Reyerwalk Ranch

08/26/2025

These boots are made for horsin’ around

07/08/2025

Welcome to Reyerwalk Ranch, Stormy & Tammy! Chantal Ferrini Photography

02/09/2025

Our Barn Angel's baby is home!
Chantal Ferrini Photography

12/21/2024

Life’s never the pits at Reyerwalk Ranch, even when it looks like this.

10/21/2024

And you think you have trouble loading…

09/14/2024

Chantal Ferrini Photography threw a fabulous Horsey Happy Hour tonight. Thanks to everyone who came and made it such a fun evening. Nancy Reyering Marty Walker Kristy Moding

07/30/2024

07/28/2024

We have a new… well, not quite a boarder, but certainly a welcome guest. 🥰 🦌

07/06/2024

When it’s so hot you can’t even finish rolling over. Oh, Hugo! 🥰🫏 Chantal Ferrini Photography

06/27/2024

From Bend Equine Medical Center: Wildfire season is back, so it’s time once again to consider how to protect your horse from respiratory damage caused by smoke inhalation.

Horses' lungs are huge—the average horse's lung volume is 55 L, compared to a human's 6 L. A horse exercising heavily can intake as much as 2,250 liters of air per minute, and the particulate matter within that huge volume of air can lodge within the bronchioles and lung alveoli, causing inflammation and sometimes pneumonia.

Limiting exercise can help minimize the amount of particulate matter allowed to lodge in the lungs during these poor air-quality periods. Horses also need time to fully clear it before returning to work.

Some handy rules of thumb (but keep in mind there's not a lot of data to support exact numbers so you may see some variation in recommendations):

*Avoid trot and canter/lope exercise when air quality exceeds 150 AQI.
*Avoid any forced exercise over 200 AQI.
*For severe smoke inhalation, as in the case of horses literally in the midst of wildfires, four to six weeks of rest is recommended.
*For each day of AQI >150, horses should receive one day of rest *after* the air quality returns to