Bittersweet Farm LLC

01/29/2025

01/12/2025

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Care for your horse, simplified. 🐴✨ The BEMER Horse-Set is easy to use, effortlessly effective, and designed to keep your horse feeling their best. Simple setup, powerful results. 💪🌟

01/10/2025

BEMER Equine is an excellent way to help warm your horse up for working/riding … especially on cold & chilly days.

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01/09/2025

Your horse deserves the best care, and the BEMER Horse-Set delivers just that. 🐴✨ Trusted by riders and trainers, it promotes better circulation, faster recovery, and a happier, healthier horse. 💪

12/29/2024

That’s a first! December 28, 2024 and using the mud hose.

12/26/2024

Happy Holidays to you and your horses from all of us at BEMER. 🐴

12/21/2024

This holiday season, give your horse the gift of recovery, improved performance, and relaxation with BEMER Horse-Set! 💙🎁

12/20/2024

DRESSAGE SOLUTIONS: To encourage your horse to seek the connection and reach into both reins when asking him to stretch forward and down …

Close your leg and give your reins forward, thinking of the reins as telephone lines where the messages can be sent and received only if the circuit is not broken or loopy.
~ Karen Adams

Karen Adams is s a retired U.S. Equestrian Federation “R” dressage judge, instructor and coach in Keedysville, Maryland. Previously, she was the head instructor at Linda Zang’s Idlewilde Farm and competed through Prix St. Georges.

🎨 Sandy Rabinowitz

12/16/2024

As the cold winter weather trudges on, Dr. Sarah Reuss, AAEP Vice President and a horse owner herself, shares the following advice to keep your horse safe during extreme weather.

1. While lots of hay is ideal for horses to eat to keep warm, now is NOT the time to introduce a round bale if they’ve never had access to one before. It may be more work, but keep throwing them their normal hay source, just more frequently.

2. Similarly, if your horse is not used to being in a stall, now is NOT the time. The stress of a major change and the decreased activity can be risk factors for colic. Be sure they have access to shelter, hay, and drinkable water but let them move around if they choose to do so.

3. Horses that are thin, older, or fully body clipped are those most at risk in extreme weather.

4. Well-fitting blankets are great but be sure that horses do not get sweaty under them, or that the blankets don’t soak through if snow or rain covered. Wet, cold and covered is worse that dry, cold and naked.

5. Some of the highest risk times are when the temperatures hover right around freezing, as that can result in sleet/freezing rain/ice that can make horses wet and therefore colder. Slippery footing is a concern, too.

6. If using electric water heaters, be sure they are functioning and not shocking horses. Take your gloves off and stick your hand in the water (briefly!!!) to double check.

7. Entice your horses to consume extra water by flavoring a bucket, adding electrolytes to their meals, or soaking their meals in warm water. If you’ve never fed beet pulp before, be sure to add LOTS of warm water. Dry beet pulp is a common source of choke.

8. The tips of your horses' ears can be at risk for frostbite. Putting on a waterproof, jumper-style ear bonnet or other waterproof ear cover can protect them from wind chills.

If you have any questions or concerns about keeping your horses safe this winter, contact your veterinarian for advice.

12/16/2024

Way to go Julie Cooper!!

Santa and Mrs. Claus are here and they even arrived by carriage! Shout out to Blue and Ben for hauling them into Fisk.

Santa, Mrs. Claus, and the Grinch are hanging out until 4pm. Come out and say hi!

12/15/2024

TODAY IS THE DAY!

1-4pm the Utica Fire House is open to the public. Come see Santa, Mrs. Claus, and the Grinch, do crafts, decorate cookies, have some hot cocoa, try some cheese, try on some bunker gear, and MORE!

Can’t wait to see you all!

11/12/2024

RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOUR HORSE IS ACCIDENT-PRONE...🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️

If you own horses long enough, sooner or later you are likely to confront a medical emergency. There are several behavioral traits that make horses especially accident-prone: one is their instinctive flight-or-fight response; another is their need to establish the pecking order within a herd; and a third is their natural curiosity. Such behaviors account for many of the cuts, bruises, and abrasions that horses suffer. In fact, lacerations are probably the most common emergency that horse owners must contend with.

Do you know what to do if your horse is cut or bleeding? The initial steps you take to treat a wound can prevent further damage and speed healing, and maintaining your presence of mind could save your horse's life. Here are some general guidelines to keep in mind in case of emergency; how you will ultimately proceed will depend on your horse's individual circumstances, and on the advice you receive from your veterinarian.

10/31/2024

King Henry the Eighth and his loyal servant Sir Eli Lion 🦁
Say HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃!

10/30/2024

🐴DRESSAGE SOLUTIONS:🐴 To post more efficiently for forward motion …

Imagine your body as a box with hinges at the hips. Keep your box square as you rise freely in the posting trot. This “squareness” (no tipping left or right) will keep your horse’s body traveling straight and forward, too.

— Janice Dulak, dressage rider and pilates instructor