Continuing the Legacy Well its been a year that is for sure. The Cottonwood fire pretty much wiped us out. Luckily we didn't lose the house, and only lost one horse, but we did lose the shop, all our hay, fences and corrals. The night of the fire we ended up running horses all the horses we could down the road. Unfortunately we had four two year olds and Junior, one of our senior stallions, cut back and run back to the corrals. When I got back to the house, the two year olds were okay, but Junior passed shortly after from smoke inhalation. That night we spent until about 1:00 in the morning catching and leading everyone back home and rigging up pens with anything we could. We were incredibly lucky, family and friends came out and helped us get some pens rebuilt, so that as mares started foaling we could at the very least give them a day or two separation from the broodmare band. The donations of hay, and feed were also amazing.
We lost every bale, and over the coming weeks people from all over the nation delivered hay and feed. We are getting started on a shop, and replacing windows on the house. The fire was about 12 feet from the house and melted the trim, and broke a few windows. We hope to get mares and young horses turned out in November for 60 days, and least let them stretch their legs a bit.
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