Iron Horse Stables and Trail Rides

01/25/2025

Homeschool class starts in two days!
Please let us know if you will be joining us this session by tomorrow!!

We will begin our first Home School session of the new year at the end of the month!

01/25/2025

We’re hiring!!
Iron Horse Stables Cantonment, FL

STABLE/FARM HELP/ STALL CLEANING WANTED

Job Includes:

-stall cleaning

-property maintenance

-horse handling & care necessary

-variable hours

-weekends a must

-own transportation

Some experience preferred but willing to train the right person.

***PLEASE TEXT ONLY no phone calls or emails. Send name, your experience, and best time to contact you for an appointment. (850) 982-0954

01/23/2025

01/21/2025

When they said we would get a little snow, they weren't kidding!! I'm not sure we are cut out for this much!

01/20/2025

❄️ Cold Weather Tips ❄️ for our upcoming arctic blast 🥶

-PLEASE do not over feed or significantly change your horse’s diet over the next few days.

-this is also not the time to deworm your horses, especially if they are high shedders.

-be mindful of ice in water troughs and buckets; make sure ice is broken on top of water sources, or offer warm water to your farm animals. Dehydration can lead to impaction colics.

-you can also add warm water to your horse’s feed, offer hydration hay, soak alfalfa cubes*, or offer “sweet tea”** (warm water with molasses or handfuls of grain to ‘sweeten’ water). There are also products like Thirst Quincher or Gallagher’s water.

*if soaking feed, beet pulp, or hay cubes, make sure you are soaking them long enough!! We have been seeing a LOT of chokes lately!

**if your horse is insulin resistant or has had problems with laminitis, ‘sweet tea’ is not the best option to consider!

🔷The ultimate to blanket or not to blanket question🔷

Everyone has opinions on this. Here are the facts:

-A horse’s winter coat is designed to “fluff” out in cold weather to help keep them warm. In order for this to happen, they have to remain *DRY*. When their coat gets wet, they can get cold. Freezing rain or sleet is worse than snow. In the south, this is usually what we get.

-If a horse is clipped, they need to be blanketed. By clipping them, you are taking away their ability to keep themselves warm.

-Consider horses’ ages and body conditions. Older horses, horses with certain metabolic conditions, or thin horses may need extra support in keeping warm. Horses that are trying to maintain their weight or are trying to gain weight, you may consider blanketing so that they don’t have to exert so much energy keeping warm.

-Use common sense. If they are shivering-no matter their coat length, age, or body condition- they are cold!

-If you do blanket your horses, make sure to turn the clip *inside* so that it doesn’t get caught on objects. Also check leg straps that they aren’t too long to get stepped on, or too short to be rubbing.

01/19/2025

Wow, another great show with Rebel Hearts Open Horse Show Series ! ❤️
Great job to everyone who participated 😊

We are so proud of our group and all of their hardwork. ❤️

Keep it up! We will see you all at the next show! ✨️

Thank you to everyone with Rebel Hearts and all of your hard work! 🙏

01/18/2025

01/18/2025

We are excited for a wonderful show today with Rebel Hearts Open Horse Show Series !! Good luck to everyone showing and thank you to all of our IHS family supporting our show group!

01/14/2025

We will begin our first Home School session of the new year at the end of the month!

01/14/2025

January 20th & February 17th we will be having our day camps!!
Reserve your kiddos spot today!

12/25/2024

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OUR IHS FAMILY!! Thank you for being the Best!! Enjoy your family day with plenty of hugs and laughter!

12/13/2024

HAPPY 🐴♥️🐴♥️

Comment your favorite IHS horse pictures below ♥️

12/08/2024

Yesterday evening my boy and I saw our last sunset together. It was love at first sight the day we met! Our second visit you amazed me even more at your gentleness when little Erin(3yo) stuck her hands thru the boards to touch you and you just put your nose in her hands. I knew right then I had to beg, borrow and steal to make you a part of our family! Our first adventure was the day you came home and met all your new brothers and sisters, you kicked the wall down and hollared consistently!! Erin gave you your name that day! We have been thru so many adventures, most good and one bad(i will always be sorry for that trainer)! Our first show and only reining show was very memorable, we almost took the judges out that day in one of our circles! Our jumping career was awesome, you even saved us from a fall, we slipped, you picked us up and went right over the jump, amazing strength and agility!! You were the most amazing trail ride partner, you went everywhere and anywhere, thru THICK and thin!! You passed you athletic and awesome looks to your children (you were even a great babysitter to them)! You have carried plenty of kids, adults and even Roy Jones Jr! You carried them with confidence and took care of all your riders! You were a show stopper, beautiful long hair, stunning features and the loudest voice!! We all knew when you were here! You were kind and gentle and when we could not be together you made your caretakers fall in love with you too! From the first day we met 25 years ago till today, I have loved you and your majestic ways, my only regret is we did not get to have one last ride! Go now, eat(chew with a mouth full of chompers), play, run with your children and friends that have gone before you, never believe that you will be forgotten! You have touched so many lives and we all love you and will never forget you! My heart is broken, but I know in my heart that you had the best life and you know you were loved! I will miss your hugs and hollars! I love you "Tarzan" and miss you so much already!