Cadence Farm

Cadence Farm Cadence Farm is a premier full service equestrian facility in Davisburg Michigan. Outstanding arenas groomed daily.

We offer daily turnout on lush green pastures, beautiful stalls with dutch doors, customized feeding, and free choice hay.

I will share many more pics of riders as I get them! Great learning yesterday. Come audit today!!! Great rider/horse com...
09/02/2024

I will share many more pics of riders as I get them! Great learning yesterday. Come audit today!!! Great rider/horse combos to watch! Fantastic lunch planned too!! 11150 Clark rd davisburg. $25 fee

Day 1 of the Rebecca Hughes clinic was amazing!!!  Education, food and fun!! 11 more rides today starting at 9 am.  Come...
09/01/2024

Day 1 of the Rebecca Hughes clinic was amazing!!! Education, food and fun!! 11 more rides today starting at 9 am. Come on out and audit🐴

Rebecca Hughes clinic starts tomorrow 9 am and we are so excited🐴!!! Come audit for some great education from one of the...
08/30/2024

Rebecca Hughes clinic starts tomorrow 9 am and we are so excited🐴!!! Come audit for some great education from one of the best! $25 audit fee includes amazing food. We will be doing a raffle to support Hearts of Hope Rescue. https://rescueofhope.com/?
All Proceeds will go to them! My Stevie and Kim’s Blanch were from their rescue. Amazing baskets in the raffle. 11150 Clark rd Davisburg 48350

08/25/2024

Happy happy happy happy belated birthday to our fantastic Farm manager, Cody! My day got away from me yesterday and I wanted to post on our Farm page 🙂 happy birthday Cody we are so thankful to have you on our team!

08/15/2024
The Cadence Farm Team!!! Wanted to take a minute to introduce our amazing team.  Cody is our new farm manager.  He moved...
08/15/2024

The Cadence Farm Team!!! Wanted to take a minute to introduce our amazing team.

Cody is our new farm manager. He moved up from Tennessee with his beautiful family and resides in the farm house on property. He has years of experience with horse, cows, hay farming and basically everything you could possibly encounter on a farm!!! Excellent property management experience too which is so helpful with 42 acres. He has already come up with some very great/fun ideas that we have implemented!!! Very excited to have him taking care of our horses and the farm.

Natalie started with us a couple months ago and has been fantastic. Years of horse experience at many large barns and is just a joy to have around. She has ridden also and is excellent with the horse care and daily farm duties. Welcome Natalie!!!

The “Pats” 😊😊😊❤️these two women have been with me for years and they are exceptional at their jobs. They know the farm inside and out and love and care for the horses and the people.

Patty has always been the relief for vacation etc and can run the farm on her own! She runs circles around me and most everyone and is just an enormous asset to the farm.

Pat is the best and most detailed perfectionist when it comes to cleaning all of the shared community spaces and keeps the farm looking just amazing. She is by far one of the best stall cleaners ever and the horses absolutely love her. I know I can count on her to always come to work and work her butt off!!!! ❤️

The entire crew is just wonderful and I am so excited for the future!!

Quinn is visiting his sister Sydney at Princeton.  So much fun!!! Also, playing pool and a Yankees game today!!
08/10/2024

Quinn is visiting his sister Sydney at Princeton. So much fun!!! Also, playing pool and a Yankees game today!!

08/08/2024
I’ve been a little slow to get this posted, but we’d love to welcome Olivia and her lovely gelding Boone to the farm. Lo...
08/08/2024

I’ve been a little slow to get this posted, but we’d love to welcome Olivia and her lovely gelding Boone to the farm. Lovely pair and beautiful rider very happy you’ve joined our Farm family.

