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Founder, help! My mini, Ziggy got into some chicken scratch night before last he seemed to be OK yesterday, but today he’s lame on all four legs. I have been cold hosing him for two hours now. Have no Butte or banamine. It’s impossible to find a vet. I have someone who can haul him to the vet a...

Hi All, With great sadness, we are looking to sell our property and move back into town, which unfortunately means rehoming our yearling boys, Ziggy and Theo. I don’t have a clue how to go about it. Both boys are registrable, and have good bloodlines. Ziggy is a flashy black and white pinto...

Our mini colts are a little over 10 months old now. They spend a lot of time playing and chasing each other around. Play gets pretty rough sometimes, with each one biting and kicking the other. It doesn’t seem like serious fighting because the next thing you know, they’re curled up in the hay...

Hi All, I spent several hours grooming the boys this morning and found a tick embedded above Ziggy’s (pinto) eye. I was able to remove the whole thing fairly easily, but was fairly shocked. Years ago, I had full size horses in eastern PA and don’t recall ever having ticks on them. Are they just...

Help! When I fed tonight around 5:30, I found a spot of what looked to be bloody urine in the snow in the paddock. Our minis, Ziggy and Theo, share the paddock and barn with our Nigerian Dwarf goats, Ben and Jerry, so I have no clue who left it. We had 4” of fresh snow last night or I probably...

When our minis came to us a few weeks ago, our dogs went crazy barking at them while watching them from the backyard. I finally took each dog on a leash to sniff noses with the horses through the fence. It seems to have stopped the barking. Since then, I’ve been taking a dog, leashed of course...

Back in July, we put a deposit on a 2 stall barn that was supposed to be here in late September/early October. We found our colts at the end of July. They were weaned at the end of September and were ready to go October 12th. Due to lumber shortages courtesy of the pandemic, the barn delivery...

Cody and Theo are scheduled to start weaning on September 28th and will come home a couple of weeks later. I went to visit them yesterday. Theo, the liver chestnut, has grown a lot, but Cody, the pintaloosa, still seems really tiny. Theo is at least 5” taller than Cody. I was able to catch him...

Hi All, I’m having trouble lining up a farrier to take care of our new boys.We won’t have them until October, but I’m trying to find one who is willing to come out our way. I know there are farms in the area, but I don’t know any other horse people. So far I’ve tried Facebook Marketplace and...

Hi All, We’ll be new mini owners in October. Our new weanling colts will have a new barn that will be in our lower paddock about 100 feet or so from the house. My dilemma is this: they’ve always been on a dry lot and we have grass. I don’t want to founder or colic our new kids. We have a run...

My name is Maria. Long, long story...my partner and I are new retirees (59 and 60) who’ve responded to social distancing by surrounding ourselves with animals. It all started with standard poodle puppies, 2 sets of 2. We fenced in our entire acre and a half into separate sections to make sure...