The Farm at Butterflat Creek

06/15/2024

05/14/2024

Beautiful day for the up-downers!

05/12/2024

RIDERS! At Ponca Hills Farm Sunday, May 19. 11:00 am $50 includes lunch. Limited space. RSVP to me, please. Either on this post, PM or text 402.981.9826
Thanks!

12/03/2023

What a year! Thank you Amy Bender, Karen Ensminger, Patrice Urban, Dan Urban for putting together this great banquet and ALL THE AWARDS!
Congratulations to all my riders. I’m so thankful and blessed that I can watch you become such wonderful riders and huntsman. With Sasha Smith, Sasha Spencer, Catherine Dargin, Renate Rand, Rylee Heavey, Audrey Schultz, Molly Carter, Marissa Miller, Tay McCartney, Starr Rogers
Not pictured, but seriously missed : Heather Buss, Morgan Ritcher,
Watch for us next year 👊🏼💥🔥

11/30/2023

Whoopee!! Burwell, always a fun time.
Flier credit Kortney Lynn

11/11/2023

Done hunting for the day. They were so good! With Hannah Brewer PC Hannah

10/02/2023

RIDERS at Ponca Hills Farm Monday, October 9, 2023 6:00 pm. Good afterwords. $50. Benefits RIDERS

02/10/2023

Molly is competing at the FEI World Cup!

11/29/2022

Hi! No lessons today! It’s cold 🥶, snowy ❄️, icy, windy 🌬 and just kind of all around icky. Stay home and enjoy some hot cocoa ☕️

10/25/2022

I will be teaching in the derby field on Saturday from 11:00-1:00 if you want to come and jump around.
Please let me know.

06/18/2022

The Farm at Butterflat Creek Schooling Show July 15-17 is now open for entries! Check out the class list, download entry forms, and more here: https://thefarmatbutterflatcreek.com/horse-shows/

06/07/2022

Hi everyone! The Farm at Butterflat has a horse show coming up in July and I’m (April) helping to clean and organize before the show!

Next Friday June 10th we will be moving the white wire racks a bit to make more room.

Please consolidate your items and give anything that is in or near your cubby or area that isn’t yours to Carine to find it’s owner. If you are using a Cubby please temporarily label it so we know which ones need cleaned out.

If you have anything you’d like to donate to the riding program in Lincoln or a rescue, you can add it to the collection of tack the barn will be donating.

Im hoping we can maybe squeeze in some seating as well in the tack room which is going to take some Tetris skills, so -

If your are not currently boarding, taking lessons, or a working student, please take home any of your items. If you have space at home to store off season items, please consider that as well.

Thank you!!! If you know anyone who has stuff at the barn who is not in this FB group, please forward this info to them. 🧹🧼🧽🫧

05/06/2022

Riders from our barn. Catherine Dargin & Marissa Miller. Krista Brown takes jumping lessons from Carine

04/14/2022

Hello everyone!
Saturday May 7, 2022 we will have six riders from our barn competing at The International in the Developing Rider Invitational.
Morgan Richert and Zee
Stella Christiansen and Reckless
Rylee Heavey and Zara
Audrey Schultz and Ariel
Sasha Spencer and Jazz
They school Saturday morning and the will show Saturday afternoon before the evening events start.
Everything at the International is free during the day. Tickets are needed for events starting at 7:00 pm
We will be hauling the horses to The International Friday afternoon and setting up our stalls and a little food table where we can snack and carb load for the show.
I will keep everyone updated as we get closer to the date.
Let’s Go Team!!

03/14/2022

Hello from sunny Iowa! ☀️
What a difference a week makes. Winter has worn out its welcome. He needs to move South. I hear New Zealand is tired of summer and looking for winter.
Last week it was 20° when we started hunting. Today it was 37° and was 59° when we finished. Coats were waived because our thin blood was overheating
Dolf Ivener joined up with us and we headed north out of Brahms. Staff: Catherine, Jubilee, Helen and I.
Mark Hansen was first flight FM, ably assisted by RIDERS members Rylee and Audrey. (They had way too much fun!). This is Rylee’s last season. She’s headed off to college. Another successful RIDERS graduate😊
Second flight was Nancy E, Deb R, Laura A and Angelica W
WW is hosted by MFH Monte, Professional Whip Bre K and landowner Melinda B.
The hounds were soooo good today. Huntsman Dave cast them into a cover and no joke, 11 deer came out. Not one hound.
Then another 6-7 deer bounded out, then a short while later 5-6. It must have been the National Deer Convention. The hounds were as honest as the hunt was long.
Catherine Dargin and Catherine Dargin down a minimum maintenance road when suddenly Wicked spooked so hard, I just about had a parting of the ways. (She sees dead 💀 people occasionally) thank goodness Wi******er was there. We slammed into him so hard, but it stopped the spook from escalating.
Huntsman Dave went to all the places we have viewed and chased coyotes in the past. This is our last hunt at Cumberland until next season. We want to go out with a bang!
The footing isn’t sketchy, but it’s tiring on the horses. They slip with almost every step in some fields. By the end of the 3 hour, 11 mile hunt Wicked is grinding her teeth every time I ask her to trot.
The road crew has spotted several coyotes and I can hear them on my ear piece. We have a new system of communication-we still use our radios between staff-but the road crew can communicate with each other and with staff if we lose radio contact. It’s called Zello and
it’s pretty nice. I wore my bluetooth and could hear all the various conversations.
We rode to our last field and headed home. A coyote had been spotted in the vicinity. BOOM! Out jumps a coyote and starts running hard to the east. Dolf jumps a creek and is on it. He will unfortunately get fenced out and Huntsman Dave knows that, so we make a quick reversal and cross this icy, tiny, sloped crossing over a culvert and as we crest the hill we can see the coyote heading east across the corn fields and then starts to make a big turn to the north. He’s big, fluffy and red! Daaaaang they’re fast! We unfortunately have a loss and Huntsman Dave gathers the hounds and we turn towards Brahms. Deb R has hosted lunch. Pizza!
Next Saturday is Closing Hunt-the season flew by! We will be hunting at the kennels. Please braid or donate $40 to the hound fund. Please put your cash/check in an envelope and give it to Bre before the hunt. Please don’t forget to RSVP! (Répondez s’ilvous plaît) to Jay 515.231.2681
or [email protected]
Have a blessed week. Carine and Wicked.