Evenstar Farms

05/19/2024

We have 2 rare retirement openings! 1 pasture and 1 stall with all day turnout.

11/23/2023

08/25/2023

Why do we bed with straw?

⭐️Studies have found that horses sleep deeper and better on straw vs shavings.

⭐️ Horses eat slower when bedded with straw thus keeping their gut filled steadily which decreases risk of colic.

⭐️ There is less dust with straw which improves the air quality of the barn.

07/30/2023

The handsome Samsonite one of our longterm retired residents owned by the Morris Family. Isn't he stunning?!

07/17/2023

What a fun Summer in the Rockies!
Colara picture perfect as always 😍

06/24/2023

Colara looking picture perfect in the 1.30 this week❤️

📸 Captured Moment Photography

05/18/2023

Our stunning pasture views 😍

03/25/2023

Somewhere in the world, a future Olympic champion is a foal out in a field. He’s ewe-necked, sickle-hocked, downhill and shaggy, with a club foot and a chunk of mane missing, because his buddy chewed it off.

Somewhere in the world, there’s a young horse that everyone says is too short to make it big. In three years, he’ll be jumping the standards, but right now he’s fat and short and no one is paying him any mind.

Somewhere in the world there’s a 7-year-old who can’t turn right, and a 10-year-old who has not shown the ability to put more than two one-tempis together without losing it, and a 14-year-old who hasn’t yet reached his peak, and all of them will be at the next Olympic Games.

Somewhere else in the world, there’s a rider who is thinking of packing it in. Maybe the bills are getting out of control, or she’s killing herself to get enough help in her own riding development because she’s having to spend all her time riding and teaching to make ends meet and change needs to happen, and she’s wondering if it’s worth it. She’s thinking it’s time to just give up and be a local trainer, to shelve her dreams of international competition. And then she’s going to shake off the doubt, double down, and make a team in the next 15 years.

Somewhere in the world, one of the next great team riders is 9 years old and couldn’t tell if she was on the right posting diagonal if her life depended on it.

Somewhere in the world there’s a future team rider who just got told that she’ll never make it because she’s too chubby, because she’s too short, because she’s too late.

There are horses who will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars that will never amount to anything, and there are horses who will be touted as the Next Big Thing only to be never seen or heard from again, and there are horses who will fly under the radar until suddenly they’re setting the world on fire.

There are riders who will win Junior and Young Rider competitions only to quit riding completely, riders who will be touted as the Next Big Thing only to get stuck in their comfort zones and never come to fruition, and there are riders who will make their first Olympic team at 50, at 55, at even older than that.

And yes, there are the horses that will be brilliant from day one, and there are the riders for whom success both comes early and stays late. But more often than not, history has shown that the unlikely story, the horse who was passed over in favor of his more expensive stablemate, the rider who no one saw coming, is the more likely path to greatness.

Credit and written by Lauren Sprieser at Chronicle Of The Horse

03/23/2023

06/22/2022

A must read for those who can no longer care for your senior horse.

We are asked almost daily if we can take in someone’s older horse that they can no longer keep or care for. We get calls asking if we can take the navicular mare, the old blind pony, the 35 year old gelding that can’t hold weight. I always tell them how no one will ever love their horse like they do, and that the best place for it is with them, even if it means having it euthanized.

I want to share this experience because it has helped me see euthanasia in a different way. In the picture you can see a backhoe in the back of the pasture. This is our 80 acre sanctuary that can have up to 40 horses, most waiting for a spot with a trainer, but several that are not adoptable. The volunteer in the picture is leading two horses to be put down, one with heaves, the other DSLD. Two horses had already been put down and are lying next to the hole. Sounds horrific right, to think their buddies are there watching. It was muddy and the field we usually bury horses was unaccessible so we didn't have a choice. I don't handle euthanasia very well but who does right? The grulla mare in this picture was especially hard for us. She was totally wild and untrusting when we first got her over a year ago. We had finally earned her trust and she had become one of the sweetest and first to greet us. She trusted us, so how could we do this to her? She had heaves through the summer and we had discussed trying to move her up north but she's older, untrained....we made the decision to let her go.

