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I will update you guys but I am on my way right now to meet with the dog handler. Bottom pin is where I the deer was shot and top pin is last blood. I will let you all know because I'm praying I find the deer today. This is my first buck and I want to eat him!!!!!! Luckily it was cold last night so 🤞🏻

Update: 11:35 am

Nothing. Dog got off track a little for a bit. I'm doing grid searching and crawling on my hands and knees looking in places that make sense. Nothing yet and I'm losing hope.

Update #2: I am sorry everyone. No deer. The dog gave up and got hot and we called it. If I find him carrying my arrow, I'll do everything I can to put one through his broadside. He probably won't come back, though and now the woods he traveled through is super pressured, but I learned a valuable lesson and even though I'm really upset that I didn't find him, I'm proud of myself for trying really hard because I think that is what the deer deserved.

I am going to make a YouTube video and talk about this because I feel really bad and I want people to learn from my mistake and I want to help others the way everyone here helped me. You guys cheered me on so loudly and I felt really good coming out here this morning. Maybe I won't stop bow hunting. I pray God can forgive me for taking a bad shot out of Immature excitement. The deer deserved better than that and because of his sacrifice, I will never do that again. I will fondly refer to him as Gilderic, which is a Germanic name that means he was a mighty sacrifice.

This morning, a beautiful buck was quartering toward me at what felt like a very manageable angle where I knew I could get both lungs and I put my arrow right where it needed to be, I tried my best to get over the buck fever and tell myself to commit to good form, and when I let fly, he spun towards the tree line and I struck him in one lung and the liver I think at 40 yards. This is my first ever archery deer and my first ever buck. I waited 2 hours and got permission to track him over the fence line. I trailed him for 1/5 mile and decided to go home for a few hours to go back out this evening with my brother. It's been 6 hours since I shot him. My last blood was probably a cup of blood and he bled multiple puddles and consistently left behind bright red trails but it was 1/4 mile and I may have jumped him once but I'm not sure because I was certain I waited a good amount of time and I found a bedding area, but he seemed to have bypassed it and I didn't see blood in it at all but I feel really nervous that I'm just being hopeful. I thought 2 hours was enough because of the massive blood loss but I may have been wrong.

Does the situation look grim? I feel really awful about this and I feel like I really failed this animal. I just want to make it right and recover the carcass and put it to good use because I love venison and I love hunting but this feels like garbage and it's a tough lesson learned to just wait for a completely broadside shot and not let buck fever get in my head about getting an arrow in his kill zone quickly.

I'm 26 years old and I've been hunting all kinds of animals since I was a youth hunter and I've never wounded an animal before and I guess I was not prepared for something like this to happen but I feel super at fault for going cross eyed over antlers and taking a shot hastily.

Update: I am sorry everyone. No deer. The dog gave up and got hot and we called it. If I find him carrying my arrow, I'll do everything I can to put one through his broadside. He probably won't come back, though and now the woods he traveled through is super pressured, but I learned a valuable lesson and even though I'm really upset that I didn't find him, I'm proud of myself for trying really hard because I think that is what the deer deserved.

I am going to make a YouTube video and talk about this because I feel really bad and I want people to learn from my mistake and I want to help others the way everyone here helped me. You guys cheered me on so loudly and I felt really good coming out here this morning. Maybe I won't stop bow hunting. I pray God can forgive me for taking a bad shot out of Immature excitement. The deer deserved better than that and because of his sacrifice, I will never do that again. I will fondly refer to him as Gilderic, which is a Germanic name that means he was a mighty sacrifice.

Hey all! I have a 17 month old yearling who is super duper buddy sour to my other 2 horses. He's getting ready to do his first show and I discovered that he becomes a nightmare when he wants to return to the other horses and can't. It's not barn sourness, because he doesn't care if it's on the fence or on the path back home. He just wants to be with the others.

When I lead my mare down the road or ride her away, he gallops around whinnying and works himself into a sweat. Same for if she has to go to the vet. I walked him a few times to my parents' house next door to introduce him to concrete and work on general desensitizing and he's fine until we start the walk home and I insist he not rush.

I know the tantrum part can be dealt with by round pen work, but will sleeping over at my parents' house for a couple nights help him learn to be okay away from her? My dad and I were thinking maybe we just start out with him in their paddock for a few hours, then a day, then he can stay a night, then before the show, he can stay a few nights over there and get used to being without her. He will be able to see the other horses from afar, but he will be on his own during this time.

Is this something that will help prepare him for the show? Thanks in advance.

I bought this mustang mare from the kill pen because I felt sorry for her. Someone adopted her for the $1k incentive and sent her off to a friend when they got the money and that friend dumped her off at the sale barn and she ended up being bought by the kill buyer. She was very skinny and came flying off the trailer to fill her mouth with grass in huge mouthfuls when I brought her home and she had pneumonia which was evident because she was dripping huge amounts of green snot. She was so rough and she was unhandled and tried jumping the fence a few times.

