Total Loss Farm Ontario Canada

06/06/2024

03/31/2024

Emmy and Kevin getting turned out.

03/31/2024

Last night we had a colic scare. Beulah, the larger mule, was down and not a happy girl. Thankfully it was caught early and treated with banamine and hand walking. This picture is from this morning.

03/30/2024

Life is hard for the horses here.

02/04/2024

Hoarfrosty morning

02/01/2024

The upper respiratory disease commonly referred to as strangles is caused by Streptococcus equi subsp equi. Strangles is spread from horse to horse through direct contact. Horses can also contract the disease by coming into contact with contaminated surfaces. The disease is highly infectious.

01/24/2024

Today I make the hardest post a mother will ever have to make. My beautiful girl, Kyla Park, passed away on January 20th, 2024.
Kyla was a wonderful and loving mother to her daughter Reed.
Kyla was my right hand man, helping me not only with the barn but with the store as well. Her presence is so greatly missed by not only myself but her family and animals as well.

01/20/2024

We are on the hunt again for RELIABLE morning help. Must be able to drive a tractor. Help turning out 13 horses and mucking by ones self.

Pay to be discussed. Will also look at exchange for board.

01/09/2024

“Farm work doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you anything. It reveals you.

There’s gym strong and then there’s farm strong. They’re mutually exclusive.

The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a farm.

There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine. You can tie up a hole in a slow feeder, fashion a tail strap for a horse’s blanket, mend a broken fence and use it as a belt.

“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.

Control is a mere illusion. The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.

Sometimes sleep is a luxury. So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.

If you’ve never felt your obliques contract, then you’ve never tried stopping an overly full wheelbarrow of horse manure from tipping over sideways. Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.

When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort.
When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.

You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully. You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.

You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.

You will, at least once, face-plant in the manure pile.

You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.

You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.

You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p. People will look at you sideways and krinkle their noses but you won’t care.

Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.

You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.

Farm work is difficult in its simplicity.

You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.

Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a farm, take the chance! You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.

Well, that about sums it up, folks!” - unknown author

So true. All of it.
Cheers, Christina - Handley Acres Metal Creations

12/31/2023

Grey County Riders is excited to announce our 2024 show dates! We are super excited for the coming year!

12/29/2023

12/25/2023

Merry Christmas to all!!

12/16/2023

Beau says he can get used to December grazing in Canada.

12/10/2023

Truth!!!!

Truth 💁🏽‍♀️

11/19/2023

11/13/2023

Looking for a reliable farm hand. Will need to know how to drive a tractor. Monday to Thursday, duties will incl mucking, hay nets and occasionally filling water troughs.

Pay can be discussed

10/18/2023

Looking for stable help Monday to Thursday.

Pm for more info

10/12/2023

Emmy says good morning 😊