Dozing Away Farms

07/04/2025

Wishing Everyone a Safe & Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸

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In a recent horse owner survey, which examined the effects fireworks can have on horses, 99 percent of respondents indicated their horse exhibited fireworks-related anxiety – such as galloping, sweating, trembling and damaging fences – and 26 percent of horse owners reported their horse sustaining injuries due to such anxiety from fireworks. While multiple injuries were reported, the most common included cuts, sprains and broken limbs

• Place your horse in a safe, familiar space such as his stall.
• Ensure you double check the area for sharp edges and any other material that could be harmful, should he become fractious.
• Make sure your equine first-aid kit is fully stocked with all the must-have items.
• Keep a consistent watch, and check in on your horse often to ensure he is resting comfortably in his stall.

11/02/2024

08/28/2024

‼️Stable Hand Wanted‼️

• Part Time (Flexible Weekends)
• Pay based on Experience
• Equine Handling Experience Necessary
• References Required
• Must be able to pass Drug Test & Background Check

📍Located in Blaine, TN
📎Email Inquiries to [email protected]

05/26/2024

🇺🇸 Memorial Day Weekend: Honoring Our Heroes 🇺🇸

As we enjoy the long weekend with family and friends, let's take a moment to remember the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. Their courage and dedication have shaped the nation we live in today.

Whether you're attending a parade, visiting a memorial, or simply enjoying a backyard barbecue, let's carry the spirit of gratitude in our hearts.

Ways to Honor This Memorial Day:

Visit a Veteran’s Cemetery: Pay your respects by visiting a local veteran's cemetery and placing flowers or flags on the graves.

Participate in a Moment of Silence: At 3 PM local time, join the National Moment of Remembrance to pause and reflect.

Support Veterans: Consider donating to organizations that support veterans and their families.

Educate and Share: Take the time to learn about the history of Memorial Day and share the stories of fallen heroes with the younger generation.

Wishing everyone a safe and meaningful Memorial Day weekend. Let's remember and honor those who gave everything for our country.

01/13/2024

As a storm threat of freezing rain and snow marches across the U.S. and Canada ❄️🌨🫧🌬, below are some tips for keeping your horses safe during extreme winter weather events…

Stay Safe Friends!

12/25/2023

Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the stable
All the creatures were cozy, to the best I was able.
The stalls were all bedded, and horses had hay.
The waterers all working, and the tools put away….

Merry Christmas to all & to all a Good Ride! 🐴🎄

12/13/2023

Today we celebrate the National Day of the Horse!

We reflect on the contributions the horse has made to the economy, history & character of the United States! Most importantly, we reflect on the joy they add to our lives! ❤️

05/29/2023

Memorial Day- Honor and Remember... We are thankful for the sacrifices so many men and women have made for our freedom.

03/07/2023

“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.”

02/03/2023

“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.
Their needs come first. In summer heat and coldest winter days. Clean water, clean bed, and plenty of feed. Before you have your first meal, they all eat.
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.”

12/22/2022

Wishing our fantastic clients and barn family a wonderful Holiday Season!

12/21/2022

Wishing you all a warm Winter Solstice! Lighter days lie ahead! ❄️