Does anyone else hate the time change? I feed in the dark in the morning, and I feed in the dark at night. Makes it really hard to get a good eye on the horses or get anything else done on my farm. (Okay, moving chickens is best done in the dark, but besides that ...) But I digress from the topic at hand. I took off a couple of hours early last night to get sample bags and order sheets in order to...
A reader named Ray in Oregon wrote in with a good idea. I'm not sure how to get it started, but let's put our heads together and see what we can come up with. Lots of people are out of work, and lots of horses are needing to be fed. In my last blog post I asked those with hay to share with the less-fortunate. Now I'm asking folks with pastures sitting idle to share Nature's bounty....
It's haying time across the country, and it's been a fine, wet spring in many areas. This is in contrast to the two years of drought we suffered here in Kentucky in 2007-2008. If you are baling or rolling hay, and you have more than you need, please consider donating some of it to a group that needs it! I've seen two rescue/welfare groups just this morning who have sent out pleas for hay...
I was a little surprised to get a call from my daughter that a former school horse we owned--and she had "permanently loaned" to a local community program for teaching riding to kids--was coming home. He was living at a facility not far from our little farm in Kentucky, and he had been called a "great addition" to their program. But, they were cutting back. And because of his age...
