Silver Rein Equestrian Ranch

02/23/2025

The same goes for our lives….. .so Find Balance and pursue purpose in Gods plan for you life. ❤️

To much pressure will sour your horses mind, it's about finding a balance! 🤠

07/15/2024

It was a Beautiful Journey🌹
🥀🥀🥀We are now passing the torch of this commitment to other boarding facilities ….. To hopefully always be….
🌱”Enriching the lives of Equines and the Ones Who Love Them” 💚

Our lives are moving towards new adventures , stories, plans, dreams and paths🌼 but we would love to leave our posts for those who may want to follow the Legacy of Our Unique Equine Enrichment Boarding Facility and all the Joys it gave to us personally and to our horse community. 🌼🌼🌼🌼

☺️We are thankful for the owners & equines we have met ♥️☺️
and We also want to thank our families for supporting our dreams.

We love you All ♥️
Continue the Journey for Us!

04/24/2024

~Creative Enrichment~🪀🌻🌷☘️🌳

We got a little creative with the top of the stall wall!
❤️Do you have a horse that maybe needs some more enrichment in their stall? 🪀 maybe they are trying to scratch an itch they just can’t find the right angle to reach it at or starting to nibble on the wood……..
☀️Well We may have some ideas you could try!
We have a beautiful sweet little mare boarding with us who is in her ❤️❤️❤️3yr old year that needed a little something more than the boring wood on top of the stall! Young horses need lots of interesting things to do, see, feel and experience !! 🎉

You can try throwing some light weight saddle pads on top of the stall wall or……

Just think of it this way……It’s better to give the horse something enriching to do instead of looking at it as unwanted behavior🫶!
Take it as information that your horse may need something and is trying to tell you ❤️🫶

Instead of just adding angle iron……
🌻We got creative and added some of these very flexible equine soft rubber scratching pads!

Amazon link ⬇️

https://www.amazon.com/Sovipal-Equine-Bovine-Massage-Brush/dp/B0BTBZGTNT?

04/13/2024

💛So many ways to offer enrichment for our equines.💞

Two of the best ways are
🌻- “friends” meaning allowing horses to be with, around and touching other horses 🐎 🐎
and
🌻- “forage” meaning our horses are created for grazing and encouraging this natural behavior is what helps keeps our horses healthy and happy. 🌿🍃

🌷Happy Enrichment 🌷

02/02/2024

♥️♥️♥️Equine Enrichment !
Miss Freya loves Geranium Scent on the Scent Board !!
👃💐🌸🌻Horses and Olfactory Perception is such an interesting area to study and tap into for Enrichment & Positive Reinforcement!

Quote
“Horses could be conditioned to associate a specific odor with positive stimuli such as grooming, feeding or social comfort, and the same odor could potentially be applied during stressful or fear-eliciting situations such as trailer loading, regrouping, and social isolation.”
Website Quote SITE BELOW
Rørvang MV, Nielsen BL, McLean AN. Sensory Abilities of Horses and Their Importance for Equitation Science. Front Vet Sci. 2020 Sep 9;7:633. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2020.00633. PMID: 33033724; PMCID: PMC7509108.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN READING MORE ABOUT “Semsory Ability of Horses..” follow this link 🙂
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7509108/

01/30/2024

🌿Holistic Horse Care / Equine Enrichment
Quote
“A vital part of healthy horse life is moving about your habitat with friends. Magical, healthy things happen with collective movement.”
Tomas G Teskey D.V.M.

We were able to witness some of this “Magical Collective Movement” on a beautiful winter Oregon sunny day with turnout of 3 equine friends!!
It’s a good Enriching Journey!! 🥰

01/30/2024

🌿 Holistic Horse Care Journey

This Quote from Dr Tomas G. Teskey D.V.M. is such a great one!!

“A more “holistic dental exam and equilibration” involves looking at the whole animal.” Tomas Teskey

As a pioneering equine enrichment facility we are excited to be learning more about approaching the horse from a “Whole…istic” View!!! ♥️

We are blessed to be part of each one of our boarders journey to their equines health, wellness & training!

The Book “INSIGHT TO EQUUS” by Tomas G. Teskey D.V.M. is becoming our go to for great info! Highly recommend!!

01/30/2024

♥️Welcome Ruby and Kayla!

🥰What a beautiful day to bring this 6month only little filly to board at the Ranch!!

🎠May this be a Grand New Adventure full of good times & sweet friendships!!

🤗We are so happy to have you as part of our Story♥️🧡♥️!! and We are blessed to be part of yours!!

01/29/2024

Equine Enrichment !
♥️♥️ It can be as simple as giving them what they love to do anyway!!

Rope Play Time!
Miss Freya!!
We love this girl!!

01/10/2024

~BareHoof Journey~
❤️FOAL TRIMMING❤️
We had the pleasure of trimming this beautiful 5 month old foal for her first trim! Just purchased by the owner and starting her new adventure in life!

🌿Holistic Horse Care~ involves the important aspect of BareHoof care & trimming starting at the earliest stage possible 🙂 !

🐎Having a trimmer that is experienced, skilled & knowledgeable about foal hooves is so important at this stage.
♥️It’s also highly important to be careful about giving the foal time to adjust to holding his hooves up and to gently hold legs as the foal has pliable developing tendons, ligaments and joints that should not be subjected to any torque.
🐎The hoof changes rapidly in this first year, not only growing in length but the ground contact surface expands outward and becomes the widest part of the hoof capsule.
♥️♥️♥️This part draft is growing quickly at 5 months old! Miss Ruby will be a joy to watch mature & change!!

01/09/2024

💚🌿 Equine Enrichment/ Holistic Horse Care~Adding an important aspect would be to …
Consider your equines need for turnout time with another equine 🐎🐎
🥰🥹🥰What a beautiful display of Equine Play we were able to watch yesterday when allowing a natural equine interaction between these two majestic equines!!

In Holistic Horse Care🌿 the importance of equine to equine interaction is so great!
✅Value this asset and try to implement it when possible by allowing your equine some turnout with an equine friend!♥️Equine Enrichment