------------------------------------------------------- --- * Origin: WNYBBS FidoNet<->InterNet E-Mail Gateway (1:2613/10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: F3300006 Date: 02/27/98 From: MIKE MAY Time: 08:44am \/To: JEAN PROPHET (Read 0 times) Subj: SEDONA'S SOLO .. -> Everything is back to normal again now. We did a parade in LaBelle -> Saturday (Swamp Cabbage). Buddy drove SEDONA and the big carriage .... I -> drove X and the Surrey ..... Jessica drove Tuffy and the cart (they were -> cute too ). -> -> X was a total "BUM" for me ..... he was upset becuase Buddy was driving -> SEDONA and 'HIS' carriage. SEDONA was quiet and nice -- Go figure Sounds like you did ok though. Your big one in FT Pierce was canceled right? Are they going to reschedule 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: F3300007 Date: 02/27/98 From: MIKE MAY Time: 08:51am \/To: JEAN PROPHET (Read 0 times) Subj: Hi dere! -> >> Wish I had a hot water heater out in my barn >> .... it's hard -> keeping >> my guys clean and pretty without giving them baths. I DO >> -> vaccum them several >> times a week and that helps at bit. -> > How much hot water would you need at a time? -> Gee, I don't know -- never thought about how much. You can get what they can "Instantaneous Water Heaters" too. They don't need a tank to store the water. They raise the water temp about 20 - 30 degrees hotter than it comes in. That would probably be enough for what you want it for. Mike --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: F3300008 Date: 02/27/98 From: KEITH LITTLE Time: 10:09pm \/To: DAVE BARRON (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Horse Stuff Hello Dave.. DB> He should become a beautiful horse to ride too! I can imagine you not DB> liking city life. I do, but only if I'm within reach of the countryside. Well, Thanks for the reply. it nice that.. Im finnaly able to reply to some mail. For Being a sysop and having my on echo, I dont have to call Other bbs. But latly. all the echo have been dead, Like this One.. and i Was starting To wounder. Was Fido/echo worth It. Ops. bit off topic. Anywho. Yah.. He very, Very Beautiful now.. Damm. I do miss him.. I like watch him when he start to snort. man its soo Funny. DB> I got an email from someone in Sydney, Australia the other day. She said DB> exactly the same, but it was 45 degrees (113 Fahrenheit) there. The DB> North of England is due some tomorrow and the South during the next few DB> days. It's about 34 Fahrenheit here and I'm coooold! Yeah. I know What it like on hot days. Duke also knows. Heh. I often go some time and brush him down with water. He just look at me liek " ok what re you doing. Should i be scared??? ".. So funny in the summer time.. DB> "Horses for courses", as they say. We like what we're used to. The DB> English don't though. We're always whinging that it's either too hot or DB> too cold. DB> DB> I miss regular riding too. I used to ride a thoroughbred ex-racehorse DB> most days. A few times I did a long hack and it was a constant battle DB> to keep him collected and stop him taking off at a full gallop. DB> Sometimes he's spook at something and then I really had to work to calm DB> him down. He used a standard snaffle which probably wasn't severe DB> enough, but at least I knew I wasn't damaging his mouth. :-) Iv not gone ride in Such a long time. well. I was younger then.. and Just learning about Horse. heck. I call myself cowboy. Yet. I prob dont remevber how to even saddle. Been a very, very Long time. Oh well. to busy with life. .. but. Id kill right now, if I could saddle him up. (If he was bit older) and ride him down the hall ways of the college.. Damm Iv been dreaming about that for years now. Ride into the college.. and go to the one of the class.. Grab the girl I love and say "Ok sweety. Your knight in shinny armer and his Colt are here to save your boring day..." oh That be soo funny. troting donw the hallways. Everybody with mouths to the ground. oh I could see it now.. Duke woudl be. " OHHHH PEOPLE TO BITE " heheh.. DB> You'll have to hook in to the local conferences to find more people I DB> guess. This has become rather a quiet echo these days. It might be worth DB> checking the pet echoes and seeing if there are any horse lovers there. DB> Good luck Keith. Well thanks Dave, and you too. Pet echo eh. Not sure if we have any. but I keep my eye open. take care eh. and hope to here from you again Cheers Sysop Keith --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: --= ATHENS BBS =-- Vernon/BC (250)542-8047 (1:353/320) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: F3300009 Date: 02/28/98 From: JAN MURPHY Time: 11:31pm \/To: JEAN PROPHET (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Hi dere! About the hot water heater.... > Neat idea ... I'll have to check in on that, Jan .... > that would be > wonderful as I CARRY hot water from the house out to the > barn to make the bran > mash I give them. I think it was Mike that mentioned instantaneous hot water systems a couple messages after yours in today's batch of mail. I've been told that if you are making stuff like tea, etc. then it is better to run the cold water into a kettle and heat it up on the stove rather than use the hot water out of those instant hot-water systems. So it might be safer (if the report I heard was accurate) to make the bran mashes and stuff the way you've been doing it. --- Opus-CBCS 1.73a * Origin: Sci-Fido II, World's Oldest SF BBS, Berkeley, CA (1:161/84.