A Year of Love: Rescue Update

A Year of Love: Rescue Update

Nov 25, 2018 | horse stuff

Last year about this time, I saw an add on a kill pen Facebook page for a mare. Supposedly heavily pregnant, gentle, needed out of there ASAP because she was getting picked on by the other horses and not being allowed to eat. I was given an age of 16 (looking at her...
Winter Feeding Has Begun

Winter Feeding Has Begun

Nov 11, 2018 | horse stuff

Last week I blogged that we had most of the hay we need for the winter, and I anticipate getting the last load next week. Well, we had our first freeze of the season (no freeze watch, but hey the National Weather Service forgets about us all the time) and that means...
Happiness is…hay!

Happiness is…hay!

Nov 4, 2018 | horse stuff, life

This past summer in the Ozarks we had a really bad drought. While the rain has certainly picked up in the last month or so, the news reports in early October were all about farmers selling off cattle and worried that they wouldn’t be able to feed them. Not only...
Winter Feeding Has Begun

Colic!

Sep 23, 2018 | horse stuff

I’ve never dealt with colic before. I’ve seen it on tv shows, heard about it, read about it in Equus, but I’d never really actually dealt with it in all of it’s down, rolling, scary realness. Last year my filly Firefly had a bit of gas colic....

We’re getting SmartPaks!

Sep 22, 2018 | horse stuff

I finally did it! Checked the budget and decided to get my girl SmartPaks. You see, Fortune (my older mare) gave me a horrible scare that I’ll blog about tomorrow this week. And I realized, the way that she’d been eating probably wasn’t the best for...