Horses
- Happy New Year, Happy New Barn!
Happy New Year everyone! You may have noticed that we didn’t have a lot of blog posts directly from the Purina Animal Nutrition Center the second half of 2013, and that is because our palatability barn looked like this: Our team was really...
- Hydration Hay Is Now Available And We Can Finally Talk About It!
Hydration Hay Package, Block and Fully Soaked When I show customers the Hydration Hay for the first time, I joke that this product is worth 7 years of my life. When I joined Purina in 2005, they were already working on a similar project that involved...
- Is It Really You??
Year end work at the farm is typically pretty crazy. There are a lot of loose ends to tie up with paperwork, and on top of the paperwork we have a bunch of horses to take care of. This time of year in our part of the country is kind of tough on the horses...
- Happy Thanksgiving From Our Farm To Yours!
Holidays can be a wonderful time for rest, relaxation, and time with family and friends. But if you have horses, it can sometimes seem like any other day! As you know, the horses don’t know it’s a holiday, they expect to be fed on time,...
- Merry Christmas! Don't Forget The Horses!
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you are enjoying the day with family and friends and eating plenty of those "once-a-year" goodies. Don't forget goodies for the horses either! Mine always get a bag of carrots for Christmas. If your horse is "sugar-sensitive",...
Horses
Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Purina!
I love incorporating my animals into holiday cards, and I get asked from time to time how we actually get some of them done, especially the photos of the pony in Christmas lights and eating the snowman’s nose. Here are my secrets:
Step one- Delegate: Get your poor husband involved and make him do the heavy lifting and construction-
Step two- Training: With a halter and lead, feed the pony carrots closer and closer to the snowman’s head, until the horse realizes that carrots come from that area.
Step three- careful editing: Snap lots of photos, then cut yourself out of the picture! (I am just to the right of the snowman on this one)
And for the famous Christmas light photo, we simply used a handful of Equine Senior® horse feed, followed by a dry block of Hydration Hay® blocks to get her to stand still. I am sure that you weren't aware of that benefit of feeding a hay block!
We hope you enjoy the holiday season with all your family, friends and animals as we do. Merry Christmas
- Happy New Year, Happy New Barn!
Happy New Year everyone! You may have noticed that we didn’t have a lot of blog posts directly from the Purina Animal Nutrition Center the second half of 2013, and that is because our palatability barn looked like this: Our team was really...
- Hydration Hay Is Now Available And We Can Finally Talk About It!
Hydration Hay Package, Block and Fully Soaked When I show customers the Hydration Hay for the first time, I joke that this product is worth 7 years of my life. When I joined Purina in 2005, they were already working on a similar project that involved...
- Is It Really You??
Year end work at the farm is typically pretty crazy. There are a lot of loose ends to tie up with paperwork, and on top of the paperwork we have a bunch of horses to take care of. This time of year in our part of the country is kind of tough on the horses...
- Happy Thanksgiving From Our Farm To Yours!
Holidays can be a wonderful time for rest, relaxation, and time with family and friends. But if you have horses, it can sometimes seem like any other day! As you know, the horses don’t know it’s a holiday, they expect to be fed on time,...
- Merry Christmas! Don't Forget The Horses!
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you are enjoying the day with family and friends and eating plenty of those "once-a-year" goodies. Don't forget goodies for the horses either! Mine always get a bag of carrots for Christmas. If your horse is "sugar-sensitive",...