Sherrod Grove Stables

09/11/2024

03/01/2024

08/20/2023

Thank you Lm Sloan and Gus for helping out at a fundraiser. Gus was the entertainment at a Mexican themed birthday party. He was perfect and love the attention.

05/22/2023

Do you still love your horse if he no longer meets your expectations?

Loving, is without expectations, otherwise it is attachment.

Let this sink in.....

If you are being very honest with yourself, what does your horse need to comply with to be self-satisfied? Does he have to perform certain achievements? To what purpose? What does it bring you? What does it bring to your horse? What are you attached to?

Are you also very happy with your horse, and do you still love him just as much when he is no longer as healthy, and no longer accomplishes what you want with him? Or do you sell him and move on with another horse?

Will you take care of the cost for your animal until death do you part? Does he have 4 legs or 3 legs? Big ears, a hanging belly, a messy coat?

Your horse accepts you just as you are. Even when you don’t have your day, and sometimes it affects you. When he gets punched because he cant stand still. When he has to walk through a badly fitted saddle with back pain. He still loves you just as much.

Even in the harshest of circumstances, he sees the good in you, and wants harmony, even if it costs his health and his life. He takes you just as you are.

And even when he's all up, and it's not going well, he wants before you, to be well. These are the horses that are shining in the barn and broken inside.

Saw this picture passing by, it is so fitting for how I feel about horses, had to share it. For all our loyal four-legged friends, I hope for more awareness.

Team-life

01/19/2023

We just received an email from AmazonSmile that they ending their donation program as of February 20, 2023. Sherrod Grove has benefitted from our supporters' Amazon purchases over the years and are grateful for the program. AmazonSmile will still donate until the February date so as you shop we will still receive donation until that date. Thank you for you support.

12/17/2022

Way to go Endo the Blind !

The 22-year-old horse named Endo began losing his sight at 8 and went fully blind at 13.

11/21/2022

Remember when shopping on Amazon, choose Sherrod Grove Stables as you Amazon Smile Charity !!

07/01/2022

If you shop Amazon you can support Sherrod Grove Stables by shopping through AmazonSmile and selecting us as your charity!

06/30/2022

Endo is an amazing horse

03/31/2022

Thank you for the love and comfort everyone has shown Sherrod Grove Stables for Shera Lynn's passing. Feeding this morning was hard because no one greeted me at the farm. That and the empty stall hurt more than I thought. Knowing Shera is no longer struggling to breathe and is with those who went before her makes it bearable.

11/25/2021

I don't post on our page nearly as often as I should. Today however I would like to say thank you to everyone who supports our sanctuary any way they can. The horses may not show their gratitude but I hope you all know how grateful I am. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

06/16/2021

Today ended with a little excitement here at Sherrod Grove Stables. I had let the sighted herd into the small electric fenced field of very nice grass and went to mow the weeds and dog fennel in the main pasture. 3 hours into mowing I realize all 6 horses, 3 goats and 1 cow are in my side yard and the neighbor's back yard. ZeeZee who has no respect for a fence decided the grass was greener in the yards and took down the fence. Everyone else apparently agreed. Amazingly it only took me about 30 minutes to get everyone back where they belong. Never a dull day around here at the farm. At least I got 3 or 4 acres of the big pasture mowed.

03/18/2021

Had to steal this from another page. 😂

If you’ve ever been in an equine Facebook group you know this is true. (Borrowed from the original Lightbulb post with adaption to equines.) 👍😉

Q: How many FB group members does it take to feed a horse?

1 to feed a horse and to post that the horse has been fed.

14 to share similar experiences of feeding horses and how the horses could have been fed differently.

7 to caution about the dangers of feeding horses.

17 purists who believe keeping domestic horses is wrong and are offended by all horse discussions.

6 to argue over whether it’s ‘feeding equines’ or ‘feeding horses’.
Another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid.

22 to tell THOSE 6 to stop being jerks.

16 people to ask about the 52 Thoroughbreds and how they can save them.

87 people to tell them that was over 10 years ago they've all been saved.

2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is ‘Equus ferus caballus’.

15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that ‘horse’ is perfectly correct.

