i felt sorry for poor karen and her pitiful grass pasture. Then she
told me she keeps it that way deliberately and its a lot of work haha.
Things are so different place to place, its sometimes hard to
understand where people are coming from, hay prices, all that. I felt
like karen was from outer space trying to tell me how she has to keep
grass down. thats amazing. and ok heres the deal. we have to be
careful of this deal... when we say things, we forget it is for OUR
area of the country and people who dont realize might try and make it
work in THEIR areas. people, i think it was on the gaited list... they
made me so upset, just post after post saying its ok not to rotate
wormers. I was appalled, horrified at their ignorance, these were
experienced horse people, how can they be so stupid??!?!? because
they dont live in the subtropics like i do. Here, worms are a
formidable foe not to be reckoned with. horses and humans here die of
worms fairly regularly. recently on the gaited list there was a thread
about using maggot therapy to cleanse a wound. and a friend of mine
has a horse right now in the U of FL vet hospital because some weird
fly laid an egg in its foot in a little cut right above the coronet
band and now its touch and go with a baseball sized hole that seems to
be eating its way to china. I dont know the correct spelling but it
is pronounced :"habloneedma" ??? something you would see in a horror
movie! Another thing affected by gov budget cuts are like for us the
"dog fly spray program" which means whereas we once had some relief we
have none so our animals are covered in biting flies as soon as it
gets cool enough for the mosquitos and yellow flies to ease off...
anyway. i ramble.
janice
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even good horses have bad days sometimes.
