Porter Oakes Farm

08/20/2024

One indoor stall coming available September 1st!
Come board with us!
Private country setting with all the amenities!
Located just outside Orangeville.

This is a 124 acre horse farm, custom built barn with attached arena.
Large bright facility with custom stalls matted. Large,bright, attatched indoor arena 82x200',
Indoor wash stall with hot and cold water , heated viewing room, heated washroom facilities with shower and laundry facilities, heated tack room, large aisles matted, cross tie areas with saddle racks.
Individualized feed program with excellent quality hay direct from our farm. Quality grain fed twice daily and any supplements supplied by boarders. We bale our own hay excellent quality.
Thorough Night check with hay and water top up. Buckets for water and grain are washed daily. Paddocks have large shelters and heated water bowls.
Daily turnout weather permitting with lots of hay and drink on demand fresh water.
Blanketing changes and booting included. Barn manager on duty everyday and owners live onsite. Beautiful country property with exceptional care for all the horses!
Bring your own coach, farrier or vet, or consult with our professionals.
Large 154x254ft outdoor sand ring plus one ring for schooling on the flat with jump course and a rolling x-country ring.
Very quiet country property with hacking. Very accommodating staff and a friendly environment with the best care for your equine partner!
Full elite care indoor board.

You may message me or email at [email protected] or call or text Deborah at 416-562-1701

02/21/2024

02/21/2024

My horses thank you!

In the western hemisphere, spring starts March 19th! That means that you only have one more month left of winter, dreary skies, dark mornings, and early sunsets.

You can do it!

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02/14/2024

Come Board With Porter Oakes Farm!
Lovely horse farm located in Amaranth, close to Orangeville.
Come board with us!
Private country setting with all the amenities!

This is a 124 acre horse farm, custom built barn with attached arena.
Large bright facility with custom stalls matted. Large,bright, attatched indoor arena 82x200' dust free footing.
Indoor wash stall with hot and cold water , heated viewing room, heated washroom facilities with shower and laundry facilities, heated tack room, large aisles matted, cross tie areas with saddle racks.

Individualized feed program with excellent quality hay direct from our farm. Quality grain fed twice daily and any supplements supplied by boarders. We bale our own hay excellent quality.
Thorough Night check with hay and water top up. Buckets for water and grain are washed daily. Paddocks have large shelters and heated water bowls.
Daily turnout weather permitting with lots of hay and drink on demand fresh water.
Blanketing changes and booting included. Barn manager on duty everyday and owners live onsite. Beautiful country property with exceptional care for all the horses!
Bring your own coach, farrier or vet, or consult with our professionals.
Large 154x254ft outdoor sand ring plus one ring for schooling on the flat with jump course and a rolling x-country ring.
Very quiet country property with hacking. Very accommodating staff and a friendly environment with the best care for your equine partner!
Full elite care indoor board.

You may message me or email at [email protected] or call Deborah at 416-562-1701

02/03/2024

For once can you be right
Need sunshine!

01/28/2024

Can’t wait! Need Sun

I always feel January is one of the difficult months of the year for horse owners (and many other people too!!)
But - its nearly over, and spring will be on the way soon..
Keep smiling and enjoy cuddles with your horses ###🥰
Just love this picture - sums January up well!

01/28/2024

Tis true 🤣

11/22/2023

Stacy Westfall love her connection with her horses!

11/03/2023

11/03/2023

Especially the red heads🤣

10/30/2023

Starts tomorrow! Sport Horse Injury/Lameness Prevention & Care online short course from with instructor Dr. Bri Henderson. Check out Bri's archived 3 part series featuring Part 3 – LEGS! Common injuries and how we can treat them. https://equineguelph.ca/news/index.php?content=427 .tab=0. Lameness Prevention course runs Oct 30 - Nov 10. Register at: https://thehorseportal.ca/course/sport-horse-injury-lameness-prevention-care-fall-23/

10/16/2023

Exciting News! 🎉 Another Masterson Method® Weekend Seminar has been announced for 2023! Learn all about the fundamentals to equine bodywork through a hands-on approach. 🐴
📅 Date: October 21st - October 22nd
📍 Location: Amaranth, Ontario, Porter Oakes Farm
📝 Sign up here: https://mastersonmethod.com/product/amaranth-on-oct-2023/
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10/05/2023

My Happy Place! Remi’s too🐎

09/19/2023

Please register today as spots are limited!

