Monday Updates

I love Monday updates when I can tell you about not one but two fantastic ready to be adopted horses!

I'm happy to report that both Peach and Tess are ready for their forever homes!

Tess is a great hunter/eventer prospect, she is a 4 year old unraced TB filly. She sound, healthy UTD on everything and very easy to ride! 

Peach is also still looking for her forever home! You can find out more about her in some of our earlier blogs.

Now for the rest of the updates!

-Lady and Tess are both located at Grandview Stables in Danville New Hampshire and are doing very well there. 

-Studly had a hoof trim today and still healing very nicely from being gelded.

-Lea has learned to lunge and is really good at it! She also seems to love the stimulation.

-Bentley's weight is looking good and she is truly learning how to be a horse!

-The new shed and paddocks are up! The footing just needs to be spread but should be in use by Friday!

Peach Is Ready For Her Forever Home!

Remember Peach?

The beautiful girl in the picture above is Peach and she is here to tell you that she is now ready to go to her forever home! Peach is a 7 y/o 15 hh warmblood mare who has been neglected most of her young life but is coming back nicely from it. She has been at STRIDES for a while now gaining weight and learning to be a horse.

Peach is a very in your pocket type horse, she is barefoot, healthy and UTD. 

Peach still needs to be finished under saddle and does need an experienced trainer and rider but would make a fantastic spring/summer project and once she's learned everything a great all around horse.

What do you say? Is Peach your new best friend?

For more information on Peach please contact Chellsey Camasso at 603-489-9979

Peach tearing it up!

Super cute gaits!

Monday Updates

Alright folks there is lots going on at STRIDES Equine Rescue this week!

Peach is ready for her forever home!

-Peach is finally healthy and at a good weight and ready to go to her forever home! She'll need an experienced rider/trainer but should do very well with more training. Please contact Chellsey Camasso at 603-489-9979 if you are interested or would like more information.

-Studly came through his gelding surgery just fine and (we think) is looking forward to life as a gelding! 

-Keira has officially been adopted! Thank you Becky! We hope you do many great things with Keira and that she brings you much happiness and joy.

-Two new horses are now at the rescue. They are Chloe and Lady, both bay TB mares who were raced at Suffolk Downs as youngsters. Currently they are at Grandview Stables in Danville New Hampshire. I will have more information on them soon.

-Bentley is coming along nicely and still gaining weight and getting used to being a horse. She will be brought to the rescue for training sometime in May.

-We have a great new steel shelter going up on Wednesday! It 21X28 and will help us a lot!

Keep on the look out for profiles of adoptable horses this week as well our Friday Suggested Reading Blog!

Some Interesting Reading

A STRIDES rescue doing Dressage.

Since I will have no new blogs up until Monday I figured I'd post a link to a website I've been reading a lot of lately. It's called Sustainable Dressage and it is a very interesting and opinionated read. Now I'll put a little disclaimer right here; The folks at STRIDES Equine Rescue and anybody and everybody associated with them do not necessarily hold the ideas and ideals as reflected on the website Sustainable Dressage nor do that have any affiliation with them.

I (Annie Rose on Facebook) really enjoyed the section on bits and bitting and how different bridles effect the face. The entire site is very interesting although at times a bit like reading a text book. Totally worth taking a look at though. I've also found it's good for helping you form your own thoughts on a few things like what kinds of bits you like or dislike.

Monday Updates

I think I'm going to start doing Monday updates most Mondays that there are significant things to update on just to keep everybody on the same page and things going smoothly.
So this Monday here are the updates;

-The Flower Power Fundraiser reached it's $500 + goal but you still have a few days to purchase flowers if you have not already! Thank you to everybody who did purchase flowers! You have contributed greatly to raising the funds for the new barn!

-As of this week Studly is going to be much less studly. Yes folks he's going under the knife to become a gelding! Even though he's already sweet and quiet he is much better off as a gelding and once he recovers he will begin training and then finding his forever home.

-Lea is coming along very nicely and is finally coming out of her shell and learning some manners and to trust.

-Bentley is doing well and gaining weight.

-STRIDES is in need of a good, well fenced horse safe pasture in Sounteastern New Hampshire to pasture a few rescues while they learn to be horses again. If you have a pasture like this or know of somebody who does who might be willing to allow us to use it please contact Chellsey Camasso.

-The benefit trail ride is now being held at Tower Hill in Candia New Hampshire. More to come on this soon.

-STRIDES will be getting a new rescue TB in at the end of this week. More details to come on that horse as I get them.

Help Us Out!

STRIDES Equine Rescue is in need of a good, well fenced, horse safe pasture in Southeastern New Hampshire to allow a few rescue horses to rest and learn how to be horses again.
Please if you have a pasture like this contact Chellsey Camasso of STRIDES Equine Rescue at 603-489-9979

Obese Horses

I know we all know the dangers of horses being underweight like this;

Bentley AFTER gaining some weight.

But what about horses looking like this;

Studly this past week.

With fat rolls like this;

It's easy to think that bigger is better especially when you are rehabbing horses and you see a lot of thin ones but that is not so. STRIDES got a 13.3 hh stud pony in last week and he is FAT which means he's also more then a bit unhealthy. I figured this would be a good time to bring you folks some great YouTube videos about obese horses and ponies so you can be better educated and better able to recognize them and therefore care for them better.

Here is a great video about how to fat score a horse and what in the findings tells you they are overweight.

This is an interesting video about an epidemic of overweight horses in the UK and what is being done over there. We have the same problems here.

This is a good article on general proper feeding of horses and ponies.

And here is a great page on overweight horses and how to recognize and manage them.