4-C Stables opened in June 2006 and is owned and operated by Stacey and
Lyman Carpenter.  Stacey is a Registered Veterinary Technician and studied
health and nutrition in school so she is very much in tune with the horses
individual nutritional needs.  Each horse on the property is special to her
and she knows them individually.

Stacey has been working with horses her entire life.  She has performed in
shows, rodeos, parades, trail competitions, drill teams and much more.  She
has attended many clinics and training seminars to further her knowledge
with horses.  Currently she follows many of the natural horsemanship
trainers such as Clinton Anderson, Pat Parelli, and Craig Cameron.  In her off
time she enjoys competing in barrel racing on her horse "Shaq" and trail
riding on her mule, "Mojo".

4-C Stables has much to offer the horse lover.  Summer camps, birthday
parties, trail rides, play days, lessons, seminars and much more.  If you are
looking to buy a horse we can help you out.  If you currently have horses -
this is a safe, fun and wonderful facility to be at!
"Hope"
We got "Hope" from some people that live not too far away.  She had injured her left rear hoof
and they were unable to give it the attention that it was going to need.  I agreed to take her and
try what I could do to treat her.  The first thing we had to do was get the wound clean and try to
cut away the broken hoof so it would not snag on anything.  The next step was to soak it and
make sure that all the dirt and manure was out of the wound.  When I started digging around I
realized that it went all the way under the frog and included the entire left side of her hoof.  I was
worried that it would involve the bone so we started major antibiotics immediately.   Later we
soaked gauze with Iodine and created a wedge to help support some of the weight on that hoof.
 She is doing well and we will keep adding to this as things progress.

These are photos of Day 1
"Major"

We aren't quite sure what happened to his neck but I am sure that it had something to do
with a T-post.  He came to me with a huge laceration on his neck.  Here are the photos of
the suture job.
Day 1
Some interesting things we have seen lately.
This is "Major" on the 7th day.  

Looking Good!

Update:  several months later he still
looks great!   We aren't even able to
see where the area was!  YEA
"Colt"
He injured his eye somehow.  After washing it, a layer of
sutures and some staples - he was as good as new.!
Update:
Hope is doing just great!  She is
running around like nothing ever
happened!  We are going to start
riding her when the weather clears up!
These are photos from a horse that came in last year
that had gone through a chain link gate and sliced his
shoulder open on the gate latch.  It healed up GREAT!
The owner says he can't even see a mark where the
wound was!
Just another layer or two and then the
skin staples!