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Some Exterior Shots of our new house

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:52:00 +0000

Here are two images of the exterior progress of our house.

A Couple of Rooms

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:53:00 +0000

Here are a couple of inside photos of our house. The first picture is from the breakfast nook to the garage, the second picture is the foyer through the living room, and the third picture is from the living room to the breakfast nook.

New House Going Under Roof

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:36:00 +0000

Here are a couple of images of our new house as it is being sheeted for the roof. You all know how I am about updating my blog lately, but I will attempt to put up images as the process progresses along the way.

Robert

Maybe Back On Track

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:44:00 +0000

Well it has been a while since I have posted anything on our blog so I am making it a point to starting blogging again.

So what has been going on?

Well my Farrier practice is growing and keeping me busy.

We bred one of our Gay Bar King brood mares to an own son of Rooster on the top and Conquiestidor Whiz on the bottom. We are really excited about next years foal crop!

We are continuing to build our house, we are just about done with the framing process. I will put some additional pictures up before the end of the weekend.

I have been finishing two of our fillies in preperation to sell them. They are doing really well, one of them is a finished cutting horse with multiple AQHA, NCHA Youth points and money on her and the other one has been doing really well in local sorting shows. We have one a couple of jackpots on her.

I just started one of our two year old geldings under saddle and will continue to ride him out. He is really coming around and will be a really good Working Cow Horse in the near future.

Well that's all for now, check back soon to see more updates.

Robert

Ground Breaking!

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:16:00 +0000

Yesterday we started to move dirt to build our house. You know your house building adventure has just begun when you are three hours into moving dirt and your house plans change twice due to the dirt work!

Another Ranch Horse Posting

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:29:00 +0000

This is our 3 yr old Reining Futurity horse for 2008. Mike Merriman of Mike Merriman Performance Horses LLC has been riding this filly for 60 or so days prior to the Ranch Horse Show on March 4th and 5th.

This filly scored a 66 on her first competitive pattern. We found some holes that need to be plugged, but over I think a 66 is a great score for her first ever show and with only 60 or so days of training.

Way to go Mike and Playin in the Roses! We are going to attempt to get some photos or a video of their performance during the upcoming Missouri Foundation Quarter Horse Association April 5th show at Boone County Fairground.

Ranch Horse Show Results!

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:58:00 +0000

March 4th and 5th kicked off the 2008 show season for some of our horses. This particular Buckskin filly did really well for her first ever show. We competed in Cutting, Team Sorting, and confirmation classes during this double judged show. If it was not for my mistakes during the cutting and team sorting we would have done much better than we did. As far as the confirmation classes went, we placed 2nd in the 5 and over mares class.

Our next show is set for April 4th at Boone County Fairgrounds where we will be riding with Missouri Foundation Quarter Horse Association. See you all soon!

Making the Plunge

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:03:00 +0000

We have had one of our fillies with a professional trainer since December of 2007 for Reining and Reined Cow Horse evaluation and training. As of yesterday we have made a commitment to continue her training in preparation for competing in the Missouri Owned and Shown 3 yr old futurity in October of 2008.

Saying Good Bye is never easy

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:59:00 +0000

Well we sold one of our fillies to a very nice young lady that does not live very far from our farm this past weekend. The young lady was so happy about her new horse and my family was saddened to see the horse go. We know that Libby has gone to a family that will take very good care of her, but it's not always easy to say good bye.

Missouri Equine Council

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:24:00 +0000

This weekend was the annual Missouri Equine Council event held at Midway Expo Center. This year there seemed to be more participants than last year and the clinicians were exceptional. This year MFA sponsored a "Road To The Horse" type event where three trainers started a three year old colt and took them through an obstacle course after 3 hours of training.

We saw old friends and met some new ones as well. It is nice to visit events like this just to keep in touch with folks that we know but hardly see during the non show seasons.

A Day With our Trainer

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:21:00 +0000

Last Wednesday I spent a couple of hours with our trainer and rode our filly that he is riding for us. What a difference! I was really amazed at how far this filly has progressed in just a month of training. I have scheduled some time each week to visit with the trainer and learn more hand and body control so that I can ride this filly after she returns home. I am the one that needs a tune up!!!

Lovely Day To Ride

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:15:00 +0000

What a wonderful day it was to ride today! I worked with our colt in the round pen for a session and then saddled up one of our fillies that has not been ridden in a couple of weeks. The colt's session went really well and I hope that I can start him under saddle in the next couple of weeks as he is slated to be our futurity prospect this year. Just after I saddled up the filly and started out of the drive to ride down the road, our builder showed up to talk about house plans so I postponed the ride. After the builder left my oldest daughter and I headed out to ride, so she saddled up her gelding and we went to the round pen to warm up for a few minutes. My cell rang and I was not able to ride today. My daughter had a really good ride while I was on the phone, but after an hour on the phone I decided to unsaddle and take care of barn chores for the evening. If the weather holds out and stay descent I will ride a couple of times this week.

Follow up to the "Corn" posting

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:02:00 +0000

Ok so I did some research about the hoof that I worked on last week. I found documentation from a book that I own that indicates a horse can get "Corn's" in their hoofs like people get on their feet.

