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Making the Decision to Retire
All of the horses that reside with us at our farm are here to enjoy being retired, and a select few are here to enjoy being a horse for a...
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Jul 3, 20124 min read
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Goats At Play
Nothing is more fun than spending time each evening with the World’s Cutest Fainting Goats. Jason has been rebuilding the floor on one...
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Jul 1, 20121 min read
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Hot and Dry
There isn’t a lot to say about our weather except hot and dry. I don’t mind the hot but the dry part is getting old fast. We are...
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Jun 28, 20122 min read
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Started Riding at 80, Still Riding at 101
This is a story that is meant to be shared. CTV Ottawa news had a story about a gentleman in Perth, Ontario who began riding at age 80...
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Jun 26, 20122 min read
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The D Word
Farmers are usually too well grounded to be superstitious. But using the capitalized “D” word to describe a period of dry weather during...
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Jun 24, 20122 min read
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Pasture Managing Your Human
This was way too funny – and accurate – not to share. Just about every one of our residents could have written this post as I have been...
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Jun 21, 20123 min read
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After the Meal
I recently did a post on how we do feeding time at the farm. Sometimes after the meal is much more interesting than feeding time. I’ve...
hoffywhf
Jun 19, 20122 min read
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FAQ’s – Commercial Shippers
A question that we are asked regularly is for recommendations for commercial shippers. Many of our residents are from outside our local...
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Jun 17, 20124 min read
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Hay Hoarders
We’ve had a busy week here with multiple visits from farriers and vets, thankfully all for routine appointments and nothing out of the...
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Jun 14, 20122 min read
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The Answer Is; Double Duty
In my last post I mentioned that I finally picked up a calculator to determine the average age of a resident on our farm. Our youngest...
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Jun 12, 20122 min read
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Average Age – Take a Guess
A question that I am asked often, but never really have an accurate answer for, is the average age of the residents on our farm. Their...
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Jun 10, 20121 min read
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The Debate Rages On
This blog post probably won’t win me any fans but oh well. We live about an hour from the heart of Tennessee Walking Horse country. I...
hoffywhf
Jun 7, 20125 min read
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Pictures
Some recent scenes from around the farm – enjoy! _____________________________________ George and Gus grooming Thomas, Hemi and Apollo...
hoffywhf
Jun 5, 20121 min read
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Staging Our Lives
Most of the time people assume that when you run a horse farm you spend most of your time caring for and grooming horses and there is a...
hoffywhf
Jun 3, 20122 min read
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An Acceptable End ?
I want to start this post off by saying that Melissa and I are privileged to work with a group of great horse owners. Every one of the...
hoffywhf
May 31, 20123 min read
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Feeding Time
We get a lot of questions about feeding time. A concern a lot of people have about group living is that their horse will not be able to...
hoffywhf
May 29, 20124 min read
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Herd Dynamics – The New Horse
I wrote a post a few weeks ago about herd dynamics during introductions. In that post I described the typical personality types we see...
hoffywhf
May 27, 20125 min read
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Another Installment of the Pony Wars
I have written many posts about the Pony Wars on the farm. For any that have missed the prior posts on the pony wars here are the...
hoffywhf
May 24, 20123 min read
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Spring into Summer
Some years it seems that everything comes on at once in the spring and the work piles up faster than there is any hope of getting it...
hoffywhf
May 22, 20122 min read
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A Swim in the Ocean
By now I’m sure almost everyone as heard about the horse William that went for an extended swim in the ocean. The horse in question was...
hoffywhf
May 20, 20129 min read
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