Exciting News! 🎉 Another Masterson Method® Weekend Seminar has been announced for 2023! Learn all about the fundamentals to equine bodywork through a hands-on approach. 🐴
📅 Date: October 21st - October 22nd
📍 Location: Amaranth, Ontario, Porter Oakes Farm
📝 Sign up here: https://mastersonmethod.com/product/amaranth-on-oct-2023/
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09/07/2023

Can you ID the signs of PPID?

08/29/2023

🌟 Upcoming Masterson Method® Weekend Seminars! 🌟
The Masterson Method® is a unique, interactive method of equine bodywork that anyone can learn, to help build trust with the horse. Years of stress and stiffness can often be resolved in a few sessions, by relieving built-up tension in core muscles and key junctions of the body that affect the horse’s performance. 🐎
With The Masterson Method®, you learn to recognize and use the responses of the horse to find and release tension. In contrast to traditional massage, it works with the horse’s nervous system and the horse actively participates in the process. It is something you do with the horse, rather than to the horse. 🐎
Learn more by checking out my website here: www.dressagewurks.com/mastersonmethod
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07/11/2023

JOIN US October 21-22, 2023

Exciting News! 🎉 Another Masterson Method® Weekend Seminar has been announced for 2023! Learn all about the fundamentals to equine bodywork through a hands-on approach. 🐴
📅 Date: October 21st - October 22nd
📍 Location: Amaranth, Ontario, Porter Oakes Farm
📝 Sign up here: https://mastersonmethod.com/product/amaranth-on-oct-2023/
®

07/09/2023

Coming Glory! Love my hay!

03/16/2023

Come board with us!

03/07/2023

Yes this is my life, different animals same scenario and all are so grateful to be loved

This is the example I wish we all lead with, I didn’t write it, but we live & care with the exact same principles! Love ❤️ this!

Pictured is our mini on our way to Edmonton for his hip surgery, after he broke his hip from a fall on the ice 5yrs ago, he’s doing great 💗 he has no purpose other than to live out his life as comfortably and happy as possible 🙏🏻

There is an old pony in a big pen by the barn. He has no real purpose. No kids ride him, he is not a companion to another old horse.

We have no history together. He came into my life by happenstance. There are no fond, warm fuzzy memories. I owe him nothing. But he’s polite and kind, and nickers to me as I come out the door in the morning.

He eats a princely sum of special food, and has a premium round bale of irrigated grass that the other horses can only dream of. His water is fresh, and warmed in the winter. I’ve gone out there late at night to make sure he has food, and he’s the first thing I attend to after morning coffee.

Why? Why not send him to the sale where ‘someone’ will want him? At 40 cents a pound, he’d be worth a nice steak dinner and drinks in town. They’ll load him on a truck with 30 other old ponies and horses, and somewhere down that line, if he doesn’t fall from his bad knee and get trampled in the transport, he will become dog food.

There’s a bum calf in our scale house on this cold frosty night. He’s little and scrawny, with p**p stuck to his butt, and a bit of a runny nose. There’s a heater in there keeping the temp above freezing. In the morning I’ll make him a bottle of warm milk replacer and try to convince him to eat some of the pony’s special food. Bob will clean his little house and put down fresh bedding. It would be easier to have left him in the field with the 500 bigger, stronger calves, to steal milk from the occasional tolerant cow, to eventually freeze to death and feed the coyotes that lurk about the herd for just such an opportunity.

