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Thank you for sharing. I live in Alaska and my husband and I are wanting to get land and start a small farm with livestock. We are doing our research before we jump into anything. We want to make sure we do everything right for our future animals and family. I love seeing that it’s not all play but full time job. I love your videos. The playing one and the hard working ones. You show the reality of farm life. Thank you.😊
I'm glad you are doing your research, it takes a lot of work!
I know winter can be a pain, but how beautiful. I grew up in Minnesota and I miss the quietness and beauty of the snow. Thank you.
Thank you for your love and care of the horses, Graeme, and thank you for sharing. You made my day!
You're welcome! I'm glad it brightened your day!
Thank you for sharing this busy morning 👍 we could smell the hay from here ! such a hard work to do in the cold..the water is freezing instantly with this temperature. Beautifil morning !❄️✨
A horse crunching carrots is such a pleasant thing! The snow is beautiful and so are the horses!❤❤❤
Thank you for doing videos again of your horses and how you care for them. ❤
My pleasure!
Wow...great video showing how much can be involved during winter months caring for farm life. My back was screaming watching you 😳
You do such a great job caring for your herd, ALL animals deserve that.
Thanks for the kind words, it's not easy sometimes for sure!
stunning is the word...
I remember the care you took to install the frost free water source pipes. How worthwhile it was 💯👏👏👏
Great video, I love to see the daily normal life around horses. It is hard work though. The water bucket chore felt painful only by watching from my sofa ... especially the dragging around of the hose pipes. It really takes a lot of strength and energy to accomplish all these tasks. A lot of commitment as well as the will to accept this never ending routine plus (!) the unplanned problems to deal with. You have my admiration ! Great to see the fresh tasty hay is in, that feels very satisfying 😊
I really enjoy the playtime with the horses but the reality of the work involved is also gratifying. My early days of farm care involved hauling water from the well and filling below ground troughs. Winter was the hardest on people and animals, but when you stopped to listen on the path....that was so beautiful. It is where you realize how connected you are to all that is around you. And that amazing sense of peace in the quietness, a rare treat!
What a busy few days you've had! The watering system was very interesting. Your hands must have been frozen at the end of that. 🥶 The snowy winter wonderland is beautiful.
It's beautiful here, but a lot of work! It was cold but I've got my winter gear on :)
Lot of work ❤😊
After my stressful few days last week I realised how stressful all that snow must be for you looking after the horses and the property. You do such a great job and clearly enjoy dealing with whatever life throws at you, most of the time anyway. Your beautiful scenery would make some great greetings cards or even jigsaw puzzles. Thankyou again for sharing and being a great stress buster. I loved the way Luke kept you company whilst you sorted his and Mocha's water buckets
Hi Graeme, I was wondering if you could so kindly answer a question for me.
Do you worry that since you don’t have heaters on your water buckets that your horses won’t drink enough water and will be prone to colic? That mindset is a big deal at the barns around here (Central Texas)and we don’t have even a fraction of the cold and snow you get. I’ve always thought that as a whole, horses know how to regulate themselves well and as long as you’re offering clean water and quality hay (yours looks amazing) that they do quite well. Thank you!
Never. I do not worry about my horses in regards to colic, I worry about the symptoms that can lead to it though. Colic is a 99% human caused problem, if you watch wild horse channels you'll never hear about it, as such we must assume that it's due to how they are cared for, very unlikely to be the horse's fault.
Horses know how to regulate themselves in circumstances that allow them to, most barns do not allow that. I'll explain for everybody as this is an important topic.
Colic is a catch all term for "digestive problems in the stomach and intestines". This is important to define as it opens up on how to deal with it. The horse's stomach and whole digestive system requires near constant movement, this is only possible if they have access to food and water regularly.
The stomach creates acid all the time, literally 24/7 (unlike a human that creates it when eating only) and only 2/3 of the stomach is lined, so when there is too much acid in the stomach, it can reach up to the top 1/3 and be quite painful to the horse, and even cause ulcers. The solution for a horse to not have this problem is to simply eat.
This is where the majority of problems come in because somebody somewhere made some kind of rule of "2 flakes in the morning and 2 flakes at night" and people live and die by that rule and some horses do too.