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: F3300010 Date: 03/01/98 From: JAN MURPHY Time: 07:45am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: This Old House magazine This is not strictly on topic, but I'm posting it for the benefit of the backyard horsekeepers here who have their own buildings to maintain. I just got my March/April issue of THIS OLD HOUSE magazine, the companion mag to the PBS television show. The main feature (and overall theme of the issue) is the spring maintenence guide -- fixing all the rot and other mishaps which may have happened during the winter, or which might come up in the spring rains. Along with the maintenence guide, which is handy for the article on draining soggy yards, there are two articles which may be quite useful to barn ownwers. The first is a feature on tree removal, which has a lot of good info about how to tell if a tree on your property is dangerous and needs to come down, and how to find a reputable company to take care of it. The other major article is on pressure-treated lumber, which is used in applications like fence posts for its resistance to insect damage and rot. You've all seen it -- that green-colored stuff. The chemicals which protect the wood are forced into the wood under pressure (thus the name). I had heard that you were supposed to be careful when you handled this product, and that you weren't supposed to burn it, but I wasn't quite sure why. Turns out that the most common formula used in making PTL is chromated copper arsenate --a mix of 1) copper, to discourage the fungi that cause rot; 2) arsenic, a common pesticide in the 30's when this proccess was invented; and 3) chromium, which helps to bind everything to the wood. There are two basic problems outlined in the article. First of all, if you have acidic conditions, like acid rain, or if the wood is used in compost bins, the chemicals can leach out of the wood. And if you burn the scraps left over from a construction project, the ash left over is contaminated with arsenic. The article notes that a single 12-foot long 2-by-6 stick contains more than an ounce of arsenic, which (if ingested) is enough to kill 250 adults. Burning the wood concentrates all the chemicals in the ash, which will then contaminate all the ashes left behind from anything else which was burned at the same time. A top official in Florida's EPA is quoted as saying, "We call (arsenic) a three-fer. It can leave you dead as a doornail at high doses. It can kill you at moderate amounts over a longer period. And it's a carcinogen at low levels." A sidebar in the article tells how dairy farmers in Minnesota lost 18 cows because they got onto a neighboring property which was contaminated with ash left over from burning pressure-treated wood. The ash tastes salty, which attracted the cows. Five tablespoons of ash have enough arsenic to kill a 1000-pound cow; a single tablespoonful has enough to kill a 250-pound human. If you have decks or other structures and you're concerned about whether arsenic is in the soil under the decks, contact your local public health department. For about $50, you can have the soil tested at an environmental laboratory. --- QM v1.31 * Origin: Sci-Fido II, World's Oldest SF BBS, Berkeley, CA (1:161/84.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: F3300011 Date: 03/01/98 From: HANNAH SAUMUR Time: 02:19pm \/To: BOB KOHL (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Happy, Merry etc... > BK> Used to have a Morab gelding that we kept at ah friends > BK> house up i the high desert here.. > BK> > BK> And we've let him and his buddy out to graze around the > BK> place.. Sonny would wander into the house from time to > BK> time to see what was going on. ;) > BK> > Well my dad would let cloudy in because he fit the door because he > aws a shetland pony but a very big one but I forget > the other have of his > mother which i have a guess that would be a pinto or a polo pony. BK> BK> Well Sonny was 14.2... so he was a bit bigger then a shetland. ;) BK> BK> However since he wasn't house broken.. ;) BK> BK> But in reality.. I can't ever remember him pooping in the house. BK> BK> > But we > had a jumper that loved to jump fences and we also got one that my mom > saved from being killed his name was brownie. BK> BK> Sonny also loved to jump.. BK Well luthifer or Satan got his name because when he was boring he kicked the vet in the nuts and said holy luthifer luthifer was also a racer --- Maximus 3.00 * Origin: Northern Lights - (613) 269-2281 (1:163/344) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: F3300012 Date: 03/01/98 From: KARIN BREWER Time: 02:26pm \/To: JAN MURPHY (Read 0 times) Subj: Hi dere! -> I think it was Mike that mentioned instantaneous hot water systems a -> couple messages after yours in today's batch of mail. I've been -> told that if you are making stuff like tea, etc. then it is better -> to run the cold water into a kettle and heat it up on the stove -> rather than use the hot water out of those instant hot-water -> systems. So it might be safer (if the report I heard was accurate) -> to make the bran mashes and stuff the way you've be Supposedly that applies to any water heater, not just the instant kind. Karin --- InterEcho 1.15 * Origin: Passage MO System, San Antonio, TX (1:387/915) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: F3300013 Date: 03/01/98 From: MIKE MAY Time: 04:01pm \/To: JAN MURPHY (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Hi dere! -> I think it was Mike that mentioned instantaneous hot water systems a ouple -> messages after yours in today's batch of mail. I've been told that if you -> are making stuff like tea, etc. then it is better to run the cold water into -> a kettle and heat it up on the stove rather than use the hot water out of -> those instant hot-water systems. So it might be safer (if the report I -> heard was accurate) to make the bran mashes and stuff the way you've been -> doing it. What was the reason for not using the hot water for tea etc? Not sure it would be hot enough anyway but just curious. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3/M 2 * Origin: Home of Malla, the spoiled Norwegian Fjord (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: F3300014 Date: 03/02/98 From: MEG ALFONI Time: 01:18pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: This Old House magazine From: Meg Alfoni Subject: Re: This Old House magazine Jan Murphy wrote: re: pressure treated wood! Yow!! Thanks for the info, Jan. I, too, knew you weren't supposed to burn the stuff, but now I know why. There is a new kind of pressure treated wood on the market that is supposed to be environmentally sound...I've seen it advertised on TV, but can't remember the name. I'm sure it'll be more expensive for a while, but might be worth the cost, considering the alternative. Meg