Search results

I know ya'll are thinking "so what" but I'm excited! LOL I finally bought a heated bucket for my fillys water. For the last 4-5 nights it's gotten so cold here that her water is freezing solid and of course then she can't drink it and its hard to break up and refresh the next morning and all...

when do you need to start hoof trims for the first time? : My filly is 5 months old, and I have no idea about this. How can you tell when they need it done, and should she be having hers done already? She seems to walk just fine as far as I can tell. What exactly does "toeing out" mean...

I have been thinking about this myself. I live in northern arkansas, and the coldest it gets here is a few degrees above zero and it is only usually a tnight and doesn't last but a few days. In fact we haven't had it get even that cold in a few years. Does my filly need a blanket???

I never even thought about talking to the vet about a feeding program! How slow am I? LOL Thanks!! Yes, he would be aware of anything I should know I'm sure. I think I willput in a call in the morning! As for hay, we have soft mixed grass (mostly bermuda) hay, it's practically all you can...

thanks again for all the advice!! On the topic of cattle feeds - I would never feed cattle products to my horse ... that is one reason I am trying to figure out a "diet plan" so to speak for my mini. We have had her a bout a week, and the people who had her, the breeders were feeding her...

around here people feed sweet feed to thier cattle regularly. Anyway, thanks for the opinions and advice. Glad to know others have and do feed sweet feed. Like I said I have been trying to change her over to the platform mini, with no luck. She loves the sweet feed. According to the package...

awww your horses are adorable!! : LOL isn't it funny when they start feelin good and running around all crazy like that? Mine gets so excited sometimes! Earlier she was just running circles around the corral and kickin up her heels and whinnying loudly, it was great! I thought she was gonna...

So this friend of mine - who by the way does not and has never owned a single horse - told me yesterday that I am not suposed to feed my mini sweet feed. She said you're not suposed to give it to ANY horses, that it's for cattle. Um ok .... then why do they make it for horses??? So I asked...

We thought and thought, went over dozens of names, and finally decided on ours (Serenity Stables Miniature Horse Farm) because Serenity is our daughters name, and our first filly, Serenitys Sunrise Spectacular, is actually her horse (an early Chirstmas gift) :

after reading about the plums ... I have to ask, can a mini eat carrots or pieces of apple, and are there any other treats they can or can not eat? I am new to raising a mini and don't want to make a possibly fatal mistake. thanks :o)

Is there a way that I can trace the pedigree on my filly? She will be AMHR registered, but I haven't sent in her papers yet. Her Dam and Sire are registered. Is there a website that might have a place to look that up, or anything? The lady I bought her from doesn't even know the back history...

:aktion033: Congrats!! They are gorgeous!!

In my opinion, the cost of $200 in of itself is not too high to lay claim on a business name and make it yours (especially if it actually has personal meaning, like mine is my daughters name), but it sucks that someone could just change the spelling or punctuation and copy it anyway. For...

Thank you all so so much for your suggestions, they're all wonderful!! We had a family vote, and have chosen Serenitys Sunrise Spectacular for her name!! :bgrin We've written down all your amazing ideas for future reference too! Thanks again for all the help!!

I'm new to this, and so I wanted to ask, you all are talking about reserving your farm name as a prefix for your registered horses names right? Like Our farm is Serenity Stables Miniature Horse Farm, and I was advised to reserve our farm name so nobody can register thier horses with our name...

Wow! Ya'll are good at this!! So many awesome suggestions!! I love it, keep 'em coming! I still can't decide.... I'm writing them all down and going to run them by hubby and kids when they get home!!

How do I do that?

Hi :saludando: We just bought our first filly. This is her in my avatar, and my kids call her "Star". The breeders we bought her from left registering her up to us, she will be AMHR and recently I found out the's also PtHA eligible too. Anyway, they said they didn't care if we included...

It does help, thank you so much!!

Interesting. My FIL is a cattle farmer, and he said that we can use my horses this year on our taxes as part of our total income and outgo, even if we have no income from them yet. When we file our taxes we file jointly (my husband and I) and it is just done as self employeed, and he said that...