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22/11/2024

With the recent EHV cases reported in the Spokane area, we thought we would share these helpful tips.

Practicing good biosecurity measures and making sure your horse is up to date on vaccinations are key to helping prevent the spread of infectious diseases.

There have been no know cases reported in the Walla Walla area at this time. However, keeping an awareness for signs or symptoms is still important.

The article below is sourced from the AAEP and has some very helpful information as does the EDCC (Equine Disease Communication Center).

https://aaep.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/EHM_EHV_FAQ_Final.pdf
https://equinediseasecc.org/

21/11/2024

Bob Peters DVM

ATTENTION:
To all my horse friends, roping buddies, barrel racers, breakaway ropers, and clients.
This neurologic rhino outbreak is serious. Stay home till things are under control. There is now a 3rd property involved. There is a mix of western performance and english horses there. All horses and disciplines are at risk. There may not be a worse way for a horse to die than neurologic rhino.
Be safe, they can't get it if they aren't exposed.

PS To equine professionals that move between different barns. You can potentially spread this disease. You should be cleaning up and changing clothes between barns for a while.

19/11/2024

In the golden light of evening's fall,
A woman stands by her horse, once tall,
Now silver threads weave through their mane,
And time has softened strength with pain.

Once, wild fields knew their dancing flight,
Where dawns were chased and stars kissed night,
Galloping trails, leaping rivers wide,
Braving storms with hearts full of pride.

Her laughter rang like a joyful bell,
As he tossed his head with a spirited swell,
Together, they conquered forest and plain,
Their bond unbroken, deep as the rain.

But now, the miles have slowed their run,
Their shadows stretch long in the setting sun,
Legs that once soared now walk with care,
Dreams of youth drift in the autumn air.

Yet love grows richer in its grace,
Lines of wisdom mark her face,
While gentle eyes, so deep and wise,
Glimmer with love that never dies.

They share a peace that adventure gives,
Echoes of joy in the life they’ve lived,
She hums old songs, he nuzzles near,
Comfort and warmth replacing fear.

No mountain's call, no race to win,
Just whispers of memories cradled within,
Soft brush strokes and whispered words,
In the stillness, they need no spurs.

For friendship never truly fades,
No matter how the years have played,
Love holds strong through every course,
Between a woman and her aging horse.

Their hearts still gallop, dreams still flow,
Where fields of youth in memory glow,
A timeless bond, a love so wide,
Riding forever, side by side.

HOW A HORSE OWNER KNOWS THEY ARE RICH!!!I am rich. I have couple hundred dollars  in my checking account and an old geld...
14/11/2024

HOW A HORSE OWNER KNOWS THEY ARE RICH!!!
I am rich. I have couple hundred dollars in my checking account and an old gelding in the barn.
I am rich. I have a truck that works and enough diesel to get to the next trail ride.
I am rich. I have boxes of pasta and generic sauce in my pantry and enough hay to feed my horse through the winter.
I am rich. I have enough old coats and sweaters to layer up and stay warm while I do barn chores.
I am rich. I vacation by camping with my horses and going to cheer on my horse riding friends at horse shows. Sometimes I even play too, and spend $10 to bring home a fifty cent ribbon that I will treasure more than a photo in front of the Eiffel Tower.
I am rich. I have tools: duct tape and baling twine and a husband that knows how to fix just about anything with these tools.
I am rich. I find joy in making my own things, making do, and making right. I have a 10 year old saddle, a 60 ish year old body, and the wonder and joy of a 6 year old child learning that a horse can give her wings.
I am rich.
My wealth is not measured in dollar signs but in horsey snorts and nickers. My riches aren't spent on electronics and fancy clothes but are shared with my human and four footed friends.
Next time someone finds out that I have a horse and says, " You must be rich to afford that" I will smile, and agree.

Truth🤠🐴💙
27/10/2024

Truth🤠🐴💙

SLOOOOOW DOWN!

SLOW your walking down to 1 step per second with and without your horse next to you.
SLOW your hand movements down as you touch or do things.
SLOW your talking down.
SLOW your breathing down.
SLOW your pulls and pushes down on the leadrope.

SLOW to FLOW!

Humans are WAAAAY to fast for horses and this is one of the leading causes of reactivity and opposition reflex in horses.

Speed = stress.

Let me teach you what speed does...

When the brain perceives a threat, it causes the body to release the stress response hormone cortisol. Cortisol levels and speed go hand in hand.
Cortisol provides the body with the fuel it needs to flee a scary situation or fight against it.

The thing with the mind-body relationship is that the brain feels an emotion such as fear, which create a physical response in the body, but the body can also move at a certain speed or in a particular way and create an emotion in the brain. It can be reverse engineered.

This is how special the intimate relationship is between the brain and body.

