Mill Swamp Indian Horse Views: Remember, The World's Most Beautiful Beagle

Mill Swamp Indian Horse Views: Remember, The World's Most Beautiful Beagle: Comes in dead last in a Basset Hound show. Because they are so rare few people have any idea what a Colonial Spanish mustang should look ...

Mill Swamp Indian Horse Views: Reflections

Mill Swamp Indian Horse Views: Reflections: Lydia is now seventeen years old. Today she gave me a chemist's explanation as to why adding soap to vinegar would improve its effect...

The Truth Is Out There, And Joe Camp is Letting It Out

My herd is not so friendly in spite of....It is not so healthy in spite of...My horses are so friendly and healthy because of....the fact that they never even see a stable, wear shoes, or live off of sugary feed.

Fewer things escape the eye of the modern consumer society than the obvious. If a solution costs less than something that exacerbates the problem, most people will go for the expensive alternative. Horse ownership is outrageously expensive if one stables a horse, spends a fortune on shoes, supplements and sugary feeds and as a result incurs tremendous vet bills.

A horse who lives in as natural of an environment as possible can quite easily cost less in annual bills than does a German Shepard. And the horse will be healthier, happier and easier to train and handle.

Joe Camp's book "Soul of a Horse" should be required reading for every horse owner. He has a new book out explaining why stress is at the root of so many equine health issues and that the modern model of horse care creates that stress.

Go get that book. Natural horse care saves horse's lives and gives them lives worth living.

It just does not pump money into the financial pillars that support the established horse world. Natural horse care is the greatest threat big equine agribusiness faces. They will not take this threat lying down. Expect a lot of push back from those who use horses to make fortunes instead of using them to heal broken people.

Your horse wants to know the same thing that the early union organizers in the coal fields wanted to know:

"Which side are you on?"

(This is a shot of The Black Drink. A Corolla stallion in the Corolla off site breeding program at Boy's Home in Covington, Virginia. The Corolla Wild Horse Fund has a beautiful colt about 8 months old who is eligible for adoption to a home that will keep him as a stallion and use him to help prevent the extinction of one of Americas oldest and rarest strains of Colonial Spanish Mustangs. He is at my horse lot living as a Dog Soldier with two ancient stallions, eating hay, staying outside 24/7 and having plenty room to move. In short, he is healthy and happy.)

Quick Tip #17: Saving the Chilled, Damp Foal

The early foal, the northern foal, and the foal born during a late spring cold weather snap all face the same problem. If a foal does not dry off and gets chilled it becomes weak. The weaker it is the less likely it is to nurse. The cycle can end in death.

The solution is a mobile foal incubator heating unit. The price of such units vary greatly according to style, appearance, and amount of use. Such units are multi purpose when not being used as mobile foal incubators. I have used such units to save two pigs, three chickens and a foal, Lydia's great horse Owl Prophet.

Owl Prophet was born in the early morning hours of a very cold, wet, Easter Sunday morning. He was nearly dead when I arrived as the sun rose. I tried drying him and wrapping him in blankets but he showed little sign of warming.

Then it occurred to me that if I simply drove my truck out to where he was, placed him on the floor boards and let the heater run he might have a chance of warming up and surviving. Within twenty minutes he was sitting up on the front seat looking out the window to his mother, Ghost Dance. I set him outside and he began to nurse and went on to live happily ever after.

Since that time I have relied on my truck to serve as a mobile instant animal incubator and it has never let me down.

Mill Swamp Indian Horse Views: Horse Friends Last Forever

Mill Swamp Indian Horse Views: Horse Friends Last Forever: My book, "And a Little Child Shall Lead Them: Learning from Wild Horses and Small Children", includes a lengthy section on ...