Whew! We need a forklift! Three days and a few broken backs later and the 200 forty pound bags of Equine Pine are moved from the offloading on our country road to dry storage in the barn. We have been testing the Equine Pine product for the last month and I’m in love with it. It’s economical, SO easy to work with, better for the environment with a smaller carbon footprint than shavings or straw AND for smaller farms it’s idea that you can store enough bedding for a couple horses for an entire year just in a few simple pallets!!
It’s just too kewl not to share so as soon as the weather clears up and it’s almost enjoyable to be outside, we’re going to shoot a webisode on the Equine Pine product!
Check them out if you have a chance at http://www.equinepine.com/. It seems like a great company, they own their own plants so you know you’re going to get a consistent product and they just seem like all around nice folks! Now lifting the bags wasn’t too hard but it would have been all said and done in a matter of minutes if we had a forklift to move them for us. 
We Need A Forklift
March 6th, 2010 
These Explain Sandro’s Fussy Attitude
March 4th, 2010 So the “horse with no name” now has a name! Because I called him the “horse with no name” for so long I double checked the band that sang that song and it’s America. His sire is Sir Donnerhall and he’s out of a Bolero mare so there’s direct Sandro link and being a Westphalian he needed to have a name starting with the same letter as his sire so an “S” which led me to call him Sandro’s Amerika. Now there was a famous singer named Sandro de America that was revolutionary in his time being the first latino to sell out Madison Square Garden and how appropriate I thought since I think this little Sandro has the movement to be a record breaker as well and like the latino singer the looks to wow the crowds. I haven’t really decided on a barn name for him but Sandro seemed to fit for this blog post at least!
I could tell he needed his teeth done but what I didn’t know is that he was extra fussy the last few weeks because he still had his wolf teeth and they hadn’t even pushed through yet. Poor little guy. I felt so sorry for him but they are happily out. He’s loving putting his bridle back on again and once we get more than one day of decent weather I’m looking forward to getting back into a regular training routine with him so we can get him going and list him for sale. He’s just too cute!
Wolf teeth no more!
NCSU Equine Forage Clinic
March 3rd, 2010 I normally don’t post these sorts of things in my blog but this clinic looked like a great educational opportunity for North Carolinians! Looks like a great collection of lectures put together by the local extension service! You can click on the image to get a full sized version for printing just FYI.
Breakfast In Bed (Or In This Case, The Field Bedding)
March 1st, 2010 I was passing out a light lunch just now and Carrara was sunning herself on the other side of the field. Feeling very nice, I thought to go feed her next to where she was laying down, Well… setting the food down in front of her, she looked up at me like the princess that she is, looked at the food bowl and proceeded to eat lying down! Gotta love it! A short video of this was too funny to pass up.