Fast forward to 1 year later and she has a 1 month old daughter and we are riding again. She was thrown away like trash but there is so much treasure in this picture.

I've never heard of this so this is fascinating to me if it helps the farrier and the horse.

I think I really *bleep*ed it up guys. I want to get this drawing right and I think I really did not improve it but I messed it up. I got the advice to go darker and I don't think I applied it correctly AT ALL. I feel sad lol. Can anyone tell what I did wrong in the darkening and what to do different next time? I changed the muscle shading to be more correct to the reference photo (in the comments) because earlier I just went with it and stopped looking as you can see in the first photo. I feel like I really made this look more highschool level and I'm not sure where I really went wrong. Like logically I know the darkest parts are the parts where the sun is not shining like the leg blocked by her tail and the shoulder of the baby where Mom is standing. I just did not do this right

She's been practicing her pirouettes but mom got in the way again! She was getting ready to do a real big one!

I don't know what to do different. I used mechanical pencil but I've seen some amazing realism using those and I don't think it's the tool. It's me. I don't know why I can't understand shading. I'm not representing the coat shine properly for starters. The face around my baby looks like something I would have done in Junior high to me and I don't know how to make it look better. Reference in the comments.

May I please have some help? This is a pool testing kit and I'm testing milk from my horse. Some people say since a pool test strip is made to test a huge pool, you're supposed to dilute the milk and others say it doesn't matter so I don't know what to think... This is undiluted and straight from the udder because I don't have any distilled water. Is there anyone here who can please help me read this accurately? She needs to be watched during labor due to the baby being very large and it's her first time and I don't want to misread her milk pH because I'm not doing this right and not be there for her.

Edit: thanks a ton everyone! These strips were recommended to me by a senior breeder and I asked here about them because I suspected this isn't a great way of approaching this and the explanations have been really helpful!

Update: Baby is very close and we are going to be up with excitement watching the baby monitor! I retested this morning and it's for sure time!

One thing I immediately did not like on this particular gelding were his pasterns. Long and thin. We have made so much progress adding bone through a supportive diet for growth and full turnout! He is only 13 months old and I can't wait to compare him again to what he looks like in 11 months! This was my sign to not harshly judge weanlings or yearlings and let time do its thing.

I can only imagine she's wondering why the human run-in shed is so tiny.

no, she did not get hurt.

The wood chips are from my wood-working project. I didn't expect my HORSE to be walking on them on the back porch.

She got down just fine, my porch is not taller than a trailer.

Yes, she is about to have a baby. No, I did not breed her and don't support irresponsibly breeding mustangs, we are making the best of it that we can together. The father is a mystery and she was bred before I bought her.

We have officially domesticated the wild mustang.

Why did Disney decide that wholesome characters and classic styles of storytelling through the use of "gentle" characters was no longer favorable and then begin to move towards characters that are complete "dorks" or slightly "cringe"? What is it about 2D animation and a story with gentler characters and quieter audio that they don't like anymore?

The audio of today's movies AND children's shows something else I have noticed in conjunction with the common 3D animating styles. Every line is an exclamation and everything seems loud and obnoxious as if they're afraid of losing their audience's attention span so everything needs to be excitable constantly.

Why did Disney completely abandon the classic, 2D animation? Didn't Princess and the Frog perform well? Their budget was $105 million and the movie grossed $270.9 million. What about that told them they should abandon 2D?

I promise I took like 15 photos and these were the best I could get. Sorry it's blurry but I tried and I'm tired lol. Vet says the baby is huge as of 2 days ago.

I love it when horses are puzzled by what we are doing so they investigate to see what the fuss is about 🤣

Would you say this is bagging up?

This mare is a rescue and there's no telling when she was bred. It has to be more than 260 days ago because that's how long I have owned her. She was at the sale lot for a month at least so if she was bred there, we are potentially looking at 290 days gestation. We had a false negative when I got her and tested again because I was suspicious and now we only know she is pregnant.

Vet has not seen her yet for transrectal ultrasound, but when I call, I'd like to be able to give some info on whether she's bagging up or not. Would you guys say this is it? I think it is but I'm a little scatterbrained about this entire thing because this is a backyard breeding accident or sale lot accident and my mare has to pay the price so I would like some help confirming or debunking my opinion that she is starting to bag up from some owners who actually have bred mares and know what it looks like. I am not a breeder, just trying to care for my poor mare.

This is a cry for help as I'm certain I'm going to get a tongue across my mouth soon. My yearling watched me eat a cinnamon roll once and every day since he checks my mouth for cinnamon rolls.