Amys_Babies
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My chap was just talking about his phobia for rats which made me remember a very nasty experience i had.
At my old yard i went to muck out only to find a dead mouse floating around in buddys water bucket!!!!! Freaked me out so much...i dont like mice at all!!!!
So just wondering what the worse things which have ended up in your water buckets? 
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SugarNSpice
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Ohhh I've seen dead mice in water buckets. There were two in there once. People nearly always get me to sort it out for them as I quite like mice lol! I don't really like dead ones mind but, I'm not scared of them  .
A big spider drowned in a bucket once as well I think, that freaked me out!
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Spot_the_Risk
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Dead mice, brushes, hoof picks, apples and carrots (my horse won't bob for them), and one day a newt!
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FestiveG
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Drowned rats are the worst  Headscarves (in the black and white years) brushes and lead ropes all dropped in by horses, although a source of great hillarity for the horses, are the most annoying. 
Edited to say, a bute and jam sandwich (on the third attempt) was probably the most annoying, having been spat with great accuracy and venom ("Now try and make me eat it!")
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Box_of_Frogs
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My mare's water bucket is usually filled every flipping day with a ton of her haylage! I've tried moving the perishing thing all over her stable but in one position she'll kick it over, in another she'll poop in it, in another she throws it around and soaks her bed. She's even stood in it before now. She is a peasant and not used to the finer things in life but the least she could do is help a bit! I am resigned to a lifetime of emptying disgusting water buckets daily.
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zoeshiloh
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Loc: Suffolk
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No dead rats in our horses buckets, but have fished them out of the cattle sheds!
A livery yard I used to be on kept fish in the field water troughs - they kept the amount of algae down, and generally kept the tanks clean.
Funnily enough was cleaning a big pile of poo out of an automatic drinker today - poor horse was just stood staring at it!
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WeeBrown
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When it was the automatic worst was a bird. I hated cleaning it out all the time due to rusting so we now have a bucket which is much nicer. It's usually just bits of her tea and hay.
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WhiteHorseWendy
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Loc: Lincolnshire
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mice (two nights in a row once), large spiders, and in the field trough, a dead bird. *shudders*
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littlemisslauren
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a dead rabbit in my trough in the field. 
i have no idea how it got there but it made me physically sick 
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Nailed
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oh god.. i hope i never get a spider.. they scare me senseless..
Ted dunked 4 brand new baby blue bandages in his.
Also a football off the wall..
Mice are common as are birdies.. and the odd bone off the dogs.. as the have a drink, drop the bone and cant get it out again.
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Myself.
A horse once knocked me over into a large trug 
I once found a rat ir rigomortis once too. That upset me and made me physically sick 
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Bellaboo's shettie Ted is great at getting D's old treat ball in his water bucket That pony has talent!
Donnegan always managed to poo in his automatic water drinker Luckily enough they never worked properly so were turned off
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katenjack
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A huge dead magpie in the field water trough and a festering toad at the bottom of the water trough in the sheep field, I only found it when I got right down to the last 4 inches of sludge when I decided to clean it out before putting my horse in that field for a change, oooh, yeuk, yeuk - it had been there months!
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laniep
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All the usual, in the field trough, big bloated rats (been in there over winter) 2 mice 1 morning, numerous birds, a dead fish (think bird dropped it as flew over),couple of newts, can get all these out.
Luckily no spiders would of passed out (hate the blighters)
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dotty1
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Loc: Glos
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I found a baby barn owl face down in a water bucket, was very sad
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BankEndRescue
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my loony jack russell is fond of sitting in the troughs
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Jen_n_Ross
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As above mainly, mice and birds, altough, as birds nest in my stable there has been the odd baby bird
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hellybelly
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A live bat. I fished it out and put it somewhere safe and warm to dry out. It had gone the following day. I later found out that they can have rabies and I should have worn a pair of gloves.
In my stable, I find dead birds, rabbits mice and voles and shrews. For some reason, the stables' cats leave me presents.
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poppymoo
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one of those hexagon-shaped ball-things- full of pony nuts - found it floating the next morning, pony must have lobbed it up in air ....nuts had all turned to sludge by the time i found it. nice.
no dead animals but have discovered worlds largest spider doing the backstroke.......and various headcollars dropped in from horse next door
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ISH_Mad
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Mice in water buckets three times. Bones from a bird in the outdoor water trough, possibly dropped in there by a fox,
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welsh_monster
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have had to fish a an owl out of one of the troughs before, obviously dumped by fox or other animal (hopefully not my girlie!) as it had bled everywhere first.....not pleasant, one of the ponies tries his hardest to poo in any water we give him, hence having two large buckets, just in case!
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blagdon
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I keep finding beetles floating in the water bucket. They are about an inch long and black and I usually manage to fish them out alive and put them somwhere to dry. I guess they must nest in my stable somewhere or its the same one coming back for a dip!
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Mowgli
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A huge drowned rat is the worst I have ever come across. I have also found a baby bird that fell out of the nest above which I didn't even know was there.
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hellybelly
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A butterfly
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Ottinmeg
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usually the welsh is to be found standing in her water buckets, have found the odd rat or spider before now though.
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madhossy
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Drowned magpie in the water trough this morning which is annoying as I only cleaned it out and refilled it yesterday!
Its mate was making distress calls in the field so the first place I looked was the water trough. How sad : (
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Babybear
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Quote:
one of those hexagon-shaped ball-things- full of pony nuts - found it floating the next morning, pony must have lobbed it up in air ....nuts had all turned to sludge by the time i found it. nice.
Oooh my boy managed that too - I was very impressed!
Apart from that all I ever find is poo or general dirt (Casper like a bucket to drink from and one which he only uses to wash is face!!)
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Persephone
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I found King Rat dead in Star's bucket. Yuck. Why do their eyes go all greyish white?
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niagaraduval
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OMG!! same thing happened to us!!
I went for a hack to find a mouse had drowned in Niagara's water bucket..
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palomino_pony
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Found a mouse in there a coupe of times. Aso found a dead mouse very close to my pony's feed bucket once- it had been stomped on -You will NOT steal my food says pony!
TB used to sh*t in he water bucket no matter where I put it in the stabel, mind you she used to push all the bed back up the back wall of the stable too. I sometimes wondered if she hadn't got the broom and swept it up there.....she was an odd one!
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