--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: ED300008 Date: 09/02/97 From: JOHN ROOKER Time: 09:31am \/To: MIKE MAY (Read 0 times) Subj: Horsekeeping costs -=> Quoting Mike May to John Rooker <=- MM> to clean the stalls and keep the place up too. You are paying their MM> taxes too. And don't forget all of the equipment they need to run the MM> place either. -!- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 ! Origin: Home of Malla, I know all that and I'm not saying I want to deny anyone the right to earn a profit. I left a lot unsaid in the original post, like all the little messages on the board down there saying that if we don't volunteer to work at this or that, board will have to go up and all that kind of crap. I didn't want to go into all of the reasons I dislike that place because I don't want to spread a lot of negative in here and I really don't want to get into a discussion about it. It is really beginning to look like we might get out ot there after 9 years of boarding. My wife spent a long time on the phone last week with this new barn and so far, it looks good. It also came highly recommended by a current boarder. A very strange and involved course of events led to our looking there. One of those things that make you go HMMMM. :-) Take care! ... Borgy Pig - th..th..th..that's irrelevant folks. --- Blue Wave/386 v2.30 * Origin: The Door Into Summer..Rochester, NY (716) 461-3971 (1:2613/229) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: ED300009 Date: 09/02/97 From: JOHN ROOKER Time: 04:15pm \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Horsekeeping costs -=> Quoting Meg Alfoni to John Rooker <=- MA> Ah...a case of "ya gets what ya pays for"! Here, $300. is in the low MA> range for full board. Some are up as high as $475. or more. Yikes!! MA> Glad my little barn is right out back :) Meg sometimes, it is a case of getting what you pay for, but often it's paying for what you want and not paying for what you don't want. I don't particularly want to help pay for a polo program or their winter show schedule, either. :-). See my message to Mike..it may all be moot soon! :-) Take care! -= John Rooker * NC2613 * jrooker@wnybbs.net =- ... Optimist: An Amiga salesman with a beeper. --- Blue Wave/386 v2.30 * Origin: The Door Into Summer..Rochester, NY (716) 461-3971 (1:2613/229) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: ED400000 Date: 09/03/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 05:25am \/To: JOHN ROOKER (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Horsekeeping costs -> Actually, we're not paying a stable hand's salary because their ain't one. -> :-) The owner's do all the work. Of all the stables we've visited..and that Well in that case I think you might be paying a bit too much then. I only ay $225 a month for Malla. She is in Walworth right now. It is a small place but the owner is a super person. She does everything including turnouts daily, feeding and cleaning stalls daily. She has a nice indoor areana to ride in and there are places to go on trail rides too. The only real problem I have with the place is that she has used almost all of the land for the horses. She didn't leave any for cars to park. Or at least not enough. She lets me keep my trailer there for free also. I do have a bit of a time getting it turned around in her cramped parking lot though. -> We are seriously looking into Genesee Valley Morgans and will be visiting -> them this weekend. They're in Avon, about a mile from where Smokey is ow. -> They have more flexible boarding "plans" and I think Smokey will like the -> place. We drove by the other day to kind of see what the fencing and -> pastures look like and they look very nice. It is very likely that Smokey -> will be moving by the end of the month unless our visit on Saturday turns up -> something really negative. Well good luck with it. -> -> Sorry for the length.. :-) No problem. