Author: Anonymous One Sunday morning I was on my way to work and I got the phone call no horse owner wants to get. “Uhh, T is colicking, you better get up here as soon as you can.” Called work saying I just couldnt make it. They are not horse people and didn’t understand, and I risked getting fired. I didn’t care. That car ride up to the barn was [ Read More ]
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Author: Elaine Juska Joseph, Cedar Knoll Farm Duke and Diesel is one of Cedar Knoll Farm’s main carriage teams (we currently have nine Percherons). Not only are they a top-notch commercial team of greys used for weddings and carriage rides, but we also use them for farming, such as plowing, haying, disking and logging. They are an impeccable, hard working and well-matched team, and without a doubt the one team [ Read More ]
Author: Ann Egan, North Point Farm We bought “Wyatt”, a six year old Percheron gelding in late October of 2007, along with his teammate, “Tucker”. When he got to the farm, he settled in nicely and seemed to enjoy his new home and surroundings. Little did we know that he dribbled his grain onto his stall floor and, in his haste to gather it all up he was eating his [ Read More ]
Author: Rebecca Hurd I had heard of SUCCEED® back in 2006 and saw the results in an Arabian in training with behavioral issues. I didn’t put my horses on it at that time because I didn’t think they ‘needed’ it and also because of the cost. Last January, my 18-year-old retired Arabian show horse, JR, began to act very ill. He has a history of colicking at least once, if [ Read More ]