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In the mid 90's a local public access station played a lot of what I'm assuming now is fan subbed anime. I have no idea if this was an official release or not. They only showed a couple of episodes and I'd love to watch more. 15 years later I'm still thinking about this series and I'd love to find out what the whole story is.

It seemed to be in a medieval type setting where women had their hands bound and developed a fighting technique that used just their legs. They would fight with their hands bound to protect themselves and fight other women. The women may have been slaves, but I honestly don't remember that part well enough to say for certain.

Does this ring any bells for anyone? I keep trying to google it, but I'm not getting the best results.

Thanks!

So when I built my pasture I made the very stupid mistake of designing everything for one horse. My elderly ara-appaloosa would run for at least 40 minutes every day all out and was terrible to keep weight on. So I fenced in a huge long pasture for him to run and I put a great weight builder grass mix to keep his weight up. It worked great as running kept him sane, but now that he's passed on I'm having problems.

Instead of a hard keeper and moderate keeper I now have a moderate keeper and an extremely easy keeper. The easy keeper is chubby right now and not obese, but only because I'm putting so many miles on him that he doesn't even need his hooves trimmed. He just needs his mustang roll put on when the farrier is out. This is fine for now, but I want to make plans for next year in case I can't keep the work on him for some reason.

I wanted to find out what you would recommend to reduce the feed quality of the pasture. Currently I'm looking at different prairie grass that is native to Michigan, safe for horses, but less nutritious then what I have now. I may have to reduce the pasture size, but was hoping I wouldn't just because I like my horses to have plenty of room. I've tried a grazing muzzle and he can take it off in about 15 minutes. Is there a good way to destroy/remove the plant life in part of the pasture that is horse safe?

Any recommendations appreciated. I figure I've got all winter to do research to make plans for spring, but I just feel like I'm missing options. I've spent the last 20+ years working on putting weight on a horse so I'm completely ignorant on what I need to do to keep it off.

Thanks!

So my Standardbred really did a number on his hock this spring. The vet took x-rays and there wasn't a fracture, but he did say it looked like a twist/torque injury. Probably because my two fool geldings like to rear, spin quickly, and run off through the pasture when playing. Per Dr's recommendation we've been alternating icing and sweats on the hock. The horse has been off work since the injury and we've added a joint/anti-inflamation supplement to his diet. The hock has been getting drained and injected w/ HA every 3 weeks. I thought we finally had it beat and he hadn't shown any pain or new swelling until last week. He's managed to hurt himself again :( and is limping.

So the vet is recommending complete stall rest. I've always kept my horses on pasture with free run in so my barn has terrible air flow for the summer with the doors closed, and we have no electricity for fans. I'm looking to board both horses for a couple of months until he is healed up.

Onto my question :) So I haven't boarded a horse for over 10 years and I've never stall boarded my horse (let alone stall board with no pasture access). What are things I should look for?

I know I should look at how many times a day they clean the stalls, that the stalls are big enough to be comfortable for an 18.2 h very long backed horse, and make sure the barn has good airflow and is cool throughout the day. What else should I be asking about? I'm planning on beginning to interview barns this week.

After 9 years of hauling buckets and hoses to fill the water in my horses pasture we are looking at getting an automatic waterer. I check Y!A and about two years ago the recommendations were for the Ritchie http://www.ritchieequine.com/ or the Nelson http://www.nelsonmfg.com/

Are those still the go-to brands or is there something else you like. I'm in Michigan so I'll probably need it to be heated. Also I like to keep the water really clean so I'd like something that won't be a pain to get the algae out of in the summer. From the pictures it looks like the Nelson is easier to clean so that is how I'm leaning right now.

We'll probably also be adding a hydrant/faucet for easier bathing and setting up a more permanent summer mister at the same time.

Thanks!

I was wondering if anyone in the Ann Arbor area has a personal recommendation for a riding instructor to start several small children (new riders). A co-worker would like to start getting lessons for his daughters and while we found a bunch of places online I'd really like to get a recommendation from someone who has used the barn or instructor first. I want the kids have a good experience right from the get go someplace with safe horses and good instructors.

Thanks!

I recently got a chance to work with a very sweet Kentucky Mountain Horse. When I was grooming him before tacking him up I noticed an odd thing. The hair on his spine area (where his dorsal stripe would be if he were dun) and on his belly grows the normal direction head to tail, but the hair on his barrel grows tail to head. His coat is a bit long because of the cold, but when I brushed it the hair definitely is growing the wrong way.

Basically the hair on his belly grows normal and then curves up towards the normal cowlick horses have between barrel and flank. Then that hair continues through the whorl shape and grows back towards the head. I'd get a picture but he's so dark I can't get it to show up correctly.

I had never seen this before so I was wondering what this is called, and does it happen in only certain breeds? I looked through my conformation books and attempted online searches but couldn't find any information.

I guessed when saddling and put the saddle a bit back and pulled it forward instead of forward and push it back because of how the majority of his hair grows. I didn't see any rubs when I unsaddled so I'm guessing this is the right way to do it, but would appreciate suggestions.

Thanks!