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08/30/2024

Somehow trashysmut was shared to this pg. it has been reported and blocked 🤬. Sorry to anyone that had to put up with that.
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08/30/2024

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From the veterinarians at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital: Sometimes called intestinal stones or calculi, these rock-like masses are formed inside the colon and, if they become large enough, cause obstructions, leading to colic episodes!

See the causes and more photos: ⏬
http://www.equinechronicle.com/have-you-ever-seen-an-entrolith/

08/03/2024

06/21/2024

Summer is an exciting time for horse owners, with lots of opportunities for riding, and the show season in full swing. However, scorching summer heat means we need to take extra precautions to keep our horses safe.

Mad Barn's Equine Heat Index Tool provides real-time data to help you determine when it's too hot to safely ride your horse.

Check the heat index for any location in North America and follow our veterinarian-recommended guidelines to prevent heat stress and safeguard your horse's health.

View the Equine Heat Index for your location at https://madbarn.com/equine-heat-index/
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06/08/2024

Horses like that are worth their weight in gold 💕

03/15/2024

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03/11/2024

📍Just a reminder the first show of the year is less than 8 days away, come show with us and brush those winter blues away.

📍Our shows are great practice for the ARHA World Show! Remember you don’t have to qualify to show at the world show, so come out and enjoy at weekend at 5K Arena and the Southern Stockhorse family.

📍As a club we are revamping and revising a lot of things. We are trying to bring new and exciting things to our members and exhibitors. So stay tuned!!!

📍All information can be found on our website, www.southernstockhorse.com.

03/10/2024

Pattern Classes used to be so fun!

Try them !

03/09/2024

We are welcoming in this weekend the Hoppin’ Into Spring Horse Show!!! Spectators are welcomed to the show with no charge, so bring your family and friends to watch these dedicated competitors and their horses compete!!! Show times begin today at 4:30 pm-11:00pm, Saturday & Sunday 9:00am-10:00pm

02/28/2024

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12/26/2023

In the horse world, it’s become a bit of a tradition to cut the tail hair of our best horses when we lose them.

We didn’t have Leo for long, just days. Truth be told, the plan was never to keep Leo. Our intention when we bought him at auction was simply to end the cycle of suffering for this big sweet horse. We knew that the end he would have faced without us was not a humane one. The gavel fell that day and he was ours, spared from the semi that was there loading others.

You see, we don’t know about Leo’s past, but his worn body told a story. Leo had two crude brands, clipped fresh for the auction in an attempt to squeeze every bit of money out of him. He had saddle sore scars across his back. He had deep lacerations across his body. His knee was large and painful, presumably from a very old injury. He could not stand without extreme pain. This horse paid his dues to his humans somewhere along the line, yet there he was at auction, failed.

So, we did what his owners before us should have done, the only humane thing for Leo. We brought him home and gave him a kind, dignified end here at the farm.

He deserved so much more, a fraction of the effort he gave the humans who failed him. While that saddens and angers us, we do feel better knowing that the buck stopped with us. That had to be good enough.

We stopped him from being bought and sold at another auction. We saved him from being loaded onto a semi.

If you take nothing else from Leo’s story, hear this:
If you have a horse, when the time comes, BUCK UP AND BURY THEM.
Have the courage and the respect for your horse to put them down in the comfort of their home with people they know.
It’s the only right and humane thing to do with our old horses at the end of their lives.
Full stop.

When your horses are old and infirm, unless you bury them, you are failing them.

Do not dump them on a rescue.
Do not take them to an auction.
Do not try to give them away for free online.
Do not send them with that guy that shows up with a cattle trailer and $100.

Give your horse the end they have earned. Bury them.

Leo is gone now, no longer in pain. While it is hard on our team, we are very grateful that we were able to do that for him, if nothing else. We see so many horses who need the same kindness and don’t get it.

Leo was a good horse for somebody, and we didn’t want him to be forgotten. Before he was buried we cut a piece of tail hair to keep, because everyone knows that all the good horses show up in horse heaven with chopped tails.

Leo was a good boy.
❤️

Bella Run Equine is a non-profit organization located in Athens Ohio.

11/10/2023

We have all heard of the famous stars of Dressage such as Valegro, Bella Rose, Bonfire and Gio, but here is a another name for the dressage A-list. Wallace the mule, rescued by a Donkey Sanctuary was at the forefront of a campaign to allow Mules to compete under British Dressage rules. Wallace, an 1...

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07/04/2023

This image of the black stallion, Mesquite, was taken when he was in his prime, way back in 2014. At 18 years of age, Mesquite is now one of McCullough Peak's many elder horses. Horses over 15-years-old make up approximately 30% of the McCullough Peaks herd with 22 of these horses over the age of 20.

Even with such an aged population of wild horses in a herd that has seen only a 2% growth rate in the last decade, the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) plan to remove a substantial number of the herd is moving forward as early as August 14, 2023. If that happens, many of the horses that we’ve come to know and love will be gone from the range forever.

I've just posted a new blog with updates about the planned removal of the McCullough Peaks wild horses. This blog includes everything we know about the BLM’s removal plan to date, as well as, new information about the wild horses and the impact the removal would have on the herd. Please click on the link below to read this report and to find out what the next steps are to help this beloved herd.

https://www.wildatheartimages.com/blog/mccullough-peaks-bait-trapping-removal-update

If you have any specific questions, you can direct message me at [email protected] Thank you all for helping to keep these horses wild and free!

07/03/2023