You'll never guess what I found in my shavings (have emailed complaint!)

Wow, reading some of these makes me feel bad for being a bit pee'd off when we found a Kinder Bueno wrapper in the Alfa A! I wouldn't have minded but there was no sign of the Bueno itself :eek: ...What? They're nice! :p
 
it was indeed a 'setter' of the English type. I only hope that it was well dead before being baled. Poor soul buggered a good few bales for me!
 
I had half hoped it was a typo, and F meant 'settee'. (how a settee gets into a field I have no idea), but poor setter.
I have only come across a snake in the arena - it was dead, but still gave me the creeps. I can imagin that performing trot and canter when you have no legs is a tad hard, but he was there, so can only asume he gave it a try! lol
 
Slightly off point but yesterday morning while mucking out I heard a clang on the fork and on closer investigation found a horse shoe in the bed.

I was all ready to humph and complain to the shavings company when on closer inspection of my horse I realised it was his!!!

Not quite sure why I that didn't occur to me straight away? Bit early in the morning perhaps!
 
Snow Tiddely Pom said:
Slightly off point but yesterday morning while mucking out I heard a clang on the fork and on closer investigation found a horse shoe in the bed.

I was all ready to humph and complain to the shavings company when on closer inspection of my horse I realised it was his!!!

Not quite sure why I that didn't occur to me straight away? Bit early in the morning perhaps!
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My old horse came in with 4 shoes on one night, by morning he only had 3 on. Never found the lost shoe in his bed though... :confused:
 
YM lost the blade from her knife in a shavings bed one day when opening a new bale.

The horse had to move into another stable for a few days until we found someone with a metal detector to scan the bedding and find the blade!
 
Noooo thats so sad. I used to have an English Setter and my current work companion is a gordon setter......poor poor thing

This year farmer next door said his grass cutter went through 4 fawns this year......for those that dont know deer leave their fawns in long grass and then come back for them :-(
 
OMG, how awful to find a dog! I bet the owners never knew where their dog had gone, that would really have upset me:(

I found a knife in a horse's bed once, but I think it had been dropped in there rather than being actually in the bedding material:rolleyes:
 
Movin on slightly...I found a dead rat..thankfully not fully grown.. in my pony's water bucket this morning. Yeurch!
Having cleaned it all, when I replaced the water the poor boy had a VERY long drink!
Monsoiur Rat et dans le muck heap!:(
Bryndu
 
Bryndu said:
Movin on slightly...I found a dead rat..thankfully not fully grown.. in my pony's water bucket this morning. Yeurch!
Having cleaned it all, when I replaced the water the poor boy had a VERY long drink!
Monsoiur Rat et dans le muck heap!:(
Bryndu
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I put in mouse life ladders after a spate of drowning incidents because it stopped the horses drinking I tie a strip of twine to the handle that will touch the bottom of the bucket so should any small furries fall in they can climb out!
 
Fairynuff said:
it was indeed a 'setter' of the English type. I only hope that it was well dead before being baled. Poor soul buggered a good few bales for me!
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Oh god poor creature! hopefully was dead before hand....when we are baling or doing anything on the ground we don't see anything until it's too late...esp if a good crop..we went over a kids pram (empty may I add) last year baling hay!! x
 
Yes, dog rather beats anything I've ever heard of before too - especially in several bales :(

I remember finding Frankie waving around something in his mouth in their field one day, and going to investigate it. Turned out to be a dried and flat half of a stoat - and I mean half, it had been very neatly cut in two, presumably by the topper which had been around the paddock earlier that year. :(
 
Some of these are disguting! We frequently get fence posts and deer antlers in our bales. The worst incident has to have been when I found a drowned and frozen glis glis in a water bucket. Went into the stable at five in the morning, while it was still dark, put my hand in the bucket for whatever reason...wasn't a nice suprise when I realised what it was! yuccckkkyy
 
glis glis- a total nuiscance and really freaky when lined up on the beams of a dark stable!
I think we only really get them round here (hertfordshire). They were introduced by Lord Rothschild.
 
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