I‘d like it in tons if possible! I have looked for a while and couldn‘t seem to find it. It‘s for a chemistry project due tomorrow so all haste would be appreciated!
If you have save fencing, and a pasture clear of obstructions (fallen trees, equipment, etc.) then its probably alright to let them just adjust on their own. Some horses however take much longer to adjust to such situations and some may be so scared that they will run blindly and crash through or try to jump fences and injure or kill themselves. If your horses are not handling this very well or seem absolutely panic stricken, you might want to go out and halter them, and hold them and stand with them, feed them some hay or oats. Or if you have a safer pen or stalls for them, it might be good to put them in their stalls with some hay. If they revert to more dangerous behavior in the stalls, then its best to leave them out.
I had this same problem yesterday. I put my horse in a stall, put some music on quietly and sat in the stall with him occasionally giving him treats (great advice from other people on Y!A. he calmed down a lot! It made me really mad. my neighbors used to own horses and they know very well that i have one yet they still decided to shoot off the big fireworks. some people just dont care about anything but their enjoyment. my horse could have been seriously injured (it just rained recently and my horses field is VERY muddy at the moment). Im just glad nothing happened to my baby 3
This can be a learning lesson for you. If you desensitize them to the noise now, like we do with horses used in Cowboy Action Shooting or those used in police work, you solve the problem for the future. That's what Snezzy is talking about. I get where others are coming from, but here is the thing.if your horses get very reactive and others like to use fire crackers, get ahead of this next time and work on it first. So you target shoot small caliber at a safe distance and direction until they don't care. Then you progress up. You can even use blanks to do this. Pretty soon you can do this and when the first round goes off, they jump and then look at you and forget about it. We target shoot right outside of the pastures (facing safely, of course), with everything from small caliber, to shotguns and clay targets. Our horses may jump at the first shots and move off, but then they just look around and quit. Actually, lightning struck the woods when I was rushing to bring them in one day, close enough that it crackled the ground where I was. and the 5 there scattered, but came right back to me when I opened a gate. Now that was a boom. My heart rate went up for about 45 minutes, but they recovered much faster.
one thing for sure the vast bulk has been mined since about the 1870s look up the expansion of steel in the industrial revolution
All I can find is about 2 billion tons annually. About 50 countries mine iron ore. Australia and Brazil export 2/3 of world production. A good answer would be all of it ! I do not understand why your prof. would ask this question unless it is to show how essential iron has become from the time people learned to make use of it. Just to show you are studying throw in a comment about how many stars do you think died to produce the iron we have on Earth (that is where it is formed, in super nova explosions) and how did this little planet get so much of it. :)
