Previous Kootenai Canvas: Mares and foals

Karleen Meyer of Rathdrum wrote the winning essay that best described the last photo, which was a picture of mares and their foals in a pasture at the corner of Prairie Avenue and Huetter Road.

These mares with foals roam a pasture where once dairy cows grazed, the dairy cows were colored similar to the horses; black and white, red and white and brown. Note the silo in the background, it held the yearly supply of corn silage used as winter feed for the dairy cows. Today, in an adjoining pasture on this farm is one that holds Limousin beef cattle for that prime steak instead of cows that produced the gallon of milk found in the grocery stores.

We were once a neighbor to this farm, at the time when it was home to the dairy, one of the handful in the county 30 years ago and then later when the present owner began raising beef and horses.

The farm with its pasture full of mares and foals is on the northwest corner of Prairie Avenue and Huetter Road. Drive by yourself and notice the colorful horses and pick out your favorite. If you see one you like well enough you just might be able to purchase it from the farm owner, Bill Tarnasky.