What is the strangest thing you have found in ........

[gails]

Your horses water bucket or trough?

Todate I have found a rat, a crow and the strangest one, a frog!!!!!

Just a random thought after fishing out leaves this afternoon

 

[samstar]

Found over ten newts in ours

 

[Coffee_Bean]

Baby birds

Rats

 

[Rowreach]

A big owl

that was very sad

Oh, and one time I found 2 retrievers that belonged to a well-known TV gardener in my trough, being washed off by his wife after a muddy walk

 

[sidesaddlegirl]

Bloated rats!

 

[CorvusCorax]

Not horsey, but I found a shrew floating in my dog's water bowl last Saturday. He that chases any small, moving object had left it well alone and was sitting in the corner of the run looking quite disturbed.

 

[Paint it Lucky]

Mainly dead mice and the occassional dead bird

 

[MrsMozart]

[ QUOTE ]
A big owl

that was very sad

Oh, and one time I found 2 retrievers that belonged to a well-known TV gardener in my trough, being washed off by his wife after a muddy walk

[/ QUOTE ]

How damn rude! Hope you told her to bob-off

.

 

[MrsMozart]

A cardboard box! Complete with the white packing stuff. Blah. Had to empty it. As if there wasn't enough water sloshing around the place

 

[mtj]

not in a trough, but found a (pressurised) can of hairspray on a stable floor whilst doing the yard breakfasts one day.

owner had left this, along with hair gel etc (for horse) on the stable window cill inside.

YO had a litlle word

 

[Rowreach]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
A big owl

that was very sad

Oh, and one time I found 2 retrievers that belonged to a well-known TV gardener in my trough, being washed off by his wife after a muddy walk

[/ QUOTE ]

How damn rude! Hope you told her to bob-off

.

[/ QUOTE ]

I did suggest she might like to clean it out when she'd finished

The same "lady" once asked me if I had permission to ride in MY field one day when it was very foggy

Her husband is very nice though, have to say

 

[MrsMozart]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
A big owl

that was very sad

Oh, and one time I found 2 retrievers that belonged to a well-known TV gardener in my trough, being washed off by his wife after a muddy walk

[/ QUOTE ]

How damn rude! Hope you told her to bob-off

.

[/ QUOTE ]

I did suggest she might like to clean it out when she'd finished

The same "lady" once asked me if I had permission to ride in MY field one day when it was very foggy

Her husband is very nice though, have to say

[/ QUOTE ]

He'd have to be to make up for her lol

 

[Enfys]

A squirrel, and on the same day in another trough, a kitten. Poor things I felt quite sad thinking about them struggling to stay afloat and then giving up with exhaustion. Ghastly way to go.

Now I leave a short bit of planking in all my troughs, the birds use them as diving boards and as I haven't had any more drowned creatures hopefully they have saved a life or two.

The oddest thing would be a 10" snapping turtle though. I suspect my daughter found it and put it in there as I can't see how it would climb into a water tub.

 

[HayleyandBob]

In one go - 6 squirrels
last week a rabbit- i think :S
and a mouse :S

 

[hellybelly6]

A bat, a mouse

 

[Tharg]

[ QUOTE ]
A big owl

that was very sad

Oh, and one time I found 2 retrievers that belonged to a well-known TV gardener in my trough, being washed off by his wife after a muddy walk

[/ QUOTE ]

Good Lord, if someone did that to my trough there would be war!

 

[spotty_pony]

A dead rat!

 

[MagicMelon]

Never found anything weird in my horses trough. Have found the odd dead mouse in the bottom of feed bins though (having gorged themselves I guess) - the worst being those who have got into the sugar beet bin... they swell pretty badly... gross.

 

[Montyforever]

Half a rabbit .. :S

 

[meemzul]

My toddler!

He decided to climb in the water bucket whilst i was mucking out this morning, luckily it was only half full but still came over his wellies...

 

[CastleMouse]

I've only ever found a bird...

 

[CrazyMare]

A duck - swimming on it.

The usual dead mice and rats.

 

[Dubsie]

Use a trug for the pony when it's visiting cos it's the same colour as the water bins at home field (pony ignores water trough under tap). However pony often prefers to drink from the (much smaller) metal dog bowl we keep outside the back door - I think cos she is nosey and wants to stick her nose indoors she tends to hang about near the back door, so one has to keep refilling this. Dog prefers to drink the water in the bird bath, and the crows like to drink from the big water trough under the tap down the field. Last time we emptied the water trough we found lots of bricks. Daughter confessed she and friend put them in to make the trough overflow. Often find frogs in the dog bowl.