Our Horses
Our horses are very special parts of our lives. We currently have 5 mares and one colt of different breeds. 3 of them came from rescue situations and we have raised them from babies to be lovely trail riding companions. 2 of our mares, Celie and Licorice, came to us as foals from an Appaloosa Premarin (PMU) farm in Canada. We bought and paid for them from pictures online and waited for them to be weaned and to travel all the way from Manitoba to GA. Cookie, my husbands girl, came from a rescue in Kentucky that saves culled foals from nurse mare farms. These farms keep pregnant mares available to lease out to other people when their foals need surrogate mothers for different reasons. When a mare is leased, her foal is 'done away with'. Cookie's mother was leased when she was 8 days old. She was taken in by the rescue and bucket fed milk replacer until adopted out. Then we have Bandita, and Jif, who are kid-safe trail riding horses that we bought from a friend of mine for visiting family to enjoy. Bandita is a black and white paint, and Jif is very spotted, large, Appaloosa pony that came to us in foal. She gave birth to a beautiful black colt with a wildly spotted blanket. We named him Tonka. You can view the photos of Tonka's birth in our photo gallery.
Our family and friends really enjoy saddling up a horse or two and riding our many winding trails that run throughout our property.
