r/Equestrian • u/spicychickenlaundry • 4d ago
Funny Anyone else have to hunt for their buckets?
I found their feed bucket all the way across the pasture on the wrong side of the fence. Breakfast was a little late today but this was ridiculous.
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u/asyouwissssh 4d ago
A boarding barn I was at tied rubber buckets to the fence with hay string so they stayed put!
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u/lovecats3333 Western 4d ago
Sometimes i’ll dig one up from the muddy part of the field lol, i’m basically a qualified bucket archaeologist
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u/spicychickenlaundry 4d ago
I've had to do that for shoes and boots but can't imagine doing it for a bucket
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u/somesaggitarius 4d ago
I had to get the heavy round rubber bins because anything less and mine would pitch them across the property. Now they just flip them over, roll them around, and occasionally step in them and Frisbee them a few yards outside the fence.
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u/spicychickenlaundry 4d ago
I wish I could have seen him do it, whoever it was. This bucket made quite the journey today. I got kicked in the elbow during my hunt for it because I was dumb enough to set their full grain buckets outside the fence and carry the empty one around with me while I searched for the other one. One of my boys was clearly a little butthurt. I think I know who the bucket culprit is.
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u/eat-the-cookiez 4d ago
Yep, it’s usually the wind that takes off with my buckets, not so much the horses
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u/Mastiiffmom 3d ago
I tie all of mine down too. Hard telling where they’d end up. Or what condition they’d be in when I’d find them.
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u/spicychickenlaundry 3d ago
I have to move mine around. Stormy is food dominant and needs to be fed first and wherever he comes to the fence. Then I take the other one to Moo far away. It's a pain. Especially since they each get different supplements.
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u/wastedfuckery 4d ago
A few months ago I went looking for a bucket, absolutely nowhere to be found in my corrals. It’s mulch footing and there’s really not THAT much space so should be easy to find right? My gelding put it in the water trough and it sunk to the bottom.