I thought I would start a new thread for people over 40
who love horses.
This thread is open to owners leasers an people who
love horses
I will start I am 48 years old and I never yet owned a horse
mainly because of finances.
I have been around horses most of my life. I have ridden
all kinds of horses first ponies then horses
I have ridden Arab, Quarter Horses, Morgans, Appendix Quarter horses.
Thoroughbreds, Appaloosas, American Saddlebreds and Paints and lots of mixed breeds too and all sizes 14hh-17hh
I have ridden both English and western
here is are pictures of me riding my friends Pinto 14hh
and my friends Half Arab
My husband knows how much I would love my own horse so in the spring we are looking in to leasing a horse
I think the biggest benefit of having horses on one's own property is being able to have more than 1. Since I board, if I want 2, it will cost twice what it does to have 1.
I think it would be cool to hang out and watch them play too. I am told - I do not know this for myself because I've never been around at that time - but I am told that my horse is a total Wild Man when it comes time go to into the barn at night. I am told that he trumpets like a stallion and races around his paddock like a rodeo bronc if any of the other horses go in before he does. The people who are usually at the barn at that hour tell me they love to hang out and watch the show he puts on.
I know for myself I like to watch the mares (one 5yo Chincoteague pony + 2 3yo Oldenburgs) rocket around their paddock and get crazy, and they seem to do that at all hours.
On the other hand, last week the mares learned that when it's chore time, the power to the fences is off, and they started taking their paddock apart...and a couple of the other horses watched and learned, too. I'd be losing sleep if that were my problem...and dealing with plain old equine drama? Horse 1 is buddy sour but Horse 2 needs to go into the big turnout for exercise but that means Horse 1 will spend the. entire. morning. yelling. across. the. property. for. his. buddy. Horse 3 and Horse 4 do best when they're turned out with other horses but they can't be turned out together because they've demonstrated that they are unable to Resolve Their Differences without more injuries than their riders are comfortable with. But they can't be turned out with Horses 5, 6, and 7 because those are mares, and Horse 3 and Horse 4 are geldings who get freaky and bite the girls if they go into season. And...and...and...
I don't understand why people complain about the amount of board they pay. Seems to me it can't possibly begin to cover the mental wear-and-tear (and I'm pretty sure it doesn't pay a good wage for the physical pitch-and-haul).
Well for our mid life crisis we left the security of a nice home and secure jobs in the UK, and moved to the wilds of the Canadian prairies here. So we swapped this
for this
and a lot of this
Yup from crowded UK to the wilds of the wilderness, from substantial 4 bed brick built, to sort of 3 bed wooden house, from owning 1/10th of an acre to 1500 acres out here:lol:
To the people who board... I have a list of jelousy's:
You always have someone to ride with.
You always have someone to take care of your horses.
You never run out of hay or grain.
You don't have to run out to the barn and clean stalls before church on Sunday.
You don't have to check the weather everyday to decide if you need a blanket or not and if you need a stall or not.
You have a ring and maybe even an indoor.
You don't have to trailer to lessons.
You might even have shows right there at your horses home.
Ok, this is a fair trade off. And the barn owner has adopted me into her barn so I come 3-4 times a week and do the feedings, muckings and all the other chores. Makes me feel like I live on a farm and she gets her chores done! Sounds crazy but that is a win win to me!!!
Goldenhorse!!!
I LOVE your midlife crisis!!! I hope to have a similiar one...just have to convince my cityboy of a husband. He cringes at dirt roads and thinks I always smell gross(like a barn). I think I smell FANTASTIC!:rofl:
Just joined forum and loving it,really glad to have found this branch. Well I am sixty seven in march. Started riding again after about forty year break, marriage,children, work. Then came retirement, unfortunately ovarian cancer. Decided in a remission last year, to try and do what I loved most,Horses, a girls gotta ride. It is so much sweeter second time around. I feel a wonder connection with the selle Franci I am leasing.Ilost a lot of muscle during chemo sessions, but steadily building back. He does spook some( there's that flight instinct) but just even grooming and being in his presence is everything. Mollysue
I pasture board at a barn 20 minutes from work and/or home and ride my mare/work with my colt on alternate days, everyday. I feed once a day and pay a young lady who isn't working now to feed the other meal.
I am seriously thinking of selling my house in another 5 years and buying a place where I can keep my horses at home. The downside of that is that I will miss my barn friends and the indoor arena to ride. There is always trail riding, but we don't do that every day. On the other hand, it would be more economical and easier as I progress into my senior years.
What do you all think? Has anybody here had to make this choice?
I would love to afford to move to a place where I can have my own horse
but for now I live in town and If I get a horse I would have to board him or her
We started to look at property in September...I had this dream of putting up a nice barn and keeping a couple horses, along with boarding a few. Hubby was ready to build me an indoor, etc. Then we had our current house appraised before listing it.... Never moving now. Oh well, I do love the barn I'm at.
I have a small 52 acre farm in the Missouri Ozarks. We just had a bulldozer clear out our fence row and a few extra acres. Hopefully new fence will be going up before too much longer. The view is gorgeous and the weather this winter has been wonderful. We do have a hay field and have grown our own off and on. I hope once the new fence is up we can grow it again. If I didn't have my own land, I would not be able to have a small herd of ponies.
Ah! What is that I don't see from your back yard? Why it's houses! NO houses!:clap::clap:
I'll bet you live on a "Deliverance Road" that is scarier than mine to strangers. I've had people call me half way up my road, to say the road looked far too scary and was I sure they'd made the correct turn at the bottom:lol::lol:
What a beautiful view to take in every moment of every day
We do live out in the sticks, but wouldn't have it any other way. Our dirt/rock road is so rough that we don't get much traffic. It is very peaceful out here. This was a few weeks ago riding my Icelandic down the road heading home.
I love your rode Toni. I actually live beyond the state maintained road as well. We have a gravel road that turns into a dirt road. The dirt part get's really bad but check out my driveway in the summer!
I've also included photo's of "my" river. We don't actually own the dock. It's on the other side of a corn field that backs up to our house. We made a deal with the local farmer that he runs his dogs through our land and we get to fish!
I have a small 52 acre farm in the Missouri Ozarks. We just had a bulldozer clear out our fence row and a few extra acres. Hopefully new fence will be going up before too much longer. The view is gorgeous and the weather this winter has been wonderful. We do have a hay field and have grown our own off and on. I hope once the new fence is up we can grow it again. If I didn't have my own land, I would not be able to have a small herd of ponies.
Yes, I am just south of Mansfield. I have rode the dirt roads from my house to Mansfield and only have to cross the pavement one time.
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