Horses

These are the two horses that we have. The Palomino on the left is mine....a palomino is the color of a horse which is cream to gold in color with a white mane and tail. His name is Sporty, his registered name is Sporty Spanky Two...kind of funny. He is a Quarter Horse, which is the breed of horse...and the perfect height for me since he is a little over 14 hands high. The horse on the right is my husbands horse. We are not sure of his breed but think that he is a quarter horse. He is taller than my horse, its hard for me to get on him even with the saddle on. His name is Kris, we havent measured him but he is well over 15 hands high. They are both geldings, which are boys that have been fixed so they cannot reproduce. Just like the goats or even your dog or cat. A vet does the procedure which requires a minor surgery, usually done when they are young. Going back to measuring horses..they are measured in "hands". A hand is 4 inches...so since my horse is 14.1 hands he is 56.4 inches at the withers. The wither is the shoulder of the horse and they are measured at the last hair in their mane. I have added a picture of my son and the pony that we had (the wither is marked), he didnt have any real interest in her at all so we sold her. Im sure that she is being enjoyed and there is no point right now in keeping animals around that are not providing some sort of benefit to the farm. Now, I am talking in terms of food...we have the 2 horses that we ride at shows and trail ride. The other 2 were just not being used. Hay went up an additional 60cents a bale so taking into account the 300 bales that we went through last winter/spring that would be an extra $180 this year. We do have the goats that we didnt have last winter but they will not eat the 150 bales that we figure we are cutting back on, and if they do at least we will be getting milk and meat from them. Also any extra kids (goat babies) that they have can either be retained for the herd (doelings), sold or butchered for meat. Back to the horses though. We love to trail ride and there are even campgrounds that you can load up and take your horses to and camp and trail ride. Just like regular camping that you may have done but instead of going on a hike you get to ride your horse. You can cover a lot of ground that way, its good exercise for both you and your horse and just a fun relaxing time. Then you come back to camp, where we camp they have picket lines to tie your horses to. They get plenty of water and nice hay and we cook food for ourselves over the camp fire. We also like to go to horse shows. There are lots of different events to participate in from in-hand events where you present your horse to the judge, riding events and even games. We took this year off to work on the house so havent done any trail riding or shows, but with the soggy weather that we had many of the riding trails were closed and shows canceled. Hopefully we will be back in the saddle next year!



These are the two horses that we have. The Palomino on the left is mine....a palomino is the color of a horse which is cream to gold in color with a white mane and tail. His name is Sporty, his registered name is Sporty Spanky Two...kind of funny. He is a Quarter Horse, which is the breed of horse...and the perfect height for me since he is a little over 14 hands high. The horse on the right is my husbands horse. We are not sure of his breed but think that he is a quarter horse. He is taller than my horse, its hard for me to get on him even with the saddle on. His name is Kris, we havent measured him but he is well over 15 hands high. They are both geldings, which are boys that have been fixed so they cannot reproduce. Just like the goats or even your dog or cat. A vet does the procedure which requires a minor surgery, usually done when they are young. Going back to measuring horses..they are measured in "hands". A hand is 4 inches...so since my horse is 14.1 hands he is 56.4 inches at the withers. The wither is the shoulder of the horse and they are measured at the last hair in their mane. I have added a picture of my son and the pony that we had (the wither is marked), he didnt have any real interest in her at all so we sold her. Im sure that she is being enjoyed and there is no point right now in keeping animals around that are not providing some sort of benefit to the farm. Now, I am talking in terms of food...we have the 2 horses that we ride at shows and trail ride. The other 2 were just not being used. Hay went up an additional 60cents a bale so taking into account the 300 bales that we went through last winter/spring that would be an extra $180 this year. We do have the goats that we didnt have last winter but they will not eat the 150 bales that we figure we are cutting back on, and if they do at least we will be getting milk and meat from them. Also any extra kids (goat babies) that they have can either be retained for the herd (doelings), sold or butchered for meat. Back to the horses though. We love to trail ride and there are even campgrounds that you can load up and take your horses to and camp and trail ride. Just like regular camping that you may have done but instead of going on a hike you get to ride your horse. You can cover a lot of ground that way, its good exercise for both you and your horse and just a fun relaxing time. Then you come back to camp, where we camp they have picket lines to tie your horses to. They get plenty of water and nice hay and we cook food for ourselves over the camp fire. We also like to go to horse shows. There are lots of different events to participate in from in-hand events where you present your horse to the judge, riding events and even games. We took this year off to work on the house so havent done any trail riding or shows, but with the soggy weather that we had many of the riding trails were closed and shows canceled. Hopefully we will be back in the saddle next year!