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Blessings all Around
Written By: Sue Blair - Carpe Diem Farms | Issue: 2018/11 - November
If you’re a regular reader of our monthly articles, you know that blessings abound and gratitude is a repeating theme at Carpe Diem Farm.
It takes a village…in our case to provide financially and physically for the care for the herd of nine. They are the backbone of all of our work, our programs, our existence. Our next delivery of hay arrives this week. Six hundred-plus bales of orchard grass grown on an Amish farm in upstate New York arrives in a semi. Three horses in the herd have Equine Metabolic Syndrome and two have Cushing’s disease. They require a diet of limited sugar. Using lab testing from Cornell of the dry hay and calculations after it is soaked before feeding we remove the majority of the sugar. Those not metabolic eat it as well and stay healthy.
Volunteers are the lifeblood of help on the farm. Our gratitude overflows for those selfless individuals who show up to help with the horses, the place, the office, and Easy’s Slipper. Without them, so much would go undone. If you have ever considered helping please join us.
Easy’s Slipper, the composite rubber, glue-on horse shoes, developed and manufactured at CDF, continues to expand. With 12 patents, we have three new models in the testing phase. “The Trainer” is for the thoroughbred yearling industry and is being tested in the UK by Godolphin Stables in Newmarket, Gary Pickford of Chapel Forge, and Dr. Thorsten, DVM. Drs. Raoul Bras and Ric Redden are testing in Lexington and Joao Netto in College Station, Texas. The DRS Slipper, a collaborative project by Dr. Redden, Dr. Bras, and Sue Blair, is also in the testing phase. Finally, a specialty shoe developed for CDF’s Sweet Pea with a snap apart bottom is proving to be quite beneficial for its namesake.
This Thanksgiving, we express our appreciation and gratitude again for all who are making our 26th year possible.
Carpe Diem Farms is a 501(c)(3) experiential educational foundation.
