Hidden Gem Farm

08/25/2024

Cooling the horses off with the hose … and then Gunnar attacks the water 💦

06/19/2024

Our buddy Chip is on stall rest…

12/21/2023

'Not to be opened until Christmas'
Christmas.”
Norman Thelwell

12/21/2023

We have made it.. nights start getting lighter,

10/17/2023

This is hysterical and accurate!!! 😆

The unofficial clip guide...

I think this might be part 1 of a few! 🤣

©️Emily Cole Illustrations

10/07/2023

If your horse eats dropped leaves from some types of maple trees, fast action will be required to save his life. >>>https://bit.ly/EQPreventRedMaplePoisoning

09/24/2023

09/11/2023

07/07/2023

Hahahahaha

05/09/2023

Grass can cause a lot of problems!

Many people think that horses can safely eat grass clippings (grass is grass, right?) but that is a pretty common misconception and grass clippings actually pose a number of dangers to our equine friends.

While grass is meant to be slowly picked, ripped and chewed by the horse, grass clippings can quickly clump and cause choke if the animal ingests too many too fast. Grass clippings are also prone to fermentation which can cause colics, stomach and intestinal impactions, founder and laminitis.

Take-home message: Keep your horse away from grass clippings and in general never feed horses any food without the owner’s permission.

Source: Dr. Jenna Moline, a member of the AAEP Horse Owner Education member. In memory of Chula, a much-loved horse who recently passed away after eating grass clippings thrown into her pasture by a neighbor; shared with the blessing of Chula’s family with hopes to prevent this tragedy from happening to any other horse owners.

05/04/2023

It’s a tough life for Chip.

04/26/2023

Shared from a group post:

“Have a bad ride? Rough day working at the barn? A saddle you want, just financially out of reach?

I'd like to take this time to remind you that...

Hunter/jumpers: we ride horses in circles and jump sticks for a living and then we let some person tell us our horse did, or did not, jump the sticks as pretty as another horse.

Dressage: we trot in circles and let someone tell someone else to write down whether or not we are circley enough for the circle club

Eventers: we decided jumping out of an airplane without a parachute wasnt exciting enough, so we run at mach speeds towards walls, ditches, and small lakes to see who can do it fastest.

Barrel racers: we spend all of our time fine tuning our ability to turn 3 times faster than anyone else

Ropers: we catch calves that are technically already caught

Steer wrestlers: we wrestle an animal that didnt even know there was a wrestling match coming their way

Team Sorters: even on our worst day, we didnt spend as much as the cutters.

Reiners: see dressage, add speed.

Cutters: we let several people tell us were better, or worse, at not letting calves hang out with their buddies.

Team penners: we take caught calves, and make them a little more caught

Mounted shooters: because we’ve used this skill never… in the last 200 years

Endurance: we take 10 times as long, and 10 times more money to get somewhere an ATV could've brought us.

Western Pleasure: we poke around at wine sipping speeds in the equestrian equivalent of a ball gown.

Trail riders: cheers. Yall have it figured out 🤣

It's not that serious yall, so just have fun!”