There is a wild kitten in the barn who most likely jumped off a utility truck a while back. We’ve been leaving food just for him, and making sure the heated water bowl is full, so he doesn’t have to go outside and perch precariously on the horse waterer to drink.

I guess we sound like saps, the old cowboy and I. Sort of wimpy and un-ranch like.

I guess we are. But at our age, with certain infirmities starting to creep into our daily routines, and the realization that we are not perfect, we are thinking that kindness is a virtue and care is our purpose.

Care of not just the healthy robust animals that make money and pay the bills, but care of everything we are capable of caring for - those creatures that, like us, are in need of a bit more attention to get through the day.

We didn’t go about seeking these creatures- they came to us and landed here not of their own choosing, or ours. But here they are, and off I go to town to a business that provides enough to buy the expensive milk replacer, premium hay, and special pony food.

There may be some karma in all this, or maybe not, but in the end we’ll know we did the best we could for those that needed us.

Peace. Really, I mean it.

02/01/2023

One stall available! Lovely horse farm located in Amaranth, close to Orangeville.
Come board with us!
Private country setting with all the amenities!

This is a 124 acre horse farm, custom built barn with attached arena.
Large bright facility with custom stalls matted. Large,bright, attatched indoor arena 82x200' dust free footing.
Indoor wash stall with hot and cold water , heated viewing room, heated washroom facilities with shower and laundry facilities, heated tack room, large aisles matted, cross tie areas with saddle racks.

Individualized feed program with excellent quality hay direct from our farm. Quality grain fed twice daily and any supplements supplied by boarders. We bale our own hay excellent quality.
Thorough Night check with hay and water top up. Buckets for water and grain are washed daily. Paddocks have large shelters and heated water bowls.
Daily turnout weather permitting with lots of hay and drink on demand fresh water.
Blanketing changes and booting included. Barn manager on duty everyday and owners live onsite. Beautiful country property with exceptional care for all the horses!
Bring your own coach, farrier or vet, or consult with our professionals.
Large 154x254ft outdoor sand ring plus one ring for schooling on the flat with jump course and a rolling x-country ring.
Very quiet country property with hacking. Very accommodating staff and a friendly environment with the best care for your equine partner!
Full elite care indoor board.

You may message me or email at [email protected] or call Deborah at 416-562-1701

12/31/2022

What do you need to know to properly care for and feed your horse in the cold winter months? Horses are very adaptable to a wide range of temperatures and are well-suited to living in cold climates. However, you may need to adjust your feeding and management practices when the weather turns cold to

10/28/2022

Two Indoor Stalls Available!
Come board with us!
Private country setting with all the amenities!
Porter Oakes Farm
Indoor Boarding Available!
Located just outside Orangeville.

This is a 124 acre horse farm, custom built barn with attatched arena.
Large bright facility with custom stalls matted. Large,bright, attatched indoor arena 82x200' dust free footing.
Indoor wash stall with hot and cold water , heated viewing room, heated washroom facilities with shower and laundry facilities, heated tack room, large aisles matted, cross tie areas with saddle racks.

Individualized feed program with excellent quality hay direct from our farm. Quality grain fed twice daily and any supplements supplied by boarders. We bale our own hay excellent quality.
Thorough Night check with hay and water top up. Buckets for water and grain are washed daily. Paddocks have large shelters and heated water bowls.
Daily turnout weather permitting with lots of hay and drink on demand fresh water.
Blanketing changes and booting included. Barn manager on duty everyday and owners live onsite. Beautiful country property with exceptional care for all the horses!
Bring your own coach, farrier or vet, or consult with our professionals.
Large 154x254ft outdoor sand ring plus one ring for schooling on the flat with jump course and a rolling x-country ring.
Very quiet country property with hacking. Very accommodating staff and a friendly environment with the best care for your equine partner!

Full elite care indoor board. You won’t be disappointed!

You may message me or email at [email protected] or call Deborah at 416-562-1701

10/04/2022

Baking this weekend? Farm Fresh Eggs! Located near Laurel/Orangeville
Pm for details