Equine Motel - Box T Ranch

07/18/2024

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Listed at $1,975,000, MLS #30028927, 6 beds, 4 baths, 1-car garage, built in 1994, 12.94 Acres, The Equine Motel at Box T Ranch is a thriving business + turnkey horse facility situated on 12.94 acres in the heart of Billings with two living quarters. This exceptional property has a history of hostin...

10/04/2023

NILE Exposition coming up soon. If you need stalls or LQ plug-ins give us a shout

09/02/2023

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Just added THREE, yes THREE 30-amp LQ/RV hookups!!! Come stay with us on your horse trip thru Billings

Welcome to Billings, Montana, and its finest horse boarding facility. We are anxious to have you visit us and share the beauty of this great state. The facility is managed by personnel who have a diversified background in horse-related activities. The stables are spacious and comfortable for your ho...

03/12/2023

“How much weight can a horse carry?

In my experience, a horse can carry an infinite amount.

They can carry the weight of broken hearts, broken homes, and broken bodies. Countless tears sometimes comb their tangled manes. Moments when parents and friends cannot be there to help and hold a person, horses embrace and empower. They carry physical, mental, and emotional handicaps. They carry hopes and dreams; and they will carry the stress from your day when you can't carry it anymore.

They carry graduations, they carry new careers, they carry moves away from everything familiar, they carry marriages, they carry divorces, they carry funerals, they carry babys before they are born, and sometimes they carry the mothers who cannot carry their own baby. They carry mistakes, they carry joy, they carry the good and they carry the bad. They carry drugs and addictions, but they also carry the celebrations.

They will carry you to success when all you have felt is failure. They will carry you, never knowing the weight of your burdens and triumphs.

If you let them, they will carry you through life, and life is hard, life is heavy. But a horse will make you feel weightless under it all.”

Written by Sara Huffman

Artist - Dorota Kudyba

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01/29/2023

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10/24/2022

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10/01/2022

Absolute perfection! Captivating

09/30/2022

Some IMPORTANT information - please, please share!!!

What is the longest a horse can safely go without food?

More and more I see horses and ponies stood for long periods of time with no hay or haylage. Usually under the guise of a “weight control diet”. So how long can a horse be without food before damage is done? And what damage is done?

For those with a short attention span, I’ll give you the answer to begin with - 4 hours, maximum.

Why?

Horses are grazers. They are designed to eat constantly. They have no way of storing their acids and digestive enzymes, they’ve never needed to. They have no gall bladder to store bile and their stomachs release acid constantly, whether or not there is food in the stomach and intestines.

A horses stomach only holds approximately 8-15 litres. Depending on the substance eaten, it takes on average 4-6 hours for the stomach to completely empty. After this, the acids and enzymes start to digest the inside of the horses stomach and then the intestines. This causes both gastric and intestinal ulceration. It has been estimated that 25-50% of foals and 60-90% of adult horses suffer from ulceration. But I won’t go into detail about this, there is a lot of information around about ulcers.

So is that it? Are ulcers the only concern?

No, having an empty stomach is a stress situation for a horse. The longer they are starved, the more they release stress hormones, cortisol predominantly. Cortisol blocks insulin and causes a constantly high blood glucose level. This stimulates the body to release even more insulin, and in turn this causes fat tissue to be deposited and leptin resistance. Over time this causes insulin resistance (Equine Metabolic Syndrome). All of these mechanisms are well known risk factors for laminitis and are caused by short term starvation (starting roughly 3-4 hours after the stomach empties). Starving a laminitic is literally the worst thing you can do. Over longer periods, this also starts to affect muscle and can cause weakness, and a lack of stamina so performance horses also need a constant supply of hay/haylage to function optimally.

Let’s not forget horses are living, breathing and feeling animals. We talk about this stress reaction like it’s just internal but the horse is well aware of this stress. Door kicking, box walking, barging and many other stable vices and poor behaviour can be explained by a very stressed horse due to food deprivation (we all have that Hangry friend to explain this reaction). Next time you shout or hit a horse that dives for their net, remember their body is genuinely telling them they are going to starve to death. They know no different.

But surely they spend the night asleep so they wouldn’t eat anyway?

Not true. Horses only need 20mins REM sleep every 24 hours (jealous? I am!). They may spend a further hour or so dozing but up to 22-23 hours a day are spent eating. So if you leave your horse a net at 5pm and it’s gone by 8pm, then by 12am their stomach is empty. By 4am they are entering starvation mode. By their next feed at 8am, they are extremely stressed, physically and mentally.

Now I know the cob owners are reading this mortified. I can almost hear you shouting at your screen “if I feed my horse ad lib hay he won’t fit out the stable door in a week!!”

I will say that a horse with a constant supply of hay/haylage will eat far less then the same horse that is intermittently starved. They don’t eat in a frenzy, reducing the chance of colic from both ulcers and over eating. Cobs included.

However I’m not suggesting you sit your cob in front of a bale of haylage and say have at it! There is a difference between ad lib and a constant supply. There is much we can do to reduce calorie intake and control weight whilst feeding a constant supply.

The easiest is small holes nets. There are many. Trickle nets, greedy feeders, nibbleze, trawler nets etc. My personal favourite is the Shires Soft Mesh 1”. They don’t cost the Earth, they are easy to fill and they don’t have knots so are much gentler to the teeth. Now often I suggest these types of nets to owners and the owner tells me “Oh no, *** won’t eat out of those” 🙄 this is nonsense. If he was left it, he would. Remember, you can give a normal net and one of these for them to nibble at after. Better than leaving them with nothing at all.