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: ED400001 Date: 09/03/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 05:39am \/To: JOHN ROOKER (Read 0 times) Subj: Horsekeeping costs -> I know all that and I'm not saying I want to deny anyone the right to earn a -> profit. I left a lot unsaid in the original post, like all the little -> messages on the board down there saying that if we don't volunteer to work -> at this or that, board will have to go up and all that kind of crap. I -> didn't want to go into all of the reasons I dislike that place because I -> don't want to spread a lot of negative in here and I really don't want to -> get into a discussion about it. It is really beginning to look like we -> might get out ot there after 9 years of boarding. My wife spent a long time -> on the phone last week with this new barn and so far, it looks good. It -> also came highly recommended by a current boarder. A very strange and -> involved course of events led to our looking there. One of those things -> that make you go HMMMM. :-) HMMMMM... ;-) -> Take care! You too John. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: ED400002 Date: 09/03/97 From: JOHN ROOKER Time: 08:31am \/To: MIKE MAY (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Horsekeeping costs In a message to John Rooker <09-03-97 05:39> Mike May wrote: MM> HMMMMM... Yep!! My father in law rebuilds houses as a "hobby". About 6 years ago, he bought a 50 acre farm on RT63 in York that had a basket case house on it. He rebuilt the house and lived there for a while before buying a 100 year old two story in Avon and rebuilding it. They just moved into the Avon house. The farm was next to the parents of the owners of Genesee Valley Morgans. The buyer of the farm is a current boarder there who is going to move their horse to the newly purchased farm after they add some horse facilities. The "new" Avon house is about a mile from GVM so it's very convenient. And, Smokey is a Morgan/Quarter Horse cross who will look right at home on a Morgan farm. ) --- QuickBBS 2.85 (Pre-Release-2.0) GoldBase * Origin: The Door Into Summer..Rochester, NY..716-461-3971 (1:2613/229) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: ED500000 Date: 09/03/97 From: JEAN PROPHET Time: 05:25pm \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 0 times) Subj: test > JP :> You got THAT right, Meg (I didn't see this > original > JP :>message) -- we NEED some "new bloodlines" here JP :>laughter>. > "Make new friends and keep the old; one is silver and the > other gold." > Phew...where did that come from! That's an old Brownie > song (g)! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Meg .... donno' 'bout you > JP :> Hehehehe ..... wanna' come to Florida and right > with > JP :>poor meeeeeeee?? I don't have anyone to ride with > either > JP :> > Isn't it a drag? I have a few x-rider friends I've thought > about asking to ride with me...they could ride Shiloh OK, I > think. Maybe I'll come to Mass and ride with YOU . --- * Origin: Home of Mr X's 'XTRAORDINARY CARRIAGE SERVICES! (1:371/33) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: ED500001 Date: 09/03/97 From: JEAN PROPHET Time: 05:29pm \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 0 times) Subj: X-Man > JP :> Mabye that's an Arab trait -- Sham pins her ears > JP :>too - she kicks the heck outta' the stall door and > JP :>(but now when I see her do it -- after I've turned my > JP :>she does it. X will kick the food dish .. > JP :> He's been terribly aggressive towards SEDONA > Not an Arab trait...Shiloh and Fiddle both kick the heck > out of their stalls at feeding time. Sounds like you've > got a good case of new horseitis at your barn! Be > careful!!!! Things are starting to calm down a bit now -- everyone has accepted SEDONA except for X ..... but at least he leaves her alone most of the time now -- he only goes after her when I'm doing something with her ..... I have to make sure that he is locked in his stall when I'm messing with SEDONA. Last night we rode - my sister in law rode X and I rode SEDONA ...... everything was going well until at the least expected moment X snaked his neck out and tried to take a piece out of SEDONA's neck ..... then his head went straight forward as if nothing had happened ...... thank goodness SEDONA has quick reflexs as she turned her head away just in time and then moved AWAY from X (we were riding 2 abreast in the middle of our road). --- * Origin: Jean's Trick Horses (Or is that TRICKY??) (1:371/33) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: ED500002 Date: 09/04/97 From: MIKE MAY Time: 05:48am \/To: JOHN ROOKER (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Horsekeeping costs -> Yep!! My father in law rebuilds houses as a "hobby". About 6 years ago, he -> bought a 50 acre farm on RT63 in York that had a basket case house on it. -> He rebuilt the house and lived there for a while before buying a 100 year -> old two story in Avon and rebuilding it. They just moved into the Avon -> house. The farm was next to the parents of the owners of Genesee Valley -> Morgans. The buyer of the farm is a current boarder there who is going to -> move their horse to the newly purchased farm after they add some horse -> facilities. The "new" Avon house is about a mile from GVM so it's very -> convenient. And, Smokey is a Morgan/Quarter Horse cross who will look right -> at home on a Morgan farm. :-) Sounds like a good fit to me John. Good Luck with it. