Beaverwood Farm

12/23/2024

An exciting day under the Christmas tree 🎄our lovely SLS Sunkiss has a new family for the next year. Congratulations to Vivian Nguyen on your lease.Thank you Cindy Dejordy for making this an easy transaction 🎄🌟🎄

12/23/2024

Our little Beaverwoods Kingfisher is giving out Christmas cheers to all his new family, Thank you to Herweyer for such a great home.

12/21/2024

A bit late , last week was a PA day these pony loving ,hard working ladies spent the day helping me with chores and then exercising lots of ponies we had a productive day , Thank you Addie,Emma,Aphra,&Georgia

12/14/2024

Exciting past 2 weeks, we are pleased to announce the new arrival of the welsh cob mare Reidell Percy Lordes, congratulations to Elizabeth Hoyle on your new adventures , Thank you to Maude Brouard for helping make this transition so smooth …. Drive on!

12/04/2024

“I’m not saying the breeches of my younger days, say 1980-2000, were perfect, but they were designed for a generation of thick-skinned riders. Namby-pamby riders need not apply. Our riding pants were a zero-way-stretch affair with pant legs that ended mid-calf and fastened with newly popular Velcro that never quite closed. Imagine, if you will, enduring the 20-minute struggle of getting your leather boots on, only to find the pokey part of the Velcro closure rubbing against your skin whilst snagging on your nylons. We didn’t have time to take our boots off and put them back on, so we toughed it out. ‘Do your worst, Velcro,’ we’d say. And the Velcro did, rasping off little bits of skin until suitable divets were etched from our legs for it to rest for the day. Not only were things happening within our boots, but also just above the top of them. Due to the zero-way-stretch technology, our riding pants, aided by their leather knee patches, had the ability to press our precious kneecaps into unpredictable and unfavorable positions. Our coaches then, as they do now, yelled, ‘Quit gripping with your knees!’ and we, the hapless students, wondered, Then why are there leather knee patches on these stupid pants? Tradition, that’s why. The neat thing, other than the apparent uselessness of the aforementioned patches, was their constant ability to shrink in the wash due to a hot water oversight. This shrinkage meant that the material that sat beneath them would get bunched up and take to burrowing into the side of your knees. We also loved a side-zip breech because it meant we could also wear our belt sideways. Getting these pants done up was a tremendous way to isolate the exact location of your back pain. That quarter waist contort testing our desire for oxygen over fashion as we tucked things in, zipped things up, and got the belt perfectly off-center. I’m not saying that all these New Age breeches are for the birds, I’m just saying they appeal to the masses, whereas in my day, they appealed to the tall and slim. The rest of us just had to get on with it.”

Read Rebecca Berry’s historical account of breeches on Horse Network.

11/30/2024

Congratulations to the new family on the year lease of our very special mare, Beaverwoods Pheonix,Thank you to Christine Smith-Avery for making this wonderful connection.We wish you all the best

11/21/2024

Our little Beaverwoods Kingfisher was briefly home on consignment to find a new home, So happy hes off to Michigan , Thank you to Jill Herweyer for making this his new home I cant wait to see all his new adventures 🌟

11/18/2024

Wishing all the best to my wonderful little small welsh mare “Whispering Autumn Gold “on her new journey with the next little girl who will enjoy a season of fun and shows, thank you to Perry for making this connection. Thank you @ Trina Armstrong for taking such great care of Autumn and all her success with your girls this past season.

11/15/2024

Another successful year at the Royal winter fair has passed , Im so proud of our team, Thankyou to all that made this a success.Kilby Brunnerr Deforest your dedication to making this run smoothly is incredible. So proud of Bisou placing 6th inhand in the governor general cup class.& 2 in the CSH mares. Alyssa for riding Honeybee to 5th place in sport pony hunter and winner of 1/2 welsh mares. Ashley Nevidomskis for showing Petunia to reserve championship in half welsh,congratulations to Addi & Georgia on great ribbons in showmanship, Jasper was so brave and performed beautifully in the pony cup undersaddle,Triscuit was 2 nd in sport pony for his new owner Brooke. Callista, Nolan and Terri for all your help setting up, Jen for keeping the farm safe at home.

11/12/2024

Wishing you all the best on your new journey, Annie is headed to a new performance home,thank you Leigh Semilof for entrusting us with her training and care.

