Mahnke's Stables

10/14/2023

It’s gonna be fun “rein” or shine 12-6 today! Thank you Henry County Hospital for your support of our mission. Show this post for one free wagon ride today! Like & Share!

01/16/2023

Lily Creek Farms Therapeutic Riding Center🐴 is the proud owner of Mahnke Orchard🍎. The proceeds from the orchard and store enable us to grow our programs that help children and adults with special needs!

Our Market is managed through vocational training partnerships with Bittersweet Farms and Aspiring Hands and a cadre of dedicated volunteers. We encourage you to message us with questions or information on volunteering with the orchard or riding center!🐴

We have a variety of locally made products in our store thanks to many vendor partners! We hope you continue to support Mahnke Orchard, which in turn will support many great individuals in your community to learn and heal through horses and farm related activities!

11/25/2022

As most of you know, we have sold our businesses to begin a new chapter in our lives. This includes our boarding stable.

We have had 48 years of boarders pass through our stable leaving us with friendships and memories to last a lifetime.

The stables last boarders will leave on December 14, 2022 to allow the new owner to take over on the 15th.

Our stable will be the new home of Lily Creek Stables (currently in Defiance).

Thank you to ALL who have boarded with us, worked for us, and helped make our business a success!

Sincerely,
Dick, Elaine, Skip, and the entire Mahnke family.

07/20/2022

There will be a chiropractor at the barn tomorrow (Thursday) if anyone is interested in having their horse done it is $85/horse. This appointment was set up by Terri so please contact her if you have anymore questions. Thank you.

07/17/2022

We would like to wish everyone heading to the state youth show
THE BEST OF LUCK!!

Have a safe trip.

05/31/2022

Hello Stable family:

Just a friendly reminder that Tim, farrier, will be at the barn Friday 6/3. Please make arrangements to be there. If you cannot be there and need your fur babies feet done; let me know and MONEY MUST BE AT THE BARN THE DAY OF SERVICE!!!!!!

Thank you in advance.

04/22/2022

Hello Stable Family:

Due to the cost of gas and supplies,

Our barn farrier will be raising his prices to 40.00 a trim.

Thank you for your understanding

03/07/2022

Just a reminder that our barn farrier will be here Friday the 11th.

The starting time will be 9 a.m.. If you cannot be there on Friday, please make sure the Mahnke’s have your payment.

I will be available if anyone needs their horse held.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

02/02/2022

“Farm work doesn’t make you stronger.”
It doesn’t make you anything.
It reveals you.
There’s gym strong and then there’s farm strong.
They are not mutually exclusive.

The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a farm.

There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine.

“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.

Control is a mere illusion... The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.

Sometimes sleep is a luxury...So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.
Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.

When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort.

Their needs come first.

In summer heat and coldest winter days. Clean water, clean bed, and plenty of feed. Before you have your first meal, they all eat.

When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.

You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully.

You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.
You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.

You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.

You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.

You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p.

People will look at you sideways and crinkle their noses but you won’t care.

Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.

You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.

Farm work is difficult in its simplicity.

You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.

Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a farm, take the chance!

You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.”
~author unknown

01/30/2022

01/30/2022

With the projected bad weather this week please take time to check on your horses feed and supplements and stock up the barn before Wednesday. Thank you!