Tethered Not all horses tether out. In fact, most horses don’t tether, and most should never be tied too long either. If there’s one thing, I find myself repeating more often than I should, it’s this. If you give a horse enough rope to hang itself, it will.
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All you can eat No matter how much land you have as pasture, the best thing you can do for its health, is to divide it up. Rotating your animals through multiple pastures, gives the grass time to recover, and helps to prevent overgrazing. As soon as
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Who’s Boss Anyway? Horses are funny critters. They have a level of hierarchy that must be maintained. Yet that crown of leadership, is sometimes open for revisions, when I’m not around that is. After all, I am the supreme ruler, and my power is never to be
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Happy Appy Standing in one spot, never mind on several feet of packed manure, surely is a bad thing. One would expect a horse to have the worst case of thrush ever, yet with the young appaloosa, my friend Jim named Happy the Appy, this wasn’t the
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Grandma’s Boy How Grandma came to be a starved, unappreciated pony on a farm that shouldn’t have had any animals at all was a complete puzzle to me. She was, without a doubt, the sweetest, most trustworthy pony one could ever hope to have. Through all the
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