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Topic: New gal
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ToriQui
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posted April 15, 2004 05:54 PM
I am trying to get into the introductions part and meet some new horse people. I don't know if I am doing this right or not.
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Tori Qui
Posts: 85 | From: Farwell, Michigan | Registered: Apr 2004
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HuNTSeAT123
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posted April 16, 2004 06:35 PM
welcome to the forums! Hi, I'm Renae!
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Posts: 1053 | From: Novi(but moving to Highland), MI | Registered: Mar 2004
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footballgal11
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posted April 17, 2004 06:38 AM
Hi I'm Alex. I used to come here alot but I stopped now I'm back. I was BamGlory10 couldn't remember password, so I got new ID. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Alex
Posts: 3 | From: Ohio | Registered: Apr 2004
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ToriQui
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posted April 17, 2004 01:32 PM
Hi Alex and Ranee (I think I may have spelled that wrong...sorry) I dont' sit on the computer all day, I am a teacher actually, but if I am on, it has something to do with horses. I have only one and he is a baby, but my pride and joy. He came from Canada and is a PMU baby. He is so sweet. What about you?
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Tori Qui
Posts: 85 | From: Farwell, Michigan | Registered: Apr 2004
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Bluelightspecial
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posted April 17, 2004 09:39 PM
Hey Tori,
I just started posting here too and saw your topic show up. I can't believe you have a PMU baby. I think thats soo awesome. I'm constantly looking at websites that show pictures of them and they are soo cute! How old was your PMU baby when you got him/her? I read that some find homes as young as like a week old.
Posts: 36 | From: Ohio | Registered: Apr 2004
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ToriQui
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posted April 18, 2004 07:45 AM
Spider was 4 months when I brought him home. A guy here in town drives up to Manatoba Canada and buy around 30 head of them and he brings them back here to central michigan and sells them for 400-500 a foal. He gives you the papers to look at first to see the breeding and then he told me that he paid 200 for each. His profit isn't that much after he pays to have them come across the boarder and have them coggins tested and then feeds until they sell. He enjoys the road trip and and puts them in his front yard to sell. Spider was sick from the trip for about 2 months. He has a flu like illness, but a vaccine cleared him right up. I will be honest though......none of these horses could be handled. They are not imprinted at birth, they aren't handled or loved on. You couldn't touch spider when we weeded him out of the herd and into the trailer. We put him in a stall for 2 straight weeks (I know this sounds unhealthy-and it didn't help his cold), to handle him and love on him two times every single day sometimes 3 times. I groomed him, hand fed him, picked up his feet ect....By the time I turned him out, he was best friends with the human species. If you get one and they are wild, don't turn them loose in a large area, stall them in a small stall untill you bond. It made things so much easier then the two PMU geldings that mine is with. They were turned loose and it took 6 months to get them to really trust people. Trial and error, that is often times how we learn aroudn here! Good Luck if you get one, they are very special!
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Tori Qui
Posts: 85 | From: Farwell, Michigan | Registered: Apr 2004
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probarrelracer
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posted April 18, 2004 08:45 AM
Hi. I'm also a teacher with a horse named Spyder (spelled differently). What a coincidence! I am also a prof. barrel racer and trainer. Welcome to the forum! ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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Posts: 466 | From: Louisiana | Registered: Mar 2004
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cowgirl247
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posted April 18, 2004 07:08 PM
ToriQui - i was just wondering what grade you teach? i am in college, studying to be an elementary school teacher. Just decided i would like to teach kindergarten. I just finished volunteering 60 hours in a kindergarten class (had to for a class) and i had so much fun! the little ones are SO full of energy!
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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return..."-"Moulin Rouge"
"We ride and never worry about the fall. I guess that's just the cowboy in us all"-Tim McGraw
"So don't you sit upon the shoreline and say you're satisfied. Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides"-Garth Brooks
Due to recent budget cuts, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.
Posts: 192 | From: Southern California | Registered: Apr 2004
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1rish
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posted April 19, 2004 08:24 AM
Hi, Im Chelsey. I can totally relate to what you went through with your PMU. Mine were 10 months old and 15+h when I picked them up. Halter breaking a colt that big was an event. They are well worth the challenge.
Good luck with yours.
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You know one woman who would rather clean a stall than her house.
Posts: 113 | From: Nevada | Registered: Mar 2004
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ToriQui
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posted April 19, 2004 07:36 PM
I am acutally a sub who is student teaching at this current time. I love it! I am very lucky in that I have great supers that turned me loose the first day and let me swim my way through it all.....and i mean it all. Everything from IEP meetings a lone to full semester unit plans and grades, fire drills etc. I love my experience. I am however; a secondary level health major and speech communication/dramatic arts minor. Job hunting is going to be challengin:) Little kids are great too. I went to CMU, where do you go?