Correcting a Toed In Fault

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:55:00 +0000

Well I worked on a horse today that toes in on the near side today. The neat thing about working on some of these faults is that I get to see a difference between a level and balance trim vs a little bit of a modified trim. I took a fraction more of the hoof off of the inside and it moves the hoof slightly back to center when the horse puts weight on the front foot. It worked out well for this horse.

Another Horse Under The Weather

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:50:00 +0000

Well we had the vet out to look at our stud colt last week and last night one of our performance prospects for this year cut her near side front fetlock. I don't think that this filly will be able to compete until mid summer as this will take a couple of months to heal.

Is that a Corn in that Hoof?

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:16:00 +0000

I visited with one of my clients yesterday to trim their horses. They have an aged mare that had a really neat object in her hoof that I have never seen before. I am going to do some research and post a comment or two related to it on our blog. Here is the story....

Right now it is very muddy around most barns in central Missouri and I am not sure if this has anything to do with this hoof anomaly or not. After the young lady cleaned the mud off her horses foot by placing each foot in a bucket and then scrubbing I got to go to work. First I checked to make sure that I was getting some heel growth back, as under run heels is an issue, and to our surprise we had about an 1/8" or so of growth to the heel and about a 1/4" of growth to the toe. This was really exciting as usually this mare has all toe growth and no heel growth at all. So I started to prep the foot to trim the toe I noticed what looked like a dried up abscess in the quarter area of the hoof. This pea shaped growth split the white line and was half in the hoof wall and half in the sole. At first I was wondering if it was a dried up abscess , however this mare has not shown any signs of soreness or lameness over the winter at all. I continued to work on the foot wondering if removing the "hard Pea" from her sole would cause any lameness, but it didn't. As she walked away she did not demonstrate any signs or symptoms consistent with being sore in that foot.

Not knowing exactly what this "thing" is I am going to do some more investigating and will post my results on our blog for you to read more about.

Trip to the Trainers

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:07:00 +0000

We went to visit a 3 yrd old that we sent off the the trainers yesterday. The filly looked as if she has grown a couple of inches while away. You know the proverbial "The check is in the mail" feeling, well I know this must be how Mike felt yesterday. I can tell that he has been riding her a lot as soon as I walked in the door due to the muscular toning on her hocks. However Mike being the good trainer that he has demonstrated for us the progress they have made. When he took the filly in to his round pen and started to lunge her she was acting really fresh for us. She put on quite the show, arching her back, crow hopping and squealing all the way around the pen. I know Mike felt that sinking feeling cause I could see it in his face, but after a while she settled into the session and life went back to normal.. LOL....

AQHA Sanctioned Sort

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:11:00 +0000

Well tomorrow is the first AQHA sort of the new year at McNail arena and I am not ready. I have not ridden at all this past week so I think I will have to skip the event.

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What a weather week

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:08:00 +0000

Well the weather has finally started to settle down and is getting back to normal. After a day or two of 70 degree the temperature has turned back to 30's and 40's and January is looking more like January.

Is that Dun Colt turning Blue?

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +0000

Our Dun colt is feeling blue today... :o(

Over the last couple of days our colt has been beside himself, looking rather gloomy if you ask me. I had the vet out this morning just to make sure that I was not missing something. He got a clean bill of health, with I could same the same for my wallet, from the vet.

Feeling Blue

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:21:00 +0000

Today has been one of those days that you would rather stay inside and watch the mist collect on the window.

Our stud colt gave me the look when I put him out in the misty weather this morning. He had that look that my children frequently give me when I ask them to do something they do not want to do, I had to laugh....

I don't think I am going to make the weakly trip to McNail arena to "Team Sort" tonight. I think that I will load up one of my horses and make the trip to Midway arena to Rope instead.

Bad Weather

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:05:00 +0000

The weather in central Missouri has turn bad today, the hail - rain - and wind forced us to bring our horses in early today.

Feeling of Satisfaction

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:50:00 +0000

Sunday was one of those days that made me remeber why we decided to get into the Equine industry. We have an Arabian filly for sale, she is really nice and broke to ride, and two families traveled from there homes on the west side of Missouri to our farm to look at her. Both of these families have young children looking for that special first horse and I am excited that we were considered. I was very pleased that this filly was willing and able to perform for both families without any issues, this makes me feel like I am doing a good job starting our stock.

A Full Day

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:46:00 +0000

Well Sunday started out as most days do, I cleaned stalls, fed and watered the horses. Since I had two families comming to ride one of our horses for sale I decided to grade the dirt by the barn so that it would be better to walk across. The grading worked but I got sucked into some mud and the bucket on the tractor caught the side of the barn and riped a hole in the metal. Woops.... I will add replacing the section of metal to my list of chores. :0)

WHOA.....

noreply@blogger.com (Davis Equine Services) — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:02:00 +0000

I have been riding a buckskin filly that we bought last summer. From the time that we bought her until just recently I was riding her in an "O Ring" snaffle bit, she started throwing her head so I went back to a snaffle. Now every time I ride her in the snaffle she is a total pain in my back side. No matter how much I work on softening her mouth and getting her to flex at the pole, she is really resisting me. If I ride her for ten or so minutes she mellows out and gets to work, but boy I am not sure how to get over this hump.

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