Still have some stall available. 🐴😊
08/01/2024

Still have some stall available. 🐴😊

Franz… ❤️❤️❤️
07/30/2024

Franz… ❤️❤️❤️

Franz warm up.  He is doing so well. 💕🐴
07/26/2024

Franz warm up. He is doing so well. 💕🐴

I have the pleasure of knowing this amazing young woman. Ruby is not only one of the most talented riders I’ve ever seen...
07/19/2024

I have the pleasure of knowing this amazing young woman. Ruby is not only one of the most talented riders I’ve ever seen but also genuinely kind and humble. Her mom and dad have done a great job …Ruby sort of follows in their footsteps.😊😊💕💕Hughes Dressage

Run free dear Lenny.  You can soon gallop with Dublin and Louie. ❤️A time for us to part , my beloved friend,for I can s...
07/18/2024

Run free dear Lenny. You can soon gallop with Dublin and Louie. ❤️

A time for us to part , my beloved friend,
for I can see your time on earth is at a end.

It is time for you to gallop to heaven,
but know my love for you is never ending.

I will see you again, my friend,
in a place in eternity where joy never ends.

07/13/2024

Happy birthday to our amazing Patty!!!! Have a great day 🎉🐴💕

Hello!! We have stalls available immediately 🐴Cadence Farm is a premier  equestrian facility in Davisburg Michigan. We o...
07/13/2024

Hello!! We have stalls available immediately 🐴Cadence Farm is a premier equestrian facility in Davisburg Michigan. We offer daily turnout on lush green pastures, beautiful stalls with dutch windows, customized feeding, and free choice hay. Hay also tested as it comes into barn for NSC and WSC. Dry lot and small rehab paddocks also available. Outstanding arenas groomed daily with Premier and TruTex footing. Wonderful farm team and people. WiFi available for virtual lessons. Trainers allowed with approval from management and proper insurance. Will consider trainer and their clients even off discipline if good fit!!! Please contact me if interested 🐴 248-802-7654

06/28/2024

Southeast Michigan equestrian facility has stalls available for a trainer and clients. Dressage preferred but will consider other disciplines. Fantastic high end farm with many amenities.

06/09/2024

Happy birthday to Alanna!!!!! It’s a big one 🎉🎉🐴🐴🍾🍾

06/02/2024

No longer available.

Looking for a Horse Farm manager/worker. Located in Oakland County, MI. Excellent pay, paid vacation, housing provided, private upscale facility. Must be very experienced with horse care, daily farm chores and property management. Please PM me asap. Job duties include turnout, stalls, feeding, arena maintenance and grooming, using farm equipment and prop maint. Mowing and pasture grooming etc. Great people and environment. Bonus if have additional experience like equipment mechanic and general "fixing" skills. Well mannered horses, 14-20 privately owned by great boarders. Single family home for employee.

05/30/2024

Hello!! We have three stalls available immediately 🐴Cadence Farm is a premier full service equestrian facility in Davisburg Michigan. We offer daily turnout on lush green pastures, beautiful stalls with dutch windows, customized feeding, and free choice hay. Outstanding arenas groomed daily with Premier and TruTex footing. Wonderful farm and people. WiFi available for virtual lessons. Trainers allowed with approval from management and proper insurance. Please contact me if interested 🐴 248-802-7654

Cadence Farm is once again hosting the amazing Rebecca Hughes ….Saturday August 31-Tuesday Sept 3rd!We are so fortunate ...
05/26/2024

Cadence Farm is once again hosting the amazing Rebecca Hughes ….Saturday August 31-Tuesday Sept 3rd!We are so fortunate that she takes time from her crazy schedule and comes to the US!!! 🐴Select spots available. Contact me for details @ 248-802-7654. Her training is thorough, consistent, and so very valuable. Auditors will also be welcome for a fee. Check her out below.
http://www.hughesdressage.com/
https://www.instagram.com/rebeccahughes_official/?hl=en

