Meet my animal friends.

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 4:04 pm

Beautiful animals! Unfortunately, I am scared to death of them from a bad experience when I was a child. My daughter is absolutely nuts about horses. 30 years old? What is the average life expectantcy of a horse?

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 5:57 pm

Alway's lovely to watch horses at play & jumping. Some animals are better than the humans :driving:

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 9:35 am

Debbie wrote: Let me just start out with the biggest first, then I'll add more later. Here are my horses. We currently have three, with one more very recently lost to a stroke. I'm including her too.

First there's Delta, she's a six year old Quarter horse / Thoroughbred mare.

Hi Debbie,

Welcome to FG! Great to see you sharing your animal friends' photos here!

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:14 pm

Debbie wrote: Let me just start out with the biggest first, then I'll add more later. Here are my horses. We currently have three, with one more very recently lost to a stroke. I'm including her too.

First there's Delta, she's a six year old Quarter horse / Thoroughbred mare.

Nice Horsey; I do you get the picture here with a post? Please explain, i love cows... :-3

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:16 pm

Debbie wrote: And here is Brandy, the best horse anyone could have asked for. I know I'll never find another like her, she was my once in a lifetime.

Brandy is so sweet, do you feed them bread? I feed my cows bread from the local store? I think horses may be senesitive to what you feed them? how about some popcorn?

rachelg · Post by **rachelg** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:46 pm

Just experimenting to see if I can post my photo too. If it works, here is one of my boys, Tucker.

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valerie · Post by **valerie** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:17 pm

Debbie wrote: Most horses don't make it out of their twenties, so he is definately not the norm. He's not ready to leave us anytime soon, so I wouldn't be too surprised if he made it to 40.

Your caution is quite understandable, I've had my share of unpleasant experiences myself. Most horses are sweet and wonderful to be around, but they can still be dangerous even for those with experience.

I wouldn't be surprised either, we had horses make it to late 30's. They were

Quarter/Arab or Quarter/Thoroughbred so all that hybrid vigor helped.

But we did also gently exercise them right up almost to the end, put light

little kids on them to walk around... and I know it helped. Good food and happy,

interesting lives always helps, too!!

I like Mike, a lot. Thanks for sharing your pics. And welcome!