The Horse Thread

[wonderpony]

the swan belongs in the wildlife thread

Desensitization clinic at its finest!

 

[Harvey]

 

[Tjf1967]

That certainly is a rich municipality. That place looks incredible.

 

[Harvey]

Mercer County is probably somewhere in the middle. Princeton very affluent, Trenton not so much. I agree I've never seen anything like it owned by a county.

That's the first time I looked in barn. They have a sign they put up and take down that says "no visitors at this time" or something, which makes me think I could go in there at some point. Would love to check it out.

What I don't get is does the county own the horses? Or do people pay to have them stay there? One thing seems evident, it's a lot acreage for a few horses. That's why the grass is so thick, it's not grazed very hard.

 

[MarzNC]

Since Mercer Stables offers lessons, some of the horses must be owned by the facility. It's common for a stable to own some horses while also offering boarding services for privately owned horses. There can be situations when people share ownership.

Mercer Stables Slowly Re-Opening Barn Doors

The horse, of course, is the main attraction at the Mercer County Park Commission’s stables — currently in the second phase of both the COVID-19 related reopening and renovations to

princetoninfo.com

 

[tirolski]

Colorado rounds the wild ones up and sends em to correctional facility.
WTF.

Largest wild horse roundup in Colorado history underway

287 animals have been captured and four killed as of Tuesday in what is the largest wild horse roundup in state history so far...

www.vaildaily.com

 

[Brownski]

It’s not pretty but neither would be a bunch of horses starving or dying of thirst in a desert. The prison program is actually a great thing for the inmates and much better for the horses than being diverted to the European meat market.

 

[Harvey]

 

[Brownski]

Nice. I was just thinking yesterday how much I miss being around horses. It might drive me to actually go for a trail ride at one of the local places.

 

[wonderpony]

There are days like today, with low humidity and things finally cooling down, that I would just about sell my soul for a good trail horse Draco is not a good trail horse. He is too spooky. Or, at least, he's not a good trail horse for me. Maybe, if I were 20 years younger it might work, but not at 56 with screws and plates in my back from falling off after he spooked ten years ago on Labor Day Weekend.

But, he is what he is, and I love him.