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Sewing season is starting up again, so I've just been dipping my toes in to start the season. No pic, but I finished a top I started last spring, so I'll be headed to quilt guild sewing day this afternoon, so I can use their tables to layer and pin my quilt sandwich to get ready to quilt it...

A lot of people don't like them, but most of my mini blankets are Tough-1 adjustable full-size foal blankets, and they work decently for mine that need blankets. I have a couple that are mini sized Tough-1 blankets. I like them well enough, but mine don't typically wear blankets, so we...

They did say the level was too high for a cow, but it seems like I read that chickens have an extremely high tolerance for it, so if birds of prey or scavenger birds got to the horses, it might not cause ill effects. So many variables to consider, and just a tragedy all around.

I'm sure that would be dependent on if the animal is affected by ionophores, I do not know the half-life of it in the body nor how fast it might degrade.

one report I read said they had like 300 or 350 horses to start with, a breeding program I'm sure, and lost 75-80 to the incident, plus those lost that took a bit to find. I can understand taking time to find all that were lost, 2400 acres is a significant amount of land to cover, that's...

If you buy your compounded pergolide from a reputable compounding pharmacy, it should be fine, but be sure to get capsules to help it's stability and keep it safer for you to handle. The ECIR group usually recommends Wedgewood pharmacy (or used to, it's been awhile since I followed the group)...

Try double netting your bucket toppers and see if it helps any, if you can put two on a bucket.

Black and regular buckskin should not produce a silver anything, so perhaps he is just bay; but he does seem to have more light colored hairs in his mane and tail than you expect from a regular bay.

If I remember correctly, Marbled Tigress is a skewed dun. Actual brindle color doesn't exist in equines, but there are a few situations that cause a brindled appearance.

Minis don't do dark silvers very often, but some do. There are a fair number of Buckeroo bred silvers that are dark enough to non-silver, they just have minor hints at their silver. Time will tell or just test silver and find out.

I'm leaning silver bay. The silver gene dilutes black pigment to shade from as light as flaxen to as dark as nearly still black, although miniatures tend towards the lighter shades.

Clipping removes most of the pigmented portion of the hair shaft, so we need unclipped pics to assess color. If you have them, newborn pics are usually best to determine color (at least without waiting 3-5 years for them to be settled into their adult shade); but at least unclipped pics will be...

If you are feeding them dry, you could also try a treat ball to provide entertainment and slow down the consumption. When I had the Timothy Balance cubes, I did put ones I could break apart by hand into my stallion's treat ball (which is in a water tub, so he's not eating off the ground, if...

They are new and a fun "treat", so likely very enjoyable right now. Might work to just go with a 50:50 mix, lower his carb intake some, but keep some long stem hay in the mix that takes longer to eat.

So annoying when they do that, not just that store, but in general; we've had it happen at various places for special orders.

From my understanding LNC primarily mills livestock feed (so cattle, hogs, chickens, etc), I saw nothing of horse feed on their website. There will probably be so much we never know; but it sounds like a sensor malfunctioned and they gave another reason I do not recall.

I know we all want to support local when we can, but this sort of thing is one reason to buy from reputable companies that have ionophore-free facilities for horse feed production. [Purina and Triple Crown are milled in Ionophore-free facilities, as are quite a few other brands.] [This whole...

Shetland ponies are registered bloodstock, if they don't come from registered ponies, they can't be registered as Shetland ponies. Under the ASPC/AMHR registration there is a division for ponies that have just one registered parent (this division may be a place where those over sized minis can...

I just ordered two bags of Safe Starch forage for one of mine that has become picky, and won't eat anything other than her hay; but she needs some weight before winter, so we'll try some safe starch and see how it goes. I have some extra netting, so will find a clean muck bucket that I can...

When used as a meal, I soaked, just to be safe. I primarily had them as an addition to my stallion's treat ball, so those were fed dry. If I could readily break them by hand, they went into the ball for dry feeding; if they were hard to break, they went into a bucket to be soaked. May...