Heaven Sent Farm, LLC

09/16/2025

09/15/2025

09/15/2025

This time of year you might notice your horse is a bit more spirited, perhaps hungrier, and their coat is beginning to change. These are all signs that 🍂fall 🍂 is just about here and it's time to start prepping your horse for their winter nutrition!

09/15/2025

09/13/2025

We got the cutest portrait done by Madys Pony Portraits!
If you're looking for a portrait she is amazing!

I think it's super funny that my boys look so tiny next to us, in real life they're giant so it's really cute to have the two ponies be big and eye catching just like their personalities ♥️ And they all look so much like my real horses 🥰

I split the portrait up here so I could see my groups of horses together too, the way they live at home😆

It's also amazing because Stella wasn't keen on joining us for our engagement photos, so it's awesome to have her added to the portrait of us with Emma 🥰

09/13/2025

We will go out on a limb here…
Horses need their ribs to be functional.

That should not be a shocking or controversial topic, yet it is. Clinical significance of ECVM is highly controversial between veterinarians. ECVM horses are sometimes missing their first ribs.

I have heard the excuse that these horses have an anatomical variant. That if it was clinically significant or a malformation they could not be competing. That if they can compete with it- it must be a “normal variant” and not a malformation. If that is the logic used then that rule must stand for all – navicular, hock arthritis, OCDs, kissing spine, neck arthritis. As those are all accepted clinically significant diseases. We recognize that horses can be born with, develop early on, or can occur with use but yet often do compete successfully with these conditions.

Yes that missing rib and malformed lower neck can be the cause of pain, reactivity, lameness, girthiness, behavioral concerns, tripping/stumbling ex. Yes, it is a significant diagnosis, similar to the rest mentioned above. Some horses can be managed to have successful careers, and some cannot. However, missing your first rib, having your ventral neck muscles malformed and compressing your brachial plexus in the wrong area is indeed clinically significant, no one will ever convince us otherwise.

All to often, owners have been told heir horse’s necks were normal, but yet the malformation is present. Owners, trainers, and veterinarians who cite one paper determining that ECVM is not clinically significant, ignore their horses’ clinical signs, and discredit ECVM as a possible clinical cause - will always be invited to come see a necropsy with Rexos. Not all ECVM horses are unusable, similar to kissing spines- some struggle while others do not. They all however need support, management, and to be heard when they give subtle signs of pain. When you necropsy a horse who is clinically affected - their bodies so vividly tell a story of disfunction and pain. These horses show their stories of pain so clearly in necropsies. They can have one or more missing ribs, incorrect muscle attachments (thus biomechanics affected), serious nerve entrapments, trachea malformations, and more. It is impossible to walk away thinking this is not clinically significant.

Photo of rudimentary first rib, with abnormal brachial plexus placement trapped under. Yes that would be painful and cause tripping/forelimb lameness.

09/12/2025

Freddie started learning to lunge with his new bestie Rylee Marie and he did awesome!
I'm so excited to see him getting moving and watching him take in everything while enjoying learning 🐴
He does a LOT of processing during any activity he's a part of, and it was so fun to watch him start to get the hang of things!

09/11/2025

Are you overwhelmed by all of the different 🐴 supplements on the market?

Trying to find the perfect supplement to add to your horse's feed plan, but don't know what to choose?

Maybe you are wary of feeding supplements, or you love feeding them and have too many?

Join me for a FREE virtual event (zoom link coming soon) to talk all about supplements- what works, what doesn't, choosing quality products, what ingredients to look for, Q&A, and more all with a certified nutrition consultant (me!) who is not affiliated with any brands🐴

I am NOT selling products, this is purely an educational event including lots of different brands and styles of feeding!