It kind of felt like we were living in that old Alfred Hitchcock movie “The Birds” today. The main difference being that instead of...

If one is observant this was the week that brought about the first marked changes as our seasons progress from late summer toward early...

It has been awhile since I posted any pictures of Jason looking miserable while dealing with a plumbing problem. Those pictures are...

Last year and this year we have been doing some different things for fly control. In general we don’t really have big problems with...

Jason and I have been boarding retired horses for almost a decade. One conclusion that we have come to through the years is that many of...

(post by Jason) Every summer that I can remember someone I knew lost a barn to hay that heated and started a fire. These fires weren’t...

Wednesday was vaccination day and we are happy to have that day done and over with. The day itself is never that bad, but of course there...

We seem to have entered this streak for the last several months where, as the saying goes, if we did not have bad luck we would have no...

(Post by Jason) This year our February weather was particularly unsettled. A warm sunny day has almost always been followed by a wet day....

Today was one of those crazy weather days that is so typical of winter in middle Tennessee. The day started off with rain. Although I am...

Despite day after day of truly lovely late fall weather we started feeding hay in some earnest about two weeks ago. Right now it seems...

On days like today I don’t think it would be possible to manufacture a job that’s better than what Melissa and I do for a living. I’m...

(Post written by Jason) We have a group of horses that come in every day to get a hay cube mash, some year round and some seasonally....

(post by Jason) Now there’s a sexy job description and blog post title ! Nevertheless, that’s exactly what I spent much of the middle of...

(post by Jason) Every year in late October or early November depending on the pasture situation I put the first couple of large hay bales...

Jitterbug is back with another article! You can find the original article here. I find Jitterbug to be the best equine correspondent...

(Post by Jason) As I have indicated in past posts it is no surprise that grain prices have been trending sharply higher in recent weeks....

Today was a de-worming day. I’ve posted in the past our approach to worming. We mix it in with their soaked feed in their feedbags then...

(Post by Jason) I’ve got one more post in me dealing with drought and then I promise we’ll move forward onto other topics of interest....

The most exciting thing that happened this weekend was the rain that finally found its way to our farm. At least the dust will settle...