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VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 3 • PRINTED IN USA MARCH 2012


Contents DEPARTMENTS


8 From My Saddle A Home for My Horses by Karen Pickering


10 Small Farm Makeover Managing Your Horse Property, Part 2 by Alayne Blickle, Horses for Clean Water


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12 Doctor’s Corner White Line Disease by Dave Sauter, DVM


15 Editor’s Postcard Home is Where the Barn Is by Catherine Madera


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16 On the Plus Side Do-it-yourself Horse Training by Allison Trimble


COVER STORY


6 Barn Pros: Invest in Your Horse Property by Catherine Madera


FEATURE


26 To Wallow in Mud by Sara Donoghue


CLUB CORRAL


14 Wash. Reining Horse Association Spring Fling to be Held in Wenatchee


22 Wash. State Quarter Horse Association AQHA Regional Championships!


32 Wash. Reining Horse Association Plenty of Action for the NWRCHA in 2012


18 Trail Savvy Trail Review: Harry Osborne National Forest by Robert Eversole


20 Trainer’s Corner Making Contact by Kim Roe


28 New & Noteworthy


34 Equine Wellness Infl ammatory Lower Airway Disease by Wendy Mollat, DVM, DACVIM


36 What’s Happening 37 Advertiser’s Index 37 NWHS Select Websites 38 Equine Marketplace


39 NWHS Book Barn Dennis Brouse on Horse Training by Dennis Brouse and Fran Lynghaug


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• Slow Feeders Make for Safer Feeding by Kentucky Equine Research


ON THE COVER


Denali 60 Barn in West Linn, OR


PHOTO COURTESY OF BARN PROS


2 March 2012 The Northwest Horse Source


• In Memory of Roxy, Freestyle Reining Champ by Lisa Rohner Schafer Watch Video of Roxy’s Champion Freestyle Performance with Stacy Westfall at www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKK7AXLOUNo&lr=1


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PUBLISHER Karen Pickering EDITOR Catherine Madera SALES Karen Pickering PRODUCTION Mark Pickering DESIGN & LAYOUT Randy Bourland


CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Mark Pickering


REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS Alayne Blickle – Horses for Clean Water Alison Trimble – On The Plus Side R. Paul Schwab, DVM & David Sauter, DVM – Doctor’s Corner, Kulshan Veterinary Hospital


Mark Bolender, Robert Eversole – Trail Savvy


Kim Roe – Trainer’s Corner


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