11/07/2024

This super cute 2024 c**t is available, Beaverwoods Nimbus is registered 1/2 welsh ( Cwmfelen Travellor x Beaverwoods Halo.) will mature a large .

10/30/2024

Fall “ power wash” the barn is all ready for winter.

10/21/2024

This is well written, parents take note😊

How to be a great lesson parent!
1.) WATCH YOUR KID RIDE! I can’t believe how many dads (sorry, but in my experience it’s always the dads) sit in the car and don’t watch EVER. Your kid absolutely wants to know that you are watching. Please make your child feel important and come sit ring side.
2.) Do NOT coach! Are you an accomplished equestrian? No? Shush. Yes? Then you give the lesson.
3.) Take video. It’s helpful. A few barns have rules against video but most love when you not only video, but send us instructors good clips!
4.) If you see something, say something TO THE INSTRUCTOR. Is your kid’s outside foot the whole way deep into the stirrup and the instructor is on the inside of their circle and can’t see it? It’s okay to tattle. 🤣 But if you talk to your child directly it’s distracting. (if nothing else, it’s hard to take instructions from two people at the same time.) occasionally a parent will point something out to me, and I’ll say, “Yep, good eye. But I’m not worried about that right now.”  sometimes we have to let something slide while we work on something else. But we’re also not perfect and we do miss things occasionally.
5.) Understand that giving the same instruction over and over is normal. It happens with adults too.  If I tell them to step into their right stirrup a little more, I’m usually happy if they maintain it for 30 seconds on their own… seriously. Unless the entire exercise is about fixing one body part, it’s very common for riders to make a fix, just for it to slide back out of place almost immediately.
I bring this up because I see parents sometimes get embarrassed or frustrated when I have to tell their kids to put their hands down on repeat. The parent looks ready to jump up and down screaming, “Just Keep your Freaking Hands Down Already!!!!!” I promise you it’s not that easy!
6.) Politely discourage your child from talking to you. If twice during a lesson, your child looks over and asks you to video or if they ask you to hand them a water bottle during a break, that stuff is totally fine. But if your child’s interaction with you is constant or if they clearly have more attention on you than the instructor, just say, “Pease pay attention to Miss Danee and not me.”
7.) If your child is anxiously attached to you, use this opportunity to wean them off of you slowly, and not traumatically. Don’t just dump them off at the lesson and hop in your car and leave, but maybe tell them you are going to walk outside and make a phone call while they tack up/ warm up, but that you’ll be back in time to watch the majority of the lesson. Or if the lesson is in an outdoor arena, just pull your chair a little further away instead of sitting right next to the arena. 

Basically it all comes down to middle ground- show interest in your kid’s progress, but also encourage independence.
The barn is a great place to develop secure attachment styles, independence, and a love for learning!
Allow us riding instructors to work our magic, but also be around to witness it, and praise your child for their progress.

Wanna make it even better? On the drive home ask your kid what their favorite part was, or what they thought they did well, and which parts were hard or easy. Don’t grill them about it, but show interest and get them thinking about their progress.


10/15/2024

🌟🌟🌟🌟We are pleased to announce that kingfisher has been sold to a new family 🌟🌟🌟Packer small pony gelding available for sale,17yrs,12.1, Registered welsh B . Previous miles on the A’s , Beaverwoods kingfisher is ready to take your littles to cross rails & S/S , located in Erin Ontario, low🤚’s, vides in comments

10/08/2024

Whos looking for a packer small? Registered welsh gelding. 🌟🌟🌟update nov2024 Sold🌟🌟

09/22/2024

A great show at the Great northern exhibition fair on Friday, it was both A sport pony qualifying and welsh show. There were more than 60 ponies participating in a lot of classes. I am very proud to say the following ponies are all offspring from our stallion Beaverwoods mystique. Grand champion over all sport pony, Beaverwoods Minto(Shelley McQuestion), as well as Dressage suitably. Hunter U/S suitably was won by Beaverwoods Trident(Tess Mauro Waxman) , 1/2 welsh 2 and under was won by Beaverwoods Triscuit (Brooke Redmond) and overall jr champion. Second was Beaverwoods Petunia, best foal was Beech Grove’s Confetti Pop (Erin Price) Thank you to Alyssa, Nolan and Calista for all your help, congratulations to all the owners of these special ponies

09/16/2024

Happy to announce that Miss Starlight is off on another adventure. We wish Howard all the best with his new pony. Thank you Vanessa Junkin for leasing a Beaverwoodfarm pony.