My horses go through a lot of salt. I offer it to them in two ways – 1) salt blocks and 2) loose salt. I buy the loose salt in 50 pound bags at the feed store. It’s labeled as “taxidermy salt” and sells for about $7 or $8 for 50 pounds. The bag does [...]
I’m not sure if I should call my horses giant beavers or monkeys! They are apparently getting bored playing in the mud and the snow. This is what they do at night when they have nothing better to do. They morph into gigantic beavers! Actually, it is but ONE of my three horses that has [...]
I’m a little slow with this post but haven’t had a lot of time to really think about planning what I’d like to accomplish this ride season with my two horses. What have the rest of you come up with – anybody have anything to share? Please post links to other endurance riders who have [...]
Been getting a lot done this week though not as much as I would have liked. I did a bunch of updates on the sunriseranchrides.com website. From looking at it you probably won’t notice. Where it’s going to be noticed is on the back end when we receive the ride entries they are now going [...]
Lots of horse people have a tub of ichthamol in their tack room somewhere. I know I do! I recently used the stuff which got me curious about what the other uses are for it. Ichthamol isn’t something that I have used very often. Ichthammol is a black, tarry substance that is extracted from rock [...]
Anybody here have any recommendations? I still have my old original blue Petzel headlamp that is probably a dozen years old, or more. It has 5 LD lights on it that can flash or be solid. It is “okay” for doing barn chores in the winter, but is just not very bright. I use it [...]
Read all the way to the bottom to get the discount code! In the past I posted about what I feed my competing endurance horses, including Mega Dose vitamins (more on that here, too). I’ve been really happy with these vitamins and especially like that everything my horses need in a vitamin is included in [...]
Check: http://www.sunriseranchrides.com to download the .pdf files. If you spot any errors let me know. Thanks!
Here is my new (old) tack room! It is basically the same but there is more storage in it now. We pulled out the existing cupboards and cabinets and replaced them with new (old) ones. The new cabinets came out of our kitchen and are 22 years old. My tack room now looks a lot [...]
Here are some photos from the Death Valley ride. We had a nice time. My husband Dave went with me to move the rig. We did have a funny noise coming from the truck when we slowed down going into Bishop….crud! Turns out it was the truck brakes and it’s getting fixed as we speak. [...]
I’ve been a little behind since getting back from Death Valley. I’ve been doing a lot of work with the Decade Teams for AERC. Okay, maybe not “a lot”, based upon actually producing something that others can see, but it’s getting there! I’ve got proof readers checking over the interview questions and will work on [...]
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