What do you need to keep horses on a small homestead? 

love how they follow Becky around, "whatcha doing, mom??"

Before anybody goes and gets a horse take the time to learn about horses. Take lessons, lease a horse. It's not all just "so much fun ". Boarding and keeping your own horse at home require different amounts of work. Now that I keep mine at home about 70% of "horse time " is really "picking up poop" time. It's a ton of work and almost requires a lawn mower and or tractor. I don't have either and it can be back breaking and exhausting at times to try to keep up with things. I still think it's worth it to give my guys a safe and permanent home, but when it's raining and muddy and you're pushing a wheelbarrow full of poop up a hill with water leaking into one or more of your boots, not everyone will feel that way. So know what you're getting into because once you bring home that animal they are relying on you to keep them alive and healthy and safe.

I love your homestead ! You have inspired me to buy my own homestead.I couldn't be happier! Thanks Becky you are an inspiration!!!

They love fresh clean water even more😊

This video is very good, but I wouldn't use barbed wire, it's one of the cheaper options, but with horses that aren't trained or with foals it can be dangerous as they can cut themselves

Becky does not waste time. Most helpful video I've seen so far! God bless

Love how you like things to work properly and sharing with us, even the small things that make a huge difference in day by day life. Teaching people to pay close attention to animals, get involved and act responsible.

Awesome tips Becky!! I can tell those animals love you and you take excellent care of them!!

What I love to see is animals driving, and you could tell from the video of your animals are very happy and thriving. It makes me happy to watch it. Thank you for being a good pet owner. God rewards those who are good stewards of what He gives us

Aww I love how your donkey was resting it's head on your mules butt 😻

Great tips! It is obvious that you love the animals and they love you.

Thanks for all the info Becky! You are wonderful and have taught me so so much!

Your animals seem to love you, you must be a good person.

Your just awesome I love all your videos and some are so funny! Keep them coming. I have learned so much and laughed. You have a very happy channel and it is good. I always thumbs up them

My horse pasture gate swings both ways, and every pasture that I boarded at had gates swinging both ways. The public boarding pastures would have up to 25 horses in them, and we got in and out without any problems with horses pushing on them to escape. I much rather have them swing both ways and being able to get out of the pasture rather than be pinned against a gate I couldn't open against their weight. I, like you, like you, like to fill up the water trough manually so I can monitor the water intake. However, when I boarded, automatic waterers were always used for the water trough and tiny waterers in the stalls, are great labor savers and horses drank just fine. My horses lived for years in large pastures without any built shelters, and would use the topography and trees to find the most comfortable place to be for them for different weather conditions.

Brilliant lady,just brought a smallholdings in the UK.your views are very interesting.thanks.

Becky, hello. My first view of your work. VERY nicely done. You are a RARE horse woman because you talk WITH your views, not at, nor OVER them. So many horse women seem to give off the appearances of "nose in the air" to other 'lesser' horse people who may not have as many horses, as expensive of a horse, or ranch, or gear and I find that attitude 100% against the entire notion of what a HORSE is. A horse is curious, he is not better than the rest of his group, she is not better than the lower ranking horses. They all love and appreciate each horse for what they can offer to the herd. Well, we equine ladies are all part of a herd of horse lovers and kindness, support, balance, and empathy should abound. Thank you for your very balanced offering of info. :)

You ROCK! I really appreciate your series, thank you so much for sharing your experiences :-)

That Becky is one smart cookie. I hear donkey's make good guard dogs. I saw a video of a donkey that picked up a coyote with its mouth and carried it out of the area.

Love the video so much and please do more of them

Great video and advise. Keep up the great work

Great advice! Thanks Becky

You are the type of role model I always looked for! Always love your videos :)

Love it!! If you care to, I'd really like it if you made a video saying what you feed your horses and your goats. I'm watching these videos because my family had a 100 acre farm and I help out so your videos help a lot. When I get older and have my own farm your videos will still be comforting and helpful to me and thanks so much for your vids.

you are a good friend of animals .i dearly love people who love animals.may Good bless you a million.

Awesome vid! Keep up the good work!

So glad I found your channel!!

Great information, as always.

nice. we keep 2 Paso Fino mares in a small paddock about 150 x100. they are happy, healthy and tame and friendly. the two things i would add to the health aspect in keeping down cost is Learn how to give your own vaccinations and deworm yourself. feed lots of hay (we have a dirt paddock)and feed the best quality feed you can afford! i say if i can't afford to feed this certain feed that is very high quality to the amount of hosea we have, then it's time to down size. we had to downsize 3 years ago because we moved and feed prices and hay went sky high. we're in mobile Alabama. and the only problem we have with shelter is the large amount of rain. so we do just a rain shelter. i love your channel. we're on a little under 2 acres and looking to get a few goats to raise to sell to others for meat. and chickens for eggs. i love that you are in Florida because we can relate as far as weather goes. we did get lucky in being in one of the few non flood zones in our county, i can't wait to grow our little place! I'll be watching more. best wishes Becky!

Thank u for showing this to me it really really helped me lot thank u very much 😀

Great information! Thanks for sharing.

Please do more horse videos, they are awesome!!

Ok, I love you haha! I grew up around horses and cattle and my dream is to have property to own my own one day.

hello becky just come across your channel apsolutly brilliant

good job you take care of your horses just like we do on our farm but we have two ponds to water ours on.which never go dry.

This is amazing...

thanks Becky

I wish I watched this b4 I built my pen. Everything with the gate and the chain I have been having a problem with. My gate doesn't hit the pole and I do have extra chain that just lays there. Your way is so symbol. Thank you

Very helpful tips! Thanks

Thanks, Becky! My daughter is saving up for a horse now, we are learning all we can, and she is taking lessons for care and riding, but this kind of information was very helpful.

