Search:

How did things turn out?

I've dropped in at a couple of barns recently, after having trouble reaching them by phone or because I was in the neighborhood and I knew from personal references that the place might be a possible...

I love roached manes, but I borrow my current horse from my mom and she's not a fan. I can't stand pulling manes on horses that find it irritating (this one does), so I use this shortcut - flip the...

I'd like a Cashel cavesson pad (1.5 inches wide, 3/4 inches thick, with a groove down the center) but since I don't have a tack budget, I thought I might make one out of an old tattered pad. I...

My training level dressage gelding gapes his mouth open at the halt, and I am working on this issue with the assistance of my trainer. He is otherwise very quiet in a loose ring french link snaffle,...

No bad news yet, excepting that Sailor ripped his IV catheter out and the only vet on Whidbey Island has gone off to Oklahoma on a sudden family emergency! The on call vet at Pilchuck recommends...

Just checked my email - found this:

"Sailor has been started on his ulcer meds- Sucralfate and cimetidene. Between the two they are administered at five different times per day because you have...

I haven't heard from my mom yet this morning, so I am eagerly awaiting news too! I'll give her a call after breakfast and post an update soon. Thanks!

BUN mg/dl Range: 10.0-27 Sailor's level (on admittance) 59
BUN 1/15 28

CREAT mg/dl Range: 0.8-1.87 Sailor's Level...

Here's Sailor's photo


My mom's perfectly wonderful Shetland gelding, Sailor, has been hospitalized at Pilchuck this week since being diagnosed with acute renal failure. I guess my mom and my...

I've always changed names with every horse I've ever bought . . . most recently, I bought a horse and ended up keeping him on at his old boarding stable. The trainer, BO and fellow boarders were all...

I have an outside horse with a run-in, sparse coat. He was wearing a med. weight until we had temps dropping into the 0 degree F range, at which point we added a second med. weight under the first. ...

Thanks - I have been taking a few lessons lately and have been trying to understand what another trainer had asked me to work on last year (on horse #1) compared with what the current trainer is...

How would an intermediate (training level) rider use the inside rein in these two scenarios? What differences would exist in the use of rein, leg and weight aids between the two? What exercises...

Our roads are closed (every one, in every direction - no escape!) and I am out of grain. I am GLAD that I don't have horses at home right now! My boy is safe and sound at his well-stocked boarding...

We used a heatlamp (with great reluctance, due to all of the fire warnings) set 18 inches behind a wire fence segment in the corner of their three sided shed when temps. dropped to -10 F here last...

My gelding was rewarded by his former owner with a tidbit for EVERY behavior. I love the fact that he meets me at the gate, but beyond that it's downright annoying. He looks for a treat while being...

I've been a dog food snob in the past and switched from Precise to Innova in the early 2000s because of the lower grain content in the latter. I then switched to Kirkland chicken in about 2005 for...

Two fingers.

Youtube video of Story.

My mom, my daughter and I all ride. My husband and I are just making ends meet and I can't afford lessons, boarding or horse ownership for myself OR my own daughter (she's 8, and the oldest of...

By the way, I envy those of you with real snow . . . WET snow . . . ours is like theater snow, no moisture content, totally unmeltable. We had two 20 gallon rubbermaid tubs full of the stuff next to...

Well, our house pipes froze on Saturday. We felt stupid, wished we'd taken preventative measures, etc. Hubby spent all day back and forth from the hardware store, got the broken greywater pipes...

A week ago I would have said right here, Western Washington. With 20 inches of snow outside, frozen pipes, no water, no sign of a plow, and no way to get to my (borrowed) horse for the past 9 days,...

We got a truck unstuck yesterday by using a come along winch. We were lucky in that the truck slid off the road in front of our house in just such a way that the front tow hooks lined up perfectly...