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Brighter View Farm TN

Small equine boarding facility near Apison, TN where horses are treated like the family they are!

12/18/2024

We’ve had a decent amount of rain so we have a lot of mud. We’ve also got a lot of horses who have been rolling in the mud like it is their job. Wowsers they are gross, but they seem to be enjoying themselves in it. Been getting two more run-in shelters set-up for the winter. The geldings are creating some sort of sculpture out of their most recent hay bale. 🤣 They had a good group nap in the pasture yesterday. Nudge and Jelly Bean seemed to be ready to help us get the hay ring over there most recent delivery of hay. Getting in some snuggles and some later night visits. And muddy horses…

12/17/2024

If you know Max (formerly Westin) you know he’s a big nosy clown of a horse who is usually mischievous, affectionate and energetic. Lately that has not been the case. He has not been himself and after a visit by the vet + several follow-ups we think he might be suffering from ulcers. While omeprazole for humans is cheap, it is not for horses. For horses it is about $42 per dose. Treatment is typically 30 days, which is obviously quite costly, but if it works it will be worth it. He was on some natural things to help (soaked alfalfa pellets, aloe vera juice, etc) but it wasn’t enough. Yesterday he started the medication for treatment. Please send up good vibes, prayers, wishes for health…whatever you can…that he will get to feeling better super fast ❤️ We miss the energetic silly boy he typically is!

12/14/2024

We’ve had colder temps but some sunny days. The herd has been taking advantage of the sunshiny days with some good naps. We love seeing them relaxed and warm 😎 The other day we had three laid out in the back pasture but couldn’t get good pictures through the trees. The only bad part of them doing this is that it is so tempting to stop working and go lay out with them and soak up the warm sunshine. ☀️ Hope you all are finding warmth in whatever ways you can.

12/09/2024

Oh my 🎅🏿 look how cute Gideon and Shine were today! Gideon’s visit included a new elfish Christmas outfit and he was down for it! Enjoyed getting all groomed up and his stretching with his person and then was a super star letting us dress him up. What a dapper elf he was! Shine was more interested in eating than dressing up, but he even paused long enough to get a cute Santa hat picture. Can you stand the cuteness here!?!?

12/06/2024

Brrr! 🥶 This is NOT our normal TN temps and us humans are not a fan. Our very fuzzy herd with their thick winter coats don’t seem near as bothered. We’ve had some solo sleeps and some group standing naps that are pretty sweet to observe. The sun during the day isn’t bad, but when the sun goes down and the wind kicks up…brrrr!! We’ve made sure they’ve had warm mash meals and plenty of hay (and maybe a few extra treats 🤭). Since this stretch of well below freezing temps is longer than the last few days of cold, a majority of the night was spent moving the trough heater to make sure troughs weren’t frozen over. Since electricity is only available to the pastures via an extension cord, we don’t leave those out when no one is there. The stalled few have been supplied with warmed water in their buckets so they are taken care of too. 🥶 If anybody wants to recall their winter weather that has vacationed in the Tennessee Valley, feel free to take it back 😉 I’m pretty sure the south has a low tolerance for this 🥶

12/04/2024

It’s a good season for reflection and gratitude. We are grateful for all those who love and care for our horses along side us. Two of those folks are Jeff and Annette, who recently showed up with at least one bag of every kind of treat our local feed store (The Barn Owl, if you don’t know it check it out!!) carries. The horses been happy to try all the varieties of flavors ❤️ They also let us borrow their tractor, seen here helping us move round rolls and they show up to help with so many projects, including the recent dissembling of the roof that came off the run-in shelter in the geldings pasture. We also recently had a young visitor in one of my nephews, who braved the cold to spend the day at the barn. So grateful for our helpers and our visitors who help us lavish love on this amazing creations. 🐴 🐎

12/03/2024

Our horses are so curious. Or nosy? I guess it could be debated, but I’m going with curious. I love how they are interested in so many things. Check out these curious moments with the herd…

11/29/2024

Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for all the horses who call Brighter View home and the owners who entrust us with their care. We are also very thankful for those who help us make their lives as good as they are at the barn. Thanksgiving day was started with a warm breakfast, a day of grazing, snuggles, some naps and rolls in the mud. Everyone got an extra treat or two, too. Hope you and yours have had a good day too.

