Horses
Our research farm is designed to bring innovative new products to market that have been "horse tested and proven" before they ever get to our customers. Our horses get to lead the way, trying innovative products years before they actually hit the retail market. Part of understanding how horses grow and develop is having broodmares and babies, the same way that many of our customers on breeding and foaling operations do. Simply talking and reading about how foals grow and develop holds very little clout in the research world, however if you have been breeding and foaling horses for as long as we have (45 years of breeding registered quarter horses) you get a much better understanding of how young horses grow and develop. I enjoy spring when we have the chance to see how our foals turn out, and get the chance to select and breed for the next year. The long nights of waiting for foals and checking mares seem to go on forever, then all of a sudden its gone until next year. This video clip is from last week when we had our last foal of the year.
- New From Purina Animal Nutrition!
It’s hard to believe we’ve actually done it! Years and years of research, countless ultrasounds, timely breedings, sleepness nights, foal after foal being born….and we have finally figured out how to feed broodmares and combine our breeding expertise...
- Nutritional Support For Lactating Mares
Foals are eating machines that rely on their mother’s milk to help them grow and develop. If you’re not mindful, they can drain a mare of her nutrients leaving her in poor body condition. Mares can lose a significant amount of weight during lactation...
- Nine Is Fine!
Number nine out of ten expected foals arrived yesterday, he got to go out and explore the world this morning. (He thought the human with the camera was the most interesting thing apparently) Our foals get 24 hours with mom in a stall before their first...
- New Babies - Cute Little Growing Machines!
Spring is so fun, nice weather and new babies arrive for us to enjoy! Mike has been posting the new arrivals at Longview Animal Nutrition Center so I thought I'd share mine. Our own broodmare mare, Dottie (Do It Stylish), a Quarter Horse mare, had...
- And Then There Were Three
Phone calls in the middle of the night can be unnerving to some, but this time of year for breeding and foaling operations it is just part of life- and most of the time it means new life. Margaret checked in on our two mares, Snakey and Patty last night...
Horses
Already Finished!
Our research farm is designed to bring innovative new products to market that have been "horse tested and proven" before they ever get to our customers. Our horses get to lead the way, trying innovative products years before they actually hit the retail market. Part of understanding how horses grow and develop is having broodmares and babies, the same way that many of our customers on breeding and foaling operations do. Simply talking and reading about how foals grow and develop holds very little clout in the research world, however if you have been breeding and foaling horses for as long as we have (45 years of breeding registered quarter horses) you get a much better understanding of how young horses grow and develop. I enjoy spring when we have the chance to see how our foals turn out, and get the chance to select and breed for the next year. The long nights of waiting for foals and checking mares seem to go on forever, then all of a sudden its gone until next year. This video clip is from last week when we had our last foal of the year.
- New From Purina Animal Nutrition!
It’s hard to believe we’ve actually done it! Years and years of research, countless ultrasounds, timely breedings, sleepness nights, foal after foal being born….and we have finally figured out how to feed broodmares and combine our breeding expertise...
- Nutritional Support For Lactating Mares
Foals are eating machines that rely on their mother’s milk to help them grow and develop. If you’re not mindful, they can drain a mare of her nutrients leaving her in poor body condition. Mares can lose a significant amount of weight during lactation...
- Nine Is Fine!
Number nine out of ten expected foals arrived yesterday, he got to go out and explore the world this morning. (He thought the human with the camera was the most interesting thing apparently) Our foals get 24 hours with mom in a stall before their first...
- New Babies - Cute Little Growing Machines!
Spring is so fun, nice weather and new babies arrive for us to enjoy! Mike has been posting the new arrivals at Longview Animal Nutrition Center so I thought I'd share mine. Our own broodmare mare, Dottie (Do It Stylish), a Quarter Horse mare, had...
- And Then There Were Three
Phone calls in the middle of the night can be unnerving to some, but this time of year for breeding and foaling operations it is just part of life- and most of the time it means new life. Margaret checked in on our two mares, Snakey and Patty last night...