What A Drag So how do you drag a horse pasture if you don’t own a tractor? Simple, you make a drag and use your truck as the tractor. Were we board our horse, the owner keeps the grass cut, but with four horses, an occasional goat, a few cats, and a gaggle of wild… Continue reading What a Drag
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Controlling Hay Intake
Controlling Hay Intake Several of our horses have one problem or the other with their diet. At least one of our miniature horses has a sugar problem, where she can’t eat fresh grass because of the levels of sugar in the grass. She also must take daily medication to help offset the issues. In humans, we… Continue reading Controlling Hay Intake
How We Do Hay at the Barn
How We Do Hay at the Barn First, I want to note that each boarder is responsible for his or her own hay, though some of us do go in together on a load to save on shipping. We have several horses that have some medical issues, so we have to limit their intake of… Continue reading How We Do Hay at the Barn
Farm Work Really Hurts!
Farm Work Really Hurts! Yesterday was scheduled to be another farm work day, normally we have one, on average once a quarter. It normally entails me repairing, building, or installing things on the part of the property where we board our horses. Plus, I often lend a helping hand to the farm owner. Yep, you… Continue reading Farm Work Really Hurts!
Farm Work Day
Farm Work Day We designated this weekend as a farm clean-up weekend. The first thing on the list was to repair the pallet mini shelter that we constructed about 2 and a half years ago. It has fared very well actually, but we needed to put a new tarp on the roof, thanks to two… Continue reading Farm Work Day
Sad Day At The Farm – Goodbye Justina
Sad Day At The Farm – Goodbye Justina It was a very sad day today on the farm, my daughter had to euthanize her horse, Justina. She had worked so hard over the years to gentle and then train her. She was a rescue horse for a local horse rescue, where she was feral. My… Continue reading Sad Day At The Farm – Goodbye Justina
Boarding Our Horses Locally Now
Boarding Our Horses Locally Now We board our four horses on a private farm about 5 miles from where we live. It isn’t perfect, but for our horses, it is paradise and it is home. They have had a long bumpy road to get to where they are today. They all started as rescue horses… Continue reading Boarding Our Horses Locally Now
The Family Horses
The Family Horses My barnyard includes four horses currently as well as dogs, cats, rabbits, and chickens, and no I don’t live on a farm. I lease land to board our horses. The story of us getting horses started in 1987, when I left for the Marine Corps and my wife (at that time, she… Continue reading The Family Horses
Our Horses
Our Horses Here are some photos of the two miniature horses we have. The dark guy is Rebel (13 years old). Rebel’s mother, Dixie is the other mini. We adopted Dixie many years ago and Rebel and his father (who has since passed, “Midnight”) can along as a packaged deal. So we have literally had… Continue reading Our Horses
Swinging a Hammer
Swinging a Hammer Since we have two miniature horses, they should be “dry-lotted” during the summer, we had a dry lot, but no shelter, so we set out to build a small shelter for our miniature horses. We choose wooden pallets as our building material trying to keep the price low mostly as we are… Continue reading Swinging a Hammer
