What are the opening hours?

Monday 10:30am - 7pm Tuesday 10:30am - 7pm Wednesday 10:30am - 7pm Thursday 10:30am - 7pm Friday 10:30am - 7pm Saturday 10:30am - 7pm

https://www.facebook.com/333206683410258/

Old Orchard Arabians

Home
United States
Belding, MI
Old Orchard Arabians

09/26/2024

When you walk outside at just the right moment 💗🌅

08/28/2024

Doing sketchy farm s**t!
I push around/ride 1200lb horses so I consider myself having really good balance, and stronger than the average girl. With a “here, hold my beer“ attitude… what could go wrong?

14’ arena doors with openers is great and all, but before a power outage, who thinks to practice pulling that cord…WAY up there!!! AND, the amount of force it takes to unlock that chain….is more than I can pull… while riding the roll bar on top of my tractor. And don’t suggest ladder, there’s no freaking way I’m getting up on top of my 12’ ladder to try to pull that cord! Mission failed!
I don’t believe this is OSHA approved!
I am a professional
Do not try this at home!

08/14/2024

Good evening, 👋 it’s just me, enjoy your dinner.

08/10/2024

Sometimes the bees have a creative, curious pattern in getting the job done 🫣🤭🤣
One last inspection before my Jr beekeeper leaves.
Happy 🐝 happy 🐝 happy 🐝

06/13/2024

One of my favorite barn chores 🐝

05/28/2024

Hay!!! Anyone have bedtime treats for my mom?

05/17/2024

RIP Pop Tart we will miss your “announcing” all visitors. How funny you were to watch in your swimming pool. We thank you for delivering delicious, double yolked, ginormous eggs, and how sweet you were. I’m so sorry I couldn’t get to the neighbors cat before he got to you. Ember and I will miss you!😢💦😭

And for Whiskers or whatever your name is (and your owners) You killed Sweety Pie and now PopTart died from the injuries you’ve inflicted. Why you take a “pet” in and leave them to roam the neighborhood makes zero sense to me. Unfortunately, next time is not a warning shot.

04/20/2024

re: Cash
To the sweet person who sent me a beautiful piece of art in memory of my “Mr. Personality” please message or call me; I would really like to personally, appropriately, thank you. 🥰

04/03/2024

When your duck is an overachiever, 😳 you break out a measuring tool. 🐣 she’s already had 1 triple yolk this past year….
We shall see.

03/13/2024

What would my life be without drama. So much happening.
UPDATE: Cash-114 days post surgery - “Livin OnA Prayer” 🙏🏻

I am sooo sorry I left you all hanging. When it rains it pours. Cash is healing nicely. He is finally made it back on full rations of hay!! He’s been eating really well to date. He has tested my limits by colicing 3 times. Most recently we made it to 90 days and he coliced on day 91…. because he’s Cash 🤣 Each time has been managed at home thankfully. He is still wearing the mask in his stall at night because he can’t be trusted not to occasionally eat sawdust, or my barn. I think it’s safe to say the adhesions have resolved. He has rotated 3° in one front foot but not lame at all. 🙌 He needs to go back to work soon, he takes his job being an a$$hole very seriously! 🤣
As for the reason for the delay…. His mama. Jan 31st, 6 weeks ago today, Ellie went from being a little sore to not being able to walk and barely stand in 7 days. The coffin bones in her front feet had rotated 9° There was serious concern I was going to have to put her down. We threw a bunch of meds at her for better blood circulation and comfort. The farrier put special glue on/bondo shoes to get the pressure off her tendons, I call them stilettos 🥹Success! We are again resetting her shoes today, she is still on decent meds, we’ve eliminated 1 pain med, and X-rays are taken approx every 2 weeks to check progress. I have built her a 12x12 stall outside and now have permission from the vet to ONLY walk her from inside to her outside stall so she can go out with everyone else, for her sanity and mine. Prayers for continued healing.

Because I insist on my plate being full but who would have known just how full, a happy farm note! The secret I’ve kept long enough, due to no shortage of drama…. Having TWO babies!!! Horse babies of course! The countdown is on!!!

