About Black Horse Farm
Posted on June 20th, 2008
Without ever meaning to, we ended up owning all black horses! Hence the name Black Horse Farm, a small quiet farm of 15 acres: seven acres of hay field, five acres of paddocks with 4-rail wooden fencing and cedar posts.
The barns were almost completely remodeled in the summer and fall of 2005 after buying the property in June of 2005. Currently we have 7 large matted stalls.
We have many trails, quiet country roads and farm land around us. We hope to expand and continue to improve our horse property as we go.
Our horses consist of Percherons, Percherons croses, Traknher/Hanoverain and a Quarter Horse. All have been rescued from one situation or another except Willy our Quarter horse. I bought him 18 years ago. He is now 25 years old. Visit Meet Our Horses to learn about the rest.
All of our horses except for one is a rescue horse. We have changed our focus some. We know that there are a lot of unwanted horses. We would like to take them all and offer a safe and comfy place but since that would also include having access to a lot of money we hope to do our part in other ways.
Our Theory
One way is education. We used to do some focus on breeding and selling. We feel that there are too many horses in the world and not enough good homes for them so it would be contributing to the over population of horses if we continue to offer breeding. Like cats and dogs it has longed reached the point of too many horses. Blame that on the greed and irresponsibility of the human being. It is not the horses' fault. But they are ones to suffer in countless ways, race tracks, over breeding for the best head, legs, speed, turns, color, confirmation, or for profit, the list goes on.
So while we offer boarding, lessons, horsemanship, demonstrations and training it all goes back into the horses or education in some way. It also goes beyond buying hay , grain, bedding, farrier and vet costs. We invest and instill our horsemanship values and morals onto children and adults who come to Black Horse Farm. We teach what good horsemanship really is.
The value is a horse's life, whether it be blind, broken down or unwanted. A horse can be any horse and still be worth more to us than a big price tag. Bloodlines and registration papers are not important to us. In fact, it is "great bloodlines" that are a menace to horses. Breeding, and breeding to satisfy man's quest for the perfect horse. Some horses here will never be ridden because to us a horse does not have to be ridden to be worthy. Those horses are happy as they are. They delight us with their beauty or personalities. Their silliness or antics. By investing in people maybe we can teach one person at a time and therefore make the future a better place for horses.
So join us , open your minds, hearts and souls and come learn about horses.
Once you have some interaction with horses then you would understand the marvel they create.
It is a passion we have when we share our life with horses. Our hard earned money is spent on them instead of fine clothes and jewelry and our vacations are not on some far away land, it is in our barns and pastures, happily..jpg)
Thousands of mares were on pee lines to collect urine to make this drug. When the contracts were cancelled the ranch owners began to send the mares to slaughter. Many rescue groups began to try and rescue the mares and their foals. I selected 3 mares from thousands of postage sized pictures of horses that if weren’t adopted would go to slaughter and shipped overseas for human consumption. 
Most of the time horse owners who find themselves in this situation think the only option is to euthanize the foal or horse. This could not be further from the truth.
I can tell you since we started up Apollonia’s story on our web site we have heard from quite a few horse owners whose mares gave birth to blind foals.