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Hi everyone. It's been ages since I've checked in here. My mini boarders left about a year ago and while I still have 2 ponies, my focus was on my STB and some TB fosters for the last ocuple years. Things have slowed down and now...my STB is retiring and I am shifting my focus to driving the 40"...

I can't resist donkeys...I've never had one and never "needed" one - but in a few weeks my 40" pony will be losing his 2 pasture mates (boarders that I have given notice) and he'll be alone. I can't put him with the horses because he is on a diet, and they are all mares so they pick on him...

My 8 year old daughter is getting the showing bug; it turns out she lacks confidence in the saddle, so riding her pony in a show just won't happen in the near future. But, we have a new mini filly that was a year in May and I'm wondering if it would be fun to enter her in some halter classes...

I have always fed all my horses our own orchard/timothy grass, baled off this farm. Last year we decided to turn our hay fields into pasture and buy hay for the first time and I'm sort of lost. Everything around here is alfalfa mix - ORthe plain grass hays that I've found are simply stemmy and...

My neighbor recently got the pony bug after some 20 years of going without horses. She bought a mini/pony yearling (in March...she was 1 in March) from an Amish dipersal sale and bragged about how she drives already. "Yeah, they were driving all over the parking lot!"....ugh, my blood started to...

We have a wonderful 41" pony for my just turned-8 year old daughter. He's been a great boy, but lately she has become very timid and he sort of has her figured out. She is afraid to yank on his mouth - thats a good thing...but even when she's in trouble and I say, "pull him to the right" she...

I met a friend in Shipshewana today...for those of you not familiar, there is a notoriously EVIL horse auction there each and every Friday. She wanted to go to the auction just to "peek" as a friend is going there in th next couple of weeks so she wanted to get the lay of the place and see how...

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I hope you all don't mind - I made this video to share with people...I guess to memorialize him and perhaps start to heal. It's been since last October that he's gone and not a day goes by that I don't cry still. There was something about this horse - he was such an amazing partner and...

This filly belongs to a boarder/friend...she's 8 months old and has the same sire as Lacey (and Honey Bear, in my avatar). She's got the same wonderful disposition as her "sisters"...sweet, loves people, curious and brave . Her name is Rose:

When Laceys death was ruled to be from hyperlipidemia...I did a search here and found no matches. But I keep seeing "hyperlipemia" mentioned several times here. Is this the same thing?

Sorry to start a new topic, but I want people to be aware of how this works. Lacey was being treated from the start for an intestinal infection, and it was the infection that put her into the hyperlipidemia. Her trigliceride level rose so fast, so quickly that there was nothing that would have...

I posted this question last year when we purchased remy, our fat, fat pony, and I recieved little (or no) feedback if I remember. I had the feeling that it was one of those subjects that people felt I could have looked up. But a search brought up little specific to getting a fat pony or mini...

*edited* It is lipidosis, not lipidemia (not sure if they are one in the same but wanted to clarify) The vet is calling a specialist and will get back with me with what he feels caused it, but from what I gathered on the internt, it is mostly caused by anorexia. Lacey was probably considered...

...and it's normal, THANK GOD. She hadn't been with any others (except Honey Bear) for about a week prior to presenting signs so we just ran Honey Bears to be sure she was ok. The vet just said to keep a close watch on everyone, but he's feeling pretty sure that Laceys illness was an isolated...

The vet has been out twice - tubed her each time and also tried to carefullyremove what may have been an impaction (although it looked very normal). She had a temperature last night but is now on antibiotics and is normal, but far from feeling better. She's depressed and off feed. The vet feels...

Hi everyone...I wanted to post about my good friend, Diana's latest aqcuisition (I don't want to call it a rescue because the mini's were well cared for but the owner turned them over for health reasons)...she runs a rescue in Toledo. This is the email I got from her (I told her I would post...

Well, the little girl shocked me this morning....she tip-toed gingerly out onto the aisle and through the front of the barn. The driver had to park at the top of our drive because the trailer was too big so I was dreading the walk up the hill and across the gravel drive.... but we stepped out...

...on Thursday she'll be headed for Stacy's farm in AZ, if all goes as planned. The shipper will be here between 7 and 10 PM. We will sorely miss the little girl. Her little face just melts my heart, and that nicker...I wish I could get her nicker on tape to have forever . I'll work on that...