Kinda sad..........

Goose · Apr 17, 2012

Our neighbor is into horses, bigtime. Besides saddle horses, he has several pairs (teams?) of Belgian draft horses.

Every summer he gets his jollies by putting up a field of alfalfa with horse drawn machinery.

Anyway, one team of the Belgians got too old to do any meaningful work anymore, so the neighbor put them out to pasture. At one point this spring he had them in some corn stalks across the road from our house 'cause the younger horses mistreated them. You rarely saw the two more then ten feet apart.

Then a few days ago, one of them died. The neighbor dug a large hole with a backhoe and buried it. Now all the other horse does is stand on top of the grave.

I always have said animals are far more aware of what is going on, and far more capable of feeling emotion than we humans give them credit for.

johndeereman · Apr 17, 2012

First mistake was letting other horse watch him bury it. Second mistake is still keeping it alone horses are very social animals a lone horse even young and healthy won't last long.

Tony in Mass. · Apr 17, 2012

Come on now, this it tractor tales! The story isn't any good unless someone shoots it with a new Ruger blackhawk and sends it to the cheeseburger factory to pee off the lefties....
Yeah, a team is a team for life, the other won't last long now. What were they? in their early 30's? That's when the young studs are brave enough to take em on... 100 in human years? I knew a fellow that had Belgians, he'd put his 2 year old daughter on it bareback- that horse would do tricks like a waitress carrying a pizza to keep that baby safely on there, most horses I know are smarter and more careful than many people I know. Too bad, is he training another team? My grandpa farmed for nearly 60 years, only had 2 teams of Belgians, each team lived about 33? 35 years.

4020deereboy · Apr 17, 2012

I've had to put 3 down this winter one of em I had just bought broke a hind leg

Marc_FL · Apr 18, 2012

I agree Horses are smarter then a lot of folks I know also..

Tractor tales indeed, I think it's a false sense of bravdo on peoples part.. Want to fire weapons and shoot stuff I know from first hand experience the US ARMY will let you fire all the weaponary and shooting you can handle..

Anonymous-0 · Apr 18, 2012

One of the dogs sulk when the horses are taken away for the house in spring.... As far as getting attached... We don't have a single place big enough for everyone, so spend quite a bit of time switching pasturemates with the idea of avoiding these situations. They get switched so that no two horses are together more than 8 weeks or so except the stallion and his gelding companion...... Left them all together (matched up without switching) and it broke my heart when we sold one...... Since then, they get swapped out regularly....

rrlund · Apr 18, 2012

Ya,some folks think I'm way too soft,but I've got a real problem with black bear hunting. Talk about an emotional animal. A mama bear will sit and moan and grieve the loss of a cub til it about breaks your heart. That's one animal that I just don't quite understand how somebody can feel like a big man after they kill one.

hadley · Apr 18, 2012

Never had horses, but did have pigmy goats. One suddently died last winter. Other one did not make it 6 weeks till it was dead also. Think it died of a broken heart from having no companion.

Kinda sad..........

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