Fwd: Pedometers?

["hope lundquist" <wwho20@hotmail.com>]

By golly Tracey you have come up with a new idea that needs exploring. Now 
all we need is to get the GPS guys onboard. Lets get them to invent a GPS 
for our horses. Sooner the better. Hope
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>From: "Tracey Ritter" <Tracey_Ritter@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: <Tracey_Ritter@yahoo.com>
>To: <wwho20@hotmail.com>
>CC: <katswig@earthlink.net>, <ridecamp@endurance.net>
>Subject: Pedometers?
>Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:02:29 -0600
>
>A Horse Pedometer/GPS system!  *That's* what we need!  A nice, digital
>high-tech gadget that will automatically record and store the data after a
>24 hr. period, reset itself automatically and transmit the data to a remote
>reciever that can plot it out on a graph in miles/day!  We can put some on
>our horses that are out in pasture, and even provide some to the BLM to put
>on a handfull of wild Mustangs to see what their ranges are really like on 
>a
>day-to-day basis.  The variables could include weather, forage and water
>availability (time of year?), plus any other unusual stresses such as
>wildfires, etc.  Am I onto something here?!  ;-)
>
>Tracey in Portland
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Trailrite@aol.com [mailto:Trailrite@aol.com]
>   Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 12:10 PM
>   To: helgeson@ndak.net; wwho20@hotmail.com
>   Cc: katswig@earthlink.net; ridecamp@endurance.net
>   Subject: RC: Fwd: RC: Barefoot/verses steel
>
>
>   In a message dated 9/28/2001 5:03:36 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>helgeson@ndak.net writes:
>
>
>
>     I have also read in several posts that horses do not naturally "in the
>wild"
>     travel 50 to 100 miles a day. But in Kat's post she claims that her
>     horses naturally travel 100 miles a day in her pasture.  So which is
>     it? My self I would believe Kat, in that horses travel that far in a
>     day, naturally, while they are grazing and going to water.
>
>
>
>
>   Does Kat's horse's all carry 165 - 250 lbs on their backs all day in 
>this
>(what size pasture) ?
>   I feel this subject needs a break.  RIDE BAREFOOT if you want to, but
>please, stay with facts that are real and documented.
>
>   Tammy Robinson
>   Trail-Rite Ranch & Products
>   18171 Lost Creek Road
>   Saugus, CA 91390
>   661/513-9269 or  713-3912
>   www.Trail-Rite.com   email:trailrite@aol.com


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