Please help settle a friendly disagreement. I've always known a "pig eye" as a too-small, deep set eye. A friend of mine insists that a pig eye is an eye that shows a little white around the edge, like a lot of Paints would have. What do you say? Also, what would you call the eye with white around the edge?

I second Thrushbuster. I have a horse that gets thrush badly every late winter and thrushbuster is the ONLY thing that works. And it takes only ONE application. I've tried everything else: koppertox, bleach, iodine, and other commercial preparations but nothing works as well as Thrushbuster. Love the purty violet color too...just don't get it on your clothes!

http://www.homesteaddesign.com/barn.html We built the "Austin" ourselves and they were very nice plans and they had a full listing of materials needed.

This is my PMU Percheron/Thoroughbred cross 2 year old Lucy. She is quite tall tall but not overly bulky...more like a heavier Warmblood.

Thanks everyone! You are a gold mine of information! I'm contacting everyone mentioned ('cept the possible horse thief )

I have sold my two year old Clydesdale/Thoroughbred and he is going from Washington state to Virginia. Does anyone have recommendations for shippers or ones to stay away from?

This is an ongoing battle at another board I'm on. We have one poster who swears that not only does it keep her horses worm-free but that it has kept them from illnesses and injury and herself too, since she takes it. There is no scientific evidence that I've been able to find that proves that it works. My friend uses it and swears that it works but she also thinks feeding colloidal silver to her horse cured it of EPM, bless her heart.

I know, I'm turning into a harpy on the subject of helmet safety, but it is totally untrue that higher cost equals even a tiny bit more safety in helmets. The GPA helmets don't protect your head one bit more than a 40 dollar Troxel. I found this out after a lot of research (AMEA) and I would've paid anything to get a helmet even even a bit safer. They're just not. Fit is everything as long as the helmet is ASTM-SEI certified.

We have a 5 year old Trail West 4 horse slant load with tack and dressing rooms. It is very well made and I really like it. I also have a 2 horse slant load Circle J that I bought last year. I use it at least 3 times a week and I love it's smaller size but I'm not happy with the quality of it. I'll trade next year for a 2-3 horse Trails West. They have good quality for the money. I used to have a TrailEt and that was a nice trailer too.

My husband's quarter horse did this a couple of times when we lived him in Arizona. Like the above poster I backed him hard but aimed for a patch of cactus. When he hit that he went forward quite readily and quit that particular evasion.