Bachman Equine, LLC

04/11/2026

We are SO EXCITED for the sunshine 🌞 after a LONG 🥶 winter ❄️!!! 🐎

04/10/2026

One Female AKC Shetland Sheepdog pup left!

Cute as a button! 16 weeks old, crate trained, veterinary health certificate, vaccinated, dewormed, well started on her potty training 🚽 journey. Socialized with small children 👶🏻 and other dogs 🐕. Great on car rides and riding passenger in the Polaris 🚜🛺. Wonderful personality, sweet and courageous. Looking for a tough little lassie to be your new best friend? Here’s your girl. Confirmation and agility lines, already started farm hand 🐎 💜

Near Hershey, PA

03/22/2026

Celebrating the first weekend of Spring! 🙌🏻 🌺 🌞 🐎

We have A LOT more construction projects planned for 2026 - stay tuned to watch them unfold.

🏡 Barndominium completion
🐎 Sacrifice Lots and walking paths
💩 Manure Storage
🌳 Landscaping

Thanks for the saddle time, Kim!

03/11/2026

Ok Ya’ll! LISTEN UP!!!

I can hardly believe it but I still have AKC Sheltie Puppies 🐶 🐾 1 sable Merle male and 1 Mahogany female available!

I guarantee you that these are the nicest pups you’ll come across. They have been lovingly handled and socialized from day one by adults and small children. Whether you’re looking for a cuddly couch buddy or one with a spirit of adventure these are the pups for you because THEY DO IT ALL!!! You need one (or both!) of these pups in your life.

These pups are super smart, food motivated, EASY and WILLING to train and are well advanced on their potty training journey!

Ready to go to their furever homes 🏡!!!💙 💜

Lovingly raised by our family in our own home:

🐶 Dewclaws removed
🐶 Dewormed
🐶 Veterinary Certificates of Health
🐶 First vaccines
🐶 Mom and Dad are on property for you to meet and fall in love with (DNA tested negative for over 200 diseases)

Stop by or call for a virtual meet and greet!
Jonestown, PA

*This will be our last litter with Trigger and Dixie as they are being neutered/spayed on Friday*

03/06/2026

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🐴 The $300 Horse Boarding Problem

If you own a horse, this post might make you uncomfortable — but it needs to be said.

As someone who has spent years feeding horses before sunrise and cleaning stalls long after dark, I’ve watched this pattern happen over and over again.

You see the ads everywhere.

“Full care board – $300/month.”
Hay 24/7. Grain included. All the amenities.

And you wonder…

How are they doing it so cheap?

Because the truth is — horses aren’t cheap to care for.

Even if someone grows their own hay there are still costs:
fuel, equipment, repairs, labor, land, and time.

So when board is that cheap, something usually gets cut.

Maybe it’s feed.
Maybe it’s stall cleaning.
Maybe turnout quietly disappears.
Maybe water buckets only get filled once a day.

It doesn’t happen overnight.

It happens slowly… until one day someone sees your horse and says:

“Wow… he looks thin.”

You go home, look at old photos, and realize they’re right.

So you move your horse to a higher-end barn.

Now board is $700… $800… sometimes $1,000+ a month.

Your horse looks great again — but now you’re working so many hours just to afford it that you barely get to see them.

And that’s when people start leaving the horse world completely.

But there’s a third option that often gets overlooked.

Small private barns.

Not the mega barns.

Not the ultra-cheap barns.

The quiet, middle-of-the-road places where the owner does the work themselves because they can’t afford employees.

The places where your horse isn’t just a stall number.

Where feed is adjusted individually.
Where someone notices if your horse doesn’t finish dinner.
Where care is personal because the barn is small enough to truly manage.

These barns often sit half empty because they’re not flashy and they’re not the cheapest.

But many of them offer the best balance of care, affordability, and peace of mind in the horse world.

Sometimes the best place for your horse isn’t the cheapest or the fanciest.

Sometimes it’s the place where you can walk out to the pasture after a long day, breathe, and simply watch your horse be a horse.

