October News
10/29/04: Bad News/Good News A last minute snafu has prevented San Peppy Perfection from making the trip to Rosharon this weekend. Branding papers necessary to leave Colorado state lines were not obtained until late yesterday. This caused her to miss the caravan that runs to Houston every two weeks. New arrival date should be November 13th. The good news is that all barn materials (steel pipe, etc) have been ordered. Windstorm engineering work is almost completed and construction should start soon. |
10/21/04: Arrival Date I have worked out the transporting of San Peppy Perfection from Fort Lupton, Colorado to our ranch, 1066 miles one-way, with Nation Wide horse transportation. Her arrival date in Rosharon is October 30th. |
10/18/04: October Is The Month Of San Peppys A year ago October 5th Turley Ranch purchased a double-line bred San Peppy stallion that we now call "Cito". We are pleased to announce, that almost exactly a year later, we have purchased another San Peppy bred horse that will be an outstanding foundation producing broodmare for our ranch. San Peppy Perfection is a fifteen-year-old mare who is an own daughter of Mr San Peppy. D-Talk Ranch is hosting a playday on October 23rd weather permitting. Apparently I will be judging some of the events. I have also been invited to visit a halter horse breeding farm in Brookhaven, Mississippi and will be travelling there one weekend in November. This is the same breeder that bred our horse Fancy (Fantastic Reflection).I immensely appreciate the opportunity to tour their first class breeding operation that has created several halter horse world champions. |
10/15/04: Happy Customer Zareba Systems, Less than a year ago I purchased a 10 mile solar fence charger from Tractor Supply for use on my less than 1 mile pasture perimeter fence. I bought the larger model because I knew I would be expanding my fences. Recently the charger stopped working and I have checked both the battery and fuse - both are in working order. When I turn on the unit, it makes a high pitch sound like you would hear when you turn on a TV but no voltage pulses are sent out of the unit. Can you guys help? Is there a replacement circuit board part that I can purchase? I would rather not discard the unit since it is not very old... Thanks, Turley Ranch Please provide us with your name and address plus the serial number of the fence controller. We may be able to forward you the input CB for this unit. <address deleted> Nikki, please send this customer a CBLIS10 replacement circuit board at no charge. Jason, if you should need assistance in replacing the board, call 1-800-272-9877 Mike |
10/12/04: Barn Update The structural engineer has completed calculating the specifications on the main barn supports. With this done, those components can be manufactured and cut to the proper sizes. The engineer is still working on the roof support system. |
10/10/04: Clever Animals Our goats have a voracious appetite and are experts in "stealing" feed from our horses. We have two fenced paddocks that share a common side that contain our horses but the shared fence is not field fence - it is five strands of horse wire (barbed wire without the barbs). This allows the goats to roam freely between both paddocks and steal, or try to steal, grain from every horse feeder. The goats also have the timing down - they wait for us to feed the horses and leave. After that they have a grain party. To counter their tenacious ways, Heather and I have constructed horse feeders that are designed to keep out goats. We went through several iterations before getting the design perfected but they are effective. The problem is, we keep getting more horses and have to add more feeders. One more feeder to go and the goats will be vanquished from their daily feeding frenzies - for now. |
10/9/04: Electric Fencing Electric fencing is a key necessity when the grass on the outside of the paddock is higher and apparently more tasty than the grass inside the paddock. Our horses love to reach over the field fence for grass which is not good for the fence. Electric fence is a great idea and works really well though it does require regular maintenance. Heather and I spent time today tightening the electric fence wire and putting on new gate latches. I also did some electronic repair work on one of the solar fence chargers. |
10/4/04: Barn Installation Imminent We have had a busy week working to finalize our barn contract which we signed on Wednesday. Getting a windstorm certificate Updated horse training area and deleted bogus entries from the guestbook (long overdue). |
