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This horse blog is the perfect venue to share my stories of growing up on a horse ranch, the horse training knowledge I acquired, the individual horses I’ve known and loved, and the work and progress I’m making with the ones I own now. I have made it my life goal to get to know horses, and the hours I’ve spent riding are the most well-invested moments of my life. I am a cowgirl.

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Cowgirl Diary The Everyday Life of a Horse Crazy Girl

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Cowgirl Diary · 1W ago

How To Draw Horses

I started drawing horses when I was four. I remember I had been given a large book of colored construction paper, and if I had been more frugal I might have understood that such a variety of colors could have been used more creatively. But I made a horse drawing on each page of that book, using a

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Cowgirl Diary · 2W ago

Horse Names

We're still trying to come up with a name for our mare. We have kicked around ideas, but no matter what one person suggests, someone else has an aversion to that particular name, or they have a suggestion that they think would work better. I'm beginning to think that I just don't have the imaginat

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Cowgirl Diary · 4W ago

Four Hours West

Last weekend we took our cows out west where I grew up. From here, it's a four hour ride in a car...a six hour ride for a cattle pot and truck and trailer with seven people packed into the crew cab. Saturday was one long hectic day. But it was one of the best weekends I've had in a long time, bec

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Cowgirl Diary · 1M ago

What You Find At The Auction

I've been going to a lot of cattle sales lately, at the local auction barn. Inevitably, there are two or three horses there every week, and I'm always curious at what they bring. I wonder why they were brought there, and where they are going after that final winning bid. It always makes me wish I

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Cowgirl Diary · 1M ago

Two Orphans

I was at the cattle auction last Friday watching our feeder heifers sell when I got a text message from my brother-in-law that said, "You haven't been checking on your adopted calf lately, have you?" I panicked, thinking maybe it was dead. "No, why? Is it sick?" I typed back. "Emaciated, lethargic,

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Cowgirl Diary · 1M ago

Stallion Shopping

It's springtime, and babies are being born, and it makes me start wishing and hoping. No, we don't have any expectant mares this year, but my folks out in Idaho have several mares that are bred to this Hancock bred blue roan stallion, Handmade Forever, for his first foal crop. They purchased the s

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Cowgirl Diary · 2M ago

Mix & Match With Cows

I've been really busy the last three days. Four days ago we lost a calf. One of our herefords' calves was stillborn, and it's a real shame because the calf really would have been something---a purebred hereford bull calf. But for some reason or other, he didn't make it through the birth process.

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Cowgirl Diary · 2M ago

Choosing A Bit For Your Horse

When you're just buying a horse, or beginning riding a new horse, it can be really hard to know what type of bit to use. There are two ends of the spectrum, where you don't want to use a bit that is too severe and risk ruining a horse's mouth, but you also don't want to use a bit that the horse doe

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Cowgirl Diary · 2M ago

Apache Tear

I have a horse story to share that my oldest sister Kandra has written, telling about her very first horse, Apache. If you've read very many of my own horse memories, you'll remember that my sister is the one who influenced my siblings and I to love horses, and I wanted to know the details of how s

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Cowgirl Diary · 2M ago

A Cure For Bunchy Riding Jeans

One of my biggest complaints about spring is the mud in our barnyard. The mud wouldn't bother me so much, but I have to wear my muck boots. And my muck boots wouldn't be a problem if I didn't hate how they feel...they feel yucky because my jeans bunch up inside them and actually wear blisters on t

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