The Castle Rock MARE-TERNITY WARD
Message Boards => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chanda on June 13, 2016, 12:36:30 AM
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Most are horse related, but a few are not. And, I'm sure the list will grow as I come across the offenders. Feel free to add yours.
Horses have one Udder with two teats. They do not have udders or utters.
It's filly (girl) and colt (boy); not filly colt and stud colt (these seem to be more regional I believe, my in laws and all the ranchers around here use them).
Gelding, not gilding. Broodmare, not broadmare.
"Growed", my mother in law uses this all the time. [My garden growed, he growed a lot, etc.]
Blood Vein - also my in laws. It's a blood vessel; veins carry deoxygenated to the heart, arteries carry oxygenated from the heart (exceptions with vessels between heart and lungs).
We won't even get into it with there, their, they're; as we have all done them while in a hurry typing here on the internet.
Whew, I feel a bit better now. :D
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ooooh, this is going to be fun! ;)
I have a few horse related ones but not about language.
My first is braided tails. Horses need their tails and once they are braided they become a whip. It is especially frustrating when there is a new foal in with her. Often on cam I see poor foals being whipped by mum's tail. Also it can be really hard to pull a braided tail out from under mum when she is foaling and laying on it. It takes 2 mins to braid and roll up then wrap in vet wrap, and then I always remove it straight after foaling.
Pet peeve number 2 is head collars (halters in America) left on mares with new babies. This is a potential disaster waiting to happen as new mum's are tied and will lay down for hours after birth and new wobbly babies can get their little legs stuck in them.
ok I am done! heeeee
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Fun! And then ...... all mares give us "udder madness" !! ;D
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Ooh, those are very good, Renee.
Along those lines, ill-fitting or ill-adjusted halters. I can't stand to see them hanging clear down at the horse's nostrils, they are only supposed to be a finger width or two belong the prominent cheek bones. Hanging across the lower nose can cause damage if they spook or have a fit over something.
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My biggest pet peeve.... people who are closed minded! There are many different ways to do things and some people dont allow grace onto others for doing things differently!
With that said... I detest when people foal out mares in NASTY dirty stalls! The risk of infection is so much greater, its disgusting to see pictures of foals sleeping in stalls knee deep in feces. Its so much easier to keep up with it then to let it build up, and its just GROSS! >:D
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By biggest pet peeve right now - the film Annie as I'm watching it and it's awful.
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LOL!!
Thats funny!
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Annie!! lol ;D
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Halters left on in paddocks . I had to tell my cousin the other day who is now adgisting a few horses to tell her agistee to remove the halter.
Annie - OMG it was horrendous , why they insist on remaking some "Classic old movies" into rubbish is beyond me :)
The thing that peeeeeeeeves me off the most is people who treat their horse gear like crap. leave brushes in the mud, saddles still sitting on the gate ( or lives there) ect
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So far, all of these are great!!
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I knew I'd remember more...
It's roaning, not roaming; but, since my kindle just auto corrected to roaming, I know where it might come from. I try to fix those bad auto corrects, but miss some.
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Personally, I HATE auto-correct. It makes me crazy! Some of the things it comes up with are nuts! But that's not half as bad as when you dictate a response to a text message from your phone. OMG! Sometimes just a waste of time, because you have to stop and correct all the mistaken words! But then, I hate texting, too. Give me a regular phone any day and just talk to me!
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Im with you Diane , cannot stand getting into a texting marathon. Id rather just make the call and have a chat :)
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I only have a regular phone.
I couldn't imagine trying to text on a phone, I have enough trouble using the stylus to type on my kindle when I use it. I have to use the stylus, as the touch screens don't seem to like me, they rarely respond to my touch.
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When I arrived here in NC, I was directed to go to a Walking Horse show... There were bay/white pintos everywhere (some were quite beautiful!!), but the announcer kept referring to "Tri-Color" horses. During a break, when there were some different colored horses in the ring, I turned to the couple next to me and had to ask what the reference was. The couple (man/wife) both looked at me like I'd arrived from outer space - and said "...well, the one right in front of us and those two over there are Tri's...". My comment back was "OOOOHHHH, you mean the bay/white tobianos???" Again, got "the look"... Can't stand the term "tri-color" as used for horses - for one - do they mean bay/white or buckskin/white or roan/white??
