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Can Being Eco-Friendly Help Your Bottom Line? By Alayne Blickle Have you heard the old joke about how to make a small fortune with horses? The punchline: by starting out with a large fortune. Does making money on horse acreage need to be this way? We explored this topic …
Nine Points for Choosing the Best Bed for Your Horse By Alayne Blickle The primary reason for using bedding should be to absorb urine and moisture. Unless a horse is confined strictly to a stall, using less bedding will save chore time and money. Plus, it means less material …
Alayne’s Top Tips for Staying at a Horse Motel by Alayne Blickle, Horses for Clean Water Horse motels are places where you board your horse overnight while traveling. Some horse motels, like our Sweet Pepper Ranch in southwestern Idaho, also offer B&B options for humans, making it a comfortable, …
Sweet Pepper Ranch in Nampa, Idaho is offering two Cowgirl Retreats in 2018. The first will be Thursday afternoon, June 21 through Sunday mid-morning June 24. The second will be held late summer/early fall, date TBA. Cowgirl Retreats are designed for committed women riders interested in improving riding/horsemanship skills and …
Know How Much Manure Your Horses Produces by Alayne Blickle Making the chore of manure management efficient is a huge undertaking on a horse property. At our place, Sweet Pepper Ranch in southwestern Idaho, we have around a dozen horses. Some are our horses, some are Matt’s client horses, …
5 Ways to Save Money (and the Environment) by Alayne Blickle, Horses for Clean Water Looking for ways to trim your horse budget? Recycling and repurposing helps the environment and saves money. It reduces your trash bill, offers you free or low-cost horsey items, and improves your pasture (as …
Preparing an Emergency Evacuation Plan by Alayne Blickle, Horses for Clean Water Most of the Western United States is what’s called a “fire adaptive ecosystem.” That means the question is not if a major fire is going to happen to the landscape, it’s when. The majority of horse owners …
Make the Right Choice! by Alayne Blickle, Horses for Clean Water Footing material is useful for winter paddocks and confinement areas or for high traffic areas such as gates or watering points. The purpose of footing material is to build up an area to keep your horse or animal …
Compost Should be as Wet as a Wrung-out Sponge by Alayne Blickle, Horses for Clean Water Previous articles of mine have covered different aspects of composting so now it’s time to step up to the compost pile and see if your compost passes the squeeze test. Moisture is an …
6 Steps to a Useful Product by Alayne Blickle In the past we have covered why composting manure is important and useful on horse properties. I have even discussed how to build a manure composting bin system. Here are the specifics on how to manage the compost process. Make …