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27/06/2025

Lessons With Jenny Today Was Fantastic, with Summer & Her Nice Buckskin Joining Us 🤠🐴😘

20/06/2025

15/06/2025

Here's to the dads who rise with the sun, lead with strength, and
love with their whole hearts. Happy Father’s Day to the heroes of
the farm and home. 🚜❤

15/06/2025

💥Support builds athletes. Band-aids cover mistakes. Don’t confuse the two💣

So many people are afraid of the word “maintenance.” But it's not the enemy.
What we should fear is the lack of a solid foundation that leaves horses needing to be taped together just to function🩹

🧬 Poor nutrition doesn’t just “make a horse dull”. It affects development, recovery, weakness/wasting, inflammation, energy, and healing.
❌️Incorrect hoof angles don’t just look bad. They lead to bone remodeling, joint strain, soft tissue injury, and compensation all the way up the body.
💀 Poor posture isn’t just “sloppy” it causes misalignment, muscle imbalances, arthritic changes, chronic tension, and dysfunctional movement patterns.
Poor saddle fit, bad bits with bad hands, unbalanced riders, poor training etc.

🛑 You can’t bute a horse into soundness.
🛑 You can’t throw the kitchen sink at a horse and call it "maintenance" when really it’s damage control and yet these horses are still being hammered on.
Expected to run harder, turn tighter, jump higher, carry more, more, more, more, MORE.
With no structured recovery, no supportive care, and no awareness of the imbalance boiling beneath the surface.

Why did it take years of poor hoof angles before anyone thought to get radiographs?

Why did she have to stumble and run up the wall before anyone asked about back pain?

Why does it take ulcers, aggression, refusals, or full-blown breakdowns before a horse’s needs are finally addressed?

Or ignore it further as someone commented in a recent post, "make them pound rocks from sunrise to sunset and they will learn to love their job again"

The truth is: They needed the right care, earlier.
They didn’t need to be patched together. They needed to be supported before they fell apart.

Real maintenance starts with a real foundation:
✅ Balanced nutrition
✅ Correct balanced hoof angles
✅ Strength-based conditioning
✅ Recovery time
✅ Postural awareness
✅ Whole-horse support

There are so many ways to help horses thrive.
Not just masking symptoms with meds until the wheels fall off and discarded at the local sale barn.

Respect them as athletes not disposable tools.
Yes, injections, meds, and supplements can all be part of a solid program.
But bandaging breakdowns and calling it “maintenance” is not the same as building a healthy, functional, supported athlete.

Because a horse that feels good will give you everything.
Let’s do better. So they don’t have to break before they’re heard.

We owe it to them to look at the bodies we’ve helped shape and ask yourself "Are you proud of what you see?"

10/06/2025

Spa Day Here Today, AKA Shoeing Day!
So Grateful For A Barn and a Big A$$ Fan❣️
As it is over 100 degrees🥵

07/06/2025

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“Through no fault of their own" seems to be the starting phrase to a lot of horse sale and rehoming ads these days, specifically ones for horses that are older, less than sound, high maintenance or otherwise difficult to place.

It always makes me scratch my head a little bit. It also lights a small fire in me.

I have buried every horse that has come to be mine over the last 20 years. I feel pretty strongly about being the last stop for an animal that comes into my care. I also feel pretty strongly that dealing with the inevitable decisions regarding end of life for those animals is not only part of the deal, it's my responsibility as a horsewoman.

As someone who has carved out an unintentional niche working with tough horses, I get offered - more often than I'd like - horses no one else has been able to figure out and for whom I am often their last hope. I got another offer this week for such an animal. I declined. My heart is too open and soft and is marked with too many scars from horses past that I couldn't fix. I wear those scars well and with a fair amount of stoicism...but I know they're there and feel their pull more often than I care to admit.

The older I get and the more time I spend with horses, the more I feel that it is a rare thing that choosing a peaceful end for the horses in our care is the wrong decision.

Even if the horse is still rideable "for the right person".

Even if the horse is sound.

Even if the horse isn't what one might consider "old" or "aged".

Even if the horse "just needs some basic maintenance".

Even if the horse "might be perfectly suited for a different job".

Maybe so.

But the moment you release that horse into someone else's hands, all bets are off as to what happens next. I offer my horses quite a bit - at least I'd like to think so - but the most important thing I offer them is the guarantee that they will never know suffering. They will never know cruelty.

They will never face an uncertain future "through no fault of their own".

28/05/2025

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25/12/2023

Merry Christmas 🎄
Wishing all our friends and family a beautiful & a Very Merry Christmas!

From Our Farm To Yours❣️🎄