u/DiverMaterial7403

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Visited my neighbors property because she asked for help cleaning, to keep it short I started with the cow calving stall which had six inches of shit and piss embedded into the floor.

Her lamb stall was about a foot deep of the same thing, it was leaking out the sides and smelled terrible, it seeped into my boots and I had to throw them away, I duh into the straw with a pitchfork and immediately threw up and had to leave.

I then moved onto the chicken coop which was overcrowded, not as disgusting as the others and immediately found a half dead chicken crushed under a metal grate with an exposed skull and brain and a broken/partially necrotic leg. When I brought it to her she put it in a bucket with water in the 100 degree barn. I will trying to convince her to let me euthanize.

Her 15 cows live on a 2 acre bare plot with 3 acres of grass and hay next to them which they do not get to go into as well as (I THINK 9 donkeys) all of which are pregnant (cows AND donkeys) her two stud donkeys are missing halves of their ears, tails etc because they fight through the fences or in general when they are let in together.

I had to hide in her barn to cry, I know farm life can be overwhelming but this is too far... Her cows are fed straw because hay is too expensive for her.

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I have this gelding who I've been working with for about a year and broke somewhat successfully. He'd been working with a trainer but no longer is. The problem is, he's extremely barn sour and I've had no luck in fixing it. I'll mount and we'll ride around for about 5-10 minutes on the same spots before he gets antsy and just sprints to his stall. I have tried one rein stops, stopping his back legs and trying to make him focus on other things besides his stall.

I've closed the gate that allows access to the stall but he would sprint right through it in an attempt to get back, last week, I hit the gate pretty hard and got a serious injury on my knee and killed a majority of the nerves in my knee and yesterday he shoved the gate open and spirited into his stall so fast I couldn't bail and ended up slamming my knee up into my hip because he ran me right into the door. Please help me, I don't have access to a new trainer at the moment and I've tried about everything I could think of. He rides a bitless bridle.

They don't seem extremely swollen, distressed or compacted but man that doesn't look right.. they are pooping just fine and being fed every 20-30 minutes. Rehabber is contacted and I will be holding onto them until Sunday, was advised to feed.