Houghton Healing & Therapy

10/31/2026

I think Alfie approves of Tacktical Training and Therapeutics LLC.

10/30/2026

If you are looking to recycle your pumpkins this year and they don't have paint on them they can be left at our house and will go to great use making for some very happy cows!

10/29/2026

10/28/2026

I feel like a little kid on Christmas everytime I get one of these boxes! Thank you A Home For Every Horse and all the sponsor/partners for this gift to so many non profits that make such a big difference in the life of our horses! We are proud and honored to be partnered with you

10/28/2026

🐴 **“But they're pasture horses. Why do they need their feet trimmed?”** 🐴

This is a question we hear often!

Unlike wild horses, domestic horses don't typically travel 15–30 miles a day over rough, rocky terrain searching for food and water. That constant movement naturally wears down wild horses' hooves.

Our pasture horses have food, water, and shelter readily available. They spend much of their time on softer ground, meaning their hooves often grow faster than they naturally wear down.

**Without routine trims, horses can develop:**\
🐎 Overgrown, cracked, or unbalanced hooves\
🐎 Strain on tendons, ligaments, and joints\
🐎 Pain, lameness, and difficulty walking\
🐎 Long-term damage to their feet and legs

Even wild horses can develop hoof problems! Living in the wild doesn't guarantee healthy feet.

❤️ **Just because a horse isn't being ridden doesn't mean hoof care isn't necessary!**

At Houghton Healing & Therapy, our horses receive routine farrier care, generally every 6–8 weeks, with some of our special-needs horses requiring more frequent attention.

**Retirement from riding doesn't mean retirement from proper care.** Every horse deserves to walk comfortably, whether they're carrying a rider or simply enjoying their golden years in the pasture. ❤️🐴

10/27/2026

We like to have equilix tubs for our critters free choice, we didn't have them for a couple months because we had to set the priorities of where limited funding went unfortunately and that was not the highest on the list. Equilix tubs are a vitamin and mineral tub that have all the essentials to help their guts, coat and feet. They will only lick on the tubs when they're lacking in something so usually the first couple tubs go faster but as they catch up their needs they last longer. The first tub that's almost still full is the tub that is in our senior pasture where those get daily grain as well as hay which has 14 horses in that pasture . The second half empty tub is our younger horses that only get a small amount of grain once per week for psyllium but always free choice hay and there are 11 horses and 2 cows in that pasture. This shows how their needs have varied becaus we the horse with grain get extra supplements in their grain, where the once without grain were lacking the most, hence why they're licking on it mote and eating it down faster.

These tubs also have psyllium help with sand prevention and the horses dont have that "empty" feeling and eat less. These tubs are incredible for all the animals but just found this interesting and worth sharing!

10/27/2026

I'm just putting this out there because I have found some many amazing people and options out there! We are getting a great deal on some pallets of grain so we are going to be purchasing it and taking full advantage on a great deal! So. What are we looking for? Some sort of a tuff shed/building that we can store extra feed in by the barn. I have reached out to tuff shed themselves to see if they might be willing to donate one, but haven't had luck with them responding. We are looking to see if someone might have a shed they're no longer using and would like to donate or maybe a really good deal on one?!?! We have someone with a skid and a trailer so we can transport so just looking around at what is out there!

10/26/2026

Thank you Monja Bastan for picking up our equilix tubs in Denver, my arm, manual truck and the trailer in Denver were not ready for that!

Terry and Sandy definitely approve

10/26/2026

Trying something FUN and different, we have the farrier tomorrow the vet and dentist in the 11th and always have continued meds and senior feed.

10/25/2026

It's sad how no matter what you post there has to be nasty people, natter what you do, try and give, people have to ASSume, like a video of horses chasing the hay truck turning around turns into how I must not have fed the horses in a couple days. They're just like children and when something new comes in they gotta leave the old to check it out. No one animal here is hurting for food.

Thank you McKenna for the photos from the haystack that show just how many horses there are and that's not even all of them 🤣
They were supervising the stacking of the bales.

Thank you EVERYONE for helping us get our hay! This relieves a huge stress so we can focus on the other needs such as beds supplements grain farrier routine dental and vaccines.

If you're concerned about their care you're welcome to donate towards their
$10,000 load of hay, we did get more hay which is great but the added weight we did not find out until delivery it was $1600 more then we expected 😬. The $800 A WEEK wr go through in grain, the $650 we just spent on equilix for their vitamins and minerals, the $6 000 next month for their dental or the $1600 every 8 weeks for their farrier care
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