05/12/2024

THE LOW DOWN ON SHORT VS LONG GRASS FOR HORSES🌱🌿
Equine nutrition has progressed in leaps and bounds these past few years. I am pleasantly surprised at how quickly things are moving in the right direction.
That said, I still hear people talk about how they want their horse to lose weight so they put it in a paddock with, ‘nothing in it’. The ‘nothing’ they refer to is usually very short, stressed grass of one or two species, with a decent spread of w**ds popping up for good measure.
Understanding the effects of grazing on short grass versus longer grass is crucial for any horse, but particularly for those with endocrine issues or a history of laminitis (usually caused by endocrine issues).
Somewhat ironically, these horses are often the ones who are purposely put on short, overgrazed grasses with the objective of keeping weight off.
🌱There are many reasons why short grasses cause issues:
⚫️ Short grass is constantly trying to grow. Therefore it will store its sugars and starches (Non-Structural Carbohydrates or NSCs) to prepare for improved growing conditions. Growing conditions won’t improve as your horse will continually keep eating it down, but the sugars will stay there.
⚫️ Because NCSs are predominantly at the base of the plant, each mouthful has a high NSC:fibre ratio. Typically the sugars are lower, and fibre higher, towards the top of the grasses, so the longer the grass, the less sugar and higher in fibre it is. A high fibre, low sugar diet is what a horse’s gastrointestinal system is designed to eat.
⚫️ The higher the grass’s fibre content, the lower the NSC intake will be.
⚫️ Eating longer grass means the horse has to chew more. This not only slows down their intake, but increases saliva production. Saliva helps to buffer stomach acid and helps to prevent ulcers and other gastrointestinal issues.
⚫️ A healthy (non-metabolic) horse eats until they have a specific amount of fibre in their stomach. Eating grass with a high-sugar and low fibre ratio means a horse consumes a lot of high-sugar grass before it feels satiated. This is why you might see horses with ad-lib hay standing around in the shade more than you will see horses with short grass doing the same. Horses with access to high-fibre hay can go and eat, then rest. Horses that need to eat all day to feel full will rest less.
⚫️ Because a horse’s front teeth (incisors) work so well, they can eat enough to stay fat on grasses that are 3cm - 4cm. Ponies can do the same on grasses that are even shorter (1cm - 2cm).
⚫️ Grasses grown specifically for lawns have their growth points very close to the ground so the plant can cope with being kept constantly short. These grasses have been selected specifically for this. Overgrazing results in only the 'lawn' type grasses surviving - so the result is a monoculture; just one or two species of grass. In addition, lawn type grasses are typically not ideal grasses for your horses to be eating a lot of.
⚫️ Horses are more likely to pick up sand while grazing short grass than they are on longer grass.
🌿 Property owners who want to take care of their paddocks should also keep in mind that:
⚫️ Short grass plants have short root systems that cannot reach far down in the soil for nutrients. A short root system results in much less organic matter in the soil, causing soil compaction and poor drainage (not to mention less carbon sequestration).
⚫️ Short, sparsely grassed areas in a paddock quickly turn to mud in wet weather and become dusty very quickly in dry weather. Both lead to soil erosion.
Short grass plants are not as able to outcompete certain w**ds as longer grasses are.
🌱 How long is short?
Clients need to fill in a form to get a diet consultation and I ask for a description of their pasture as part of the process (both written and photographic). I was once astonished at the difference between what they tell me the grass is like, and what it is actually like.
A lot of owners describe grass that’s around 3cms long as, ‘heaps of really good grass’. Because of this misunderstanding of what good grass is, they then don’t offer any additional hay. I end up having a lot of discussions with clients about grass. Sometimes we chat more about pasture and hay than the diet itself which is understandable as grass is complicated!
Short grass is generally shorter than 5cm (2.5 inches). However you need to look at the average height across your pasture as you will (hopefully!) have several species of grass available to your horses. There may also be areas they use as toilets which they won’t eat unless they’re almost starving. While 5cms is pretty short, in reality, on many horse properties, the grasses are as short as 1 or 2 cm.
Many horse owners think a paddock full of grass that is 5 cm long would be regarded as too long. At 5 cm, the plant is just about reaching the stage where it has 2 to 3 leaves, and it can now start to make a rapid recovery, using its stored sugars/starches for growth; at less than 5 cm it becomes stressed.
🌿 Why is longer grass better for horses?
⚫️ Longer grasses are healthier and typically not stressed (so they have less NSCs).
