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Neat heese tips/tricks/labor savers?; What are yours?
Topic Started: Jan 20 2007, 09:22 AM (1,092 Views)
DnC
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LaBonnieBon
Jan 24 2007, 05:53 PM
DnC
Jan 24 2007, 01:58 PM
Put all blankets on (closed front or not) over the horse's heads. I got the impression from a recent thread on TOB that people actually undo the chest buckles/straps to put their horses blankets on and then redo them. I think that's crazy - I put two blankets on at the same time that are closed front. If I did each separately and redoing the chest straps each time I estimate that it would take me at minimum another half an hour to finish  :jaw:  :no:

I do this, too! Do people actually undo the buckles everytime they put a blanket on their horse? UGH! I don't have the patience for that!

I just hold the blanket up and mine stick their head through the opening. <3 Barbie will even back out of it when I'm taking if off.... God, I LOVE that horse!!! <3 :cloud9: <3 <3

Unbelievable, isn't it? Every, single horse in the program that wears a blanket has this method done on them and I have yet to have one have a real meltdown. They do it my way or the highway, lol! I'm not mean about it but I've found if you pull them over their heads and do it in a matter-of-fact way that they find it's part of their routine. There are a couple that will back out of the blankets too, and one that responds to the command "Jammies" (which is a good thing as he's a 16.1 hand-ish ASB gelding! He's a fookin' giraffe!) Anyways - I can't imagine having to undo those straps too everytime.
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LaBonnieBon
Jan 24 2007, 09:29 AM
I get a container of baby wipes.... let them dry out until completely dry and then add whatever I want in order to make the wipes of my choice without the expense...

Liquid glycerine soap
neatsfoot oil
linament
and the list goes on....

Great for tack wipes and MUCH cheaper than the ones they sell! Also use them in the house with pinesol, clorox or whatever I want added to the container of dried out baby wipes!

Wow LBB.....I didn't know you were so smart!!! :teehee: :nyah:
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Jan 24 2007, 08:26 PM
I can go ya one better on the bits in the dishwasher thing.

Instead, lead your horse back to his/her stall with the bridle on. Once in stall, remove bridle.

Immediately duck bit into water bucket, maybe squidge the rings a little with your fingers if horsie got grass or treats.

Voila, you're done until next time.

If you do this EVERY time you ride, there's no need to haul the bit home to the dishwasher.

The leading the horse to the stall would slow down my untacking routine. I do everything in the aisle or washstall and everything is located in grasping distance there. I, categorically, clean my bits and all tack after each ride--it's some of the others who use my tack or are in charge of my tack that results in the unsightly bit build up.
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I'll add a cactus cloth for time saving. It's great to remove dried mud from all over. Easy on the legs and head too. Great for bath time too. Works like a charm, so much better than any curry out there :)
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macmtn
Jan 24 2007, 12:41 PM
-DairyQueen2049....Riced Mice!?!?!? :o you are SO my hero!!! so simple-so-evil...
I will try it tonight.. :clap: :clap: :clap:

The rice will get vaccumed up for a day or so and then - nothing. Your mice have all bown up. :innocent:
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elektra949
Jan 24 2007, 08:08 PM
DairyQueen2049
Jan 24 2007, 02:22 PM
Goldfish in my water tank - they eat moquitoes, flies, drooled in grain.  .10 cents @ Wally World


this might be a dumb question... but in response to the goldfish in the water thing.... the heese never accidentally... umm.. suck one in? lol

In almot 30 yrs of gold fishies in the tank I've never lost one to ingestion-by-horse. I've had old age deaths (I think that one was almost 8 when she became a floatie), one blue heron from hell that ate my entire flock of golds (Now I have a lid on the water tank), and umm, fish-cicles when my heater went on the fritz once (and I tried to revive the poor things by adding wate - duh) - but never have they been ingested by heese.

Don't feed them - the bugs do so just fine.

Oh, and I float a Dollar Store rubber duckie on the water surface so that the stinging type of bugs can get out w/o trying to use my horse's nose as a surf board. Saves in lots of stinging injuries.
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elektra949
Jan 24 2007, 08:08 PM
DairyQueen2049
Jan 24 2007, 02:22 PM
Goldfish in my water tank - they eat moquitoes, flies, drooled in grain.  .10 cents @ Wally World

I leave my bottom layer under my hay and use it multiple years - I use straw - its cheaper then hay or sawdust bales.  I burn it after 3 or 4 yrs.

