Brighter View Farm TN

08/29/2024

End of summer but hot! These guys are making the best of it though! Getting hosed, hanging around the barn, standing in the creek, finding shade… We have such a great herd!

08/24/2024

Barn life is “ruff” 🤣♥️🤣

08/24/2024

Breakfast was being served later than they’d like. How obvious can they make it?!?

08/23/2024

Sweet little foster puppies from hanging with us at the barn. 💙💙Chex and Krispie are 6 week old mixed breed pups who will need a home in just a couple of weeks.

08/18/2024

Sunday 💙 Sunday 💙 Gideon and Shine had visitors, which they always love! The geldings have been back and forth between pastures, but sure are enjoying their periodic hosing when they come up. The mares spent some time hanging in the shade by the creek. Carmen caught a nap laid out in the pasture. Her and Star caught some quick snoozes together. It’s a nice day in so many ways.

08/18/2024

Check out Sugar’s progress. She completed her QT and is now hanging with us for awhile. She arrived SO scared. Freshly bailed from a KP, very anxious, with no ability to explain in words the scars on her body. With decompression time, conscious movements and purposeful interactions, she’s starting to feel more secure and has begun to even explore on her own. This was Sugar’s first independent trip into the barn, which was followed by multiple trips in and out of the barn and even her stall. Didn’t take her long to figure out in which room the magic happened: the feed room!

08/17/2024

Gideon seems to prefer the mud puddle to his freshly cleaned trough, but this other horse…the shadow of the other horse…:doesn’t even look real 🤣😂🤣

08/15/2024

08/14/2024

Gosh these guys are amazing! Endlessly entertaining. Silly. Mostly sweet. Content. Busy bodies. We are lucky!

08/11/2024

Remember Westin turned Max coming in from the k!Ll pen? This boy is always entertaining us and full of antics. Curious. Mostly sweet. Occasionally spicy. Brings lots of laughs and smiles. He was one who got his mane pulled and looks like a very handsome thoroughbred. Marnie took him into the round pen and boy were we all beyond pleased! That boy rides. Neck reigns. Responds to verbal commands. And looks sharp doing it! He is so beyond loved! To think that this was a horse that was discarded and came close to ending up as horse meat. Can you even imagine?! So glad that wasn’t his fate and still so grateful for the village who helped ensure his safety.

08/11/2024

I apologize for the lack of posts, but it has been BUSY BUSY! Some of you know the other third of Brighter View, Marnie, and some may have only heard of her as she lives out of state, but the infamous Marnie came into town this week. She and I (heather) had some business end of things to take care of one day and unbeknownst to either of us, we ended up in coordinating gray and white stars and stripe outfits. 🤣 There was all the usual day in and day out stuff happening at the barn, plus a lot of extra stuff! Horses had manes and tails done, some of the ones who came from rescue were evaluated, some received extra training, and a few ridden. What we were short on was sleep, but we tried to make up for it in laughter and quality time with these spoiled “babies” around here. Over the next few posts I’ll try to catch up on some of the photos.

08/09/2024

A little crazy at the barn - Amber and Marnie 🤣

08/09/2024

Wowsers the days have been super duper busy! Marnie is in town and we’ve been grooming and bathing and Marnie’s been evaluating and cat bing a few quick visits. The horses look so nice but I’m pretty sure the humans are exhausted!

08/07/2024

Random moments at the barn ☀️

08/04/2024

Oh these beasts! Hot days mean hosing and hosing and hosing again. The geldings are high mainence. The mares prefer to nap.

07/31/2024

Love these sweet babes 💜 They keep us hopping! The mares move at a slower pace. They also get up to less mischief, too. The heat and humidity between rain storms has been hard on Frank, so he’s getting hosed pretty frequently. Max continues to be a goofball. Neo enjoys grazing out in the pasture by himself. Things are turning green again. ♥️

07/26/2024

Love this herd of crazies, but they are always up to some mischief. Well, it’s mostly the geldings but I won’t expound on that 😉

07/26/2024

Frank seems to have anhidrosis, he doesn’t seem to sweat, and therefore we have to hose him frequently in the heat to help him cool down. This was one of those times. ♥️♥️♥️

When one if the sweetest has an itch, you act like a human and love every minute of it!

Check out heather blair’s video.

07/25/2024

Days with horses are the best kind of days 💙

07/21/2024

A glimpse into a routine day around here…

07/20/2024

Happy Saturday! We are going into the weekend after finally getting some much needed rain - wahoo! It felt so amazing. The horses weren’t as amused when it absolutely poured, but things went back to normal when the intensity dissipated. Our newest arrival, Sugar, is still decompressing from her time at the K - - - pen and transport, but each day she calms a bit and her personality peaks out. It’s obvious she wasn’t always treated with the kindness she deserved, but we and her human mom are determined to give her only the treatment she always deserved. Her physical scars may not disappear, but hopefully her fear will with time, consistency and kindness. These animals are such a blessing!.

07/18/2024

We welcome “Sugar” and her new mom to the barn! This young mare was fortunate to be rescued from a premature end in a k1LL pen and will be quarantining with us 😊 She’ll need to decompress, but then I suspect we will start to get glimpses of her personality. You’re safe now sweet girl 🩷

07/17/2024

For those who appreciate Max’s antics…here we go again 😊♥️

Check out heather blair’s video.

07/16/2024

Peak at farm days with silly horses we adore! 🥰 I have SO many cute videos that I can’t wait to share, but I have to find some time to edit and post. The cuteness is overwhelming 😉

07/15/2024

There are so many ways to bond and work with your horse besides riding. Today we beat the heat by taking a few of the geldings into the creek for some cooling and some play. Amber, with her 3 year old , enjoyed some walking and splashing in the creek. Neo blew some bubbles in the water. We all cooled down. Rescues Max and Frank, both also cooled in the creek. Frank doesn’t sweat so getting him into the creek was an alternate to the regular hosing we’ve been doing. He didn’t love it, but he put up with us. Max, on the other hand, had a blast: splashed and drank and even laid down in the creek.

07/14/2024

07/14/2024

Water water water…it’s hot and we are making it more bearable with lots of water. Fresh water💧 in clean troughs. Bucket sized “ice cubes” 🧊to cool the troughs. Time in the creek. Hosing. And hosing. Sprinklers. And hosing. Watermelon. 🍉 Thankfully 95% of the horses like being hosed and we have great horses 🥰

07/13/2024

Oh Neo and Max…the antics…and the reason we can’t have nice things 🤣

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07/12/2024

Star is pretty sleepy but also wants some mineral block time…those yawns ♥️ Neo and my dog Jasper are so cute watching each other. Neo rolled and it made his “eye shadow” runway ready 😉 Razzle came for some carrots. The geldings decided they’d like to put their heads in the run in shelter. Endless entertainment around here!

07/12/2024

Random assortment of recent events. Each day is a little different but there are always some overlaps. We have great horses! They bring so much joy!