Caney Creek Farm

Today we were visited by Jada and Halo again. The goal was to let Jada do the training so that she could learn how to work with her horse on her own. Halo is a little jumpy at a lot of things so we wanted to do another day of sensitivity training with him. Just…

Apparently, at some point the other day, Ethan and Kayleigh made a bet. Ethan has only been riding horses for a month or so and almost all of that time has been working Ruger. A 4-year-old, unbroken at the time, untouched by a human’s hand, horse. He’s never loped a circle on a trained horse…

Anyone that has owned a horse for any period of time, knows how difficult it is to keep them safe. Horses are big strong animals and it is very easy to forget that they are actually prey animals at heart. Big, Strong, and Fast are not at the top of their brain stem when things…

One of the things that has been driving me crazy about the barn at Caney Creek is the floor. Starting with the floors in the stalls, there was absolutely nothing flat. Each stall had Pea holes 3 foot deep that literally took hours to dig out all of the old shavings and the rest of…

Since purchasing the farm there has been one thing kicking my butt that I have just not been able to figure out. The dirt! I know, it’s only dirt you say. Well, I don’t disagree, and like I tell everyone, you can’t really mess up dirt. Whatever you do wrong, you can just go back…

Well, Ethan finally broke down and purchased himself his very own and very first horse. He’s been a huge help around the farm with training and riding horses and he finally decided to get himself his very own project to start working with. He found a nice 3-year-old (via pictures and talk) in South Carolina.…

We started out the morning with plans for 6 horses that quickly dwindled to 2 for different reasons. However, Jacob and I still wanted to go so we loaded up our girls and headed out. It is about a 45-minute drive from the farm so not too bad at all. Jacob got a new GoPro…

Today we had a woman named Laurie that teaches what she refers to as Natural Leadership Training and what we refer to as tricks. I mean seriously people, how cool would it be to teach your horse tricks! We had this scheduled for the people around the barn and will start opening it up for…

Yep, another horse named Halo came for a visit yesterday. He was brought over for us to work in the round pen due to him being extremely jumpy at everything around him. Jada has gotten a little nervous working with him due to a lack of trust and he lacks the confidence to stay calm.…

Today we decided to work on a total saddle up in the round pen with nothing holding Halo’s feet still. One thing you should always consider when working a horse like this is that just because they did well the day before, doesn’t mean they’ll pick up in the same spot the following day. I’ve…