Big Bear Horsemanship

17/02/2025

Right here in Maine!

We'd like to thank everyone for their patience, and appreciate our member's hard work in creating this year's schedule of events. We overcame a few challenges in dates and locations, but we're proud to announce this year's line-up of a beginner's clinic series, and two power-packed weekends of shoots featuring a couple of fantastic clinicians that can help all of our rider's meet their goals this year!

Now its time to share, and get the word out that we're looking for sponsors for our 2025 events. Through sponsorships and donations, we're able to offer some great awards and payouts for our competitors. Let's make this an awesome season!

18/01/2025

Dog Tag Giveaway 🤠
My name is Hank. I love helping out on my mom's horse farm picking the paddocks and filling the water troughs. Although I'm only a 6-year-old Weimaraner, my favorite job is driving the farm truck! Mom loves sporting her Molly's custom silver buckle and I'd love to wear one to match! ❤️

18/01/2025

𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭!
We are at over 18k signatures; thank you to every one of you. Lets get this to as many people as we can and make a powerful statement to D.C.

We 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 and 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 have over 200k signatures.

Please sign and SHARE!

PETITION: https://www.ruralamericainaction.com/petition/stop-the-horse-protection-act

WESTERN JUSTICE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.westernjustice.info/memberships

10/01/2025

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Molly's Custom Silver is giving away dog tags to some lucky pups, actually 100 very loved pups!

Will you follow the link below ⏬ and give us a LIKE ? Hank would love some bling to proudly show off 🤠. The top 100 dogs with the most "likes" will win.

You've still got time to enroll your doggie too!!!!

Dog Tag Giveaway 🤠
My name is Hank. I love helping out on my mom's horse farm picking the paddocks and filling the water troughs. Although I'm only a 6-year-old Weimaraner, my favorite job is driving the farm truck! Mom loves sporting her Molly's custom silver buckle and I'd love to wear one to match! ❤️

16/10/2024

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28/06/2024

How do we let the cat outta the bag, without letting the cat outta the bag???
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This Maine soil is extremely fertile... established grass exceeding 6' in height...the farm layout and name change will soon be released!!! ❤️

23/06/2022

To all of Big Bear's horse loving friends:

It is time to announce our departure from the beautiful town of Gettysburg, PA. I had a vision the first day I saw the rolling fields, wooded riverfront trails, and peaceful pond. I thank everyone, especially Danni & Miranda, for their hard work and partnership during the farm's development and day to day operations. Thank you for the opportunity to nurture, care, train, and rehab so many wonderful mustangs, retirees, and 24k gold ponies. Thank you for the friendships, thank you for the love, and thank you for the shared support. It's time to move on, back to the woods of Maine... 🍻 Prost to the successes, and to the next, new adventure of growth in life. ♥️

I'll leave you with this -

“Go check your horses.”

My eyes popped open at 5:40am. “What Lord? Is something wrong?”

“Go check your horses.”

I got out of bed and grabbed a flashlight, some red light Ben usually keeps on his gun for varmints. As soon as my feet got outside, calves immediately began bawling; and I rolled my eyes. We didn’t want another orphan AT ALL, but last Saturday the herd we worked had a heifer calf who loved her baby dearly but had zero milk to feed her. The calf was weak and wobbly and probably wouldn’t have survived the next few days without us. The owner said he didn’t have luck with calves on the bottle, and what was I going to say? So there’s Bobbi at 5am bellowing at me to feed her; I just sigh and trudge on. When I got down to where we feed our horses, there was no one. Not a single horse, they were still all out back.

“Go check your horses. You only have thirty minutes.”

Thirty minutes?! It was almost 6am by this time and I’m thinking the worst. God is waking me up to save one of my animals from some terrible accident. As I walk out to go to the gate that leads up the road and out to the back of our land, I trip over a bucket. That bucket is sitting in the middle of the yard because it’s marking where the concrete is going to go for the new barn. New barn....new concrete....money money money. I feel stressed already.

“Go check your horses.”

I walk over the hill and can see the green grass begin to glow in the dim light. This land was about to come alive soon, and it was ours. God gave this land to us.

“Go check your horses.”

Right Lord, emergency, death, destruction, money, bad news, injuri.....my horses are all in a pound puppy pile sleeping peacefully. Lord you said to check my horses, and here they all are laid up like fattening hogs. My horses are FINE Lord. You said I only had thirty min like my horses were bleeding out!

Then, that still small voice spoke to me.

“I told you to go check your horses, I never said anything was wrong. I told you that you only had thirty minutes, because that’s about how much time you have until everyone gets up, and I needed to speak to you alone. Look around you. Remember how far you have come, how far I’ve brought you.”

💥Boom 💥

As I walked back, all six of my horses followed, grunting and stretching along with the new day. I remembered when this land was just trees, not glowing green grass. Then I arrived at my gate to exit the pasture, and I saw my buckets, marking a new chapter in our lives. A new barn that will send off some of these horses that stand here, and welcome new ones by birth or buying. Then I was greeted once again, by Bobbi, and I remembered when I took her, even though I didn’t really want to, I had all the accommodations to take her. God gave me all of this.

This morning, by telling me to go check my horses, He changed my mental attitude towards all of what I was seeing as struggles, to blessings! Some friends and I had been talking about lately with changing our mental attitude when we train our horses, not thinking “he/she is stubborn,” to maybe “he/she might not understand, and I should present the offer differently.”

God did that with me today. You may not have horses to check, but maybe today you should walk the halls of your job, home, or land, and realize what God has done and is doing for you. Remember how He has taken care of you, and brought you this far.

“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.”
‭‭Colossians‬ ‭3:23-24‬ ‭NIV‬‬

~unknown

09/06/2022

Shout this a little louder..... For those who need to open their ears.

It is of importance that you teach your horse how to deal with the pressures he will encounter.

Understand that some things in our human environment can seem life-threatening to your horse.

If you haven't taught your horse there is another, better way to respond, you don't leave him any other choice than to rely on his natural instinct.

30/04/2022

Amazing trainers, amazing camp ponies....

22/04/2022

Good Friday Morning!!!

2012 Antelope Valley gelding, Evergreen

20/04/2022

Phenomenal instructor/clinician. Highly recommend attending if you're in the area....

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03/04/2022

WELCOME SPRING!!!

03/04/2022

WELCOME SPRING!!!

30/03/2022

‘Tis the season.

12/03/2022

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I wouldn't be in my shoes today if I'd only ridden lesson ponies....

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12/03/2022

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30/12/2021

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