Evergreen Farms

02/20/2025

02/17/2025

The weathers not allllll bad ❄️🤗

02/01/2025

We accept horses from the walk-trot-canter level through advanced dressage, hunters, jumpers and western horses including reiners. We are in need of horses that are fit and sound, well trained in their discipline and under 18 years old. Our school horses generally work one to two hours a day, four to five days a week. We do not accept “project” horses for donation.

01/30/2025

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01/21/2025

Hay girls! 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️

01/20/2025

A Huge Thank You to Our Amazing Staff! 🌟

I want to take a moment to deeply appreciate the incredible team who braved the freezing temperatures and snow, showing up with smiles on their faces, ready to give their all. Your dedication and hard work, especially in these harsh conditions, ensure that our horses receive the best care and attention. Your commitment to their wellbeing is truly inspiring.

I couldn’t do it without you. Thank you for everything you do!

01/16/2025

01/16/2025

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I was given a wonderful opportunity to study the hock of a 15 year old sport pony that was sadly euthanised this week.

He was competing up to March 2024 but was receiving 3- monthly joint injections of steroids. He was retired properly after his last event due to ongoing lameness in his left hock (hind leg). He was a Grand Prix sport pony. I have no idea what it means but I think he was pretty good.

I’m waiting for vet reports but I have the full history as shared by his owner. I also have X-rays from 2021 and 2024.

This is a story to be told. His owner wants you to be informed. Injecting hocks….
Keeping them going…..

For now, I insist on no owner bashing.
To know better we can do better.

Without my dissection of his hock, his story would be buried with him.

The photo is a joint mouse. It’s a historical name for a intra-articular loose body. Its name comes from it seeing to move like a mouse scurrying around the inside of a joint.

This came out of his hock.

Edited to add- I have a lot more to share with you. The hock joint was a mess. This joint mouse was one finding.

I have his feet too and they are amazing.
At last good feet. Well cared for feet.

Edited yo add more info from Plutos owner

Hey All, Lindsey is busy i think but can you please be aware, the pony wasnt injected 2 monthly, it was only a few times with the few years he was with us, previous owners did this 3 times a year to keep him comfortable. he had xrays in 2021, 2023 (i think this was our first xray) and one during his retirement as he had a flare up. Our wonderful vet did tell us that he is likely to need to be retired, we did try to keep him going for the rest of the season - she saw him in feb and the season finishes in March. Our vet did recommend more xrays also but after all the money we had spent and believing the hock was much the same we didnt do this - i want to make sure the wonderful vets that saw Pluto are not blamed for this. I said to Lindsey that we probably did try to push to get him through the last season and that thinking back we shouldnt have, but we all learn dont we. Please remember that our wonderful vets are here to make sure our horses are comfortable and happy and there is to be no blame on them - they advised retirement probably 3 months prior to us retiring him, now we truely know whats inside his hock we feel absolutely devastated we didnt just retire him immediately - but that blame is not on my vet at all! We have learnt so much from this process, and as you can imagine knowing we should have stopped a few months or more sooner plays on our minds - but i dont think we would be the only ones that do this and dont fully understand how bad it really was. Love you Pluto, you were the coolest!!!

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01/15/2025

boop.

01/15/2025

01/08/2025

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01/06/2025

I could not imagine galloping this horse let alone soaring over those fences and making those turns!! Impressive 👏