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EDB00000 Date: 09/03/97 From: EMIL KUCERA Time: 09:30am \/To: JEAN PROPHET (Read 0 times) Subj: SADDLEBRED Horses ... > I read in your message to Kenda that you have a Saddlebred horses ...... I Sorry - you got that backwards, Kenda is the one with a saddlebred. Mine is an Arab (with no papers). Regards Emil --- * SLMR 2.1a #380 * Some are wise, and some are otherwise. --- QScan/PCB v1.17b / 01-0105 * Origin: 1:348/206 Muddy Waters 204-231-4507 (1:348/206) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: EDB00001 Date: 09/03/97 From: EMIL KUCERA Time: 12:13pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: You asked for it... BK>> it seems that most of you 'regulars' know each BK>> other far longer and better, BK>Wouldn't worry about that Emil.. we're a pretty easy going group. :) BK>> so I am in the 'lurk and learn' mode. BK>Always something to learn about horses. ;) MA>Emil! Don't be intimidated by us oldies! New blood (and new MA>ideas!) are always welcome! ... MA>So, welcome back from the land of lurkers, and spout all you like! Thanks for the invitation - here it comes: I am too old to be intimidated by oldies, Meg, or too be called "new blood," - 52 this past spring. I was just shy of pushing too hard. I started riding a little too late, and had more than 10 years non-riding gap as well. This is my 4th year with Shemmeek, who is a spitting image of the Shagya Arabian photographs in The Ultimate Horse Book. 16hh, and full of curiosity, a people type, would make a great house horse, we say. He can heel off lead better than most dogs, and answers when I call him. Sometimes he's the one who speaks up first! Some of you may remember my queries in this conference, about McClellan saddles, cinches, and Orthoflex saddles. Though the McClellan fits him well, it is a bit too small for my 210 lbs, so was relegated to shorter rides and a spare status. I spent moste of one Xmas holidays making a cavalry pattern chabraque to go with it, but had no chance to show it off in any parades (yet?). Last year I was fortunate enough to be able to visit Nevada, MO, where they make the Orthoflex saddles. Got their Renegade, a nice, old-timey looking double cinch rig, with the high gullet I needed for Shemmeek. Also last summer, I participated in a couple of Endurance and Competitive rides. One of the folks was gracious enough to take me, or rather, Shemmeek, along in his 2-horse trailer to some rides this year - most notably, the three-day Great Northern Connection, with rides on each day. I only went into the limited (25 miles) division each day, but Shemmeek acquitted himself very well, we finished near the middle of the pack every time. On the other rides he also managed one best-conditioned and one second place. Our longest ride so far was a 30-mile competitive. Though my wife cannot ride for the past two years (hip problems), she is the most able of pit crews, in spite of having to look after our 16-month old Great Dane at the same time (of course he comes along with us!). In fact, we liked the setup so much that we have actually bought a used 2-horse trailer and a 1983 GMC camper van to tow it with (we are still getting it rigged up 'just right'). Almost too late for this season, mind you. September typically brings morning frosts to Manitoba. Still, broke but happy, and wish us luck for next year! On the first occassion of loading Shemmeed by myself, it took two hours. After one lesson (teaching me, primarily) with the owner of the stables where we board, he now loads on command, I don't have to enter the trailer at all. Nothing wrong with his brains. Needless to say, I am very proud of him, and happy to be able to boast to you folks. Non-horsey audiences would not understand, eh? So - sorry for the long litany, but now you all know, and please be generous with advice, comments, or whatever. Regards Emil --- QScan/PCB v1.17b / 01-0105 * Origin: 1:348/206 Muddy Waters 204-231-4507 (1:348/206)