The other thing to remember is that, collectively as a social animal, when speed is noticed by another mammal (no matter the species), it alerts the unconscious brain to threat.

Speed is an alarm system in a social system (consciously and unconsciously).

If you walked down a road and everyone started running, you'd find it hard not to run even if you didn't know what the cause was. You are noticing that others are running and in a direction, so you mirror them to increase your chances of survival. You don't need the reasoning part of your brain for this. You just activated your primal (survival) part of the brain.

One other thing to remember: HORSES CAN SMELL CORTISOL. So not only does your speed act as a visual alarm system to your horse, it also acts as an olfactory one!

Would you want to interact with someone who caused you to feel constantly on alert?

These little things are the beginnings of what ripples into chronic stress in both humans and horses.
You spend enough time around someone who is fast in their movement, your nervous system will condition itself to being on high alert.
HELLO 👋 CHRONIC STRESS!!!

Slow your movement down = slow your thoughts down.
Slow your movement down = lower your cortisol.
Slow your movement down = feel connected with yourself, the world and others in it.
Slow your movement down = slow your alarm systems down and eventually they'll turn off.

Slow down so much that it is uncomfortable. It won't be uncomfortable for long, I promise 😉

Happy brain training 🧠
Charlotte 🙂

A thought-provoking read.By Jane SmileyMost horses pass from one human to another - some horsemen and women are patient ...
23/10/2024

A thought-provoking read.
By Jane Smiley

Most horses pass from one human to another - some horsemen and women are patient and forgiving, others are rigorous and demanding, others are cruel, others are ignorant.

Horses have to learn how to, at the minimum, walk, trot, canter, gallop, go on trails and maybe jump, to be treated by the vet, all with sense and good manners.

Talented Thoroughbreds must learn how to win races, and if they can't do that, they must learn how to negotiate courses and jump over strange obstacles without touching them, or do complicated dance like movements or control cattle or accommodate severely handicapped children and adults in therapy work.

Many horses learn all of these things in the course of a single lifetime. Besides this, they learn to understand and fit into the successive social systems of other horses they meet along the way.

A horse's life is rather like twenty years in foster care, or in and out of prison, while at the same time changing schools over and over and discovering that not only do the other students already have their own social groups, but that what you learned at the old school hasn't much application at the new one.

We do not require as much of any other species, including humans.

That horses frequently excel, that they exceed the expectations of their owners and trainers in such circumstances, is as much a testament to their intelligence and adaptability as to their relationship skills or their natural generosity or their inborn nature. That they sometimes manifest the same symptoms as abandoned orphans - distress, strange behaviors, anger, fear - is less surprising than that they usually don't.

No one expects a child, or even a dog to develop its intellectual capacities living in a box 23 hours a day and then doing controlled exercises the remaining one.

Mammal minds develop through social interaction and stimulation.

A horse that seems "stupid", "slow", "stubborn", etc. might just have not gotten the chance to learn!

Take care of your horses and treasure them.

06/09/2024
Why Do We Need Horses🐴 Don’t forget your why🤠We unconditionally commit ourselves to this sport. We sacrifice enormous pa...
27/08/2024

Why Do We Need Horses🐴
Don’t forget your why🤠

We unconditionally commit ourselves to this sport. We sacrifice enormous parts of our lives, and ourselves because we are so passionate about what we love.

But whilst we work, grind and graft to become the best riders and owners we believe our horses deserve, we sometimes forget the most important thing...we forget why.

Why we get up at 3am for a competitions, why we forgo new clothes so our horses can have special shoes, why we get up 2 hours earlier than “normal people” because stables don’t clean themselves, why we invest our hard earned money in saddles, entry fees, supplements and rugs.

We do it because once upon a time, a little kid fell in love with a horse and never looked back.

We do it because these animals bring us incomparable happiness.

They lift us up from the darkest of places and they give us a reason to get out of bed.

They push us, challenge us and shape us into better people by teaching us lessons we’d never learn anywhere else.

They unlock a whole part of us that we never knew existed. A stubborn, determined, strong willed part that refuses to give up.

They keep us grounded, reminding us that sometimes even though certain things may be out of our control, our own actions and emotions never are.

They make us laugh, when we don’t even feel like smiling. They are like warm soup for the soul, they fill our hearts without even trying.

So next time you're in the saddle, just take a moment. Breathe, smile, laugh... and don’t forget why.

~Original Author Unknown ~

27/06/2024
With The 4th coming Soon, consider the Horses🐴 💥💙
27/06/2024

With The 4th coming Soon, consider the Horses🐴 💥💙

Merry Christmas 🎄 Wishing all our friends and family a beautiful & a Very Merry Christmas!From Our Farm To Yours❣️🎄
25/12/2023

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

From Our Farm To Yours❣️🎄

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