Recent content by FarmerMack

my mare Heather Moon, she was renamed after many farms as the last owner just called her horse and her paddock mate Jasper a Hackney horse gelding I picked up a year after her, both make my day with whinnies and snorts when I visit them. love the horse for it has nothing but love in it's heart

my TB mare has a tattoo on her upper gums, I can if I wished look her information up via her Tattoo. My Amish farrier was able to tell me her age by looking at her teeth so ask a farrier, he was also able to tell the age of my hackney horse gelding the same way. both of my horses came to me with...

My 6yr old Mare has the same issues I found that a shorter pull on the spray bottle trigger, but i usually spay a glove with the fly spray and wipe her body down by hand, I also keep a fly mask (pre-sprayed) on her face. She an ex racer TB passed around to often but the sweetest Brat of a horse...

I have a 6 yr old mare that had a really bad case of worms when i purchased her. After deworming she has lost most of the bloating she had...and I have been trying to get some weight back on her. Since grass is sparse at best I have added alfalfa to here diet hoping to put some muscle on...

Ask a local cattle farmer... my best advise has come from a friend that has been raising cows all her life...my little Elsie cow is still alive after 2 month and the extreme heat of the last 3 weeks.

so what did the vet subscribe for the parasite

I have a 2 month old Holstein heifer that had scours and pneumonia when i got her, my neighbors mom has had many cows so she showed me how to give her a antibiotic shot and that the treatment for scours was to stop feeding and give her bounce back and electrolyte supplement. cow did fine until...

baby cows can get scours (diarrhea) and pneumonia I bought 2 baby Holsteins that had both. Electrolytes for 3 days and antibiotics and they are both doing well. I've heard both of these diseases are common especially after being transported

An old farmer here in kentucky mumbled something about "find yer self a farmer with healthy cows that is selling baby cows" the man found me a deal on a 5 yr old Tennessee Walker Mare, trail broke, wagon broke.. they now call me the Yankee horse trader since i paid so little. I told em thats...

There is one near me in Kentucky that has a 4 yr old mare that they rescued, my adoption cost is what they had in her for $$ "nothing". I'm going to be taking her in on my farm. her choice at the auction , because of a rear leg injury were rescue or bullet. (GRR) a year later and one foul she is...

Excellent post and answers as i want a breed that doesnt need disbudding or and with a good nature.

Exactly, we did rent in the next town over from the new farm and it is central Kentucky yet the air in town still smells bad especially in the am ... breath in deep ... mmmm roof tar cooking. cough cough. I spend as much time on the farm and land as possible, or the trophy bass fishing lake less...

It's true goats are quick breeders and I am in it to supply me and mine with food and a little cash to pay for feed n such. and i could use a couple of goats for some brush clearing, but I think I have had my fill of the little "escape artist". but probably not as I miss my Angora Ram "Rasta"...

:lau @ pasture eye candy, my oldest daughter can't believe that "red" the Tennesse walking horse has been ridden yet. I agreed but said he looks good walking in the upper pastier, there is also a mean little male pony i call "Ar$e hole" or Nepolan " because of his attitude, he does nothing and...

Well after almost a year of city living I'm good for the rest of my life. After having lost my Farm in Effingham NH to the bank the cold and the heating cost I will be back on the farm here in Stanford Kentucky. I''l have 9 acres in total, up from 1. 3 acres is fenced in and 4.5 is rolling...