Lantana Stables

08/30/2026

It may look like another boring trot in a circle video. However, today is the day all the pieces connected, and he carried himself the entire ride. He got to go on a long hack afterwards.

08/15/2026

so, Wed night I taught a lesson at 9 pm. still too hot. Life now is put horses in, hose down in stalls with fans......aside from their, we've put in two aisle fans. adding beetpulp electrolyte soup to each meal.......2 pm go hose again in stalls 4 pm go hose again in stalls 7 pm turn out with mister fan on. hose the ones who won't use it. Chickens..........ice water through out the day..........barn cats, pretty much in the house. me......11 cold towels wet in in waterproof bags in the barn fridge (one towel lasts about 6 minutes) repeat. After reading this, I think I'll do a spray bottle of alcohol mix. absolutely no riding, not early and not late........nothing is acceptable temp wise.......yet I hear of shows going on.......good luck! https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BnyQndHQG/

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08/09/2026

Chauncey has so much bounce. I raise my stirrups two holes just to ride him. I absolutely love his gaits and him!! It does tend to push me a little forward in the saddle though. He looks good in purple I 🤔

07/26/2026

07/24/2026

Such a game changer for helping them with the heat. However, he and Cecelia do hog the thing

07/16/2026

Some people are out there working horses and showing this time of year......I'm grateful to be able to get them hosed off a few times per day and make sure no one is bleeding out! Seriously.......they are in now from 12-6:30 with fans blasting and now we've added another mister. fly boots, masks, spray all with desitin on buggy sweaty fungus spots, fill water buckets a second time,beet pulp electrolyte iced soup (the ice melts rather quickly so it just keeps it cold and that's what I do from 12-1 back out 2:30 ish to check and hose if necessary. I've subbed out the stall cleaning work bec. I would die. Today..........RealFeel® 113°
RealFeel Shade™ 102° I'm having a hard time remembering why this was my dream!!!

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07/08/2026

https://madbarn.com/equine-heat-index/?srsltid=AfmBOorZuubB4utKjcaJlDGbmkAGyn_R-Y7xinAnWGFCZBmDf1VpN28V such a great tool!

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06/28/2026

Roman aka Fluffy is very much enjoying himself here at our farm (aside from the lessons he teaches). I will say that after a year of him, I’ve become a bit of an expert on all things gypsy. 4 vets later and nope not “babyfat,”not scratches, not infection, not cancer, not necrosis, not sepsis, not the allusive cpl. The source of his ailment is CPPD and I don’t even want to say how much research that took to find, and I seriously doubt any veterinary school teaches about it in this country. It’s basically a highly irritating and disgusting form of warts that appear in clusters and erupt (especially when you’re treating it incorrectly). If not realized, they spread around the leg and when it heals it leaves a ring/ a ridge around the leg. Those ridges can get easily infected (different treatment for that) due to moisture.The ridges become thickened skin and it gets diagnosed as "baby fat" because that is what vet schools teach it as. As they develop, it can look like a tumor, then a ruptured tumor. It looks like necrotic tissue. It has a foul odor and antibiotics do absolutely nothing for it. The horse isn’t sensitive to it. it drives him insane as one’s popping out, but then when it’s out, and it looks like it would be extremely painful, he has no feeling whatsoever in it.He has maintained soundness throughout. I can share pictures and I may do that later. They’re pretty graphic, however it all stems from a feather mite -gotta treat those first! I highly recommend shaving feathers off of horses to see what you’ve got underneath, especially if that horse is itchy! After every concoction ,drug, antibiotic, his new treatment of preparation H and athletes foot powder has done the trick! that, and consistently making sure this horse has no mites. He’s totally worth it but let me tell you I had no idea.

06/04/2026

We’ve raised plenty of chicks out here. Nothing has ever gotten out of this coop until today where the two buildings connect there is a half inch gap. A chicken cannot fit through that. Apparently mine did double fenced.

04/24/2026

My feed bill dropped from over 1200 a month to about $400 which is mostly hay pellets and balancers. My hay bill is dramatically decreased. I've never had easy keepers until now. They are officially fat toads. They have my hills to keep them fit(entire farm is like 4 tiers of hill...........we move hay around so they aren't stagnant.......they are all getting worked consistently .......the drought killed off the grass.........yet they are getting fatter! This actually worries me more than the opposite. what to do? young and perfectly healthy and I wanna keep it that way.