A few other tricks, hang the net from the ceiling/rafters, it’s harder to eat out of a net that swings. Soak the hay, a minimum of 4 hours to be effective. Mix with straw but be sure to introduce the straw slowly and make sure it’s top quality and a palatable type eg Barley or Oat, otherwise they won’t eat it.

Don’t forget exercise. The best way to get weight off a horse is exercise. Enough exercise and they can eat what they want!

And lay off the bucket feed and treats! Horses on a diet require a vit/min supplement in the form of a balancer but that’s it. The odd slice of carrot or swede won’t do any harm but no licks, treats, treacle, molasses, cereal based rubbish. Even if it says low sugar or the marvellously misleading “No added sugar”! Your horse would rather have a constant supply of hay, I promise.

Written by Vikki Fowler BVetMed BAEDT MRCVS

A few edits for the critics-

Firstly, feeding a constant supply does not mean ad lib feeding. It means use some ingenuity and spread the recommended amount of daily forage so the horse is never stood with out food for more than 4 hours. I am not promoting obesity, quite the opposite, feeding like this reduces obesity and IR. This can be done whilst feeding your horse twice a day as most horse owners do. Just think outside the box for your own situation.

Secondly I am in the UK and this post is UK specific, use some common sense when reading. Yes in warmer climates, soaking hay for 4 hours is dangerous and studies show 1 hour is plenty in hot weather but in the UK’s arctic climate, a minimum of 4 hours is required. Equally the UK feed exclusively grass hay. I can not comment on other types.

Thirdly, yes every horse/pony and situation is different, but this is a law of nature and all horses have this anatomy and metabolism. How you achieve this constant supply is individual, the need for it is not.

Fourthly, the use of hay nets in the UK is very very high. I’d estimate 95% of horses I see are fed this way and very very few have incisor wear or neck/back issues as a result. Yes, feeding from the ground is ideal, but a constant supply, I feel trumps this. Again with ingenuity both can be safely achieved.

Finally, straw can be fed to horses safely, introduced very slowly, with fresh water always available, plus a palatable and digestible type of straw which will depend on your area. Again many horses in the UK are bedded on straw and most of them eat it. This is not a new concept to us.

Final finally 🤦‍♀️ and I feel I must add this due to the sheer number of people contacting me to ask, feed your horses during transport!!! I am astonished this is not normal in other countries! Again in the UK, we give our horses hay nets to transport. We don’t go 10 mins up the road without a haynet and a spare in case they finish! Considering we are a tiny island and we rarely transport even 4 hours, we never transport without hay available. I have never seen an episode of choke due to travelling with hay available. If you are concerned, use a slow feeder net so they can’t take too much in at once.

If you get to the end of this post and your first thought is “I can’t do this with my horse/pony, they’d be morbidly obese”, you haven’t read the advice in this post thoroughly.

09/12/2022

08/30/2022

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07/15/2022

Overnight horse boarding is our specialty.

Best Little Horse House in Montana!

Welcome to Billings, Montana, and its finest horse boarding facility. We are anxious to have you visit us and share the beauty of this great state. The facility is managed by personnel who have a diversified background in horse-related activities. The stables are spacious and comfortable for your ho...

05/04/2022

I have a client with empty trailer in Glenwood Springs CO heading northerly Thursday May 5. Let me know and I'll put you in touch. 4062524388. 😊

04/22/2022

HIP #154 "JET" FINISHED ROP HORSE, BOTH ENDS!!!

He sells April 23, 2022 at the Billings Livestock

"JET" is a finished rope horse, both ends, finished barrel horse, perfect for a junior who needs a step up in speed. Has also been used for team penning, pol...

04/15/2022

FINISHED ROPE HORSE - BOTH ENDS - Selling at Billings Livestock Horse Sale April 23, 2022 -- Nonstop Sunfrost "JET" 2003 Bay/Brown AQHA Gelding - Hip 154 - check him out - FMI call 406-672-6646 or 406-252-4388

12/20/2021

Mark Your Calendar 🎯🏆💰
Bond Ranch

💥2022 Bond Ranch Cowhorse Series Show Bill💥

🔹The Box Class, Box/Drive and Fence class will all have a Junior Horse (3-5 year olds) and Senior Horse (6+) division. Each class will have a payout (based on NRCHA payout) and be eligible for year end prizes.
*Must show in 2 or more shows to be eligible for year end prizes

🔹This year we are offering a Youth 13 & Under Box class which will run for year end prizes!

🔹The Never Won a Buckle Class will be its own class this year- each show you will run for a Bond Ranch Cowhorse Series Buckle. Once a rider has won the buckle (or any buckle prior) they will no longer be eligible for the class.

🔹 Each class will consist of all three events: herd work, reining and cowwork.

Follow Bond Ranch for updates and when entries will be opened up!

Stalling is available at Equine Motel - Box T Ranch which is approximately 20 minutes from the Bond Ranch (Worden, Montana). Let them know you are coming to show with us as they offer a special discount.

You can contact Crystal Andersen for further questions
📲 307.679.8129

12/01/2021

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11/30/2021

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Welcome to Billings, Montana, and its finest horse stable and horse boarding facility. We are anxious to have you visit us and share the beauty of this great state. The facility is managed by personnel who have a diversified background in horse-related activities. The stables are spacious and comfor...

11/13/2021

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08/03/2021

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07/06/2021

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05/01/2021

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04/29/2021

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