Recently had a horse color described to me as a "calico". Sorry, calicos are cats (& in the past there was a definite difference between calicos and torti's, now not so much, again here in NC it seems to be interchangeable). I totally didn't understand (the horse was a buckskin and white with dark, well defined black points and nice, really gold spots with a mixed mane and solid black, non-faded black tail). But then there was a post recently on Equine Genetics FB page that was talking about Dr Sponenberg having used the "Calico" in reference to a specific spotting pattern... (?? - can't remember what type of pattern/color it was- but pretty sure it wasn't for a typical buckskin tobiano).
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I have gone to using the term "spot" - it seems to work with all the non-horse people, including my family, here. It's also just easier than always having to explain "painted" paint/pinto terms - especially with all the changes in "Overo" (OMG, I used the wrong term. I'm referring to rabicano, frame, sabino and white gene) patterns (bay spot in pasture one, black spot in pasture 3, 6 silver spots - in Jr mares pasture). I do understand that my using the word "spot" is irritating to others, though, ROFLMBO.
I have a lot of others, but can't think of them right now...
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How funny! I understand each thing you said, and again, each is right on!
Except for "spot"........ :o Hard for an appaloosa breeder, you know!! LOL
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I knew that one would get you, Diane! Sorry.
Here's two more - male and female momma. The male (referring to what is now a yearling colt) on another venue or a neighbor whom had 4 different geldings and a stud colt and expected me to know which he was talking about when he referred to "the male"... He's out of the horses now, has quit calling/texting me and I removed his # from my phone... Bad, BAD IDEA. He texted me some selfie photos - I opened the text since I was looking for a text from a potential buyer of ponies. My eyes are burning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I deleted the text, but can't delete the memory of those darn photos I should not have gotten!!! UGH.
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OMG! So sorry THAT happened!! 8)
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I'm dredging this up to see if anyone has more to add. I just reread the whole thread, and couldn't help but smile.
I've dredged it up, because I just came across udders on FB and I want to scream at them, "it's not udders, it's udder", they only have one.
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I'll add one!
Although I must admit I'am an offender of the "Udders" one! I didn't even realize, even though I know they have only one, just i throw an 'S' on the end.
Mine isn't too bad, but we have friends of my parents that used to keep their minis on our property. They came out every day and would constantly nit-pick at me about the horses, they were know it alls, but never owned horses till them minis.
They used to suggest ridiculous things such as breeding Willow with her foal ect, and it was constant, your opinion couldn't contribute.
One time they bought lucerne chaff and mixed it with grain and then ran out of storage for it, so they fed half a wheel barrow load of it between 4 minis in one hit, and my poor minis were in with their horses too, should have seen them the next day....
They also would bring like 4 loaves of bread and feed it to the horses, and I told them I didnt want my horses having any, then they would rave on about how they aren't on grain diets so it wont matter blah blah blah. And still fed them bread... So each horse got a loaf each...
I will end with one last one otherwise I will write a novel. One of my biggest arguments with them was about worming. They were telling me that I was wasting money and overloading them with wormer by giving them their dose every 6-8 weeks. They kept telling me it was twice a year.
They didnt budge even when I told them its the recommendation on the box, and its what the lady at the horse store told me AND the vet. They get the exact same paste as we do as well. And my sister even backed me up relating it to her dose for her dog and cat. Still stuck with their twice a year theory.
But thats all Ill say... Then they took their horses after 4 years (yes I had to cope with that EVERY DAY for 4 years) and they never said thank you, taking them without saying and leaving me worried sick thinking they escaped. Yay :)
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Good post Carly, all good points.
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Just saw another one...
Belgium, instead of Belgian for the breed.
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Yes, I've seen that one, too!