WindWolf Farm

31/12/2024

31/12/2024

Help Wanted - We need your help getting the word out about the upcoming My Furry Valentine adoption event taking place on January 25th & 26th at Spooky Nook Sports. We have posters and flyers available for pick-up at Cincinnati Animal CARE Monday - Friday 1p-6p and Spooky Nook Sports Champion Mill check-in desk 24/7. Success would be getting these posters and flyers plastered all around the tri-state area. Getting them up at your local Kroger, breweries, tattoo shops, coffee shops, hair salons, etc. is a great way to help us get the word out and help connect loving families with an adoptable animal (or 2 or 3).

29/12/2024

A few days ago, I got an email with some pretty intense questions about our farming practices. It’s not unusual, but one question really stood out: “Are they fed a vegetarian diet?”

Honestly, that one stopped me in my tracks. Not because it’s a tough question, but because it highlights just how much misinformation is out there about chickens. Let me be clear, the whole “vegetarian-fed” label is nonsense. It sounds good on paper, but it makes absolutely no sense if you understand anything about chickens.

Here’s the reality- chickens are not vegetarians. They’re omnivores to their core. If you’ve ever seen chickens roaming outside, you know they’re constantly hunting for bugs, worms, and could even go after a frog or a mouse. It’s their natural diet and provides essential nutrients they can’t get from plants alone.

But the “vegetarian-fed” label? It’s usually slapped on chickens raised in confinement, fed a controlled diet of grains and plants, with no access to the outdoors. No foraging, no scratching, no freedom to live like actual chickens. It’s a feel-good marketing term, but it’s completely at odds with how chickens are meant to live.

So where does this come from? A lot of it seems to stem from animal activists who think “vegetarian-fed” sounds more ethical. But here’s the thing: they’re missing the point. If you really care about animal welfare, you want pasture-raised or truly free-range birds. Those are the chickens living their best lives, roaming outside, and eating what they’re supposed to—yes, including bugs.

If anything, the “vegetarian-fed” label should be a red flag. It’s not about the welfare of the chickens; it’s about selling an idea to people who don’t know better. If you truly care about ethical farming and healthy animals, skip the buzzwords and look for pasture-raised or free-range instead. Or even better hit up your local egg farm nearby so you can see the conditions yourself and support a small Homestead or Farm! 🖤

25/12/2024

Happy Holidays! No one enjoys this time of year more than a kitten!

23/12/2024

modern agriculture :innovation;sustainability;tech-driven farming;empowering farmers;feeding the world in 2050

17/12/2024

27/11/2024

The Importance of Collection

20/11/2024

Well, today I got out 3 round bales. Built a new temp bale feeder for the ponies in their pen, and amended the soil with a lot of chipped mulch. It was a Long day! Started off misting and gray and then blossomed into sunny 66°F afternoon. In 2 days we can expect negative wind chills…. 😳.

15/11/2024

One of the consequences of today's discipline isolation has been that many disciplines now have their specific "correct" horse. For example, dressage judges no longer score horses performance on their movements in the context of an individual horse's breed. Judges now measure and score every horse against the "ideal" movement of the Warmblood type. Dressage used to mean "training" for all breeds. There was no single "correct" horse based on one breed type's supposed "ideal" movement.

Dressage competitions, not long ago, included a diverse range of breeds. But now a dressage horse has to be a Warmblood because that breed type is thought to have the exclusive ability to demonstrate "correct" movement above every other breed. I think this concept is absurd. This idea of a "correct horse" for each discipline undermines the idea of the versatile, all-around horse. This has produced many unintended consequences.

It means that every human body type, if they wish to compete in modern dressage, must ride a Warmblood, the only "correct" horse. Whether it be for dressage, reining, or other equestrian pursuits, horse-rider mismatches are now inevitable. If you are a large heavy reining person you must ride a small QH and if you are a tiny dressage person you must ride a large Warmblood.

Before this narrow idea of the "correct horse", riders rode horses that related to how their individual body type fit with a horse's body type to make an effective unified team. Yes, there are breeds that are generally better at a discipline. Thoroughbreds have the speed required in racing, for example, but most equestrian pursuits are not based on only one trait as racing is.

The "correct breed" concept has resulted in changes to equipment and training regimes. These changes are intended to overcome rider-horse body type mismatches. In reining, oversized riders on small horses, doing 30 foot plus slides, means that those small horses begin receiving hock injections as early as 3 or 4 years old. In dressage, small riders must now use very different dressage saddles that allow them to leverage their low body weight to achieve the required hyperflexed bend in the neck for competition. See link below.

The tail is wagging the dog today when it comes to matching horses and riders. Riders now must adapt to a prescribed horse type for a discipline instead of finding a more rational horse-rider match. This ridiculous artificial concept of single correct horse must change if authentic horsemanship is to be reestablished and if reason is to prevail.

*link to post about how and why dressage saddles have changed to overcome rider-horse mismatches -

www.facebook.com/BobWoodHorsesForLife/posts/pfbid029ziRUXRMJtPUTxu8kvPmoWkygycfoek6j1KGTKfNXejdp7BE8S1N95d87vZFjrqkl

14/11/2024

We have an opening for 1-2 horses for boarding.
24/7 pasture turnout, over 50 acres to roam.
Partial care which includes feeding grain 1x/day in winter and all hay provided.
$200/month, must have proof of vaccinations and been currently wormed.
No stallions allowed.
PM for more information.
Richmond, IN

09/11/2024

Been busy the last couple weeks. Got the pony shelter built. Rebuilt the round bale hut on the hill, added a gate to the hay hut behind the barn. Got some hay delivered. Got the canopy shelter up behind the barn. It’s not finished yet but it’s close!

02/11/2024

Head and neck position

29/10/2024

23/10/2024