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Post by adcooper on Mar 23, 2003 8:15:57 GMT -5
Went to a seminar/program at my favorite feed dealer's yesterday. A cute young vet talked about viruses, shots, worming , etc. Nothing newsworthy there. And a Purina distributor talked about how everything your horse could ever need is in Purina feed (I know, Big Tee! You'd have given him h3ll!) And they had a fun trivia game. I won a nice red halter for knowing that O'Hara wrote the Flicka books!  By the way, for what it's worth, the Purina guy had good things to say about Biotin supplements. |
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Post by Lynne on Mar 23, 2003 10:16:18 GMT -5
Yea you! Sounds like fun  Is the halter a nice one (not that I would recognize such a thing!) I'm so bad that I've just gone to baling twine instead of halter and lead. How LAZY is that?! |
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Post by jennifer2 on Mar 23, 2003 10:32:32 GMT -5
neighbors! I even stripped some plastic baling twine into skinnies and sewed a blanket rip with it!!! WON a HALTER! THAT is cool. Biotin is great if the horse is deficient. BUT the ONE thing I've fed that REALLY seems to help the ol' ponies' feet is KELP! And kelp is WAY cheaper than biotin. I feed ordinary run of the mill garden kelp, about a handful a horse a day, when I have it. Of course, there's not much money in packaging, advertizing, and selling kelp, not as much as in biotin (which is a very good product with good research behind it, I think), so you won't hear much about it. That reminds me  , it's "garden-time" in Alaska- NOW I can find kelp and peat moss- a GREAT bedding but it DOES make their ankles brown. |
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Post by Big Tee© on Mar 23, 2003 14:08:58 GMT -5
Congrats on the halter, adcooper, and you are right - I would have given that rep a pretty rough time!!!!! I won a halter a couple of years back, and never used it - too nice to use - purdy navy blue, with leather trim, no way is that going on either of those halter killers. In any case, I am so sting.......er FRUGAL (yeah, that's the word, frugal, not stingy) that I fix halters until none of the original colour webbing is left, just replace straps with whatever I have on hand at the moment. Did you know that tan webbing looks really funny on a red halter, and worse when highlighted by copper rivets???  No matter, they chew up webbing faster than I can repair it. Three fixed, three more to go..... |
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Post by Bara on Mar 23, 2003 14:29:15 GMT -5
No fair! Did you confess to cute-vet that you're a bookie?
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Post by adcooper on Mar 23, 2003 16:13:27 GMT -5
Well, they asked who wrote My Friend Flicka, and I sat there mumbling, "Hmmm, O'Hara Somebodyorother. Was it Maureen, or Mary or Myrtle?" And my friend Susie waved her arm wildly, saying, "My friend the reference librarian knows! She's just too shy to speak up!" Then she practically pushed me off my straw bale with her elbow, so I had to stand up and blurt out something. Next I knew, the Purina man was tossing me a halter. Susie had already won one for knowing about the famous race between Foolish Pleasure and Ruffian. Don't EVER play racetrack trivia with THAT woman!
It's too nice a halter for my mud queen. I'll give it to the Riding Centre. It can go to a school horse, or to our annual yard sale. Y'all come on down for that extravaganza! we sell EVERYTHING!
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Is the halter a nice one (not that I would recognize such a thing!) 
, it's "garden-time" in Alaska- NOW I can find kelp and peat moss- a GREAT bedding but it DOES make their ankles brown.
No matter, they chew up webbing faster than I can repair it. Three fixed, three more to go.....