Saving Grace Farm

12/24/2025

Hoping your Christmas is pony perfect. 🐴🤠😎

Around the barn......T'was the night before Christmas........and all is peaceful and quiet in the barn. May all your Christmas dreams and wishes come true! ❄☃️🎄🎅

12/23/2025

Gift cards for lessons, lease opportunities, and trail rides available for all of your last minute Christmas needs! 🎄🐴

12/13/2025

A little PBR fun to celebrate Ella's 18th! Take the bull by the horns girl! (Just not literally!)🤣❤️ Love you Ella!

12/11/2025

A must read for horse owners!!!

Truth: The horse possesses a highly effective 🌡 thermoregulation system. Piloerection gives the horse’s hair coat the ability to stand up, lay down and change direction via hair erector muscles trapping warm air and creating an insulating layer. Blanketing prevents this ability and if applied long term can cause hair erector muscles to atrophy. Any muscle can atrophy without exercising for a period of time.

𝙊𝙛 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚, 𝙗𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙗𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤:
❄Extreme cold.
❄Underweight, older, or compromised individuals.
❄If appropriate shelter from wind and precipitation is not available.
❄Shivering.
If required, provide a variety of thicknesses appropriate for the current weather. Be mindful of the fact that they can’t take it off if they get hot or change into a warmer blanket if they get cold and that the entire body heats up or cools down. ​

​​Allow your herd to live and eat together full time. Doing so promotes🏇 movement and provides the psychological and physical comforts 😊 of a herd animal. Hierarchy will always exist, but the majority of time aggressive 😡 behavior is associated with food aggression. If free choice forage 🌱 is available, the intensity of dominant combative behavior typically subsides.

​Avoid using 💡 artificial lighting, which discourages the growth of a full winter coat. A horse’s hair coat changes twice a year. Sensors in the horse’s skin react to the duration of ☀ light and 🌙dark hours. The horse will start to grow their winter coat after the summer solstice as days shorten and will start to grow their summer coat after the winter solstice as days get longer.

Stalls can be colder than being outside. The ❄ coldest time of day is just before the sun rises and when it does, a stalled horse remains standing - in the shade! Being outside gives them the ability to move and bask in the ☀ sun to warm up.

Offer appropriate shelter 24/7 that they can 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. A three-sided shed or stall will ensure protection from the wind and gives them the ability to stay dry. With these options available, they have a choice of where they are most comfortable. It alleviates the task of moving horses from one enclosure to another depending on weather conditions.

​Avoid bathing, which removes the natural oils in their coat that help to protect their skin from getting wet. A healthy diet, parasite control and sufficient healthy omegas produce glowing hair coats that don't look dull while retaining the natural oils on the skin and hair that repel dust and water. Win - win, no need to bathe!

Discover other common misconceptions about the cold and how to stoke internal body heat 🌡while providing a healthier, natural lifestyle for your herd. 👉 https://www.thehaypillow.com/blogs/news/keeping-horses-warm-naturally-internally-and-externally

12/11/2025

🎄🐴Attention all current and potential lessors and boarders! You are invited to join our exclusive Ranch Riding Winter Series featuring critiques and scoring by Sherrye Johnson-Trafton. Sherrye is a certified Ranch Riding judge, among many other awesome accolades 🙌🏻. This is a 12 week series that will run from Jan. 18- April 4. Every two weeks you will be given a ranch riding pattern to practice on your own time or in a scheduled lesson. At the end of the two weeks we will submit a video to Sherrye who will critique it and give you a mock “score”. This is a fabulous way to hone in on your technical skills this winter and be more than ready when/if we ever see spring. 🤣 The cost of this series is $200 for lessors and boarders.
THIS IS A GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEA!!🎄
Attached is a sample pattern that you may be assigned. Patterns will be set up in the indoor for the two weeks they are assigned. See Melissa for questions.

12/10/2025

This week is paddock cleanup crew appreciation week. I am officially calling it! 🙌🏻 These guys rocked six hours of chipping away frozen paddocks yesterday. They are my heros. 🥰👏🏻👏🏻If you see them give them a hug, they deserve it. 😉

12/09/2025

12/07/2025

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12/02/2025

We are a little obsessed with quick release knots and the need to be prepared around here. 🤠

11/29/2025

Gift certificates are available for lessons, leases, and trail rides at the farm. They make great Christmas presents! Message the farm for details!

11/27/2025

Wishing our barn family a blessed Thanksgiving today! All of us are so grateful for all of you! 🍁❤️🐴🤠