by Melissa | Apr 20, 2016 | Horse Retirement Farm, Jason |
Cino had the honors of kicking off my annual body clipping marathon yesterday. Since I’ve never clipped him before I didn’t know what to expect. Actually, since he’s pretty perfect about most things I was expecting him to be polite and cooperative...
by Melissa | Apr 15, 2016 | Horse Retirement Farm, Jason |
Yesterday was Vaccination Day, Part 1. We vaccinated all of the horses on the front half of the farm. We decided to make sure the day got off to the worst start possible by vaccinating Timbit first. Last year vaccinating Timbit was largely a non-event. I clicker...
by Melissa | Apr 8, 2016 | Horse Retirement Farm, Jason |
Was it really just a month ago that Jason and I were only working 10 hour days and talking about how quiet things were? That conversation feels like a distant memory. Our most recent conversation on the topic was very different. Jason made the comment that it felt...
by Melissa | Mar 30, 2016 | Horse Retirement Farm, Jason |
Oscar, our feral stray, is generally very good at making his preferences known. We learned he didn’t like dry cat food when he would slap the bowl with his paw and send it flying anytime we put dry cat food out for him. Through a series of similar incidents we...
by Melissa | Mar 23, 2016 | Horse Retirement Farm, Jason |
After enjoying a break of a few short months from the dentist we officially kicked off our 2016 dental days. Last year we started doing things a little differently. Instead of doing everyone in a few marathon days that left everyone tired, sore, cranky and dreading...
by Melissa | Mar 18, 2016 | Feed & Care, Horse Retirement Farm, Jason |
Jason has been putting in a lot of quality time on the tractors over the last couple of weeks. As I mentioned in my last post he’s been making compost piles in each pasture. He piles up all of the wasted hay and the manure collected around the hay feeders to...
