Twin Tree Farm

01/15/2023

Twin Tree really need this baby!

We haven’t done any updates on the ”house cow”. She’s doing really good! We named her “Lucy”. She will be 2 months old on the 17th. She had no idea how to be a cow, we brought her bed out to the barn, and she still sleeps on it at night 😉. She spends the days with the weaned calves, and night in her own pen with her bed, sweet feed and all the other goodies just for her. We had couple of days of crying (Brad mostly), but now we’ve all adjusted to the change, although he did let her back in last night “just to visit” 😉

11/19/2022

The things that wise and veteran horse trainers DON’T say----
If you spend long hours down in the training arenas with the men and women who have spent years training, you won’t hear “He’s doing this because he’s a brat.”

Or “He knows better.”
Or, “He always tries to embarrass me.”
Or, “He loves to show off.”

Or any of the many anthropomorphic statements that less savvy humans make about why a horse is or is not doing something. So many people think emotionally about horses rather than rationally, and somehow they think that horses are somehow big, furry mini-humans in the ways that they react and respond.

They will say “my horse loves---” or “my horse hates,” or “my horse wants” placing human-like reasons for behaviors which have little to do with how horses evolved as a far different species from humans.

But try to un-convince them---It is a way of processing that I heard described as “eight year old thinking.” Actually, the way that I heard it from a veteran teacher went like this---She said, “It’s OK to think like a little 8 year old when you’re 8. Hell, what do you know when you’re 8? Not so OK to hear it when they’re 18 or 80.”

As I say, hang around the true experts, hear what you hear.

08/18/2019

We had a great “End of Summer” Lunch to with a fun farm group!!! A wonderful group of working students: Grace, Brianna, and Hailey. Plus good friends and riders. We have an awesome plan for lots of Fall Fun!

09/27/2016

Over The Moon, aka Vegas in her Dressage test at the 41st Annual Tryon Horse Trials, September 24-25, 2016. She scored an incredible 20.9. She finished the weekend with a 24.9 earning her a 1st Place in her Novice Division. Twin Tree is very proud of Vegas' performance.

https://www.facebook.com/kari.a.tankersley/posts/10209534851744840

07/20/2015

Frauline's Baby has arrived!!!! It is a c**t and the surrogate mare is doing well also. Frauline is very happy about the news!

09/24/2013

Jasper got his scores at Second Level so that he can now start to work on his 2nd Level Freestyle. Plus he worked very hard in his lessons with Robert this past weekend. :O)

03/08/2013

We are trying to update the Twin Tree Farm Page on FB so anyone who has some fresh pictures just add them in. Maggie is now and administrator on the page too so let her know if you have any problems loading pictures. Thanks Kari & Jasper

10/31/2010

So....long time, no update. Sry about that. Since the last show we posted about (TR&HC Schooling HT), We've gone to 2 HT up at FENCE. I've written more on our notes page! Check it out!!

09/16/2010

Here's an update:
At the TR&HC show, Maggie & Jasper were 1st (of 12) after Dressage and finished out the show in 2nd! Also, Maddy & Smacks completed the show with their Dressage Score and ended up with a 4th out of 12. Julia & Scout completed their first event at Novice and ended up with an 8th place out of 12. Congratulations to all and we can't wait to represent TTF soon at another show!

07/10/2010

Today
is National Helmet Awareness Day! Almost all tack shops are having huge
discounts on helmets for today ONLY!! Check out the campaign at:
http://www.riders4helmets.com/

WEAR YOUR HELMETS!!

Jeffers Equine sent in this video of them showing their support of National Helmet Awareness Day, so we thought we would share it with you. Enjoy!

07/02/2010

A Very Happy Birthday to TTF's Owner and Head Trainer Kari Anderson Tankersley!!

07/01/2010

Hot days, keeping the horses comfy. Make sure you provide your horses with plenty of water and shade in their pastures!

06/21/2010

Go check out Kim Miller Wilson's Photos from the Twin Tree Farm Party. They are GREAT!!!!!

06/19/2010

It's Party Day!!!!

06/18/2010

Last day of prep before the big party TOMORROW!! Hope everyone can make it out, even just to check out the New Barn, enjoy some food, or say "Hi".

06/16/2010

We've updated some very important farm information on the "About Us" page of our website. We've also added some more photos to the photo album!