When a horse gets fed in this way they will gorge themselves when they get the hay finally after either a long night or a long day. They'll do anything to just get rid of the "hunger pangs" which is literally acid eating at their stomach. They're not just hungry, it hurts to be hungry. The stomach fills up too fast, that gets pushed along the empty intestine that has a ton of acid to go along with it (relative to normal amounts obviously) and in conjunction with the next problem I'll explain, a blockage can happen. This problem is rarely about water I think, but lack of available water definitely can contribute.
In the wild, horses drink far less water than horses in domestication, if dehydration is a problem in a barn then that person should never own a horse, or any other animal maybe....
So the next issue is lack of movement throughout the day and night. Most horses are kept for the comfort of the human, in a barn stall. Barn stalls are regularly 12x12 spaces, which is cruel in my opinion, and allows for very little movement of a horse. It's hard to turn around, it's hard to lie down, can't roll, hard to get up etc etc. In combination of having a meagre 2 flakes chucked in their dirty stall that they gulp down as fast as they can, they then have to stand in one spot for the next 12 hours.
Many horses go without any food in their system for close to 10 hours if fed twice a day like this. It takes very little time for a horse to eat 2 flakes on the ground (the lazy way to feed a horse) and then they have nothing, so it's no wonder that come morning (or night) when they are fed, they can no longer regulate themselves and as such they get "colic", which as you can see is completely human caused.
Thank you for the detailed reply. I’ve implemented many of your suggestions over the years, I’m thankful to have my gelding at home where I can control his environment. Thanks for clearing up the question about watering in winter. Sometimes you start to doubt yourself when everyone around you is saying it’s cruel not to have trough heaters, which are not a fix-all and come with their own set of problems.
I tried water heaters and I'll never use them again, the horses do just fine with cold water. No need for heaters at all.
I always wonder about your fencing. I watch a ton of different animal channels and haven’t seen that type before. I thought it was electric but it doesn’t seem like it. Maybe one day you could talk about keeping them in with those cords(?). Is that typical etc? Maybe I am the only one who doesn’t know 😂❤
If you do a search on this channel I’ve done quite a few videos on it as it’s a common question.
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@@StableHorseTraining thanks G🥰
I feel your water pains from the year you had to bucket. My hubby and I were finally blessed with being able to bring our horses home. We live in Nebraska. Last year was a steep learning curve. We were dragging buckets out of hot water to them every few hours all night. We had a line pulled but guy didn't pull deep enough so our line freezes so now we got smarter and fill two large totes with water to take down to fill their 100 gallon tank and have a generator for it.
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Thank you ❤
My pleasure :)
Thank you for sharing your busy morning Graeme! Yay the hay came😁 Has the cost of hay gone up a lot since 2024?
You're welcome! Yes, it goes up almost every delivery
Your two 'wheels' work better than the gators four AND no pumping required. Maybe just a bit of ointment once in a while. It is so enjoyable to hear silence interrupted by a bird chirping and singing.... and horses chomping on carrots.
The birds sound glorious, do you know what they are ?
There is this guy on youtube A Davis, and he says that horses can melt their own water by breathing on it and then licking it so he does not break the ice for them, but he also says that all the horses need to learn to hobble, and that is binding their legs together 😥 so i dont know if you can take him seriously...
It’s absurd to force an animal to breathe and lick their way through ice when we can just smash through in an instant. That’s just mean and lazy. As for hobbling, it’s not kind but is required for some horses as they won’t stay where they are put for various reasons. So they get tied up on their front legs so they can’t go far. This is primarily in the cattle industry so most horses have no real reason to be tied like that.
@StableHorseTraining he says that every horse needs to hobble because if they fall and get stuck in wire they dont panic and lay still if you detangle them sorry haha i am not English zo i hope you understand! Every time i watch that trainer i cringe, just like this big heavy cowboy that breaks in two year old horses. I cant watch it its to painful.
@Wendy-bd9zu old people don’t like change unfortunately. He’s done the same things forever and will continue forever without ever seeing or understanding how damaging it is because he never experiences anything else so it all just seems normal.