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I am so sorry for your loss Anna, as everyone else has said you absolutely did your best for Mini. Give yourself as much time as you need to recover from this. If you ever decide to continue your journey with horses please know you are not replacing Mini, you are welcoming a new soul and Mini...

Anna, do not blame yourself whatsoever! You followed your vet's advice and tried your absolute best to help Mini. There are many people out there that do this, take in rescues and make dramatic changes for improvement, and sometimes it just works out fine. It's so difficult to predict any...

Welcome back! Your horses are beautiful, I look forward to seeing more of them. I'm also looking forward to hearing about nutrition and hoof care from you, I've just started diving into nutrition myself and my mini/pony yearlings are about ready to begin cooperative hoof care training. Enjoy the...

Take as much time as you need to find the most perfect match, one day an ad will appear and you'll know they are the one! I spent months looking for minis and I felt like there were very few of them out there, of course now that I have my own I am seeing ads everywhere for minis. Don't be...

So glad you jumped right in, you will get so much helpful advice from very experienced mini owners here, who often times know more than a lot of vets! Absolutely take things slow with weight loss, even though her weight is detrimental to her health right now it will cause other problems to lose...

My dad, with the best intentions possible, bought me an 8 month old filly when I was a young teenager so we could "grow up together" - he and his friends had horses back in the day and I had taken some riding lessons so we felt qualified for this. She bit my arm when we went to look at her but I...

Welcome to the forums, it is so great to have you here! Please share any wonderful stories you have with Buckley, we would all love to follow your past and future journey together.

That is absolutely wonderful they are staying together! I was so sad to hear your time with them had to come to an end, but your path will lead to wonderful things again. Be happy for the time you got to enlighten their lives and they enlightened yours, and definitely live vicariously though...

I'm happy to hear that HersheyMint! Looks like we got between 3-4 inches of rain, certainly felt like more! I would be very happy to live through any weather if there was no wind, although it is nice to have a little breeze during hot spells.

I'm grateful for your concern and so sorry for your loss! The branches are from a black oak, a probably 100 year old ginormous tree that shades half their pasture, so it is quite unavoidable. Luckily they had a slow introduction to it, a single leaf falls here and there, so they have not gorged...

We survived "Hurricane Hillary" which ended up being downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it reached land, and once it hit us it wasn't much more than a heavy rain with some high wind gusts. The pasture flooded like it usually does but drained really quickly and the animals stayed dry. The...

I completely understand what you are going through, I've also had mine (2 yearlings!) for 4 months now and we are only beginning to understand each others' languages. I encourage you to look at her behavior in a different way, if you are her primary caretaker you are such a big important part of...

Welcome back! Your mare is gorgeous, can't wait to follow your guys' journey together!

Welcome from Southern California! Do you have any minis yet? Share them if you do, we'd love to see them!

She looks like she could be a Clementine! My boys are Dio and Butters, I wanted a whimsical name too for my little white unicorn and Butters fit the bill in so many ways 😂

Oh yes my boys have proven they are most beautiful in mud season. They arrived here with scraggly baby winter coats and I can't wait to see their next winter coats! Summer is their chance to shine but they aren't excited for me to help them shine yet 🤣 Dio is getting some good dreadlocks in his...

Thank you Mary, they have blossomed into beautiful boys this summer. Right now I'm just enjoying spending time with them and bonding, they are still a little fearful and untrusting of people so it's a great feeling when they choose to spend time with me. I am very much looking forward to...

We had a sudden thunderstorm downpour yesterday, about an inch of rain and some hail came down lasting about 20 minutes. This was the first big rain we've had with the boys, they handled it well and enjoyed the muddy aftermath a little too much - Butters was able to get pretty close to matching...

Thank you all! They are definitely two peas in a pod and they have such good hearts. I'm looking forward to sharing their journey with everyone ❤️

Thank you so much HersheyMint! Fast forward three months, we have reached the heat of summer and the boys are looking very good. They are getting comfortable with fly spray and they are now wearing fly masks throughout the day, but they take them off every so often because the masks are just...