Dark Horse Acres

04/04/2024

Please, please, please, share this link, and if you can please donate. The more people who can share this post, the better his chances will be to get this life saving surgery.

Even the vet working on his case has said she would do her part in working on him for less, as he is such a special horse! But even with that the quote for the surgery was 6-10k!!!!!!

Dear friends and supporters, I come to you with a heartfelt plea… Katrina Gawronski needs your support for Medical expense for Chief, the soul of a healer

02/13/2024

So our fabulous beautiful Chief is struggling right now… from having no teeth issues to now needing to go in for dental surgery…keep him in your thoughts for a good outcome! And time to find a fourth job to pay for it…lol

09/10/2023

06/04/2023

The carrot mobile looks like it’s at it again!

05/05/2023

01/14/2023

Hahaha TRUE 😄
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01/07/2023

Weaning days….screaming days…time for some Celine Dion to ease their minds…

11/27/2022

When you begin working your horse, he's probably going to be in a long and low frame. There is nothing wrong with this, and if you want to keep working your horse in this stretched frame, which you may want to do during a warm-up, or if your horse is still quite young, then this is absolutely fine.

However, if you want to shorten your horse’s frame and ask him to lift his shoulders and head carriage, you need to ride exercises that encourage his hind legs to step more underneath his center of gravity. These include transitions, circles, and lateral movements, combined with the half-halt.

As your horse begins to engage, more of his weight will shift to his hindlegs, creating a taller and shorter frame (suitable for his current level of training) and you will need to then gradually shorten your rein contact to accommodate this adjustment.

NOTE: You must ride the hind legs under first. Do not try to shorten the frame or lift your horse’s head artificially by first shortening the reins or taking a tighter contact. Always ride from the back to the front.

10/12/2022

No filter needed…some gorgeous vistas here at dark horse acres

10/07/2022

So glad to have Artex back home…she settled nicely into her stall and is happily munching on her hay…now to start the much needed medicine to get her on the road to as full a recovery as we can…Cushings is such a hard disease, especially when a mare is bred with the disease and then sold without even any information given to the purchaser. Due to this disease her career as a broodmare is over, it’s so scary when they drop so much weight seemingly overnight. Feeling like you were in the dark with no answer for a supposedly healthy mare because we didn’t know she had Cushings. After a hard delivery with a very sad outcome, she has now been weaned from her orphan foal and is finally ready to work on getting herself better. 😊 The 🐉 is back!!

09/30/2022

Early mornings at the farm…foggy day