Occasionally I have been questioned as to why Blue Moon Rescue and Sanctuary has no horses available for adoption. Actually we do have some to be adopted as companion horses but rarely is anyone interested in a 20 plus year old full sized horse who can’t be ridden, usually for financial reasons. [Read more…]

When my uncle, the first born of 5 was ready to enter the world in the ‘old country’ my little Jewish grandpa was like any ‘new father to be’… very flustered. He told this story in his broken English 50 years later. My Grandma was in labor. Her mother yelled to Grandpa “Samuel! Quick go for the doctor!” In his thick Yiddish accent, he told us he said “First I have to give my horse some ‘hoats!’ And he strapped a feed bag on his horse, before he took off for the doctor. [Read more…]

“The size of the fetus at birth is often determined more by the mare’s uterine capacity than by genetics…” [Read more…]