Carol Barron-Cross, Equestrian Real Estate Specialist

If you are lucky enough to visit Palm City, Florida and come to the Palm City Farms area, you will see country style living in its finest. There are horse farms, large, medium, and mini farms available in this neighborhood. Palm City Farms is the Wellington of West Palm Beach. We are very proud of our equestrian area and try to keep it OLD FLORIDA as much as we can. We have the help of our Martin County Commission that protects us from becoming an overgrown area.

Everyday as I drive in and out of Palm City Farms, I pass children and adults enjoying their horses trail riding. It is a common thing to see a Martin County sign with a horse on it stating "SHARE THE ROAD". There are not many places that people can live to be free and enjoy equestrian activities as we do in Palm City.

RIDING LUCY AND DUCHESS

PALM CITYS HORSE TALK

PALM CITYS HORSE TALK presents JOHN WAYNE, a yearling and in competition at the AMERICAN WARMBLOOD SOCIETY JUDGING.

My last article brought you an ariticle about windswept legs that can happening in breeding horses. That article was all about John Wayne and his struggle to make it after birth. I ran across this picture of John Wayne being judged and later getting a ribbon from the American WarmBlood Society. This horse remained a stallion as long as he lived on our farm. I hope you enjoy seeing what patience, TLC, and a lot of prayers can do. He was really a sweetheart.

This next photo is John Wayne when he was born. By the way, the night before John Wayne was born, I watched the biography of the actor, John Wayne, and that is how he got his name.

It is amazing but he really recovered about 95%.

He would never be a top breeding stallion but was

So Sweet.

There are so many things that one needs to know

about when breeding. I will try to share with you

some of my experiences.

The precious little foal was born with windswept legs or (angular limb deformities). What a sad site. This foal mom was veted regularly, feed like a queen with nutritional feed, and this just happened. Yes, this was my first foal. I cried and cried because I felt I had let it down. The mom was treated with royalty and things just happen sometimes. This is the way it is when breeding horses sometimes.

My local vet, in town, was within minutes of the birth and assured me that the foal would recover with time. I had never heard of windswept legs or angular limb deformities in foals. You could just say that the foal was born unable to walk or even get up.

One of the most important areas to examine after a new foal is born is the legs. This is important if a foal is born prematurely as some of the bones in their joints may not be formed completely. In this case, the foal was a few days late. Vets states that any foal that is born weak should have their legs examined closely. In this case, the foal was unable to follow the mom and feed. We had to quickly get the moms milk to the foal and help the foal to even move around. Our well known vet kept assuring me that the foal would be better as time went on. Some of these foals with immature bones require bandaging and splints or even casts to prevent further bone damage. There are several surgical procedures that can be performed if stall rest and bandaging are not effective in straightening the limb. These can be performed later except in the fetlock where surgeries for straightening the leg must be performed at two months of age.This horse grew to 16 hands and became stronger as months went by. We actually showed this horse in competitions so he was really 95% recovered as a yearling. We are proud of him because he recovered, was a happy horse, sweet, and did not mind working in training. Three days later he had another buddy to play with on the farm. These two were lots of fun while growing up.

He looks so weak in this photo but he grew up to be full of energy and just the best. This horse remained a stallion for the remainder of his days on the farm. I have request for boarding and just received a request for boarding a stallion in the Jupiter, Florida area. Please email me if you have a place for boarding a stallion. PALM CITYS HORSE TALK

This is another angle of his hind legs. It only effected one side. The vet said that is the reasong it is called in slang language WINDSWEPT LEGS.

Don't be confused if your see Carol Barron-Cross, Yanick Realty, Palm City, Florida, Associate Salesperson, specializing in Equestrian Properties today. I am working everyday on my equestrian properties.

Dont't be confused if you see Carol Barron-Cross Realty, Tellico Plains, Tennessee and read her blogs as the TELLICOBIKER. I just opened my Tennessee real estate office in June of this year. I am very excited about my real estate adventure as I worked many hours to be rewarded with my own company. I have learned a lot about agency law and the two states differ a lot. I have grown in my knowledge of real estate and look forward to continue working in Florida as well as Tennessee.

The TELLICOBIKER is my blog name for Tennessee. A few years ago, a very nice person gave me a Soft-tail Heritage motorcycle. I thought my children might think their mother had flipped big time. However, there was a great approval from them. I practiced in parking lots and got my licenses after going to Bike school and have been riding for several years. Now my son just purchased his Harley and we ride together. Tellico Plains is a wonderful place to ride. So wish me lot of luck. Below is my best riding partner asking me to be his real life partner in Daytona, Florida. You can see I am blushing. Of course, I said yes.

Palm City Farms offers a great outdoor lifestyle for young children as well as adults. There are so many things for families to do together.....especially on a farm. Those things are very important today as we need to keep our children busy doing family things.

My grandchildren have grown up on our equestrian farm. The weekends always were popping with horse activities. Hattie, as shown in this picture, started jumping at the early age of six or seven. This was her first competition and it was a hot day. Hattie was so proud of herself. She was actually burning up in her coat but took her pony into the winners place. I just remember that this event was packed with people from all over South Florida. I was very proud of Hattie and her 'True Grit". She loves horses and animals to this day. At this time in her life, she was going to be a horse jockey.

HATTIE AND MAMA CAROL ....and the winner is HATTIE