As for the barrel racer/cool teacher......I would have thought my teacher was cool if they did barrel racing-do barrel race in the summer? Maybe you could give me some pointers if my Spider decides to not be a ranch horse:) Your Spyder, I think, you commented earlier on a different PMU ad that I posted. Was it you? Is your Spyder the one that you run on? I like barrel racing, I was decent in 4-H, but never went any further.....never had the horse to go much further.
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Tori Qui
Posts: 85 | From: Farwell, Michigan | Registered: Apr 2004
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OwnerofWillow
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posted April 19, 2004 11:50 PM
Welcome to the forum! I think it is very cool that you own a PMU baby. You will need to post pics asap. I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to see him.
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Two Tru Willow (pending)
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Posts: 809 | From: AZ | Registered: Mar 2004
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ToriQui
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posted April 20, 2004 07:52 PM
How did you have a PMU baby that was 15 hands? That must have been a monster?? I wouldn't want to be at the end of that lead when things went bad:) On the other hand, reguardless of size, they are so rewarding aren't they? I wish I could put a photo of him, but I don't have a scanner. He is a sorrel.....like many others with flaxen tail (I wish hims mane would flaxen out too, but there isn't any sign yet) Does anyone know if it is possible to get that color at a later age? I don't care, but it sure is pretty when they are all flaxen on sorrel. I would like to see other peoples horses on here. It is fun seeing so many loved horses.
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Tori Qui
Posts: 85 | From: Farwell, Michigan | Registered: Apr 2004
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cowgirl247
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posted April 20, 2004 08:01 PM
hey Tori! i haven't done my student teaching yet but hopefully i will be in the program by next year ![[Embarrassed]](redface.gif) ) i go to CSUF (California State University, Fullerton) now and would like to stay there and do the program there but i'll probably send out my application to the credential program to CSULB as well (Cal State Long Beach) just in case Fullerton doesn't take me! ![[Running Horse]](graemlins/horse.gif)
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Save a horse, ride a cowboy!!
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return..."-"Moulin Rouge"
"We ride and never worry about the fall. I guess that's just the cowboy in us all"-Tim McGraw
"So don't you sit upon the shoreline and say you're satisfied. Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides"-Garth Brooks
Due to recent budget cuts, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.
Posts: 192 | From: Southern California | Registered: Apr 2004
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cowgirl247
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posted April 20, 2004 08:03 PM
meant that to be a smiley face!
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Save a horse, ride a cowboy!!
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return..."-"Moulin Rouge"
"We ride and never worry about the fall. I guess that's just the cowboy in us all"-Tim McGraw
"So don't you sit upon the shoreline and say you're satisfied. Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides"-Garth Brooks
Due to recent budget cuts, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.
Posts: 192 | From: Southern California | Registered: Apr 2004
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apha_4ever
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posted April 20, 2004 08:20 PM
WELCOME! I'm Meghan! You can call me Meg! I own two paints: Tally and Boston. WELCOME!
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Justa Impressive Dream----Tally
1999 palomino tobiano paint mare
DW Two Eyed Boston~~~~Boston
"There are times you can trust a horse, times you can't, and times you have to."
"You don't throw a whole life away just cuz it's banged up a little!"
Posts: 65 | From: Iowa | Registered: Apr 2004
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ToriQui
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posted April 22, 2004 06:57 PM
H Meghan, congrats on your paints. I think that they are really a unique animal. I think of indians and the western plains (dances with wolves). As for the student teaching in the previous message, I heard that CA has decent base pays for begginer teachers. Is that true? Here in MI, it is only 28,000. Not much when the education with student loans and cost of living fees add up to 31,000. We are getting nailed with cuts in everything right now in this state. Are most states going through this or is it just us?
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Tori Qui
Posts: 85 | From: Farwell, Michigan | Registered: Apr 2004
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Super_Trooper
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posted April 23, 2004 08:52 AM
My name is Amy...welcome to the forum! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Posts: 2411 | From: BC Canada | Registered: Jan 2004
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i_luv_Ozzy_my_horse
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posted April 25, 2004 11:58 AM
hey i'm claudia... um.. wats a PMU? ![[Blushing]](graemlins/blush.gif)
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Posts: 75 | From: Montreal, Canada | Registered: Apr 2004
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ToriQui
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posted May 01, 2004 08:00 AM
PMU stands for pregnant mare urine. Mares are bred for their estrogen to make an authentic drug called premarin. Premarin is a hormone replacement threrapy drug for women-mostly menopause women or for hormone complications. There are synthetic forms available on the market. I own a baby as a by product of premarin. The urine is taken from pregnant mares and there is obviously a foal in the making at the same time. These foals are weaned at the appropriate time and then sold dirt cheat to homes-some sent to slaughter, but I don't know how common that is everywhere! Don't develope a biased about this forum until you investigate yourself. I used to be against PMU farms, but I have an awesome well bred colt that is my pride and joy.
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Tori Qui
Posts: 85 | From: Farwell, Michigan | Registered: Apr 2004
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