Re: Horse farms

Posted by Billy NY on March 10, 2008 at 08:08:20 from (205.188.117.74):

In Reply to: Horse farms posted by Spook on March 08, 2008 at 18:11:41:

This economy ought to weed out some horse owners. Having been around them since a kid, today it seems like there is a lot of activity with horses in the area, and in Florida, hard to figure how everyone affords it. A couple of years ago and for several years before that, I think we had over 15 of our own, and had just as many boarders, all included, sometimes close to 40 at the place. Between the Vet., and the Blacksmith, meds, supplements, feed, hay, bedding, fences, gates, trucking, foaling, facility operating costs, riders, people with bad attitudes and the lame @ss help you can't find + all the other great perks, I'd almost think you need to see a shrink to figure out why you are in this business, have a farm or even just a couple sometimes. It can be even worse with the wrong kind of people running the place or unreliable help.

Our place is funded by the salaries of the 2 owners, who are family members + boarders and lessons. When money is tight and you have all those darned horses to deal with, I can remember the stress from being low on hay, bedding, etc. and the never ending distractions from unreliable help who would no sooner turn on you and report you for abuse just to be jerks. Glad to be away from it, and the fact that they have gotten rid of most of the horses, downsized to something managable at least. There are things you can do like compost that can supplement an operation with horses and at the right size, you should be able to pay something respectable for help, but people don't want to work, we have a decent person there now, with much less going on, I'll say it again, glad I'm not involved in it for the most part, probably so much easier now without a full house.

Hard to understand the people that let em starve, at our place they have always been fed before we are ! Their well being is always #1, even when times were tough, you just can't let that happen, stalls have to be clean, they need exercise and good feed, clean filled water buckets etc., can't lose sight of that ever, and if the funds won't support what you have and you have too many, you have a big problem headed your way at full speed, you have to know this before getting involved, it's common sense actually.

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