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[Susan Trickett <gmasue AT inbox.com>]

Would it be way off to think of a horse as a big dog that eats grass? Any 
good books on horses that anyone would recommend?

               Thank you!

                        Sue

> -----Original Message-----
> From: clansgian AT wmconnect.com
> Sent: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:30:57 EST
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Draft Horse
> 
> 
>> >How hard is it to learn to take care of a horse properly? Right now, no
>> room and no money but maybe someday....
> 
> Not so much.  First, hobby and show-horse type people are all friggin'
> loonies down to every one of them.  You'd think that every horse was a
> sickly hot
> house flower.  So if a person is mainly into showing or pasture
> ornaments,
> suspect insanity, and check out anything they have to say against
> reality.
> 
> But a horse isn't a dog either.  Some people are surprised horses
> actually
> survive as it is, it is so unlikely to have an animal that depends on
> grass for
> its survival having a straight gut and one stomach.
> 
> I'm not a horse person, but I was able to learn enough pretty quickly.
> Knowledge and sense account for a lot more than medicine and equipment.
> It is much
> harder to keep a horse confined than it is to "free range" it.
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