BarnBiz n’ Bits

Chef Louie

Sam Savitt’s
Cold Winter Evening Bran Mash

On a cold winter evening, there is nothing like a hot mash. Picture this - the horses are in their stalls waiting. They seem to know what’s coming. Their knickers softly ask me to hurry. The steaming molasses mixture smells so heavenly, I could eat it myself! Knickers turn to whinnies as the delicious concoction is turned into their feeders. Then I sit on the feed bin and listen to them munch away - “greatest sound in the world.”
~ Sam Savitt

Ingredients:

4 Cups Sweet Feed
6 Cups Bran
1 Cup Molasses
Hot Water

Mix sweet feed with the bran.

Add hot water until it is the consistency of hamburger.

Then add 1 cup molasses.  Let steep for 5 to 10 minutes.

Note:  When adding grain, never feed more than you normally serve your horse!

Bon Appetit!

Chef Louie’s feature recipe is proudly brought to you courtesy of
June Evers, The Original Book of Horse Treats (Horse Hollow Press).

Of the two spoiled, barn sour geldings we owned that year, it was Red –
skittish and prone to explode even at fourteen years – who’d let me
hold to my face his own:

The massive labyrinthine caverns of the nostrils,

the broad plain up the head to the eyes.

He’d let me stroke his course chin whiskers and
take his soft meaty underlip in my hands,

press my man’s carnivorous kiss to his grass-nipping upper half of one,

just so that I could smell the long way his breath
had come from the rain and the sun,

the lungs and the heart,

from a world that meant no harm.

~ Robert Wrigley 

“The essential job of being with horses is that it brings us in concert
With the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit and freedom.”

Sharon Ralls Lemon 

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“In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.”

Helen Thompson

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“When you are on a great horse,
You have the best seat you will ever have.”

Sir Winston Churchill

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“Horses change lives.  They give our young people
confidence and self esteem
They provide peace and tranquility to trouble souls.
They give us hope!”

Toni Robinson

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“The world is best viewed through the ears of a horse.”

Author Unknown

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