Empty Rocker TX, LLC

05/21/2026

🎉🎉365 days of chaos, zero useful life skills, and somehow still everyone’s favorite. Happy Birthday to my emotional support tax deduction, Jack 🎉🎉

04/28/2026

Happy Birthday to the spicy girl in the pasture!

Breezy girl ♥️♥️
Karen Hoffman-Reid

04/10/2026

This is so interesting!

04/09/2026

We have found the culprit! 🤣 never have i seen someone so determined to lick a bucket!

04/06/2026

Even the barn babies had an Easter egg hunt today 🐣

04/02/2026

Good friends are hard to come by ♥️
Taking adventures with those who matter most 🐓

03/16/2026

I love this time of year when the pasture starts to sprout again 🌱🌱🌱

01/30/2026

Photo dump from this past week 🥶 ❄️ Needless to say at the end of the week, we are experiencing flooding, lots and lots of mud, and loads and loads of laundry! However, all the hard work pays off knowing all of our barn babies are warm, fed, and safe ♥️

01/26/2026

We now offer free workouts at the farm!! Specialized in upper body workouts. Guaranteed shoulder and back soreness 🤪🤪

01/24/2026

01/23/2026

Let the colic games commence!!

"THE COLD WEATHER IS UPON US! *
🥶 Are you familiar with the many adaptations that help your horse stay warm during the cold winter months?

🌾 Hindgut digestion of hay produces the most heat, acting as a small furnace inside of the horse.
This is why free choice; good quality hay is so important in the winter.

💪🏼 Horses have a huge muscle mass and muscle activity produces heat. This includes running and playing and even shivering if their body temperature starts to drop. It is important to remember that these activities also will result in a bigger caloric demand so free choice hay and in some cases, grain, is often needed.

🧥 To blanket or not to blanket is a constant debate but either way, as it starts to get cold your horse will grow a thicker coat. If you decide to leave your horse unblanketed you may notice that they look
"fluffy". This is due to a phenomenon called piloerection where the hair stands up to better trap air within. Two layers of the coat also help with warmth. The inner layer is softer and has air pockets to create an insulating layer. The outer layer is coarse and has oils that keep moisture from penetrating the insulating layer and keep the horse warm.

🐎 Wild horses go into the winter heavier than ideal, and the fat serves as an extra layer of insulation. However, if a horse is going to be kept heavily blanketed and in a barn during the cold weather months this is unnecessary and can lead to obesity related issues.

🦵 Their distal limbs (below the knees and hocks) are made of mostly bones and tendons, tissues that are resistant to the cold temperatures.

🦶 The hooves have an alternative route of blood circulation through larger vessels that can be used in low temperatures.
This is why horses can stand in snow without detrimental effects.

👃 A horse's nose has a robust blood supply and is rounded so that it is less susceptible to frostbite than a human's nose.