How Much Space a Mini Need

[thistlebloom]

A friend who owned horses said opening up your wallet on a windy day and watching all your money blow away is same as horse ownership. Yep my luck would be getting mini monster.

I can verify this. After selling my last horse and all the tack- corrals- trailer -truck -feeders -waterers -etc. etc.etc. I have once again opened my wallet in a gale.
But really, minis are more like a breeze.

 

[baymule]

A horse is a hole in your pocket you dump money into.

 

[valley ranch]

We went, once upon a time to see a mini, there were about 8 of them, standing in mud up to their knees. Well,she, wifey couldn't leave them in that condition, so we bought the whole herd, or band. I learned to do hoolves, I'm here to tell you. Their hooves were so bad we had to paint them with a mixture of Iodine and pine oil until their frogs didn't look like mushrooms and smell like $&^*!

Yerani use to ride the Stallion he was a beauty, they all were. Lot's of work but, so am I~and wifey still keeps me.

If you have something say~15'X20' you can put up several minis, the more room the cleaner. You'll have a bit of mucking to do. They're nice to be around, if you like horses, there's nothing like a horse.

 

[Nyboy]

I have always wondered as a non horse person why horse's hoofs need so much attention when owned.Who takes care of hoofs on wild horses?

 

[thistlebloom]

I have always wondered as a non horse person why horse's hoofs need so much attention when owned.Who takes care of hoofs on wild horses?

Nobody. And contrary to popular horse people myth they don't all have awesome tough feet that wear down evenly.
Some of them have bad feet. I guess those are the ones that would be easier pickings for predators.

 

[valley ranch]

Their hooves grow, like our finger nails, if they have some concrete to walk on, or black top, that helps to ware them down.

Daughter is working with a ladies horse, training to saddle, this horse needs work so bad on it's hooves. This horse has been kept in a corral that hasn't been mucked forever, the ground is like waking on a bed.

 

[valley ranch]

Mustangs hooves, I've heard from those who own them, take and need much less tending, and most owners run them barefooted even if they ride them on pavement a bit. We watch the Mustang Bands their hooves always look cared for, interesting!

 

[bobm]

Before the Spanish explorers , there were NO horses in the Americas. All mustangs are nothing more than feral horses. First they were runaways from the Spaniards, then those that got away/ escaped from the settlers, and more recently they were turned loose by horse owners because they couldn't afford to keep them after horse values plummeted due to shutting down of horse slaughter in the US several years ago as well as a huge increase of feed, vet. care, all other costs rising , and then the law suits rising out of the bleeding heart rescue groups . If a horse is in good physical condition and has hard soils or sandy or rocky ground to continuously move around in, the hoof edges will continually break off / wear down and appear to be trimmed by someone.

 

[valley ranch]

The Mustang is not a product of the onezies, twozies turned loose. The Mustang can be traced to the Spanish blood lines, and people who know horses can see it. Yes the BLM has wants them to be declared feral, so they can dispose of them as they wish. Yes, and some people who they get in the way of, want them dead or gone.

As wrong as one may be about anything, and what they may dislike in their own nature, they are wrong about this.

These beautiful creatures are not, cast offs and unimportant escapees, as their detractors, their enemies claim but a surviving group of one of our Lords Creation.

And they are under attack, even by those who are paid by us ,through the government, to protect them.

 

[bobm]

The Mustang is not a product of the onezies, twozies turned loose. The Mustang can be traced to the Spanish blood lines, and people who know horses can see it. Yes the BLM has wants them to be declared feral, so they can dispose of them as they wish. Yes, and some people who they get in the way of, want them dead or gone.

As wrong as one may be about anything, and what they may dislike in their own nature, they are wrong about this.

These beautiful creatures are not, cast offs and unimportant escapees, as their detractors, their enemies claim but a surviving group of one of our Lords Creation.

And they are under attack, even by those who are paid by us ,through the government, to protect them.

There are only a couple herds in Oregon that can claim the distinction of being from the original Spanish escapees via DNA testing. All of the rest are other feral horses that may or may not have at least some original Spanish genetics in their background. The original horses brought from Spain were of Arabian and Barb breeding with genetics of local horses in Spain and possible draft horse genetics. In other words what the Spanish used as their military mounts at that time that they acquired from horse breeding farms in 'Spain. So nothing that hasn't been used for centuries before in Europe, Arabia, and N Africa. In the early 1900's Thoroughbred and Arabian stallions were turned loose by the US government as well as some ranchers to improve the wild horse herds so that they could then capture the offspring for military as well as ranch uses.