Re: take it out back...or maybe bring it all in.
This message is from: jgayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kay, I use my riding mower to pick up poop outside. It has to be dry or nearly and many is the time the neighborhood comes out to watch the old fool with her arm down the mower shoot dragging out wet poop! Jean Gayle Author 'The Colonel's Daughter Occupied Germany 1946 to 1949 Send: $20 to Three Horse's Press 7403 Blaine Rd Aberdeen, WA 98520 The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
Re: take it out back
This message is from: CNielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi--I have a mare and a gelding that are sort of pee potty trained--They will wait til they get outside to go about 90% of the time--it really helps save on shavings. It was purley accident to have them do this but one night before the mare came in she must have had to go and did it in front of me --I told her what a great girl she was... then in the a.m. when she came out she hadn't pee'd in her stall yet and when i took her out she again pee'd in front of me and again I told her how wonderful and smart she was--since then she usually waits to go outside--I never thought this was possible but her son did the same thing one night and I praised him and sure enough in the a.m. when he hadn't gone in his stall and then when he got out and did it outside I told him he was great and again since then he will hold it too--sometimes i worry that this might cause a problem but dogs do it all the time--no?? once in awhil if i bring them in earlier than usual they will go inside (which is o.k. with me) but for the most part they wait. We have another young mare that I've tried this with but she won't wait til she goes out--in fact when she see's me she seems to pee right away in the stall. They are hardly ever in the stall more than 8 hours a night. Randi in Wisconsin - Original Message - From: Ellen Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 1:22 PM Subject: Re: take it out back This message is from: Ellen Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] You don't potty train a horse. But they don't like to do the big one on the rubber somehow. I guess because they don't like to lay down in their own manure. They like to lie down on the rubber. So they do it in the shavings. It takes a while though before they start picking up that habit. I guess it's just trial and error. So I guess this is why they get to do it this way. I keep mama and colt separated at night in stalls, because that's how I start weaning him. And that's how I noticed them picking up this habit. I don't know if the 2 other horses would do it. Normally, I never keep them in stalls. Ellen. This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay...how do you potty train a horse? Never heard of that before. Niki in CT The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
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This message is from: Jean Ernest [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have friends who trained their two Arabians to pee on command, they trailered to trail rides a lot. Also I knew one guy who taught his horse to stand over a plastic muck bucket or garbage can to pee. My old mare Stella has always run to a certain spot to pee when she sees me come out to feed: seems like she needs more space in her belly for the hay? Always runs to the same spot also. I have heard that if you put a small pile of shavings in on spot in their corral they will go there. they don't like to spatter their legs! My young mare would run INTO the stall to pee on the shavings.Built up a huge glacier of ice in the winter! Which is why I don't put shavings in their run-in shelter in the winter..Just builds up a thick layer of frozen pee mixed with shavings, which is great fun in the spring when it thaws! When it is really cold here (-40 to -50) I bed them down in hay in the shelter and let them have all the hay they want, then when it warms up I cut back on the hay until they clean up the hay bedding. Works pretty well, they don't seem to pee in the hay. Jean in Fairbanks, Alaska, clear and cold, -10 this morning. Hi--I have a mare and a gelding that are sort of pee potty trained--They will wait til they get outside to go about 90% of the time--it really helps save on shavings. The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
Re: take it out back...or maybe bring it all in.
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't have such a big field for my boys to go out in for play and grazing so I always hope they'll mostly pee and poop in their stalls where it's easy to find and pick up. Otherwise I end up periodically wandering around their pasture with a wheelbarrow in the never-ending search for tidiness...and, since I'm lazy as a pet coon, this is NOT my favorite activity. My old QH mare always came inside to use the facilities and taught all her babies that pooping on the grass that you may want to eat later was a no-no. Braveheart and Bogie, however, didn't get this useful instruction so I guess I now have pasture clean-up as a new way to fill my idle moments. Sigh. Kay and Braveheart, who believes that one should poop where it's most convenient at the time and Bogie, who's from AZ and believes that fertilizer is welcome anywhere it falls The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
Re: take it out back
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay...how do you potty train a horse? Never heard of that before. Niki in CT The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
