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Life on the Farm
Written By: Sue Blair - Carpe Diem Farms | Issue: June 2023
The background sounds at Carpe Diem Farms are part of an unceasing rhythm of life. Find out for yourself – there’s an Equine Birthday Party for all the horses on the farm(and the people who love them) from 1:00 to 4:00 P.M. June 11.
If you’re anything like me, you are saying to yourself, “How did we get to June already?” Days, weeks and months are passing in the blink of an eye.
Life on the farm has a wonderful rhythm
– chop wood, carry water. Our rhythm, caring for the horses from eight to four seven days a week after the dogs, cats, birds, chipmucks, boomers and squirrels
– red, white and grey, and sometimes me have their morning meal. The CDF staff are dedicated to the animals. You must have a “whatever it takes attitude” to be a part of our team.
Dedication, determination and that special attitude have been the perfect combination in the care of our Battersea Tracy for more than four and a half years, so far. If you have followed her challenges; four surgeries and the long arduous recoveries, her steadfast will to carry on while being a member of her herd, here is her latest update.
I’ve been able to create a new shoe/slipper/hoof protector with the aid of my Easy’s Slipper engineer. The hoof is now a round club which she rolls the fetlock joint walking and comes to rest on the toe. X-rays and scanning the hoof gave us the information we needed to custom make both inside the cuffed apparatus, which a thick bottom and a built-in toe roll to accommodate her moving comfortably. Walking on four legs presents all kinds of challenges. What you do to one foot impacts all four legs: balance, alignment, length and more. The new hoof covering gave way to a new brace for the hoof up to below the carpus (what we would think of as the knee.) With many tweaks we have arrived at the latest combination which allows her freedom of moment throughout the farm. She is happy in her herd!
Carpe Diem Farms is a 501(c)(3) educational foundation: “Exploring the human potential through equines.”
