KBH Horsemanship

06/22/2025

My hometown heroes may not wear capes but they definitely fly on tractors! My fields got a nice haircut yesterday, for the "hay burners" as he calls 'em 😅

06/05/2025

So proud of Phantom ❤️ He had his first ride around the property today. We had a ton of stimulation going on today too. Both the barn property house and the neighbor behind us that we ride by, had roof work going on. The other neighbor was out doing yard work with his string trimmer, and the water treatment box behind Mercury Electronics was actively making its noise. I had to dismount to walk him by the scary box, but I was able to mount back up right on the other side. And the neighbor, not knowing, caused a bit of a rodeo when he started his trimmer right as we walked past, well Phantom did some rearing and spinning but he calmed right back down and carried on. The others I was riding with didn't even know anything happened, it was a quiet show for my neighbor only 😅 He is such a smart and willing boy though, with more time out, he will be a solid citizen, he's just unsure and needs gentle guidance. It helps that he's pretty much the cutest horse on the property (sorry guys), so he already has his looks going for him 😍 (PS, editing because I can't figure out why my business page never tags people, their names are blue until it posts 🤷‍♀️ just know he rode with two others nicely 😅)

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Phantom
15h, 8yo
Mustang/Paint X

06/03/2025

Wanna hear a cool story?...

The other week when I posted my "sneak peek" of the two new boys coming to me, Melissa Porter of the Finger Lakes TB Adoption Program (whom I adopted my horse Z through), reached out to me asking if the TB's name was Bones. I was told his name was Fleurry, but she sent me a few head shots of a horse and I sent them to Sydney with the closing rescue and asked, is this Fleurry? She said Yes, that's him, why? Well....what a story this horse has to tell!

Melissa went on to tell me she had lost track of a horse she adopted out a few years ago, his JC name is Bad To Dah Bone and he was adopted out to, what was thought to be, a veterans therapy program. Turned out the program was a fraud and this horse, along with another she adopted to them named Jazz, were being used in ways that violated the adoption contract as well as being neglected. When Melissa caught word that Bones and Jazz needed help, she attempted to reach out, the woman running the fake program wouldn't honor her contract and Melissa wasn't able to fight for them at the time. A few months go by and Jazz is found by The Equine Advocates of NY, skin and bones, and they were able to remove him and get him to Cornell University to help save him. Melissa hears about this and goes back for Bones, with her contract in hand and police in tow, but they wouldn't let her pull him because there was evidence of food and water on the property, even though he was thin, crusted in manure, with 2 ft of manure in his stall and a woman who is screaming and barrating her with every word in the book. She left empty handed that day and the woman with the fake program puts Bones up for sale. Melissa losses track of him from here.

This is where the rescue I know comes in. A family new to horses buys Bones and another horse she had (this is Phantom). They were lied to about his abilities because Bones, who was now being called Fleurry, has old chips in his knees and should NOT be jumped, but this family was told he had surgery to remove them so he was cleared to do it all now. Being new to horses, they were in over their heads anyway with an OTTB with no real retraining and a mishandled young paint who's scared of people and his own shadow. Sydney with the rescue tried to help them but they eventually decided it would be best if she took them and tried to adopt them out to more appropriate homes. Fast forward a bit and here I am, posting a picture of a horse that's coming to me, Melissa recognizes his unique blaze, and BAM!, we're able to put the missing pieces together and identify Fleurry as FLTAP's missing horse Bones!

How Cool Is That!?!? Of all the people and places this horse could've ended up, he ended up with someone I knew. A full circle story with a happy ending! Melissa was thrilled he was coming to me and now Bones can get properly advertised and into a well suited home within his range of abilities ❤️🐴

Finger Lakes Thoroughbred Adoption Program - FLTAP!

05/30/2025

Beau is growing into a model kids pony. He is also the first horse out of the 6 I'm currently working with to do our new teetertotter! Video in comments ⬇️⬇️
Lindsey Goodspeed McMullen

05/27/2025

Phantom is coming along nicely ❤️🐴

04/23/2025

‼️‼️ Everyone needs to see this ‼️‼️‼️
After getting fecals done this spring, most of the horses called for Ivermectin. I wasn't able to find any in my local stores so I ordered a 3 pack off Walmart .com. I immediately noticed something was off when I opened the package and noticed the tube was not wrapped in plastic like they always are. The plunger is also missing all the weight amounts, the notches along the shaft and the blocker tab that you use to select your horses weight. So I emailed Durvet asking if they had Ivermectin tubes that looked this way and the answer I received is terrifying!
‼️‼️‼️ DO NOT BUY IVERMECTIN OFF WALMART ‼️‼️‼️ It is counterfeit ‼️‼️‼️

This is especially worrisome for all those people out there trying to buy Ivermectin to deworm themselves and their families! Who knows where this was made and what's in it!!! There's only one reason I can think of that some company would go through all this trouble to make counterfeit Ivermectin! Please share!!!

04/18/2025

Phantom
15h, 8yo
Mustang/QH Paint

Phantom is cute as a button and easy as pie. He has a sweet disposition and always comes walking out of the herd to come greet me. My current evaluation is he's just a bit clueless and unexposed. He is very looky and a little snorty but I've been encouraging him to go and boop whatever he's staring at and he gets right over it. He thought the white poles were sketchy today, so I made an obstacle out of them and after a few perimeter boops, he was traversing through them, all directions, no problem. I also got the tarp out for a walk over obstacle, it was too windy to hold it for that style of desensitization right off the bat. This one took more time and encouragement but after circling it, side eyeing it, coming close enough to paw at it, he walked all four feet over the corner, touching the tarp with each step even though he didn't really go completely over it, so I called that a win for the first day and gave him a nice long hand graze reward. This boy is going to be a fun and easy process, he just needs exposure and typical under saddle education.

03/31/2025

Spring has sprung here at KBH!

03/23/2025

Welcome to KBH boys! ❤️🐴❤️🐴

01/03/2025

Truth 🙌

Pretty true I think. 😁

11/18/2024

This sweet little chocolate nugget loves the kids. I call for the ponies, and Diego only comes when Rocky decides to make his way in. But if my kids call for him, he whinnies and comes running, will bypass the fresh hay pile and goes straight for some lovins ❤️😍🐴

11/05/2024

These are the days ❤️
I love being a Mom to this wild barn boy. Who knew sawdust sledding in November could be a thing 😅