Lilywood Farm

11/30/2023

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09/09/2022

So true!! 😊😊😊

08/10/2022

5 Reasons why long grass is better than short grass for horses.

1. Generally the further up the stalk the horse eats, each cell of the plant has a higher fibre/sugar ratio.
2. Eating longer grass means the horse has to chew more, slowing the intake while increasing the essential flow of saliva. The saliva helps to buffer the stomach acid.
3. A healthy horse eats until they have a specific volume of fibre in their stomach before stopping. So eating short grass with a high-sugar and low fibre ratio means a horse consumes a lot of high-sugar grass before enough fibre is ingested to trigger that 'full enough' feeling and finish their grazing bout.
We should focus on increasing our pastures' fibre content, which will reduce the NSC intake.
4. Short grass is usually stressed grass, constantly trying to recover/grow. Therefore it will store/hang on to a lot of Non-Structural Carbohydrates (NSCs) (sugars/starches) in preparation for when growing conditions improve.
5. Long grass creates a longer root system, improving both the health of the grass, the soil biome and it follows the health of the horse.
Read the full article here. https://www.equiculture.net/blog/horses-short-grass-or-long-grass along with many other great articles.

07/02/2022

Brick House Landing Chapter DAR is sponsoring Hillside Memorial Gardens Cemetery, located on Hwy. 32, Plymouth, NC. for Wreaths Across America, a National 501(c) 3. We will be placing wreaths on December 17th on Veterans final place of rest. We are asking for sponsors of the wreaths in the amount of $15.00. There will be a ceremony before the wreath laying starting at 11:00am, the public is invited. If you would like to sponsor a wreath for Hillside Memorial Gardens please go to https://wreathsacrossamerica.org/NC0458P ;
If you have a Veteran not in Hillside but want to sponsor a wreath for a specific veteran you must contact [email protected] to get further information.
Below you can see our progress so far! Thank you for your support!

05/25/2022

Trinity is a missing Horse near Pinetown, NC, 27865 - ID # 5239 @ NetPosse ID

04/26/2022

❤️❤️❤️ Now we know!! 😁🐎

1838's Eight Things a Lady Equestrian Simply Should Not Do

1. Do not ride the wrong-colored horse.
“Of all colours presented by the horse, none is so rich, and, at the same time, so elegant and chaste, as a bright bay; providing the mane, tail and lower parts of the legs, be black.”
“But much white, either on the face or legs, whatever be the general hue, is quite the reverse of desirable.”

2. Be easy, but not slovenly (in the saddle).
“Nothing can be more detrimental to the grace of a lady’s appearance on horseback, than a bad position, it is a sight that would spoil the finest landscape in the world. She ought to be correct, without seeming stiff or formal: and easy, without appearing slovenly.”

3. Do not let your hair embarrass you. And definitely don’t wear a bonnet.
“The hair should be plaited; or, if otherwise dressed, so arranged and secured that it may not be blown into the rider’s eyes, nor, from exercise, or the effect of humid weather, be liable to be so discomposed, as to become embarrassing. To ride in a bonnet is far from judicious.”

4. Do not beat your horse – it is ungraceful.
“Ladies certainly ought not to ride horses which require extraordinary correction…a lady should never be seen in the act of positively flogging her steed: such a sight would destroy every previous idea that had been formed of her grace and gentleness.”

5. Always ride with a man to shield you if your petticoats start to show!
“The only inducements for a gentleman to ride on the left of a lady, would be, that, by having his right hand toward her, in case of her needing assistance, he might, the more readily and efficiently, be enabled to afford it, than if he were on the opposite side; and, should any disarrangement occur in the skirt of her habit, he might screen it until remedied.”

6.“No lady of taste ever gallops on the road.”
Just say no.

7. Do not harass your horse.
“The lady, in all cases, should recollect that her horse requires occasional haltings and relaxation…it is always better, if the pupil err in this respect, to do so on the side of brevity, than, by making her lessons too long, to harass her horse.”

8. Though most of all – do not ride a horse who is anything less than perfect.
The Lady’s Horse: “The beau ideal of this kind of horse is superlatively elegant in form, exquisitely fine in coat, and unexceptionably beautiful in colour; of a height, in the nicest degree appropriate to the figure of the rider; graceful, accurate, well-united, and thoroughly safe in every pace; ‘light as a feather’ in the hand, though not at all painfully sensitive to a proper action of the bit; bold in the extreme, yet superlatively docile; free, in every respect, from what is technically denominated ‘vice;’ excellent in temper, but still ‘though gentle, yet not dull;’ rarely, if ever requiring the stimulus of the whip, yet submitting temperately to its occasional suggestions.”

04/11/2022

🤭🤣 Oliver keeps everything fun!!

04/09/2022

The boys enjoyed this cool afternoon 🐎

04/06/2022

Read , let it sink in, then read again :

“No. 1. Get your tack and equipment just right, and then forget about it and concentrate on the horse.

No. 2. The horse is bigger than you are, and it should carry you. The quieter you sit, the easier this will be for the horse.

No. 3. The horse's engine is in the rear. Thus, you must ride your horse from behind, and not focus on the forehand simply because you can see it.

No. 4. It takes two to pull. Don't pull. Push.

No. 5. For your horse to be keen but submissive, it must be calm, straight and forward.

No. 6. When the horse isn`t straight, the hollow side is the difficult side.

No. 7. The inside rein controls the bending, the outside rein controls the speed.

No. 8. Never rest your hands on the horse's mouth. You make a contract with it: "You carry your head and I'll carry my hands."

No. 10. Once you've used an aid, put it back.

No. 11. You can exaggerate every virtue into a defect.

No. 12. Always carry a stick, then you will seldom need it.

No. 13. If you`ve given something a fair trial, and it still doesn't work, try something else—even the opposite.

No. 14. Know when to start and when to stop. Know when to resist and when to reward.

No. 15. If you're going to have a fight, you pick the time and place.

No. 16. What you can't accomplish in an hour should usually be put off until tomorrow.

No. 17. You can think your way out of many problems faster than you can ride your way out of them.

No. 18. When the horse jumps, you go with it, not the other way around.

No. 19. Don`t let over-jumping or dull routine erode the horse's desire to jump cleanly. It's hard to jump clear rounds if the horse isn't trying.

No. 20. Never give up until the rail hits the ground.

No. 21. Young horses are like children—give them a lot of love, but don't let them get away with anything.

No. 22. In practice, do things as perfectly as you can; in competition, do what you have to do.

No. 23. Never fight the oats.

No. 24. The harder you work, the luckier you get."

~Bill Steinkraus

04/03/2022

❤ Beautiful day!!

04/01/2022

❤ Lydia loving on Oliver, our newest "gelding" 😉😁

03/17/2022

Handsome Oliver!! Love this c**t!! Friesian sporthorse coming 2 yr old....soon to be gelding!!😜

03/15/2022

😁🐎💪❤

02/13/2022

Who’s ready for spring?? 🌼☀️🌷🌻

02/13/2022

01/13/2022

01/11/2022

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