It's really important to have good horse bedding in a barn.  Make sure it's nice and deep.  Use good quality wood shavings.  Remove soiled bedding from stalls daily and replace with fresh bedding.  Do not use shavings that come from black cherry or walnut wood.  These shavings can make a horse founder. Bedding should be absorbant, non-toxic, dust-free, comfortable to horses, available and affordable.  It should be stored in a dry place.   Providing your…

  A view of our barn from the deck of our house.  You can barely see the barn roof in this picture but the sunlight coming through the trees was awesome!  Not everyone has a place where they can keep their horse.  Maybe you are one of the lucky ones where you are able to keep your horse at your own place.  If you don't have a place, you want to find a place where both…

We raise our own horses and so we get lots of practice starting young horses.  Even though there is snow on the ground here, there is still alot that we are able to do with our yearlings.  It's important to make sure that you are working with them now, throughout the winter, so that they are ready to start learning in the summer.   Here are simple things you can do during the long winter days…

If your mare had a foal last year then you have already been through weaning your foal.  Hopefully it was a good experience for you and your mare and foal.  Here are some tips we have found to make it a painless experience for your mare and foal. 1. Give yourself plenty of time.  Don't be rushed to wean the foal.  Weaning cold turkey can be stressful on the mare and foal.   2.  As much as…

We have all been there.  We buy a horse and take it home and it doesn't match up with that vision we have in our head of what we thought it would be like owning that horse.  Here are the top mistakes people make when buying a horse and what you do to fix it. 1.  Buying an untrained horse.  Many people buy an untrained horse because it's "cheaper".  They plan to train it themselves….