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    Re: Stall Mats - Which Kind?

    Bet you get something started with that post. /forums/images/icons/wink.gif Lets face it bedding is the bottom line and cleaning at least daily. A lot depends on the horse, some can wreck a stall...
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    Re: Horses and Clover

    Over the years I have bought loads of clover because the guy it was intended for had heard horror stories. You can get it at a good price when that happens /forums/images/icons/wink.gif bcs
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    Re: Soft-shelled eggs?

    We used to use a little self feeder like you have with dry dog food and it was free choice. Oyster shells.
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    Should he put plastic down first as a vapor barrier??
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    Re: Options for T111 Siding

    T111 will stain on the bottom 18" where the rain splashes. Look around at the Amish sheds you will see what I mean. I have not seen a cure yet. I went with Vinal over cheap plywood. Snow blowers and...
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    Re: Need ideas - gate too short for doorway

    How about running another pipe inside as a spline if the tubing is light weight as most gates tend to be?? bcs
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    Re: Horse Arena Harrow - Dethatcher??

    Check out Northern Tools-------Spider Harrow 3PH. bcs
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    Re: Horse Stalls - Feeder locations

    Nature says a horse is suppose to eat off the ground and if you find an excess of hay and grain in the water bucket you might want check their teeth.bcs
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    Re: Taxes, Assessments and Exemptions - oh my

    I think you will find that 10K income from farming op's including horses is the key figure for any kind of exemption. Nothing on school taxes except STAR and I'll bet your to young for that. Sales...
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    Re: Best place to Live?

    Global Warming?
    Last winter when i was breaking ice in buckets every morning for weeks, you could have fooled me. bcs /forums/images/icons/grin.gif
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    Re: Considering Retirement in Maine

    Wait till a few more from Mass. move up there. I experienced it in NH. Now NY is cheaper to live in.[UPstate} bcs /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
  12. Re: Thanks for the help on the floor - lets talk doors

    Listen to the man, I don't always agree with him but he has had the experience with numbers and youngsters who can get into trouble for fun. bcs
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    Re: Idle question

    Keep us posted bcs
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    Re: Run-in shed plans... still looking

    http://www.public.iastate.edu/~mwps_dis/mwps_web/ut_plans.html#Anchor72054

    If you can't find one in here to at least adapt to your wants get cowboy doc to send you a picture. bcs
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    Re: How much work IS a horse?

    When the other gal let the reins go of her horse,

    I hope I never meet her on the road in a car. She would give Ford a bad rep. /forums/images/icons/smirk.gif
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    Re: How much work IS a horse?

    Hey Doc-- Isn"t the trade name for the horse you discribe "Bombproof"??
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    Re: Using T-Posts for Fencing

    Wait till you see what she will do to 1 by's when she has a itch.bcs /forums/images/icons/wink.gif /forums/images/icons/shocked.gif
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    Re: Post \'n Beam vs. Pole

    {Frame it up and put steel on it and you're done.} I guess I missed the part in this post about lining it with 2x6's. bcs
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    Re: Post \'n Beam vs. Pole

    I lost a good yearling that kicked into metal siding on a "run in shed". servered arterey. No more metal siding and horses. 3/4 treated plywood. bcs
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    Re: corral panels

    I think the key word here is "perimeter" Panels around here start at $5.50 a foot, post will come in at least .50 a foot. I would price out woven 2x4 mesh or diamond weave 4' wire with a sight board...
  21. Re: Anyone used a \"deer-cam\" or trail viewing cam?

    Thats why he wants the camera, to see how the guy who steals it gets it going /forums/images/icons/grin.gif /forums/images/icons/grin.gif
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    Re: Transplanting Oak Trees

    Don't cut any more than you have to off the tap root. It is long as on most nut trees. We transplanted 5 that were 3+"[base] with a 48" tree spade and they all lived. Up to 3' high I have had some...
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    Re: hay versus sawdust for stalls

    Canadian shavings are about $3/bag here in Saratoga. Sawdust is scarce. Bedding can become your biggest overhead cost. bcs
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    Re: Freezers - Upright or Chest?

    If you like good old fashion pot luck stew, go with the chest type. Two or three times a year you can dig down to the bottom and come up with all kinds of stuff you forgot you bought. bcs...
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    Re: Has anyone built a pole house?

    Next thing would be to keep the critters out of a wood floor setup. As I said I have no floor down stairs except cement 2'x2' pavers in the water/furnace room laid in sand and I had rats tunneling...
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