I check tire pressure on trailers before use.  A squishy tire is soon to be a flat tire is soon to be an expense.  Check that tire pressure!

Mice - dump a nice serving of uncooked minute rice in your barn.  Mice eat rice, rice gets moist, rice blows up, mice die.  End of mice.

this might be a dumb question... but in response to the goldfish in the water thing.... the heese never accidentally... umm.. suck one in? lol

Ya know.... I had goldfish in my water trough......... and SOMEONE (.... ahem... ugh... MR WILLIE!!) had to have eaten one because one was gone and it was nowhere on the ground. Plus he's the only one who plays in the water....

After that, I let the remaining goldfish go live in the pond!
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LaBonnieBon
Jan 25 2007, 10:36 AM
elektra949
Jan 24 2007, 08:08 PM
DairyQueen2049
Jan 24 2007, 02:22 PM
Goldfish in my water tank - they eat moquitoes, flies, drooled in grain.  .10 cents @ Wally World

I leave my bottom layer under my hay and use it multiple years - I use straw - its cheaper then hay or sawdust bales.  I burn it after 3 or 4 yrs.

I check tire pressure on trailers before use.  A squishy tire is soon to be a flat tire is soon to be an expense.  Check that tire pressure!

Mice - dump a nice serving of uncooked minute rice in your barn.  Mice eat rice, rice gets moist, rice blows up, mice die.  End of mice.

this might be a dumb question... but in response to the goldfish in the water thing.... the heese never accidentally... umm.. suck one in? lol

Ya know.... I had goldfish in my water trough......... and SOMEONE (.... ahem... ugh... MR WILLIE!!) had to have eaten one because one was gone and it was nowhere on the ground. Plus he's the only one who plays in the water....

After that, I let the remaining goldfish go live in the pond!

Noooooooooo....not Willie!!!!! You must be mistaken! Willie would NEVER do something like that! :innocent: ;)
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RNB
Jan 24 2007, 09:25 PM
Wow LBB.....I didn't know you were so smart!!! :teehee: :nyah:

See, you learned something new..... I'm not just a smart a$$, I actually have a brain, too!
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justdandy
Jan 25 2007, 07:39 AM
Noooooooooo....not Willie!!!!! You must be mistaken! Willie would NEVER do something like that! :innocent: ;)

Can you imagine me putting a rubber duckie in the trough like Dairy Queen does?????? That would last 2 seconds!! Heck, when the trough gets below 1/2 full, he dives in and takes it for a walk by the heater coil.
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LaBonnieBon
Jan 25 2007, 10:42 AM
justdandy
Jan 25 2007, 07:39 AM
Noooooooooo....not Willie!!!!!  You must be mistaken!  Willie would NEVER do something like that! :innocent:  ;)

Can you imagine me putting a rubber duckie in the trough like Dairy Queen does?????? That would last 2 seconds!! Heck, when the trough gets below 1/2 full, he dives in and takes it for a walk by the heater coil.

:lol: Rubber duckie :lol: :lol: ....Willie... :lol: :lol:
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I undo the front buckles because I leave my horse's jammies on until I have to take them off and he's on the crossties in the grooming stall. (I pick out his feet, brush his legs, neck and face, before whipping off blankies.

If I were working at the barn and blanketing/unblanketing muchos horses in their stall, then yes, most definitely would be the over the head method!

Loving some of these ideas! (note to self - add baby wipes to next grocery store run - thanks LBB!)
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Duffy
Jan 25 2007, 08:08 AM

Loving some of these ideas! (note to self - add baby wipes to next grocery store run - thanks LBB!)

I get them by the case at Costco....$11-12 bucks! :clap:
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Ok, smartie.. :P How much of any one substance do you add? And how do you do it??
Just pour it down the side of the dried-out-baby-wipes tub?

But I'm thinking my wipes are pretty cheap.. $20 for a huge tub of Mac body wipes, $20 for tack wipes, either will last me about a year or half a year.
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Where can you buy cactus cloth?
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