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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And Then … The day certainly feels like it’s dragging, when you’re wondering and worrying a bit, yet have no choice but to wait … and wait. I’m not a stranger to what can happen when training a horse to drive, and have been witness to a
Read more →To Brake, or not to Break Whoa, is one of the most important lessons, an equine of any kind, must learn and master. Whoa, is what keeps the rider safe, and secure in the knowledge that no matter what, the horse will stop. Runaways are one of
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