49 to post memes and gifs (several are of Michael Jackson eating popcorn with the words added, “I’m just here for the comments.”)

19 to post that this page is not about feeding horses and to please take this discussion to a “feed a horse” page.

11 to defend the posting to this page saying that we all feed horses and therefore the posts are relevant here.

24 to discuss the merits of feeding horses grass hay versus alfalfa hay.

44 to claim that feeding grass hay and alfalfa hay will kill your horse.

12 to post F.

8 to ask what F means.

7 to post ‘Following’ but there’s 3 dots at the top right that means you don’t have to.

3 to say “can’t share”

2 to reply “can’t share from a closed group”

36 People to post pics of feeding their own horses.

6 to report the post or PM an admin because someone said “f÷×$”

4 to say “Didn’t we go through this already a short time ago?”.

13 to say “Do a search on feeding horses before posting questions about feeding horses”.

1 to bring politics into the discussion by adding that a politician either hates horses or loves horses. This usually takes place within the first three comments.

50 more to get into personal attacks over their political views.

5 admins to ban the posters who took feeding horses all too seriously.

1 late arrival to comment on the original post 6 months later and start it all over again.

02/19/2021

Like much of the rest of the country, the weather here at Sherrod Grove Stables is horrid. We have had so much rain our pastures are basically under water. The areas around the barns are 4-7inches of mud and the horses are miserable. The water is so bad its coming up through the barn's dirt floors. I know we aren't the only stables suffering g this but I look at the horses and feel helpless. All I can do is give them their grain, make sure there is free choice hay everywhere and leave the barns open so they can come and go.
It really needs to stop raining for awhile.

01/29/2021

I had forgotten how much frozen ground screws with the blind's ability to navigate

01/23/2021

Sherrod Grove Stables had a visitor 🤣

12/04/2020

Today is one of those what just happen days. At 2:30 this afternoon I noticed Holly acting strange. After checking her, the vet was called. Dr Lauren Taylor arrived and determined Holly was septic probably due to small intestine failure. (I don't remember the medical term). It happens very fast appearently. Lauren help Holly crossed to Rainbow Bridge quickly and quietly.
I will miss Holly. Run happy girl. You were the sweetest and easiest horse to be around.

11/23/2020

This Old Horse, Inc put into words about their George what I have felt for so many of our horses here at Sherrod Grove

This week, and for the first time, George asked something of us. To listen.

He was done. He was not afraid, he was not confused, he was not suffering. He was simply done. He no longer had an appetite, was no longer interested in his food. None of our usual tricks to encourage him to eat were working.

Is there more we can do? Is there anything we haven’t tried? Yes-we can try listening to him. Instead of asking him for more--for more hope, for more effort--could he trust us to listen to what he was asking?

Surrounded by those who have loved and cared for him, on his terms, at his home, we said goodbye. Is any heartbreak worse than another? We are bound by our mission and our reverence for our horses to stand with them until the end. But this day, this horse—tests our resolve.

George never said no to a reasonable request. He never refused a fence. At age 30, during a MN Harvest Horse Show exhibition after his retirement, his rider Maddie said she was certain if she had asked him to attempt the 5’ jumps on Grand Prix course, he would have done it.

His sponsor and devoted friend Diane asked him to drop his head to her level when she needed to sit to interact with him so she could hold his face, look into his beautiful eyes ,and tell him how much he had taught her, how wonderful he was.

We put young horses with him in his turnout so George could teach them the manners and behaviors they would need to be good citizens and welcomed into a herd.

We asked him to stand patiently while beginners safely led and groomed him as part of their first steps to learning about horses.

George was born in 1987, he would have been 34 years old this Spring. For any horse, reaching the age of 30 is a remarkable feat. George, an American Quarter Horse, was an unlikely choice as an eventer, comparable to a triathlete requiring competence in cross country, dressage and stadium jumping. Just before his retirement to This Old Horse, he successfully navigated a clean round in a cross country competition at age 28. He had a life filled with love, with respect, with honor.

We couldn’t have asked for anything more—except for more time. What will we do without him? Except remember always that we loved him. We prayed, we hoped, we weep.

Rest in peace, dear George. Losing you has tested the strength and limits of our hearts. But loving you was worth it.

Love is good.