Forza Cavallo Farm

04/15/2025

Be there Vegan Enthusiasts!!!! 🪴🦾💜

04/14/2025

Swing by…check us out!!! 🎠

09/01/2024

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Talking about whisker clipping is a really great litmus test to get an idea of how much of competition is human centred.

It’s a far more controversial topic than it should be.

In FEI classes, whisker clipping was banned recently and this caused a major uproar.

But in lower level classes and many other show organizations, it’s perfectly legal.

Regardless of anyone’s personal preferences, a simple fact remains — whiskers are a sensory organ for horses.

Each individual whisker even has its own blood supply.

The debate of how much they help with sensation is still ongoing but what is fact is that we know they’re used for sensory input by the horse.

It really isn’t up to us to argue to what extent they are used when that argument is only being used to justify us clipping them off for totally shallow reasons.

The only “benefit” humans get from whisker clipping is a “cleaner look” that they’ve been conditioned to like better.

There’s no other incentive, it’s all aesthetic based.

So, the fact that this is still as controversial of a debate as it is when it’s rooted in shallow human preferences really speaks for how much competition centres around human desires.

Because WHY are we enabling ourselves in promoting mindsets that flippantly take away protection and sensory output from the horse, with no care of the impact, just because we like they look better?

Whiskers are cute, for one.

For two, you can’t even see them in the show ring, only close up.

And then third, and most obviously, THEY ARE A SENSORY ORGAN.

Competiton can be done ethically, in my opinion.

But we will struggle to get to the destination of ethical competition so long as human desires are centred to the extent they currently are.

06/24/2024

💜 Go PERRY! 💜🎠

06/05/2024

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06/05/2024

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06/03/2024

Some Barrington Transition Academy moments!!!🌻

05/02/2024

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12/25/2023

12/25/2023

Merry Christmas! 🎄

08/28/2023

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08/17/2023

Let’s talk about what an excellent photographer we have in house 😁
Meet one of our new residents 🦨🦨🦨

06/20/2023

Puritan House Saturdays!
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02/25/2023

02/12/2023

~Our Beloved Connections~

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Donkey Socks to Come!!!! We want to thank Marcella and Tom Deininger! They own Forza Cavallo Farms and have a this very awesome store. (click below) Tom designed the Donkey Socks and Marcella has had them made and is putting them in their store and all the money from the Donkey Socks will come to us to help save more. YAY!!!!! Tom and Marcella have four of our baby Donkeys who run with their Friesians all summer free on a huge farm. They are living the life. We have been blessed to have them in our circle for many years. Marcella has been a rock to me. When I wasn't sure where I was going to put an animal if I took it in I would call her and ask her if she would take it if I didn't have any place for it and she always said yes. And I always took any animal in knowing I had a back up. She is one of those people that when you call her, she shows up immediately... with Tom he he. They have trailered many animals for us and helped us in many ways and we are very thankful that they're a part of our Village! Please support them they are such good people. Click below and shop!
I will let you know when the socks get here!!!
William and Ben loved them!!!
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02/11/2023

PONIES!!!

02/11/2023

Around the Farm
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