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by crhuerta on 29 August 2009 - 02:08
Sunsilver,
Congratulations!
I wish you the very best for your future!.
What a beautiful place......peaceful nature!
Robin
Congratulations!
I wish you the very best for your future!.
What a beautiful place......peaceful nature!
Robin
by VonIsengard on 29 August 2009 - 03:08
Wow, for 270k out here you can barely get a 3 bedroom home with a puny subdivision lot, with easily 5K+ a year in property taxes...I'm living in the wrong part of the country! Congratulations, I'm so envious!
by Sunsilver on 29 August 2009 - 14:08
Kcazja, if I'd bought property closer to Toronto (and with a better house: this one may have 4 bedrooms, but there is NO bathroom upstairs, and NO basement or furnace, just a crawl space.) it would have cost me around half a million for the same amount of land!
Yes, this one WAS a real deal! And I plan to use the money from the timber to upgrade the house, and turn one of the bedrooms into a bathroom. As the house is only a story and a half, the bedrooms are rather small.
Most barns in Ontario were built more than 50 years ago, when the average farm was 100 acres. Since then, the size of farms has ballooned as the family farm became a thing of the past, and farming became 'big business'. That means there are an awful lot of old bank barns that are falling down, due to being abandoned. As soon as you take away the animals, which provide the barn with central heating in winter, the frost cracks and heaves the foundation, with disastrous results. Out of ALL the farms I looked at, this one had the only decent barn. A few others had small horse stables that had been thrown together on weekends by someone who MIGHT have taken an industrial arts course in high school on carpentry, but who had already forgotten most of what they'd learned.
I learned my horsemanship and stable management skills from some of the top people in the business, and this was the first barn or stable I saw that didn't make me grit my teeth to keep from running away screaming....
The guy who has the horses for sale throws his lead ropes, shovels, binder twine, etc. on the ground and the stable looks like a dungeon. The stalls are made out of bits of floor trusses, the sort with metal braces. No experienced horseperson could look a tthem without imagining a horse getting a foot caught between them. One of his horses is a thoroughbred mare with a young foal. The mare looks like a Humane Society rescue, she's so skinny. He said she got out of the pasture, and was hit by a car when pregnant, and all the muscles on her right side are wasted from being damaged in the accident. Funny thing is, her left side looks just as bad.... He doesn't realize you can't keep a Thoroughbred that's nursing a foal healthy on just pasture. She need to have some oats or sweet feed as well to keep weight on her. I also wonder when she was last wormed, or had her teeth checked...
The gate to the pasture was fastened by a piece of badly frayed nylon rope. No WONDER the mare got out on the road, and hit by a car! Anyone who's been around horses for any length of time knows they can be quite clever when it comes to escaping their pastures and stalls!
Yes, this one WAS a real deal! And I plan to use the money from the timber to upgrade the house, and turn one of the bedrooms into a bathroom. As the house is only a story and a half, the bedrooms are rather small.
Most barns in Ontario were built more than 50 years ago, when the average farm was 100 acres. Since then, the size of farms has ballooned as the family farm became a thing of the past, and farming became 'big business'. That means there are an awful lot of old bank barns that are falling down, due to being abandoned. As soon as you take away the animals, which provide the barn with central heating in winter, the frost cracks and heaves the foundation, with disastrous results. Out of ALL the farms I looked at, this one had the only decent barn. A few others had small horse stables that had been thrown together on weekends by someone who MIGHT have taken an industrial arts course in high school on carpentry, but who had already forgotten most of what they'd learned.
I learned my horsemanship and stable management skills from some of the top people in the business, and this was the first barn or stable I saw that didn't make me grit my teeth to keep from running away screaming....
The guy who has the horses for sale throws his lead ropes, shovels, binder twine, etc. on the ground and the stable looks like a dungeon. The stalls are made out of bits of floor trusses, the sort with metal braces. No experienced horseperson could look a tthem without imagining a horse getting a foot caught between them. One of his horses is a thoroughbred mare with a young foal. The mare looks like a Humane Society rescue, she's so skinny. He said she got out of the pasture, and was hit by a car when pregnant, and all the muscles on her right side are wasted from being damaged in the accident. Funny thing is, her left side looks just as bad.... He doesn't realize you can't keep a Thoroughbred that's nursing a foal healthy on just pasture. She need to have some oats or sweet feed as well to keep weight on her. I also wonder when she was last wormed, or had her teeth checked...
The gate to the pasture was fastened by a piece of badly frayed nylon rope. No WONDER the mare got out on the road, and hit by a car! Anyone who's been around horses for any length of time knows they can be quite clever when it comes to escaping their pastures and stalls!
by Red Sable on 29 August 2009 - 16:08
Sunsilver I would love to come and ride sometime, that would be so much fun! Are you closer to me now or further?
If you ever want a nice horse, once and a while we have some free to a good home, (if they are not cut out for racing/or done racing) - instead of sending them to slaughter. Sometimes there are some beautiful horses and the ground work is done, so the transition to riding is minimal. Or you can buy a buggy or cart - or sleigh and enjoy them that way!
by Sunsilver on 29 August 2009 - 16:08
Red Sable, what kind of horses? TB or quarter horse?
