him ? you don't ride him any how. I hate animals that bite.
 
(quoted from post at 15:29:49 01/07/10) you don't ride him any how.
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I don't like biters either..... Just a matter of respect.I disrespected him by invading his space. never would have happened if I'da taken him to my space on my terms... what you get for getting in a hurry. This pic is riding him away from several mares that he'd been taking care of for several weeks.

Dave
 
Were you using your best people skills? lol Seems we have heard you talking about them.
This is a family website you can't be posting topless pictures here........
 
Gonna have to get a picture of my wife's leg - she got kicked by one of the mini's getting there hooves trimmed last week.

Don't think she'll be working at Hooter's either!
 
Geez Dave as big as you are maybe he thought you were going to ride him. LOL Nice background pic where is that located?
 
(quoted from post at 18:52:39 01/07/10) So you are near where they made all the ball bearings during WWII?

Gene
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Still do after they rebuilt....
Sachs makes clutches and shocks/struts, Bosch makes a big part of their worthless spark plugs, and some starter and alternator parts here. Pretty booming business area. Owner of a bar I go to now and then (more "then" the last 10 years) always pulls out a picture album of everything that was flattened back then.

Dave
 
Dave, I admire much of what you do, and I mean no offense, but I don't think you had much of a potential Hooters career, even before the horse kicked you. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
 
From 2000 for about 5 years we had 15 acres in Loris SC and a big really neat horse barn so we decided to keep a couple of horses. My son lived there so he got two horses. We lived here in NC so we would go once a month to see what gives. About the tenth visit my wife was standing at the gate to pasture and up comes the nasty big horse and calmly reached for the apple(so SWMBO thought) and he decided to take her boob instead of the apple. It was far worse than yours because she only haD A T SHIRT ON. Needless to say we quit going to see the horses. It toook her almost a year to get over it. Henry
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Reminds me of the Jeff Foxworhty "You might be a redneck" routine about the guys who hit the beaver on the road and when he went back to get it rto take to the taxidermist, he picked it up by the tail and it bit his ni##le OFF!
 
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