And I don’t mean the weather. Over the last couple of days Tundra had a issue with pancreatitis, Xavier hurt his paw and Spice was super congested. Fortunately, I was able to get Tundra and Xavier on the mend pretty quickly without a trip to the vet. Spice on the other hand had to go Read More…
Medieval Times
Just kidding! Our wonderful equine dentist, Melanie Getz, came out to Hitching Post Acres yesterday to take care of the herd’s teeth. Horses teeth have very long roots and the teeth are constantly pushing upwards. While this is happening, the horses are chewing on hay or pasture (and other things!) which causes the teeth to Read More…
Snow for Spring?
Been busy with horse rescue efforts, but with the “snow” word in the forecast, I thought I would share a picture of Moon from the historic blizzard this January. Despite the weather, Spring really is here which means clean up at the Farm. Fixing fences, spreading manure and reseeding pastures. This year we installed new Read More…
Rescue Me
Besides running my own small farm, one of my passions is horse rescue. Many folks (even in the horse community) don’t realize that over a hundred thousand horses a year sold at auction are actually bought by kill buyers and shipped to Canada and Mexico to be slaughtered and sold as food for people. If Read More…
Gifted – The Perfect Valentine
Hello everyone! My name is Dawn and Sandy is not only my dear friend but she’s also the “link” in the chain between me and my rescue horse, Gifted. I swear, some people just have that matchmaker knack. While I am not sure how well Sandy does with connecting people, she certainly hits home runs Read More…
Binny Takes the Plunge
The other night I decided I should get to bed at a reasonable time so went up about nine. About five minutes later a cold, soaking wet Binny jumped in the bed. I knew immediately what had happened. Scott let the pups out and with the snow being so high, Binny had walked onto the Read More…
Blizzard 2016
As predicted, the snow starting falling on Friday, January 22nd and didn’t stop until late in the evening of January 23rd. Thankfully, my son stayed with us to help and of course the snow blower was at the ready. Of particular concern to me was our smallest barn cat, Monkey, went missing right before the Read More…
Felt Like We Hit The Lottery
Ok, don’t ask me why, but we didn’t own a snow blower. I think because we have a tractor with a bucket, we didn’t think it was necessary. As panic settled in last night I started calling everywhere to find the elusive snow blower. All the stores I called had sold out that morning. So, as Read More…
Waiting on Jonas
If you live in an area that gets any amount of snow, you know the mad preparations prior to a storm – running to the grocery store, hardware store and for some of us the liquor store For those of you with pets, making sure they have enough food, supplies and any meds is a Read More…
Jingle
On Christmas Eve Scott and I made a quick stop at Petco to pick the pups up something extra from Santa. Of course I couldn’t just stick to the mission at hand so I wandered over to look at the adoptable cats and the critters for sale. I happened to see two poor baby betta fish Read More…