The farm is only 10 minutes away from my current home. I'm planning to keep it, so it was important that they be close together. One of the houses will be rented out. I may decide to stay where I am now, and just go over an work with/care for the animals a couple of times a day. We'll see how things go. The house I'm in now is very nice, while the old farmhouse leaves a lot to be desired!
The farm is only 10 minutes away from my current home. I'm planning to keep it, so it was important that they be close together. One of the houses will be rented out. I may decide to stay where I am now, and just go over an work with/care for the animals a couple of times a day. We'll see how things go. The house I'm in now is very nice, while the old farmhouse leaves a lot to be desired!
by Red Sable on 29 August 2009 - 17:08
They are standardbreds Sun, and not the old style roman nosed big boney type either. They are quite gorgeous. I'll get you some pictures of a few of mine.
by raymond on 29 August 2009 - 18:08
Hi my names Eb!! Mr.& Mrs. Douglas said they would let me come to Cananda to live on your new farm! I can plant corn! and fix your tractor! If you don't have a tractor Mr. Hainey will sell us one real cheap! I can bring Arnold and a few of his friends! Can you cook bacon and eggs? I also have a lot of experience in farm house and barn restorations! Happy farming
by luvdemdogs on 29 August 2009 - 18:08
Sunsilver - congratulations! I am jealous of you!
by luvdemdogs on 29 August 2009 - 18:08
BTW, does anyone know how to contact someone to remove that bloody big photo post that is causing all of this formatting on the first page to be so screwed up? I clicked on it and reported the "abuse" button - not because it was abusive, but because it seemed to be screwing up the first page, but have no idea of Oli has a current contact info - as from what I've heard, he doesn't answer anymore - so someone else must be monitoring the board's abuse button....
by Sunsilver on 29 August 2009 - 19:08
Luvdemdogs, Oli has been e-mailed, and I also e-mailed the person responsible. Seems they posted a picture link in the subject line, and the picture is HUGE!
Hopefully it will get fixed soon, one way or another.
Red Sable, I've had little experienced with the trotters and pacers. Here's two of my favourites from the past:
The horse i learned to ride on was a 16:3 gelding of uncertain ancestry. There was definitely thoroughbred in his lineage, and possibly some Lippizaner. He'd been an open jumper in his younger days, and competed successfully in Toronto's Royal Winter Fair, but eventually became too hard to handle. His owner donated him to the school as a gift. He eventually became the school's most reliable beginner horse, though he would often cop an attitude with an experienced rider who got too bossy with him! He was in his late 20's when this photo was taken, and was still occassionally bucking the odd rider off. Shortly after this photo was taken, I let him loose in the paddock, and he put on a 5-minute long display of running, bucking and leaping that would have put most younger horses to shame. Two years later, he broke his leg in a fight with another horse, and had to be euthanized. His name was Silver Fox.
Here's the horse I owned for 3 years, until I had to go back to university, and was forced to sell her. I literally got her for nothing. She was a grade Arab, with possibly some hackney blood. She was only 15 hands, but built like a tank, and could pull like a train, She would willingly jump fences at liberty, and we once completed a 6 fence jumpoff in 12 seconds flat! I named her Silver Lady. Silver, in memory of Siver Fox, and Lady because she had such lovely gentle stable manners. She was a wonderful trail and road horse, and we spent many happy hours exploring the rural roads and trails near the stable where we boarded. The red ribbon was for equitation. We had a few for jumping, too, but only in schooling shows.
Hopefully it will get fixed soon, one way or another.
Red Sable, I've had little experienced with the trotters and pacers. Here's two of my favourites from the past:
The horse i learned to ride on was a 16:3 gelding of uncertain ancestry. There was definitely thoroughbred in his lineage, and possibly some Lippizaner. He'd been an open jumper in his younger days, and competed successfully in Toronto's Royal Winter Fair, but eventually became too hard to handle. His owner donated him to the school as a gift. He eventually became the school's most reliable beginner horse, though he would often cop an attitude with an experienced rider who got too bossy with him! He was in his late 20's when this photo was taken, and was still occassionally bucking the odd rider off. Shortly after this photo was taken, I let him loose in the paddock, and he put on a 5-minute long display of running, bucking and leaping that would have put most younger horses to shame. Two years later, he broke his leg in a fight with another horse, and had to be euthanized. His name was Silver Fox.
Here's the horse I owned for 3 years, until I had to go back to university, and was forced to sell her. I literally got her for nothing. She was a grade Arab, with possibly some hackney blood. She was only 15 hands, but built like a tank, and could pull like a train, She would willingly jump fences at liberty, and we once completed a 6 fence jumpoff in 12 seconds flat! I named her Silver Lady. Silver, in memory of Siver Fox, and Lady because she had such lovely gentle stable manners. She was a wonderful trail and road horse, and we spent many happy hours exploring the rural roads and trails near the stable where we boarded. The red ribbon was for equitation. We had a few for jumping, too, but only in schooling shows.
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