Hello Arelor!

** On Monday 28.03.22 - 07:10, Arelor wrote to boraxman:

I'm not being facetious, this is a genuine question, but what should
people start posts about? [...]

I say horses. People should start conversations about concerns they have about horses, horse education, and horse gear.

A current concern of mine is that one of my mares always
puts her head into bushes and ends up getting a lot of
twigs entangled in her mane. Her mane eventually gets
messed up with knots. Every now and then I have to trim her
mane off to limit the reach of this mess but it saddens me
because she has a beautiful mane otherwise.

How 'bout treating her mane with the fine anti-tangling
components found in a quality hair conditioner? :D

I don't think removing bushes and other plants is a good
option because she loves them - and it is also a bit
impractical anyway. I have been thinking in braiding her
mane. She would look very posh as a result but maybe it
wwould be more comfortable for her.

A braided mane would add class. From the few images I've seen
online, the results can be stunning.
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Re: about horses..
By: Ogg to Arelor on Mon Mar 28 2022 03:05 pm

Hello Arelor!

** On Monday 28.03.22 - 07:10, Arelor wrote to boraxman:

I'm not being facetious, this is a genuine question, but what should
people start posts about? [...]

I say horses. People should start conversations about concerns they have about
horses, horse education, and horse gear.

A current concern of mine is that one of my mares always
puts her head into bushes and ends up getting a lot of
twigs entangled in her mane. Her mane eventually gets
messed up with knots. Every now and then I have to trim her
mane off to limit the reach of this mess but it saddens me
because she has a beautiful mane otherwise.

How 'bout treating her mane with the fine anti-tangling
components found in a quality hair conditioner? :D

I don't think removing bushes and other plants is a good
option because she loves them - and it is also a bit
impractical anyway. I have been thinking in braiding her
mane. She would look very posh as a result but maybe it
wwould be more comfortable for her.

A braided mane would add class. From the few images I've seen
online, the results can be stunning.
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I am not sure hair conditioner can help much. Maybe I should get some and try.

Did you know horse shampoo was en vogue for human use for a long while because of its
high content of biotine?

Maybe I should let her mane grow a bit for braids, hahaha.

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Hello Arelor!

** On Monday 28.03.22 - 16:47, Arelor wrote to Ogg:

Did you know horse shampoo was en vogue for human use for a long while because of its high content of biotine?

I did NOT know that. I just know that biotine comes in pill
form and that I have been known to partake in it. It's
supposed to strengthen hair and nails, I think.

Maybe I should let her mane grow a bit for braids, hahaha.

From what you've been sharing, it sounds like you've had to
chop off most of the natural length. :(

Maybe you can lure a pretty lady into your stable under the
foreplay/pre-text of teaching you how to braid a classy look
for your caballo. ;)


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Hello Arelor!

** On Monday 28.03.22 - 18:30, Arelor wrote to Spectre:

I assume she's eating the bushes.. have you considered planting some other
shrubber so that there's an alternative to the bushes to nibble on? Other
than grass that is. Alternatively try giving her a waxing :P

Oh, she eats EVERYTHING. There is usually plenty of plants for her to eat, but sometimes she will stick her head into the bush to grab some plant
that is behind it.

Are you sure that is a caballo you have and not a cabra? LOL

There is also the issue that every good tasting plant in the yard will eventually be eated to 2 milimeters length. Once they finish the best tasting ones they move on to the next ones.

Is it possible for a horse to overeat if left to natural
sources? If not, maybe she doesn't feel like she's getting
enough that she needs?

Btw, something I have tried recently is giving them a fly mask, even if there are no flies. It greatly reduces the ammount of messup caused by bushes. Maybe I should invest in some anti-fly covering for the neck too.

Excellent. Sounds like you DO have a modest/temporary
solution until you get those braids figured out. :)



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Re: about horses..
By: Ogg to Arelor on Mon Mar 28 2022 07:51 pm

Hello Arelor!

** On Monday 28.03.22 - 16:47, Arelor wrote to Ogg:

Did you know horse shampoo was en vogue for human use for a long while because of its high content
biotine?

I did NOT know that. I just know that biotine comes in pill
form and that I have been known to partake in it. It's
supposed to strengthen hair and nails, I think.

Maybe I should let her mane grow a bit for braids, hahaha.