This is the part I want to share. We walked the horses down to where the vet waited. All the horses by that time had gathered around and were busy checking out the vet's truck, the back hoe, some were grazing, but none seemed to know or care what was going on. Those that we handed over to the vet were calm as well. He sedated them, they went down just as if they were going to have a procedure. Then the medication was administered. They went to sleep. The grulla's best friend is the black horse that’s following her in the picture. As her friend was sedated, she continued to graze, no fear or concern for her friend. Another horse on the list with ring bone gimped over to me as we watched a horse be pts. I scratched his neck and loved on him. The vet handed me the halter and he continued to just stand there as I put it on. The vet sedated him and like the others, he just went to sleep. It occurred to me that this was so peaceful because they trusted us, they were in their safe place, not at a vet clinic or at an auction somewhere. I've seen horses euthanized that were severely injured or frightened and it was a traumatic experience for all involved. They are hypersensitive to what’s going on around them and it’s like they know. These horses did not. There was no fear. That is what gets to me the most about horse slaughter. Imagining the concern they have as their buddy goes before them in the chute, the horror is incomprehensible. If only they could all be saved the cruel treatment that horses endure beginning at auction. Letting them go peacefully where they feel safe is ultimately the best gift we can give them.

If your horse is advanced in age, unsound, or infirm, and you can no longer keep it, please consider one last gesture of caring.... letting it leave this earth in the comfort and serenity of its home.

06/16/2022

Welcome to the barn family little ones! Our new future mouse hunters.

05/29/2022

Fun in Kentucky!

02/14/2022

Dr Kari will be out March 1st! Haul ins are welcome, please let me know if you would like to get on her list that day. She is incredible!

01/16/2022

What a great way to wrap up National Western Stock Show 2022! Colara was absolutely perfect as always.

01/07/2022

Split Rock Fort Worth. This mare is incredible.

12/16/2021

Our first show together!

12/01/2021

Colorado Sunrise

03/27/2021

We will be raising and selling Organic Whole Chickens again this year. Please sign up asap of you would like some. Truly delicious!

03/27/2021

BY DANI SCHNEIDER Many equestrians dream of being able to give their horses a forever home. For Lori Judd, that dream is a reality. “I know when I buy a horse that I am going to keep them through the end of their life,” Lori Judd shared.  In 1999, Judd purchased Calypso, an eight-year-old Thoro...

03/26/2020

01/14/2020

Our amazing in house farrier!

01/06/2020

One day his coat won’t shine quite as bright,
His eyes won’t sparkle quite how they used to.
His legs will become tired and he’ll take a little longer to get up.
He won’t come to the door when you bring his saddle out anymore and he’ll find those jumps just a little harder work than he did before.

But he’ll never stop loving you.

He’ll never stop waiting, with pricked ears, to hear you arrive in the morning.
He’ll never stop grabbing your zip if you stand too close.
He’ll never stop throwing his bucket over the door when he finishes his dinner.

One day he'll grow old.
One day his body will slow down and he will let you know it’s time to hang up the bridle.
And when that day comes, give him a hug, hold him tight and thank him for everything.

Give him days in grass filled fields under summer sun.
Give him love, attention and never let him believe he is anything less than perfect.
Don’t cast him out into a far away field to be glanced at for the rest of his time.
Don’t hand him to the groom and downgrade him to the stable at the end of the yard.
Don't try and pass him off to someone else as a companion and let him go somewhere strange and new at a time in his life when all he needs is you.
Love him, exactly as you did when he was in his prime.

He'll never stop loving you, so never stop loving him.

12/25/2019

11/29/2019

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!

10/29/2019

We will remain closed to clients until Thursday. Please stay safe and off the roads. All horses are doing great!

10/27/2019

Please stay safe at home. All horses have free choice hay, blankets (if needed), and our watchful care.

09/17/2019

Welcome Sam and Lexington to retirement at Evenstar Farms. These two are loving the room to stretch their legs and meet new friends.

08/07/2019

Evenstar Farms Receives 2019 Best of Elbert Award!

Elbert Award Program Honors the Achievement

ELBERT July 31, 2019 -- Evenstar Farms has been selected for the 2019 Best of Elbert Award in the Horse Boarding Stable category by the Elbert Award Program.

Each year, the Elbert Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Elbert area a great place to live, work and play.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2019 Elbert Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Elbert Award Program and data provided by third parties.

About Elbert Award Program

The Elbert Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Elbert area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.

The Elbert Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community's contributions to the U.S. economy.

07/15/2019

Summer in the Rockies is a wrap for us! What a wonderful five weeks of showing.

Camarron moved up to the 1.15s and has truly turned into a lovely show horse. What a Cinderella story he is!

Sweet Carolina came so far and had lovely ribbons throughout the shows including 2nd in the 3 ft ushja hack week 6!

Showing has been a blast but we are happy to have 6 weeks back at home to prep some of the young horses for their first shows in September. As well as to have time to tackle some more barn improvements.