Building & Managing the Small Horse Farm

Before you even start building your farm, the first major planning step is figuring out where you're going to put everything you need. T...

One challenge raised by keeping minis as companion animals to horses is maintaining the minis at a healthy weight. Many of them simply ca...

My barn was designed with way too many nooks, crannies, ledges, and protruding wooden beams inside the stalls. It's something I didn...

After a few weeks of disuse and a lot of rain, my 8-month-old ring suddenly tried to turn into a lawn. Even though I dragged it! This post c...

I was recently out of the country for two weeks and distributed the two horses, donkey, and two dogs to three different off-site caretakers....

Update 5/18/16: Well, it took me a whole year but I finally added vinyl board and batten shutters to the barn! I bought them at Architectura...

This is the kind of sight that makes all your hard work worthwhile!!! If you look really closely on the right side of the horses you mi...

Since I have a three stall barn and what I affectionately refer to as "two and a half horses," it was handy to split up the thi...

Ideally my horses would be out 24/7 but with limited pasture space I can't afford to do that, so they spend 8-15 hours off the grass, de...

I didn't initially put mirrors into my farm budget. I had boarded for several years at a place that didn't have them, and they see...