Blue Dog Performance Horses

10/31/2026

🎃👻 Happy Halloween from I’m Easily Fired Up and all of us at Blue Dog Performance Horses! 🧡🐴

Wishing everyone a fun, safe, and spooky Halloween! 🕸️🎃

10/23/2026

🐴 Winter Is Coming… and So Are Hoof Abscesses!

A lot of you know that when my bag of diapers come out the abscesses are upon us lol! 

As we head into the colder, wetter months, hoof abscesses become an all-too-common problem for horse owners. Constant changes between wet and dry conditions can compromise hoof integrity, allowing bacteria to enter and potentially cause painful abscesses.

Signs to watch for:
🐴 Sudden or severe lameness
🐴 Heat in the hoof or a stronger digital pulse
🐴 Reluctance to bear weight
🐴 Swelling around the hoof or lower leg

While hoof abscesses are common, they can be extremely painful and sometimes resemble more serious injuries. Proper diagnosis- by a vet, treatment, and aftercare are important for a successful recovery!

At Blue Dog Performance Horses, we’re happy to assist with hoof abscess aftercare through our rehabilitation program! Once your vet gives you a treatment course we are here to help! Sometimes for horse owners, especially new horse owners It’s hard to be able to treat that kind of injury daily. From daily hoof care and bandage changes to keeping your horse comfortable, clean, and monitored during recovery, we’re here to help while working alongside your veterinarian and farrier.

🐾 Where Hard Work Meets Good Horses.

10/20/2026

Let’s talk about sending difficult horses to c**t starters and the importance of transparency on BOTH ends.

This is a conversation I think our industry needs to have more often. And a couple personal experiences over the years.

Not every horse that comes into a c**t starting program is a clean slate. Some come with behavioral issues, bad experiences, dangerous habits, or holes in their foundation that take significantly more time to work through.

And here’s the reality: Those issues didn’t just magically appear when the horse arrived at the trainer’s barn.

Whether you bred the issue, bought the issue, created the issue yourself, inherited it from another professional, or experienced some combination of the above, the responsibility to be honest about that horse’s history is incredibly important.

Sending a horse to a c**t starter without disclosing dangerous behavior, previous training experiences, or known issues is not only unfair to the trainer & the animal, but potentially puts someone’s life at risk.

And on the other side of that, trainers owe their clients honesty, too. If a horse is struggling, progressing slowly, or needs more time, that needs to be communicated clearly.

Thirty days is not a magic number.

I think we’ve gotten far too comfortable with the expectation that every horse should be under saddle, riding around, and progressing on the same timeline.

Sometimes 30 days is spent simply establishing respect, trust, confidence, and a foundation that should have been there long before that horse arrived.

And sometimes the most responsible thing a trainer can say after 30 days is, “This horse isn’t ready to be ridden yet.”

That doesn’t automatically mean the trainer isn’t doing their job. It may mean they’re doing exactly what they should be doing.

Good horsemanship takes time. Fixing bad experiences can take even longer. We have had our fair share of “outlaws” over the years.

A horse doesn’t know what your monthly training bill costs. It doesn’t know you expected it to be riding by a certain date. And it certainly doesn’t care about the timeline you had in mind.

Our responsibility as horsemen is to do right by the horse while keeping everyone involved as safe as possible.

Owners, be honest about what you’re sending.

Trainers, be honest about what you’re dealing with.

And everyone needs to understand that a job worth doing is worth doing correctly, even when it takes way longer than expected.

I’d rather explain why a horse needs another 30 days than send one home with a rushed foundation and a problem that could have been prevented.

Transparency protects the horse, the owner, and the professional entrusted with the job.

— Blue Dog Performance Horses

10/15/2026

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🐴 Blue Dog Performance Horses is accepting new boarders!

Located in Frazeysburg, Ohio, we offer a heated facility, spacious stalls, quality care, and plenty of amenities for you and your horse!

💙 Come join our barn family! 🐴

📩 Message us for availability or to schedule a tour!

10/11/2026

Our business hours are Monday–Saturday, 8 AM–7 PM.

Messages received after 7 PM will be answered the following morning. Sundays are my day to unplug, recharge, and spend time with family, so I generally do not respond to routine business messages.

Of course, the well-being of the horses in my care always comes first. If you currently have a horse in our facility and have an urgent concern, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

I appreciate everyone’s understanding and respect for my personal time. Running a business is a 24/7 responsibility, but finding a little balance is important too! ❤️

— Blue Dog Performance Horses

10/09/2026

💙 DID YOU KNOW? 💙

Blue Dog Performance Horses also specializes in equine rehabilitation & wellness care.

Over the past 10+ years, we’ve unfortunately gained a lot of hands-on experience rehabbing our own horses, as well as several client horses. Through those experiences, rehab and recovery care has become something we’re extremely passionate about.

We can assist with:
• Wound care & recovery
• Lameness rehabilitation
• Post-injury care
• General wellness & conditioning
• Nutrition & weight management
• Medication and treatment schedules
• Individualized daily care

🩺 We work directly with your veterinarian.
Our job is never to replace your vet. We work one-on-one with them to carry out the treatment and rehabilitation plan they recommend while providing consistent, hands-on daily care.

Our rehab program is priced on a 3-tier system based on the severity of the case and the amount of daily care required.

Tier 1 — Lower-maintenance rehab and wellness cases requiring additional care and monitoring.

Tier 2 — More involved cases requiring increased daily treatment, management and/or rehabilitation.

Tier 3 — Our highest level of care for more severe or complicated cases requiring the most intensive hands-on hourly management.

Because no two cases are the same, rehab pricing is determined individually after we learn what your horse needs and review the expected care plan.

From wound management, weight gain, taking temps, wrapping legs, bandaging, and lameness recovery to nutrition and simply getting a horse healthy and feeling its best again, we’re happy to talk through your individual situation.

📍 Frazeysburg, Ohio
Blue Dog Performance Horses
Where Hard Work Meets Good Horses

Message us to discuss your horse and which level of care would best fit their needs. 💙🐴

10/03/2026

👑 Every barn has a queen… and Carmen has made it very clear who holds that title around here. 😂🐴

Our girl Carmen enjoying one of the lush pastures at Blue Dog. There’s just something about seeing happy horses turned out on good grass that never gets old.

She may not own the place, but good luck explaining that to her. 👑

Blue Dog Performance Horses
Where Hard Work Meets Good Horses

📍 Frazeysburg, Ohio

09/29/2026

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09/24/2026

🥶 Cold Ohio weather is coming… but that doesn’t mean your horse has to spend the winter miserable!

Blue Dog Performance Horses is accepting a limited number of boarders at our heated facility in Frazeysburg, Ohio. Enjoy the peace of mind of having your horse somewhere warm, clean, and cared for when the temperatures drop.

With winter right around the corner, now is a great time to get settled in before the snow, ice, frozen buckets, and miserable Ohio mornings arrive. ❄️🐴

Blue Dog Performance Horses
Where Hard Work Meets Good Horses
📍 Frazeysburg, Ohio

Message us to schedule a tour or reserve a stall! 💙