Half Halt Farms

09/29/2024

🚨 URGENT: Asheville Humane Society needs our help! 🚨

The catastrophic damage from Hurricane Helene has overwhelmed the Asheville Humane Society, and countless animals are in desperate need of safety. We’re partnering with BISSELL Pet Foundation to rescue as many pets as possible, but we can’t do it without your help!

We need emergency fosters to help us take in these animals! If you’ve never fostered before, that’s okay! Fostering is completely free—Forsyth Humane Society will provide you with all of the supplies you might need to help care for one of these animals. Every foster home we can secure is another life we can save! 🐾❤️

If you can step up to help us out, please email [email protected] with the subject line “Hurricane Helene Foster”, or check forsythhumane.org/foster for incoming animals. THANK YOU for your willingness to help and your dedication to animals in need. Please share this post to help us reach as many fosters as possible!

08/18/2024

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“A horse is a horse, of course, of course, And no one can talk to a horse of course That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed.”
“Go right to the source and ask the horse He’ll give you the answer that you’ll endorse He’s always on a steady course Talk to Mr. Ed!”
“People yak-it-ti-yak a streak and waste your time of day, but Mister Ed will never speak, unless he has something to say… A horse is a horse, of course of course, And this one will talk 'til his voice is hoarse.”
“You never heard of a talking horse? Well, listen to this… I am Mister Ed.”

When Mr. Ed was tired of working, he would simply walk off the set. The horse would only respond to his trainer, Lester Hilton, and ignored his co-stars. As a result, Hilton had to be present on set at all times, issuing commands either verbally or through hand signals. Mr. Ed’s voice was kept a well-guarded secret, but it was actually provided by Allan Lane, a former cowboy star.
This show was one of the rare television series to begin in syndication before being picked up by a major network. In an interview, Alan Young mentioned that his natural hair color was dark blond. However, in black-and-white film, his hair blended too much with Mr. Ed’s color. To make him stand out, the makeup artist had Connie Hines' hairdresser dye his hair dark. Once the show ended, Young allowed his hair to return to its natural shade. The theme song was originally sung by Jay Livingston as a demo, with the intention of having a professional singer re-record it. However, the producers liked Livingston’s vocals so much that they decided to keep his version for the show.

Shared from : Nostalmania TV

08/12/2024

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-viability-horse-ice-cream.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Posting anything and everything about horses, right?

A team of food scientists at West Pomeranian University of Technology, in Poland, has found that using horse milk instead of cow milk to make ice cream is a viable food choice. In their study, published on the open-access site PLOS ONE, the group created four ice cream varieties using horse milk and...

07/21/2024

05/18/2024

A picture that truly speaks volumes...From our human perspective we can see a beautiful environment with green grass and elegant white fences, but if we just look closer from our horses' point of view instead...Well, then everything changes. Then we see how desperately they try to remain next to each other, no matter their inability to touch either, then we see where the grass just doesn't grow anymore, evidencing so clearly where they always remain to be together as much as they physically can...Please, horses are herd animals, horses are social animals, they are meant to be together, as it's just where their sense of safety and peace comes from. There's absolutely no way to change it, there's no way to pretend not to know it. If we can only keep our horses alone then I'm sorry but we just cannot have them 💚

Picture credit: Tracey J Parker

05/11/2024

Red dot is the farm. Solid green line is tornado path. A bit too close for comfort. Prayers for those less fortunate.

05/10/2024

Meet Wallace the first mule to win the British dressage
With British Dressage and Wallace's adoring fans behind them, Wallace and Christie geared up for their first official British Dressage test at a competition in Gloucester. And when the moment came, Wallace absolutely shone, scoring 67.6% and beating eight horses and ponies to take out first prize!

02/09/2024

Can we get an amen?!