Stallions
used in our breeding program include:
Flying Aces Unos Noble Attitude(Uno
son, pictured to the left), Westwind Farms I Promised Revenge (Uno son),
Westwind Farms Unos Cinco
De Mayo (Uno son), Little Kings Buck Off (Buckeroo son),
Lutes Komo Dandy(pictured to the
right)
and soon, Westwind Farms A Grande Promise I Am ( Grande I Am son).
At Westwind Farms, the service doesn't stop after the purchase! We offer a height guarantee (unless otherwise stated), answer the many questions of new mini owners, and offer knowledgeable advise on the breeding, the foaling and the showing of your new miniature horse.
In 2006, after nearly 23 years
of breeding, raising and selling miniatures horses, I started to size
down my herd of miniature horses for semi retirement. My program is
working nicely. My numbers are down and so are my foals. We delivered
only 11 foals in 2007 and expect around the same number for 2008.
2008 has brought some very difficult news to me and my family. In January, my 39 years old son had a routine appendectomy and a week later we were told that the pathology report showed that there was a cancerous tumor in the appendix. This is extremely rare (around 500 to 600 cases a year) and we immediately took him to Cleveland Clinic for removal of 18 inches of his large intestine and 48 lymph nodes. On April 1, 2008 he started six months of chemotherapy and I take him and stay with him two to three times a week every other week. We are hopeful that the chemo works and no further surgeries are needed but if they become necessary, I will join his wife and travel and stay with him for as long as needed.
2008 has brought some very difficult news to me and my family. In January, my 39 years old son had a routine appendectomy and a week later we were told that the pathology report showed that there was a cancerous tumor in the appendix. This is extremely rare (around 500 to 600 cases a year) and we immediately took him to Cleveland Clinic for removal of 18 inches of his large intestine and 48 lymph nodes. On April 1, 2008 he started six months of chemotherapy and I take him and stay with him two to three times a week every other week. We are hopeful that the chemo works and no further surgeries are needed but if they become necessary, I will join his wife and travel and stay with him for as long as needed.
My dedicated farm manager,
Becky Green, keeps the farm running but I need to simplify things
right now and will be reducing my herd by several horses. This is
very difficult for me to do because I have worked hard for
approximately 25 years accumulating and breeding horses to produce
show quality halter and driving horses. I fully intend to continue
my program but on a much smaller scale.
I will soon be putting up
descriptions on all the horses for sale and will eventually add
pictures when the weather warms up enough to shave horses (It's
early May in Michigan and still cold at night). In the mean time,
if you would like more information on a particular horse, don't
hesitate to email or call me.
I will be breeding the sale
mares for 2009 foals. The remaining bred mares for 2008 are too
close to foaling and will not be for sale until after foaling.
Westwind Farms
has exported horses to
Israel, Australia and Denmark in 2007 and we can help buyers with
this process. For those in Europe, Malene Nielsen of 5-Star
Miniatures has several Westwind Farms horses at her Denmark farm.
These horses are for sale and may be seen at 5-Star Miniatures or at
various shows throughout Europe this summer. Malene's web site is
WWW.5-STARMINIATURES.DK
.
Thanks,
Cammie Cavanaugh