❤️

And if you’re lucky enough to find one of those small barns that truly cares, hold onto it.

Those places are usually run by people who love horses more than profit, who do the work themselves every day, and who treat every horse like part of their own herd.

Small barns are the heart of the horse world.

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Now I’m curious…

Horse owners — what matters most to you in a boarding barn?

• Price
• Quality of care
• Amenities
• Quiet environment

And barn owners — what do you think is the biggest challenge in horse boarding today?

👇 Let’s talk about it.

02/16/2026

It’s been a big week for the Pups 🐾 First vaccine appt at the vet, enjoying ❄️ and 🌞, and some have started going to their homes 🏡 this week! Only 1 sable merle male and 1 mahogany sable female available!!! 💙 🩷

02/16/2026

🥹😭

❤️ So God Made a Farm Kid
On the eighth day,
after the sky was stretched wide
and the dirt was packed firm beneath steady hands,
God looked down at the open fields and said,

“I need someone
who won’t be afraid of hard.”

So God made a farm kid.

He needed someone
who would wake before the sun
without being asked twice,
who knew that frost on the ground
wasn’t an excuse
but a warning to move faster.

So God made a farm kid.

He needed someone
small enough to fit between fence posts, brave enough to step into a pen
with something twice their size,
and soft enough
to whisper to a nervous calf
like it was their own.

So God made a farm kid.

Someone who would learn
that chores come before comfort,
that animals eat before you do,
that weather does not care about your plans.

Someone who understands
that work is not punishment.
It’s privilege.

So God made a farm kid.

He needed a child
who would grow up knowing
that life and loss
live in the same pasture.
Who would bottle feed the weak one,
bury the broken one,
and still show up tomorrow.

So God made a farm kid.

Someone who could drive a tractor
before they could drive a car.
Who smells like hay and diesel.
Who carries grain buckets
like other kids carry backpacks.

Someone who learns early
that money doesn’t grow on trees
but responsibility does.

So God made a farm kid.

He needed someone
who finds peace in fence lines,
who measures seasons by calving and harvest, who knows the sound of rain in a tin roof is better than any lullaby.

Someone who will leave sometimes,
chase a dream,
try a different life...
but always feel their heart
pull back toward the barn.

So God made a farm kid.

Not because it would be easy.
Not because it would be glamorous.

But because the world will always need
steady hands,
strong backs,
soft hearts,
and people who understand
that freedom tastes better
when you’ve worked for it.

So God made a farm kid.

And somewhere in a barn aisle,
under dust floating through morning light, stands that kid...
older now, maybe tired,
but still grateful...

Because being raised by land and livestock, doesn’t just build character.

It builds legacy.

❤️ Michelle K | Diamond K Livestock Co.

02/15/2026

😂😂😂😂

02/04/2026

AKC Sheltie Puppies 🐶 🐾 2 males and 2 females available!
Ready to go just in time for Valentine’s Day 💙 💜

Lovingly raised by our family in our own home:

🐶 Dewclaws removed
🐶 Dewormed
🐶 Veterinary Certificates of Health
🐶 First vaccines
🐶 Mom and Dad are on property for you to meet and fall in love with (DNA tested negative for over 200 diseases)

Jonestown, PA

01/30/2026

We still have 4 available! 2 males and 2 females! Who needs a little Valentines 💌 day love in their life? 💋 🐾

01/12/2026

AKC Sheltie Puppies 🐶 🐾 are going fast but we still have 2 boys and 4 girls left! Take a look at these cuties, sables and merles! 3 weeks old! Ready to go just in time for Valentine’s Day 💙 💜

Lovingly raised by our family in our own home, Pups will:

🐶 Have Dewclaws removed
🐶 Be Dewormed at 3, 5 and 7 weeks old
🐶 Have Veterinary Certificates of Health
🐶 First vaccines given at 7 weeks old
🐶 Mom and Dad are on property for you to meet and fall in love with (DNA tested negative for over 200 diseases)
🐶 Potty Training started

Located near Hershey, PA