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My Favorite View (Sunday Horses)

Dec 2, 2018 | horse stuff

My favorite time of the day is feeding time. Here are my “girls” Fortune (senior mare on the left), and her “filly”, Firefly (will be 5 next April) enjoying their lunch of soaked alfalfa pellets with a little 12% sweet feed. Fortune started...

Time Changes, Feeding After Dark, and Horses Without Watches

Nov 18, 2018 | horse stuff

On November 3 we fell back for daylight savings time, which means the usual four pm feeding time becomes “three” by our human clocks, and something approaching later than that by the natural ones since the daylight gets shorter and shorter each day. Add to...

Living with chronic pain and horses (September is chronic pain awareness month.)

Sep 15, 2018 | life

By nature caring for horses requires muscles and physical labor. When I was a teen I worked twelve-hour days in exchange for a few riding lessons a week. Before my girl told me she really preferred being a pasture-puff, I worked off a large portion of my board by...