Caney Creek Farm

We had a small show last night but I think everyone had a good time. The dirt was nice and we’re still working on getting it level. Travis and I spent most of the day yesterday working the dirt and getting rid of the high and low spots. We still have a bit more to…

As mentioned in an earlier blog, we got a new horse in the barn named “Halo” that we have been working on in the round pen. Yesterday, I was planning on riding her for the first time, but after saddling her up, I saw another issue that I figured we should solve before getting in…

Are you growing fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs, meat, or other food-related items, and you’d like a place to sell them? We are starting the Butts County Farmers Market located at Caney Creek Farm just for this purpose. For just $10 a day, you can secure a spot to sell your goods and meet local farmers…

Today we added a new horse to the boarding barn and it was her first introduction to the horses in one of the pastures. These are the friendliest horses I’ve ever seen so wasn’t too worried about them messing with her and she’s as sweet as cotton candy so wasn’t too worried about her either.…

We are slowly getting things figured out. The dirt had been worked for the last 4 days adding close to 1000 gallons of water a day to keep it soft. Fresh batteries in the clocks and Johnny and Ethan on the tractors. Elizabeth and Debbie were manning the kitchen and I got stuck on the…

We started laying out plans this week to move our chickens to the farm. As you know, on most horse farms, there is a lot of manure usually piled around all over the place looking for someone to pick it up. We’ve decided that we’re going to use the Chickens to help turn the waste…

Day 3: Today I went out into the pasture alone carrying a halter as if I was going to catch one of them. I guess it would help to describe the pasture a bit because most people I see showing how to catch a hard-to-catch horse, do it in a small paddock. In our case,…

I was watching an old cowboy the other day talking about how to properly catch a horse and teach it not to run from you when you go to get it. He said he NEVER takes a bucket of feed with him and can train any horse to get caught without giving you a fuss.…

Last night’s show didn’t go off as well as we had hoped. We somehow ended up with 2 extra people in the draw that wasn’t actually there, the batteries went dead in the timer, two riders came into the arena at the same time and because of the confusion with the draw we ended up…

Well, we pulled off our first solo Jackpot last night and although a little stressful, we think it went off pretty well. We apologize for not having many photos to upload, we’ll fix that issue on the next run, for now hopefully showing the results of the night will be enough. We also used the…