Taller pasture plants have a higher fibre-to-sugar ratio than short grass. As mentioned above, this is ideal for a healthy gastrointestinal tract.
⚫️ Longer grass typically allows for more biodiversity (i.e. less monoculture).
⚫️ Longer grasses have a longer and thicker root system. This results in more healthy nutrients being brought up from deeper layers in the soil.
⚫️ Longer/thicker roots equal better soil protection which means less mud or dust. Obviously this is good for the ground and for your horse (less mud is better for a slew of reasons), but it also means plants may be able to be grazed in wetter conditions for a longer period of time.
⚫️ Longer grass shades out and outcompetes many w**d species.
⚫️ When the roots are longer the plant can ‘trades' some sugars for other nutrients such as amino acids. When the grass is short and stressed, it hangs onto excess sugars.
⚫️ The horse has to eat from the top; this means they need to eat the higher fibre, lower sugar part before it can get to the higher sugar part of the plant (at the bottom of the plant).
⚫️ The horse has to chew more, creating saliva to buffer stomach acid.
⚫️ Horses walk more when grazing longer, more diverse pastures as they seek out different plants.
⚫️ Longer grasses mean horses are essentially also browsing, not just grazing, this variety of eating postures is good for them biomechanically.
⚫️ Horses pick up their feet more if they live in paddocks with longer grasses, this is also good for them biomechanically.
🌿 Why is longer grass better for your property?
⚫️ Longer grasses shade the soil in hot, dry conditions. This keeps it cooler and reduces evaporation. This, plus the increase in soil organic matter, helps hold water in the soil for longer. This means your grass can keep growing even when it hasn’t rained in a while.
⚫️ Longer grasses provide a habitat for insects, small mammals/reptiles, and ground-nesting birds.
⚫️ With their longer/thicker root systems, taller grasses sequester more carbon than short grasses and even faster than trees! This is improved when the plants are repeatedly grazed and then allowed to regrow (as part of a rotational grazing system), as it effectively pumps carbon into the soil.
⚫️ Taller pasture plants keep the soil warmer in cold weather.
🌿 How long is long?
In a rotational grazing system of land management, the grass is regarded as tall enough to resume grazing when it is approximately 15cm, or just before it goes to seed. When the grass plants have been grazed down to an average height of 5 cm, horses should be removed and the grass given the chance to rest and recuperate.
Won’t free access to long grass make my horse fat/ter?
This answer to this question requires a whole other very long article and is dependent on many other factors. However, provided you do it sensibly, then in my experience, no.
Of course you can’t just let your horse have free access to endless lush, early spring grass, especially if you have high sugar grass species such as rye. If however, you have grasses that are lower in sugars such as fog, and/or you wait until it’s a little drier then your horse is less likely to gain weight, AND it’s a whole lot better for your horse’s gut AND also for the pasture itself.
If your horse has had their grazing restricted to overgrazed, short grasses for a long time (particularly if they also haven’t had access to hay) then you need to make a slow transition to longer grasses. If you suddenly give them access to long, lush grass then they are very likely to gorge and then they will gain weight.
🌱 What about horses on agistment?
Having a horse on agistment makes things more difficult, but not impossible. Ask your agistment owner if you can rig up some temporary fencing (i.e. pigtails and tape) within your paddock to rest part of it, or set up a track system so you can have longer grasses. Setting up a track next to your existing permanent fencing also encourages more incidental movement and means you can restrict grazing at the height of spring and then allow your horse onto the longer grasses when it’s safe to do so. I suggest approaching them from a ‘paddock/pasture preservation’ point of view and use all the above reasons as to why it will be better for their land, as well as for your horse.
*credit to the Equiculture website which was used as a resource for this article

05/11/2024

Available for 1/2 or full lease. Trampus ❤️ this beautiful boy is available for on-site lease only at my farm in Davisburg Michigan. He is 15.1 a Hackney Horse, Morgan, Quarter horse cross. I would just love for him to have a person of his own. He has been ridden by a very good friend of mine. She has done a lovely job training him and I would say he’s a solid first level horse. There is so much room for him to develop. He’s a quick learner and has a wonderful brain. He would do best with a rider that is good enough to show him the way and develop together. He is a solid citizen and never puts a foot out of place. Contact me if interested. We do not have an on-site trainer, but certainly have a couple different trainers that come into the farm that could help if needed. Easier to discuss on the phone or in person. 248-802-7654

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