Prospering Farm

06/30/2024

Hey horse people
Tips to keep horses hydrated and not colic
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08/31/2022

So true

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06/10/2022

LOVE this! ❤

11/24/2021

From a lesson mom… 💗 Inspired by a lesson a few weeks ago.

11/23/2021

Posting Trot!

I must admit I had never found the word post remotely interesting until I decided to figure out why we call it a posting trot. Turns out, the word post has about 1,200 meanings, and we use and know most of them. What you won’t find in your dictionary, because the word is French, is …

09/30/2021

A thought-provoking read.
By Jane Smiley
Most horses pass from one human to another - some horsemen and women are patient and forgiving, others are rigorous and demanding, others are cruel, others are ignorant.
Horses have to learn how to, at the minimum, walk, trot, canter, gallop, go on trails and maybe jump, to be treated by the vet, all with sense and good manners.
Talented Thoroughbreds must learn how to win races, and if they can't do that, they must learn how to negotiate courses and jump over strange obstacles without touching them, or do complicated dance
like movements or control cattle or accommodate severely handicapped children and adults in therapy work.
Many horses learn all of these things in the course of a single lifetime. Besides this, they learn to understand and fit into the successive social systems of other horses they meet along the way.
A horse's life is rather like twenty years in foster care, or in and out of prison, while at the same time changing schools over and over and discovering that not only do the other students already have their own social groups, but that what you learned at the old school hasn't much application at the new one.
We do not require as much of any other species, including humans.
That horses frequently excel, that they exceed the expectations of their owners and trainers in such circumstances, is as much a testament to their intelligence and adaptability as to their relationship skills or their natural generosity or their inborn nature. That they sometimes manifest the same symptoms as abandoned orphans - distress, strange behaviors, anger, fear - is less surprising than that they usually don't.
No one expects a child, or even a dog to develop its intellectual capacities living in a box 23 hours a day and then doing controlled exercises the remaining one.
Mammal minds develop through social interaction and stimulation.
A horse that seems "stupid", "slow", "stubborn", etc. might just have not gotten the chance to learn!
Take care of your horses and treasure them.

08/15/2021

Passion starts at a young age

08/15/2021

If you love something and there’s a will there’s a way ❤️❤️

08/12/2021

While riding may have started as physical therapy for Claire Yount, soon it became her passion, and this year—thanks to support and inspiration from her trainers and family—she’ll be making her USEF Pony Finals debut. Yount's family picked ...

07/27/2021

You might expect the owner of a big, burly Chevrolet Silverado to have a dog by his side, but a cat is a bit of a surprise. Enter Walter. Walter is a cat who has a lot of dog-like qualities, but st…

07/20/2021

Wow

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