Poverty is owning a horse.

[kelleyb]

I just thought I'd put up a pic of my girls back home in the States.

[The Pastor]

i dont like brown or black ones

[chanceyy]

Better put my hand up to. I've owned horses since I was 11 and was so pony mad it just about drove my parents crazy! Bought my first pony when I was 11 yrs (strawberry roan). Was lucky that the seller allowed me to pay him off working at a local trekking business where I helped out after school and in the weekends.

Trained and onsold a few horses since but have had Sea (see pic) since I was 14 yrs. He's now 27 yrs but still going good for his age. He's a part bred Arab and got character plus. You can put a kid on his back and he plod along like an old nag but get someone with experience and all the dirty tricks come out

your horse sounds like my maqs .. if she knows someone can ride its all on .. if she knows they are nervous or not experienced then she is pretty quiet .. Charlie is just far to sensitive to put just anyone on so I am the only one to ride him

well this is going to make a few of you giggle...I used to ride...and still do on the odd occasion...I left my last horse down south when I moved to the wairarapa a few years ago...I started riding while working at a backpackers hostel when I was 13...their was a bunch of chickies that were running horse treks from there and they got me helping...slaving away shoveling shit [mucking out was the proper term I was always reminded]...carting buckets of food around various paddocks,genral slave really...then they got me on them [I could actually some what ride at the time,part of my family are very horsey in,western,polo,dressage,hunting,etc] and I got the bug
Right to the point I was excersising a mad mad mad racehorse [ironicaly called step-a-side??]...who used to scare the shit out of me alot!! good times lol [that and I had the hots for one of the gals ] but yeah...I never competed...thought about doing endurace a few times...would have loved to have given polo a bash but the $$$$ is to rich for my wallet!! and yeah...owned plenty of pleasure hacks over the years since...and occasionly you catch me hanging around various donkey events catching up with friend and family...and for the record the horsey scene is a giggle!!! good people and always a laugh!! much like bikes

well aren't you just a dark horsey yourself there mr poos .. hmmmm feel free to come jump on a horse when ya down this way ... but sorry no hot girls to impress though

Pheeew!!

Well racing horses is something else too. In my yoof I spent time in Te Aroha to check it out as a career. The early mornings, mucking out, feeding, swimming the horses was all ok but the hardest part was actually riding the bloody things! Legs all cramped up like that. I had one bolt on me & thought I was gunna die. This horse had NO brakes! It got the better of me and I chickened out of the horse racing/training scene.

been there done that too ...

We have 6 of the suckas.
Fortunately we have 20 acres so theres plenty of grass for them.
But when there is'nt as much grass you spend heaps on dry feed & hay etc.
Anytime you call a vet out it seems to be 2-300 for minor things.
The missus and her friend only seem to ride 2 of them, the ex working stock horses, while the others, thoroughbreds just munch away all day.

Then theres the things like horsefloats and gear. Man we must have some bucks in gear. Dunno why she has to have 3 saddles!!! Plus all the cover and ropes, bridles etc etc.
They bust covers regularly and always need repairing.
Then you have to have a decent vehicle to tow the float.
And our driveway is steep so it has to have plenty of grunt.
My 2 Toyota Hiluxs 2wd wont pull the float with the nags in up the top of our driveway, so I brought the missus a SS Comodore a short while back, decent 5.7 Chevy power.
All's well I thought.

Now she's doing treks which involves a bit of driving on shingle roads to get there, so now according to her we need a 4WD.
She turns up with a new Nissan Navara 4wd yesterday for a demo and for tonight, and we're testing a Ford Ranger 4wd over the weekend.
So once again it looks like the bank account will be crucified for the sake of bloody horses!

And heres me with just my little old motorbike...............ahh, things ya do for ya sheilas!

(I actually do like the nags, just keep qiuet about it around her, and maybe might ride one soon, if I can figure out how to drive it.)

hmm since i started on the naturalmanship route I do not spend much money on gear .. I trim my own horses feet & they are strip feed daily & only get grass & hay so for cost wise the expense is actually very minimal ... whew cause Betsy is sure more expensive than the horses are ... & bikes are fun & great but horses are my sanity ...

[ManDownUnder]

I ate horse once... had to try a horse steak while it Switzerland and... well... they taste like they smell...

blleeaarrcchhh!!!!

Anyhoo - as you were. (Oh and no, in case you didn't pick it - I'm not a horsey type)

[RiderInBlack]

My job is ta make money off horse owners so I can spend it on my bike I'm a Farrier. I trim and shoe horses to keep them sound (Like a tyre tech for bikes). Bloody horse are getting expencive even here now. I'm shoeing sport horses that are $20,000 - $40,000 (I don't touch Race Horses) and they aren't the flash ones ether. I'd get 2 dam good bikes for that.

Used ta own a horse and rode One Day Events (X-country).

[Toaster]

Eew. Horses. Evel (sic) things. No kill switch.

Yes there is, it's on the end of a rifle.

[Toaster]

My neighbours have horses and are either richer than me or have a lot of debt. Horse crap all over the paddocks which just doesn't degrade like my sheep and cow poos.

I like horses - rode one once (on the back of it that is) as a teenager and loved it. Never done it since.

Ate one once as a steak in a french cafe in Wellington, it was the best steak I have ever had.

An old friend of mine has a couple horses and they keep her very very poor indeed.

[yungatart]

Don't have and never have had horses...but teenagers aren't cheap either.
At least with your horse you can fence it in the paddock and give it a diet of grass and water. Last I looked, you couldn't do that with a teenager....much as I might be tempted to, at times.

[scracha]

Well if you wanna job they're short of a decent rider for the morning exercising.l $hit wages and high risk of paralysis is all included.

Oh, the other one's a pure bred .... whatever the hell that means.

If you can get standard, pure and thorough breds, does that mean you can get non-standard, tainted and fickle breds?

Pheeew!!

Well racing horses is something else too. In my yoof I spent time in Te Aroha to check it out as a career. The early mornings, mucking out, feeding, swimming the horses was all ok but the hardest part was actually riding the bloody things! Legs all cramped up like .

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

So how many of you still have the real horse power?

Apparently there I have a 100 odd horsy's in that V-Twin

[kiwifruit]

100 odd horsy's

*cough* on a really really great day *cough*
= X

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

*cough* on a really really great day *cough*
= X

going down hill of course and a tail wind and after I have had some beans for lunch

[scracha]

going down hill of course and a tail wind and after I have had some beans for lunch

Even if it was on ice it still wouldn't be half as scary as our equine friends.

[Toaster]

Don't have and never have had horses...but teenagers aren't cheap either.

But you look waaaay too young to have teenagers!!!!

Send them to me and I will shoot them for ya... or at least use them as slave labour.

[Grahameeboy]

But you look waaaay too young to have teenagers!!!!

Send them to me and I will shoot them for ya... or at least use them as slave labour.

BOTOX.....or was that bollox