Paris is due 5/5/24 bred to
https://omelarab.com/om-el-shawan/

Marissa is due 5/31/24 bred to
https://omelarab.com/justify/

01/07/2024

UPDATE:47 days post surgery-
CASH-Livin OnA Prayer 🙏🏻

First, I apologize to everyone for not getting back to your messages. I sincerely appreciate your continued support.
I feel a huge sense of relief and maybe a little hope this week. It’s not been without struggles but I can see light.
I have taken him off pain meds a week ago. He still has a pulse in his RF foot but walks out and turns without pain. His incision looks fantastic! We’ve had one scary colic day, further convincing me he was regularly eating the shavings at MSU (I have since learned this is not uncommon for horses on a low bulk diet). After reviewing the camera footage that morning, at 3AM he managed to get his muzzle off, laid down, and ate sawdust for two hours. Fortunately, colic was managed at the farm. Once again, I’ve had to pull out my nurse Ratched skills. He now wears a halter, his grazing muzzle, and another screened muzzle over top of the grazing muzzle to avoid sawdust in the grazing muzzle . Because that still wasn’t good enough, I’ve had to hand sew an additional mesh fabric to the outside of the grazing muzzle. I’ve learned the screened muzzle straps must be threaded into the grazing muzzle, AND I’ve had to take his blanket clips and attach his halter and the two muzzles all together. Still… he outplays me. Four times now this week, he’s managed to get all three off by rubbing the wall and using his back feet to scratch off his halter. SO thankful to have the camera system to figure this out immediately.
Basic care: We’ve graduated to the hand walking stage. We are giving the track shoes a workout. We get our 10,000+ steps in walking 2.5hrs before each feeding. He’s out 8x/day to relieve some of the boredom, get the masks off, and has plenty of water access at those times. He admires looking at himself in the mirror’s around the arena, we listen to music, changing directions at the end of every song, and play “freeze” to keep his mind thinking.
Food: I’ve decreased the water to break down his senior “soup” from 10L to 2 cups/per feeding since he came home 3 weeks ago. I am still feeding 4 times a day due to the huge quantity of feed he has to eat without being able to eat hay. I have slowly added back in beet pulp, he is up to 2lbs/day💃that’s where he was pre-surgery!
If I could read his mind, I do think he has accepted he doesn’t get a hay bag like everyone else. He doesn’t seem so depressed after eating, listening to everyone else munch away.
I give him an opportunity once or twice a week in his stall without the mask, to see if he’ll eat sawdust, he does. He will continue to wear the masks as long as that’s a problem.
This is all great progress. We will continue to take it slowly in hopes that the adhesions from surgery will resolve on their own. If not, the surgeons agree he is a great candidate for a second surgery. It will be planned, he’ll be well rested, and at a time where his intestines are not inflamed. We’ve all agreed that should not happen before the 90 day mark and not in an emergency situation to give him the best outcome.
Thank you all so much for your concern and continued prayers for Cash. 💕💕💕

Address

Belding, MI
48809

Opening Hours

Monday	10:30am - 7pm
Tuesday	10:30am - 7pm
Wednesday	10:30am - 7pm
Thursday	10:30am - 7pm
Friday	10:30am - 7pm
Saturday	10:30am - 7pm

Telephone

(616) 550-4621

Website

facebook.com

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Old Orchard Arabians posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to Old Orchard Arabians:

Shortcuts

Our Story

Old Orchard Arabians is new to the small town of Belding, Michigan. It was love at first sight one Sunday afternoon. And to make a long story short, the property was purchased in September 2017.

Growing up with a passion for Arabian horses, I never imagined in my wildest dreams “this” could ever come true. A passion that has taken on a vision of it’s own here on our 32 acre “old orchard” property. A place where my Half-Arabian mare Freedm’s Painted Lady (aka Ellie) will spend the rest of her life, along side her first foal Livin’ on a Prayer (pending) (aka Cash) and many more to come. A place where I can build my dream home, my dream barn and create a place that our children, and our childrens children, can enjoy for years to come. The property now, is a vision. Others look at it and think or say “its a lot of work”. It is a lot of work! There will always be a project. There will always be something to keep me moving, to keep me dreaming. The “old orchard” is just perfect ...in my eyes.

I look forward to sharing with you all kinds of before and after photos and videos on our progress. All kinds of two and four legged shenanigans. Wildlife photos. Likely a few deer hunting stories. And sharing in the journey of pouring heart and soul into one wild and crazy dream.

For now, the dream for 2018 includes three or four additional pastures, a round pen and an outdoor riding arena alongside the two pastures and indoor arena.