My family had horses for years, and I grew up around them. We NEVER let someone feed them "treats" like apples, carrots, or sugar cubes, as you used to see done on TV and in the movies. This was to prevent horses from getting in the habit of SEEKING OUT treats by nibbling on fingers, pockets, etc. and hurting someone.
Then again, Grandma had a pear tree in her back yard, and occasionally she'd pitch a few pears that had fallen to the ground to the horses, so that her yard/driveway wouldn't become infested with wasps that gathered over the fruit. But it only occurred during a limited season, and it wasn't a daily or weekly occurrence then; it was just an occasional thing.
If the neighbors want to bring their GEASS CLIPPINGS and dump them into an August-dry pasture, the horses would act as if it was an extra hay ration, and devour it. But anything that involved hand feeding was strictly VERBOTEN.
Worst problem we had with neighbors were the ones who'd get permission to fish in the pond, who'd then come when no one was home, and would enter the property by shorting out the electric fence. That usually resulted in chasing horses away from the highway where they'd broken the fence wire that was no longer electrified. And we decided that sometimes being "good neighbors" in that respect wasn't worth the repairs it cost us.
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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