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~ One woman´s experience with keeping her horses in her own backyard

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Text-Free Tuesday

14 Tuesday May 2013

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Backyard Horsekeeping, horse safety, horses and rattlesnakes, rattlesnake, rattlesnake bite, trail riding

First rattlesnake of the season.  John killed the second rattlesnake of the season two hours later.  (Photo by Joan Fry)

First rattlesnake of the season. John killed the second rattlesnake of the season two hours later. (Photo by Joan Fry)

Text-Free Tuesday

07 Tuesday May 2013

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AQHA, Backyard Horsekeeping, horse breeds, Quarter Horse

Prada, a young Quarter Horse mare.  (Photo by Joan Fry)

Prada, a young Quarter Horse mare. (Photo by Joan Fry)

Text-Free Tuesday

30 Tuesday Apr 2013

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Backyard Horsekeeping, halter, using a breakaway halter

The flimsy leather crownpiece of this halter means the halter will break if your horse gets himself hung up on something.  (Photo by Charles Hood)

The flimsy leather crownpiece of this halter means the halter will break if your horse gets himself hung up on something. (Photo by Charles Hood)

Text-Free Tuesday

24 Wednesday Apr 2013

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Backyard Horsekeeping, Trail Dog, trail riding

The Invisible Trail Dog

The Invisible Trail Dog (Photo by Joan Fry)

Text-Free Tuesday

16 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by Joan Fry in Behavior, General, Text-Free Tuesday

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Backyard Horse, Backyard Horsekeeping, Craig Cameron, training

Craig Cameron, horse trainer, behaviorist, and cattle rancher.  (Publicity photo courtesy of Craig Cameron)

Craig Cameron, horse trainer, behaviorist, and cattle rancher. (Publicity photo courtesy of Craig Cameron)

Text Free Tuesday

26 Tuesday Mar 2013

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Backyard Horsekeeping

These two American Quarter Horses--Gunsmoke, inside the corral, and Prada, the gray on the right--have the same sire but different dams.

These two American Quarter Horses–Gunsmoke, inside the corral, and Prada, the gray on the right–have the same sire but different dams.

Text Free Tuesday

19 Tuesday Mar 2013

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A beginning rider discovers what a horse's "frog" looks like.  (It doesn't go ribbit.)  Photo courtesy of Charles Hood.

A beginning rider discovers what a horse’s “frog” looks like. (It doesn’t go ribbit.) Photo courtesy of Charles Hood.

Text Free Tuesday

12 Tuesday Mar 2013

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Photo by Joan Fry

Photo by Joan Fry

Text Free Tuesday

05 Tuesday Mar 2013

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Photo by Joan Fry

Photo by Joan Fry

Text Free Tuesday

26 Tuesday Feb 2013

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Photo by Charles Hood

Photo by Charles Hood

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Thank you for reading my blog. Please feel free to contact me with any horse-related questions or comments you might have.

Backyard Horsekeeping: The Only Guide You'll Ever Need (Lyons Press, Revised Edition 2007). Praised by everybody from horse behaviorists to trainers to veterinarians, the book's appeal was summed up by Horsemen's Yankee Pedlar, who gave the book a five blue-ribbon rating: "It is the author's voice and commitment to detail that make this book stand apart."

Joan Fry

"Playboy, my first backyard horse, really belonged to my neighbors. But I fed him and brushed him and kept his water bucket full, and in return, they let me ride him whenever I wanted to."

“Even as a kid I loved to write. When I was about eight I typed my first novel on my parents’ Underwood typewriter. I called it Silver the Wild Horse, and it was all in capital letters because I didn’t know how to work the shift key. It was illustrated in crayon. From that little experiment, I found that I’m a better writer than I am an artist. I also discovered my future: I would write about horses.”


John Fry on Imperator, four-time World's Grand Champion Five-Gaited American Saddlebred.
Photo by Avis

Recent Posts

  • Oh No–Not Again!
  • I’m Eating, Don’t Bother Me
  • The Horse in Winter
  • Blanketing Your Horse
  • Goodbye to All That
  • Dropped Fetlocks
  • Dear Robert Redford
  • Do You Feed Your Horse on the Ground?
  • Feeding the Backyard Horse
  • Slaughtering Horses for Meat
  • What Do You Do with the Pee and the Poo?
  • How to Clean Your Horse’s Stall or Corral
  • How to Buy a Horse for Your Child
  • How to Buy a Horse
  • A Day in the Life of a Backyard Horse Owner: Day #2

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