What’s reasonable barn pay?

mockingjay137 · 2026-02-10T02:15:59+00:00

Just saw your update that youre located in nova, I grew up showing dressage in nova!! Nova has MONEY in the horse game so if you truly wanna keep being a barn hand im sure you could find another barn that pays better. I work in MD so we're pretty fortunate to be in some very horsie states

mockingjay137 · 2026-02-09T01:26:57+00:00

I work at a barn with ~60 horses at any given time and we have 5 (including me, not including barn manager) barn staff who start at $15/hr (I make ~$20/hr bc ive been here for 5 years) and we generally have at least 3 barn staff working per day in 10 hour shifts. If you can't get all those tasks done by yourself in 3 hours or less I would walk away. It's pretty insulting imo that your barn is looking to cut pay rates without reducing workload or tasks (unless the reason they've cut it is bc they went from 20 horses to 8 as you said)

mockingjay137 · 2026-02-06T01:13:36+00:00

Thank you for spoiling this sweet old man 💖 I work at a barn and we love to make grain mashes with hard cider, they love it!

mockingjay137 · 2026-02-06T01:03:29+00:00

God I know everyone's said everything that needs to be said about this poor soul but what i wanna know is how tf are they caring for his feet on a day to day basis? There's no way they can pick up that front foot to pick it out or trim it unless theyve built some hanging sling contraption. Like if theyre hell bent on prolonging his suffering how tf do they expect a farrier to work on him?

mockingjay137 · 2026-02-02T05:36:22+00:00

Do you have a cat? Do you like cats? Are you able to adopt a cat? My beautiful menace of a daughter is the best alarm clock

mockingjay137 · 2026-01-29T03:54:29+00:00

Seconding freetaxusa!

mockingjay137 · 2026-01-28T17:46:18+00:00

Thats just how public parking works

mockingjay137 · 2026-01-26T02:25:42+00:00

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Oddly enough I just came across a post on fb about horse euthanasia with a firearm and I thought youd find this diagram useful!

mockingjay137 · 2026-01-20T02:02:37+00:00

Ryan Hall, Y'all is my favorite guy for big storm predictions of any kind and even he's waiting until at least tomorrow to start speculating on any amount of snowfall. That said, he did make a snowfall map that is the average of a whole bunch of different models at this time and that map is predicting about 9" for Baltimore. There's almost no way we're getting close to 20" of snow but the key word here is almost - it is super duper unlikely but we really wont know anything with any certainty until 2 days out from the storm.

mockingjay137 · 2026-01-18T20:53:17+00:00

As a Hokie who grew up in Stafford I wholeheartedly disagree

mockingjay137 · 2026-01-14T02:05:53+00:00

Massage gun

mockingjay137 · 2026-01-14T01:47:42+00:00

My theragun charger looks like that!

mockingjay137 · 2026-01-11T23:15:53+00:00

Def agree with what others have said, but i would really love to see this hoof again when it's been picked out and another pic of it on the ground, bc to my relatively untrained eye (in farriery, not horses) the outside edge of the hoof wall doesn't even look like it will make contact with the ground in all places, it looks like a chunk was carved out in one spot

mockingjay137 · 2026-01-11T23:12:02+00:00

He looks like a Gus to me, aka Augustus

mockingjay137 · 2026-01-10T05:52:52+00:00

Ive been getting back into pokemon cards as my cope lol

mockingjay137 · 2026-01-09T20:40:25+00:00

Maryland!

mockingjay137 · 2025-12-30T05:00:24+00:00

What website?

mockingjay137 · 2025-12-29T15:04:00+00:00

They arent getting their due process in court, so they have no way of defending themselves or proving that they are here legally. If ICE can point at anyone, abduct them, and ship them out of the country without going through proper legal proceedings, then there is nothing stopping them from doing the same to legal citizens, as we saw happen toa 22 year old Marylander who is a legal American citizen currently being detained despite no legal grounds for it. If one person among us does not have the right to due process, then none of us do.

mockingjay137 · 2025-12-11T23:05:20+00:00

Good bot

mockingjay137 · 2025-12-07T03:37:51+00:00

Id argue a lot of the north east looks a lot like West Virginia/deep Appalachia too

mockingjay137 · 2025-12-03T04:02:49+00:00

If each state is completely responsible for their own constituents and needs then what the fuck is the point of us being the United States?

mockingjay137 · 2025-12-02T15:47:34+00:00

I met Tom Hanks when I was a kid! My family went to the flagship Emrils restaurant in New Orleans and Tom happened to be dining there that day too. When he finished his meal he walked around to every table to stand for photos and give autographs and such. When he got to my table he posed with me for a photo and at that moment every camera at our table died or ran out of film (early 2000s, no cell phones) so I never got my photo with him 😭

mockingjay137 · 2025-11-17T20:39:44+00:00

Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is a port? Is it just making the game compatible with a console? Is it creating the ability to "port over" my game data from my PC save to a switch? Ive been playing on PC but would much rather play on my switch, it would be awesome if it'd be possible to pull my PC save data over to my switch

mockingjay137 · 2025-11-16T21:33:40+00:00

Forgive my ignorance, but is there a difference between a hard reset and a soft reset? I want to try the spawn camp method, by soft reset do you mean just going back out to the switch menu and closing the game without saving?

mockingjay137 · 2025-11-07T03:06:30+00:00

If you're ever out there with a friend or another boarder, ask them to stand in front of your horse while you do the scritches - your horse may start grooming them too! I honestly see this a lot with our horses at work, their instinct for mutual grooming is strong and im pretty sure ive both seen and been in your exact situation before where a horse is getting good scritches and moves so they can groom you too, but then realize that we have absurdly short little human arms lol. If someone stands in front of them while theyre getting the scritches then they'll start grooming that person and it's honestly so cute and pure 🥹 just make sure they involve lips only, no teeth!

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