Your hafliger is beautiful!! My mum use to have a hafliger called sparky. He use to chase the bus 😂😂

god bless you becky

Great idea!

Really cool channel, thanks!

Hey, thanks for the great video! What I would really love to see is how you keep/feed hay to your animals, especially the equines! I hope you could do a video on this maybe someday it would be so great... I will be getting a horse soon and hay is my biggest worry (how to store, keep, how much do get at once as not to spoil...). Cheers!

Cool pasture

Love your videos

This is so helpful considering that I am getting a horse

I love horses!!!! iv always wanted one but my parents say it costs to much and we don't have the room .I'm also hatching two chickens and a duck!

Thunders lead change😍😍

that was nice. I see your animals love you a lot.

I love the information you have on homesteading . We're retiring in 6 weeks and want to buy some small acreage and have chickens and farm animals. You've helped me so much on egg production with chickens and other information . Thanks !

Thank you for such a great video!!! Beautiful property!!! May the LORD CONTINUE TO BLESS US. AMEN

Fodder!! Barley and wheat fodder! You can even share some of your salad alfalfa sprouts (I love alfalfa sprouts with real mayo in a chicken sandwich). Also a little apple cider vinegar in the water helps a lot. White is fine but I use apple cider cause it is easy to make.

Love it!

Your horses and Doodles are too cute, and I'm not a horse person. (bad experience as a kid) But they seem to sweet and friendly :)

your cabin is beautiful. my parents and I are thinking of building a cabin and a barn for a horse or two. but of course I would need to get a LOT of money.

I suggest that cleaning your water trough from algae growing helps horse getting clean water

i love your vidows

i have been riding horses since i was 5 i luv them

You r the best

At our homestead has all the gates open out it works best for us

Oh...you are so smart..!! Do you have to clean the manure? Does your sunny weather dry it out? And prevent flies and smell? 20 year experience with horse at 2014. Donkey's names doodles Pony is Thunder 100 gallon water thorugh 120x200 foot pasture Shelter for sun shelter 10 foot wide gate

Thank you for sharing :0)

Becky your an angel I aspire to be you

I just flat out love that donkey

Can't believe you built that by yourself I wish I could

Hey Becky! Love your show, and just wanted to first, let you know your episodes on homesteading has help me shape my own little patch of the world, where I currently raise chickens, guinea hens, turkeys, dairy goats, and now, meat rabbits. Secondly, sorry about this off topic question, but do you raise rabbits for food? If so, do you have a video? Thanks for the info on horses, I will keep this in my faves as well!

Becky, I love your videos but could you make them a little longer? This one seemed to abruptly end but seemed like you had more to say or teach us. More, more, more please! =) ~Angie~

I'm located in lithia, FL. Just curious what part of Florida your located in?

Very helpful info! ;-)

The water trough has to be cleaned once a week. Also I've seen that keeping the water moving it stays a bit cleaner for longer.

Great tips✅✅✅✅✅

I live in Florida to

Hey Becky, I m Mike come from China .. I was wondered what your video's back ground music is ? It's sounds lovely !

Like the chestnut mule..

In the intro when her goat jumps down I said REEEEEETTTTTTT

Haha this made me laugh. My horses have a big water trough but they all fight over the 5 gallon buckets in the pony pen.😆

Any notice how the horses followed her like a list puppy dog? Especially when she was at the gate lol. Very funny

What kind of work do they do for you though? And what about feeding? Hay only must be pretty bland for them, other fresh grasses surely would be a nice change.

ewe clean out the water trough

I think the water in the water trough should be a bit cleaner. I thought you made the horse shelter pretty good, but I'd make it a bit bigger and more open. I think the extra flop on the gate latch is so frikin smart! I can't tell ya how many times new people to the barn would leave slack and the horses investigate and bad things happen...

How to handle water when it's freezing ? Also I rent an open lot to someone who has horses, and last time I visited, there was no water, no food, all 4 horses came toward me, which is unusual... I know he comes every few days, moves the horses between different places, so I suppose he feeds them and gives them water at the other place now, where the stables are (less space to move around there, the reason he rents my place), but how long are they comfortable before suffering from hunger and thirst ? There is no grass left, only some trees, and they are starting eat some pine needle on the trees.

I live in TN and of course our winter is different then yours so how should I build their shelter?

Hey Becky thanks for the video :) love your animals and they definitely love you. Hey have you considered putting goldfish in your trough to deal with mosquitoes & algae (especially with you in FL)? I think I read about that I think in Mother Earth news.

omg u inspire me

I need know about your bread. Do you use a recipe? What kind of homemade bread do you like? I love all of your videos,also your personality.

Hi Becky, I tried to apply your newsletter, but i haven't gotten one yet :(

When you are getting ready to get a horse and you have 13 acres of homestead-able land as your home: Ehhh close enough.

And there's another quetion, are those wire netting with electriferouse ?

why feed them on the ground than they get sand in the stomach and that's bad

You are soooo awesome!

I would like to add that it’s probably not the best idea to get horses unless they are your passion as they are a lot of work and can get very expensive especially it there’s a problem. How you’ve managed to own horses for 20 years and never had any problems is hard to imagine. I would like to add however that yours do look happy and healthy. 🌸

Can a horse live on 1/2 an acre if they're excersized daily and have lots of hay?

Is there going to be a part II?

Florida club!! I'm in north Florida

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Oh my gosh! Pause at 1:07

Becky, how much land are you on? I only have 4 acres. Can I keep 2 mules?

pleas make more horse videos