From what you've been sharing, it sounds like you've had to
chop off most of the natural length. :(

Maybe you can lure a pretty lady into your stable under the foreplay/pre-text of teaching you how to braid a classy look
for your caballo. ;)

Oh yeah, humans don't take much advantage of biotine supercharged shampoos (because it does not absorb
that well via hair and skin) but pills are a different matter.

One of my best seling products is a Vitamin B complex which is popular with people with neurological
issues and cyatics. It has a lot of biotine too.

Zinc gluconate does wonders for hair and nails health and is cheaper :-)

My poor mare has a very irregular mane cut at this point since some parts I have had to trim very short
and others I have not. Her friend has a much better looking mane just because I have not had to perform
surgery on it :-(

I am not into politics and I am very direct. My way of luring a lady to the stable is closer to "Hey, I'd
like to take you to my barn. I will show you my horses and take you for a ride. No, dear, it is not the
horse who is gonna be ridden."

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Re: "The gods bestowed manes on the horses for beauty"
By: Ogg to Arelor on Mon Mar 28 2022 08:30 pm

Is it possible for a horse to overeat if left to natural
sources? If not, maybe she doesn't feel like she's getting
enough that she needs?

Oh, horses are always hungry. Specially domestic ones.

Most barn feeding schedules leave them craving for more food even if they got their daily calory intake.
A horse needs to be chewing food for long periods of time in order to feel right but with a barn schedule
they are likely to get a lot of calories in three or four short meals per day. So they will feel they
have not had enough food and try to bite anything they can find if managed that way.

If you keep horses in a pasture that does not happen, but eventually they will trim all the grass to the
natural trimming level.... at which point they will try to trim if shorter unless moved to another
pasture. Eventually they overgraze the pasture to destruvtion if not taken to another place. Horses would
naturally move to a new pasture in the wild but if they are given no option by us misserable humans they
will just exhaust the current one.

It is hard for a grazing horse to go fat only from grazing, unless the grass is extremely plentiful on an
area or high calory or something. Most horses will balance their calory intake from grass with the "work"
spent moving from here to there in the pasture, playing with other horses, and pulling their human's
beard from time ti time.


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Zinc gluconate does wonders for hair and nails health and is cheaper :-)

Jelly works wonders too.. its got such a high proportion of protein in it.
Of course it won't work well for the Vege's unless you get a synthetic one :)

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Re: Re: about horses..
By: StormTrooper to Arelor on Tue Mar 29 2022 10:30 pm

Zinc gluconate does wonders for hair and nails health and is cheaper :-)

Jelly works wonders too.. its got such a high proportion of protein in it
Of course it won't work well for the Vege's unless you get a synthetic on
:)

ST

Do you have any source for that?

I don't think I am adding Jelly to my store's portfolio anytime soon but I
am curious.

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Jelly works wonders too.. its got such a high proportion of protein in
Of course it won't work well for the Vege's unless you get a synthetic
:)

Do you have any source for that?

Not off hand, I'd have to look hard for anything current... this old school.
It was something my Grandparents did, Mother too for that matter.. Probably stems from jelly originally being entirely meat based, so near 100% protein.

I can confirm two things though, if you increase calcium, extra milk for arguments sake or other supplement and throw in jelly (not at the same time just into your diet) then you'll get nails particularly that will grow faster and tougher.

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Re: Re: about horses..
By: StormTrooper to Arelor on Wed Mar 30 2022 02:14 am

I can confirm two things though, if you increase calcium, extra milk for arguments
sake or other supplement and throw in jelly (not at the same time just into your
diet) then you'll get nails particularly that will grow faster and tougher.

Too bad that does not sound healthy for horses. One of mine could use improved hoofing
:-)

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Too bad that does not sound healthy for horses. One of mine could use improved hoofing
:-)

Calcium and Protein is no good?

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Re: Re: about horses..
By: StormTrooper to Arelor on Wed Mar 30 2022 11:47 pm

Too bad that does not sound healthy for horses. One of mine could us improved hoofing
:-)

Calcium and Protein is no good?

ST

No, but meat derivated ones are not something I would feed a horse.

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Calcium and Protein is no good?

No, but meat derivated ones are not something I would feed a horse.

You could probably feed them a Plant Protein, only thing that comes to mind is beans... not used to thinking about that, usually meat for protein

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