Showing posts with label pony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pony. Show all posts
Thursday, July 6, 2017

The End of an Equine Era

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It's been a hard week on the farm for animals. Aside from Haku's accident on the highway (not fatal, thank God), we have had to pu...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

It Never Rains But it Pours (When is Enough Enough?)

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We've had a streak of bad luck lately. An expensive streak. In the past two weeks: - I broke a tooth. A particularly exciting trade ...
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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Pony Update

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Sometimes I love the internet. Sic weeks ago I was thinking I was going to have to sell Poppy to someone who would put her to use, and i...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Poppy (Making Decisions)

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This is Poppy. She was born on the farm, the unintended consequence of my adopting a rescue shetland who nobody knew was preg...
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Return of the Ponies (the Great Escape)

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One of the several million things I had to do when I was making preparations for our year in Oaxaca was find somebody to take care...
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Monday, February 6, 2012

What Do You Do With a Drunken Pony?

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The last time the farrier came out, he was unable to trim Rosie's back hooves. Rosie, remember, is my rescue shetland, who has some sort...
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Monday, January 31, 2011

Things That Are Not as Simple as They Seem (Poppy Pony Update)

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The blog has been neglected lately, but not because I've had nothing to write about. Quite the opposite, in fact - it's been busy ar...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Mud Patrol (I Heart Hog Fuel)

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We have a serious mud problem here. We always have. We live on the broad, flat crest of a high hill, and apparently the earth beneath us is ...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Poppy Update

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The farrier was back again yesterday. He removed her big pink shoes and trimmed them a little and then replaced them, adding another layer o...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Poppy in Trouble (A Girl and her Pony)

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A couple of years ago, I rescued a shetland mare named Rosie. I had stopped in on a whim at a horse sale in my neighborhood and there, among...
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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Caprine Incest and Inter-Species Affairs (Oh My!)

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Storm Cloud, our handsome herd sire, seems to have impregnated every doe on the farm. None of the three have gone into heat for well over a ...
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

My Next Door Neighbors (Equine Variety)

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My neighbor to the west breeds mules. Big mules. He is a bow hunter, and every fall, he heads out into the mountains for two or three weeks ...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Back to the Grind

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I took one full day's rest before getting back to the summer farm routine - well, of course I milked the goats, but other than that. Yes...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Daily Grind: Stuff That Got Done

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- Goats got milked at 8 am. That's pushing it, and I can only do it because each doe still has one baby on her. Starting tomorrow, it...
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Farm Photos (Natural Equine Massage)

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In lieu of actually writing anything about what's going on around here (too depressing, and I haven't got time to wipe my nose latel...
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Poppy, Nearly a Yearling

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..... and still nursing every chance she gets. She looks so silly, she's twice the size of her mother. The farrier says I have to separa...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Poppy Pony Goes to School

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I am the first to admit, I know very little about training horses. Okay, virtually nothing. But according to the advice I've been given ...
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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Everybody Hates Pigs, and Confessions of Laziness

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Our pigpen is pretty squalid this time of year. When we don't have a pig in the pen, it serves as a place to pitch the old straw and hor...
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