11/28/2024

Temperatures are falling but it doesn’t stop nature from showing off with some gorgeous skies. We’ve had light and bright blue skies, a pretty palette of colors as the sun retires for the night, fall colors hanging on a bit longer, and lovely light highlights from time to time. Just sets off these amazing creatures that much more 💜

11/24/2024

Mostly just pictures of us navigating cooler days and the horses doing their things, interrupted by the results of high winds taking the entire roof off of the geldings run-in shelter. No one was hurt, most of the geldings were in the back pasture at the time, but it startled us humans. We got the shelter secured back down and plans to rebuild the roof. Never a dull moment it seems…but we are thankful this is all that happened.

11/21/2024

Beautiful fall morning greeting us today ❤️

11/20/2024

Sometimes the days bring new opportunities. I’d had my first run at moving hay out to the pasture by myself one day recently and came away with that “I am woman hear me roar” feeling followed by pure exhaustion 🤣 This time Amber and I were both there and it made the process go so much easier and faster, but was still pretty satisfying! Amber took on the task of moving the hay with the tractor this time and with a big smile! 😁 Got the round roll successfully loaded, transported and unloaded into the mare’s hay hut. We got rain yesterday but the hay is dry thanks to the hay huts designed and built by friends Jeff and Annette. Happy horses. Grateful humans.

11/19/2024

We enjoy having visitors to the barn. Recently we had my (heather’s) nephews come spend a couple of hours with us. We’ve had a few other visits from kids and neighbors and friends. Sharing the horses is always a treat ❤️ We have had several days of the foster puppies from the Humane Educational Society hanging out with us ❤️ Long days and early sunset mean we’ve had some time with the horses in the night. Everything is so pretty in the descending darkness.

11/15/2024

Driving by today and don’t see us out in the pasture like usual? That’s because we are away continuing to educate ourselves so we are the best we can be for our horses and the horses we are entrusted to care for at our facility. Thankful for opportunities like this locally.

11/14/2024

Goofy moments. Our horses never know what to expect. One day last week we climbed into the mare’s hay hut to see how they would react. Found it to be quite comfy 🤣 Razzle wasn’t sure what to make of it, but eventually came over to inspect us. The other two just decided to carry on business as usual and it was funny. It’s always fun to entertain the horses with some unexpected events 😊

11/13/2024

Sometimes you accomplish a task you didn’t think you could do solo and it is such a good feeling! Other days…🤣 But this was one of those days when you move the first round bale solo and feel good about having the strength to physically move a ~1000lb roll onto the forks and then can use the tractor your friends let you borrow and navigate into the pasture and to the hay hut. Then you get to test your strength again to topple over the roll into the hut. After it’s done, there is a feeling of accomplishment(and fatigue)🤪

11/11/2024

Cooler days. Fuzzy coats. Team drinking, team eating, team napping. Love this silly crew we’ve got.

11/06/2024

Our first hay delivery since the wonderful Jeff & Annette designed and constructed our wooden hay houses, complete with roofs to keep them dry, and it went so smoothly. Well, let me clarify. The mechanics of opening the side of the structure, getting the approximately 1000lb round roll of hay securely in it, strings removed, and the side lifted back up and secured back into place went smoothly. The part where the horses decided to follow the delivery truck, eat from the round roll while the truck was in motion, run around chasing each other like their tails were on fire, etc was a hot entertaining mess. The mares were much more lady-like in their behavior when their new roll was delivered than the wild and wooly geldings 😉

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Max post vet visit with sedation. Resting comfortably. Snoring? 😴 Maybe not! 🫢 #horsesedated #horsesnoring #horsefarts #snoring #fart #passinggas

I wasn’t even awake enough to identify the sound without going to look out the back of the barn and yet Max was already busy entertaining himself. #happyhorse #ottblove #sillygelding #lovethishorse #maxwellsmart

We’ve got some big time watermelon lovers! Do they feel the same about the leftover juice? You decide.

Max showing what he already knew….

We’ve gotten a lot of rain recently. This means our pastures and barn yard are growing well and we’ve got to keep up with their maintenance. Thank goodness we have reliable “helpers.” #ottb #ottbsofinstagram #horsepower #lawnmower