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| I have tons of handy tips for horses -- some of which I am sure you already know! Have you heard of putting bacon grease on a scrape to help the hair grow back the same color and not white? You can't put it on an open wound, but once the skin has healed, it can avoid white patches of hair ... (you can also use Preparation H, but I will only buy it if I can go through a U-scan :)) In the winter, you can also use non-stick cooking spray or Vaseline on their hooves to keep snow from becoming packed in their shoes, if they are shod. You can put Gatorade in horse's drinking water if you think they have ulcers. You just have to make sure you offer another bucket that does not have Gatorade in it in case they don't like the taste. There are also loads of hints for medicating horses ... like crushing pills and combining with applesauce and administering via a syringe without a needle, etc. Does this help you at all? There's lots more if you want them :)
*Sarah & IGGY*
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| Hey, feel free to use any of the TFTF tips that I post to this forum! What a great idea for a book. :o) Sue
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CHICKEN LICE IS EASY TO GET RID OF BY PUTTING YOUR WOODSTOVE ASH IN THEIR COOP, PUT IT IN A PILE WHERE THEY TAKE DUST BATHS. THEY WILL BATH IN IT, AND IT WILL KILL THE LICE WITHOUT HARMING YOUR CHICKENS OR USING ANY POISEN.
TREAT THE EARTH WELL, BECAUSE IT WASN'T GIVEN TO YOU BY YOUR PARENTS, IT WAS LOANED TO YOU BY YOUR CHILDREN.
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Thanks so much everyone! I've been so busy I forgot to check this post then my computer went down and I lost ten pages of tips!!! So, ANY TIPS WILL help!!!!!  I love the ones I've gotten so far!!!! Thanks again!!!
**************************************The horse stopped with a jerk, and the jerk fell off ************************ It's kind of like nuts-and-bolts, if the rider's nuts the horse bolts. ************************ Never drive black cattle in the dark. ************************ It's doesn't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep. **************************************
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Hi,
Here are a few more farm animal tips for you. I think you've got an awesome idea for a book, and I would definitely buy a copy 
Cherie
1. Use golf balls as dummy eggs for chickens to encourage them to lay where you want them to (like in a nest box rather than hidden in the back 40 somewhere).
2. Apply aloe vera juice to help heal minor scrapes and cuts on livestock. If you have plants, use the fresh juice from a broken leaf, or you can buy pure aloe vera gel at the store. It works great for people, too! I recently had a bicycling "road rash" that healed up in just few days with liberal doses of aloe vera.
3. A large cardboard box makes a terrific (and free!) brooder for a small number of chicks. Layer the bottom with newspaper and absorbent, non-toxic wood shavings; put in a chick feeder and waterer, a thermometer, and hang a brooder lamp over it (using extreme caution not to allow the lamp to contact the sides of box or shavings). For larger numbers of chicks, I've seen large oval metal water tanks used in feed stores.
4. Got sheep or goats? A metal stanchion or shearing stand is worth its weight in gold. We use ours to confine our sheep and goats for deworming, vaccinations, and hoof care.
5. Provide your ducks with an inexpensive plastic kid's wading pool to bathe in if you don't have a pond. Be sure you put cement blocks, large rocks, or something similar on the inside and outside of the pool to help your ducks get in and out (or you can make wooden ramp). These kiddie pools clean relatively easily and can be moved to new spots to prevent mud and muck from forming.
6. Really take time to look your animals over at least once each day, focusing on their appearance and behavior and looking for signs of sickness like lethargy, runny eyes or noses, not eating, or staying away from the rest of the herd or flock. It's easy to fall into a rut of glancing at your animals without really seeing them because you're strapped for time or thinking about the day ahead. And that can mean missing the sometimes subtle signs of illness (been there, done that!). The sooner you catch a health problem, the sooner you can deal with it.
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AWSOME PEOPLE! KEEP THEM COMING!!!!! I have 4 pg full of just horse tips, I take any and all livestock (even exotic) tips, farm/barn matenince tips! Eventually I will take gardening tips but right now I'm sticking to what's listed above. Don't worry if you think I might have the tip, other people on here might not know about it, so post it anyways!!! I've come across really cool tips, from first aid to feeding to cleaning the water buckets in your fields! Thanks again and again, keep them coming!!!
**************************************The horse stopped with a jerk, and the jerk fell off ************************ It's kind of like nuts-and-bolts, if the rider's nuts the horse bolts. ************************ Never drive black cattle in the dark. ************************ It's doesn't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep. **************************************
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