The Good Banter Thread

[j.w]

Thanks CE maybe she was walking when I took the picture and I just caught her like that..........can't remember. I thought she was kinda skinny also but like you say maybe the baby is sucking the life outta her. I hate when they take the babies away and put them in another field so they can wean them. They cry and cry for mama and she for them.

 

[CountryEscape]

Yep, they need to remove mom and baby so they cannot hear each other, best to put mom with another mom and baby with another baby, but not always easy to do that.
We bought a really big boned mare one time, with a 5 month old filly still on her. The mare was not being fed well, on a pasture in So. Missouri, and if you know So. MO, it's very dry rocky soil. I'm sure the 40 acre field she was in was full of lush grass in the early spring, but it didn't last long enough. We walked through the field and were bombarded by all the huge grasshoppers. She looked soo poor that I just had to take her home. I was there to make a trade for our beautiful mare and this mare that was being starved to death, her baby looked very well, but the mare was getting no nutrition for her own body, giving everything she had to her milk and her filly. She was blind in one eye, and was sunburned on every part of her that was white above the midline of her body (sides of her belly. She was a black and white paint, and all that white up high was full of sores and puss from the sunburn, and she had no where to get out of the sun. My big heart said I had to leave the idiot beautiful mare I brought, and take this mare home with me. She literally looked like a Holstein cow! her hip bones not only stuck out, she was sunk in between hip bones and spine. Could count every single rib from 100' away easily. It was a sad sight indeed. I took her home and doctored her, weaned the filly, put her with another foal we were weaning, and in about a month's time, she was the slickest blackest mare you would ever see! I had some really good goop for mending her sunburn, and it healed her right up. Our son rode her, and he could ride her sideways at a canter and not fall off. She was a great mare, great babysitter for the kids.
OK, off my soapbox and storytelling. Bad story that ended well, my favorite kind to tell.

 

[j.w]

It was a good heartwarming story CE and you did such a kind thing for that poor mare. How long did you have her? Sounds like you are really into horses. Lots of people have them around here. I've never owned one. Always wanted one when I was a kid but we lived in the city in Seattle and no horses allowed! Got to ride some a few times w/ friends or when on vacation. Now I wouldn't know what to do w/ one cuz I never learned much about them other than get on and ride.

 

[CountryEscape]

That mare was eventually sold, but only after we had her for about 10 years and my son decided he didn't care much for riding anymore. She had a couple more foals for us. Here's another "Windy" story. BTW, that was her name. She was in foal plus had the 5 month old filly when we bought her, called a "3 in 1 package". She lost the foal she was carrying. I was there to watch it be born, but it was coming out head first, instead of front feet first. I called vet, by the time he got there it had been 30 minutes, and mares cannot be in labor for long or babies suffocate. It took the vet over 30 minutes to turn the foal, push it back in, get the legs pulled forward one at a time. That poor mare was screaming ... silently ... she was trying to hard to push the baby out and the vet was having to wait past her contractions to push it back in to reposition it. I've never seen anything so pitiful. The foal was born dead, but I wasn't ready to give up. The vet gave her a few hardy smacks on her chest, to try to jump start her lungs, but he said it had been too long. I still tried to do mouth to nose CPR. He finally tapped me on the shoulder and said it was no use, the foal was gone. I slumped over, so sad for the foal, but sadder for Windy. She was standing by now, and looking and licking that foal. I was crying, asked if we left the foal with the mare, or took it away. He said it depends on the mare. So, I felt she needed to know the baby was dead, put it in the stall with her. She was so upset, trying to get the baby to wake up, she kept pawing at it, and hard! I couldn't stand that, so removed the foal. That was the only foal we ever lost, and one of the few I would have witnessed the birth of. She always had Paints, and that one was a black and white paint, too. Yes, we used to have and raise horses, just for fun and recreation, and I always sold horses at more than what I paid for them. I knew how to pick good ones, and even though my ex always said they were no good if he didn't like them, I still showed him by getting more than what we spent for them. Never "made" money on horses, but always got money back when sold them.

 

[j.w]

Sad story CE and I was hoping so much for some kind of miracle at the end. That would be hard to witness and to not be able to do much to help. Tears in my eyes now.

 

[koiguy1969]

for you cat lovers...

 

[j.w]

My friend up the road gave her bobcat/lynx mix a scoop of catnip today while I was there. Just like a cat, it loved it and rolled all around in it! I'm gonna grow some outta seeds for my cats.............hope I don't get busted!

 

[addy1]

Can just see jw in jail for catnip..............all the hardened criminals asking why you are there and you say in a whisper..............catnip grower..............

 

[koiguy1969]

catnip oil...curing cat cancers? what do you think jw?

 

[j.w]

Hey don't knock it till you've tried it!

 

[j.w]

This baby elephant was taking a bath in the drinking water basin and playing at an elephant hospital in Thailand. It was an orphan, found in Cambodia. Most likely, its mother died in a land mine. A grown up elephant which was healing from an injury at the hospital took it in as its own.

 

[sissy]

I went to NC yesterday and got daylilies and they are supposed to be purple with a yellow center and some that were yellow with a purple center ,I can't wait for a bloom on them 3 dollars for 4 plants .

 

[addy1]

Neat sissy those will be pretty.

Great video jw, love it!

 

[CountryEscape]

JW, that was adorable! How do you find those videos? That little guy just wanted a full back, not a sink bath. LOL
Sissy, that's a steal! I can't imagine getting one day lily for $3, much 4 of them! I got one last fall on clearance, it's burgandy and yellow. It's really grown well this year, probably 12 plants there now, so hoping it will bloom nicely for me! Share pics when yours blooms!

 

[j.w]

CE I get a newsletter from a computer guru and they send a cute video now and then. He was a cutie and thought he was kinda stuck in there for awhile. Hope he gets a bigger pond when he gets outta that hospital.

Sissy you got the real deal there on those day lilies! Hope they are as pretty as they sound.