HorseIceCream.com in the News

2008-08-20 : Delaware County Fair Horse Show Photos are Uploaded for Viewing

The pictures from the Delaware County Fair 2008 are now up on this site. To see them, just click on the link below. If you want to view the short videos, you use Internet Explorer instead of Firefox. Windows Media Player does not play well with Firefox.

Thanks for your patience. There were so many photos and some videos, that we decided to create a photo album for each day. We're not professional photographers but I do feel there are some great shots (and not-so-great ones too). If any videos were shot, they are at the end of that day's photo album.

The photos and videos have been processed to ensure that they load quickly in your browser. This means that the photos will not print well. If you want copies of photos for printing, you'll need to get the image numbers and contact us. We can provide you with the print quality file that also has the HorseIceCream.com watermark removed.

If you are interested in a video or a still created from a video, get the video title and contact us. We can provide much clearer video but the file size will be much larger, so you'll need to load to the computer you use to view it before playing it. Also we can snap a still photo from any point in the video. Again, we'd need to know which video and where in it you want the photo snapped.

PLEASE GIVE US FEEDBACK! We REALLY, REALLY want to hear from you. Let us know what we did right and what we can improve. This site will improve with your feedback!

2008-08-18 : Delaware County Fair Thurs Fri and Sat Horse Photos

Yes we have lots of photos from the Delaware County Fair! So many that it's taking us a bit of time to get them processed and uploaded. Please be patient. We hope to have most of the photos uploaded Tuesday August 19.

To see the photos, click on the Gallery menu item on the red ribbon at the top of the page. Then look for the Parades, Clinics and Events category. Under the category heading, look for the Subcategory of "Delaware County Fair 2008".

Please check out other areas of our site as well. HorseIceCream.com is focused on ONLY South central NY and Northeast PA. This web site is for YOU. Please give us feedback on how we can make it better! Thank you for stopping by.

2008-07-03 : Limited Time Offer: All HORSE FOR SALE Ads are FREE

In order to encourage more use of the Horse For Sale area, we have reduced the (already low) cost of ads to $0. So now is the time to add your ad, with pedigree and lots of pictures.

Your ad can have an introduction to your horse, your horse's breed, color, birthday, size and weight. You can also list skills and registration information. When you place an ad you enter the location where the horse is boarded. This provides potential buyers with a Google map (that can provide driving directions) to that location, right on the ad. This also allows them to filter the ads based on distance from their zip code.

You can list up to 3 generations of your horse's sires and dams, which are displayed on the ad as a family tree. Is one of your horse's ancestors famous? You can provide a web site that becomes a link from that ancestors name.

So, take advantage of this limited time offer, place your ad today.

2008-06-30 : HorseIceCream.com Staff Back from Long Trip

Digital Cameras are wonderful gadgets! We went on a trip and took lots and lots of photos. Got some great shots of horses in art. There was one fountain with a herd of bronze pegasus that was simply awesome!

Digital Cameras are fragile gadgets too. Just a couple of days into the trip we dropped the camera. Even though it was in its camera case, the camera was so badly damaged that we were unable to repair it. Moreover the camera card was damaged. Most of the photos were lost, including all of the horse art!

Thus today's tips: 1. Use extra padding in that digital camera case! 2. Swap out the memory card or download your photos often.

2008-06-04 : Wyoming County Now Included in HorseIceCream.com Service Area

Welcome Wyoming County Equine Enthusiasts! Recently we receive a request from Carol Mitchell to add Wyoming County to our service area. Just ask, HorseIceCream.com staff accommodates. We welcome Carol, REASON (Horse Rescue) and all their horse loving friends in Wyoming County to explore, use, and enjoy all the articles, features, and fun that HorseIceCream.com has to offer. Please post your events on our calendar and share photos of your horses with your HorseIceCream.com nay-bors.

2008-05-05 : Cancelations, It Happens and We can Help

This last weekend HorseIceCream was going to be at the Spring Speed Show at Skyline Corral located at the Tioga County Fairgrounds. Seems they received a lot more rain than we did in Susquehanna. The show ring was more suitable for wrestling or 4WD races than equine activities, can you say mud hole? Lori was disappointed but it gave the web master an Idea (yep with a capital I). We will feature a cancellation box on the home page of HorseIceCream.com. Something with a red border, flashing lights, warning sounds and.... Well maybe just a noticeable red boarder. So if your event is canceled, you can call Clay, the HorseIceCream.com web master, 24/7 at (570)-396-3121 and we will immediately note the cancellation.

This way we can all check the HorseIceCream home page before packing the truck, and save some gas too. If there is no red cancellation box on the page, then we have not received a call. Look for a test cancellation to run for the next few weeks, just so everyone knows what it looks like.

Of course if you enter your show in our Show Ring (its FREE) you can edit your show information any time, yourself! You can update information about your show as its date approaches.

2008-04-22 : Upcoming Weekend 4-H Clinics NOW OPEN to all Riders!

The Grooming and Showmanship Clinic and Trail Riding Clinics on Saturday and the Jumping Clinic on Sunday make a wonderful weekend of hands on learning. These 4-H Sponsored Clinics are OPEN to EVERYONE. Come out to Unity Stables to ride and learn! See the Calendar entries for this weekend for more details.

2008-04-14 : Tack Sale - BBQ at Unity Stables Pictures Posted

Update: We were there and took some pictures. Click this link to view the pictures.

The Rough-n-Ready Riders' Tack Sale was a success, thanks to those who braved the cold to stop by Unity Stables. The day started out snowy and blustery but the Rough-n-Ready Riders' lived up to their name by volunteering all day long. There was a raffle for some baskets of neat stuff, the tack sale (of course), riding demonstrations, horses for sale, and food! All kinds of baked goods, hot dogs and hamburgers were available in addition to the chicken BBQ. All proceeds from the event benefit 4-H Horse Club members.

HorseIceCream.com had a table at the Tack Sale. Many folks stopped by our table to ask questions and to give us feedback. We' handed out bumper stickers and posters too.

Other businesses supporting the Rough-n-Ready Riders by having a table were Audrey Erat, Equine Sports Massage, Grinning Horse Tack, Sickmon's Gentle Giants, and Blue Ribbon Stable Tack.

Look for the photos in the Gallery under Parades, Clinics, and Events. You can use the link above get to the Gallery or you can click on the Gallery menu item in the red bar at the top of the page.

2008-04-14 : Welcome Cowboys and Cubbers - Our first 4-H Club!

Cowboys and Cubbers 4-H Horse Club is the first 4-H club to join the HorseIceCream.com Club Corral. Located in Brackney, Pennsylvania, this club focuses on 4-H Horse Projects.

2008-03-26 : Introductory Special - Graphic Ads are FREE for 2 Months!

HorseIceCream.com welcomes Stables, Feed Stores, Farm Supply, Farriers, and other horse-related businesses to advertise on our pages. For a Limited Time, you can get your advertising for FREE. First Find the page on which you want to advertise. If there's a placeholder ad there, send us an email or call, so we can remove it. Then register, submit your ad BUT do NOT pay for it! We'll see it. When we approve it, we'll mark it Complimentary for 2 months!

2008-03-25 : Welcome Honest Horse Thieves / Maddy Corral to the Club Corral

Honest Horse Thieves / Maddy Corral is the first club to join the HorseIceCream.com Club Corral. Located in Athens, Pennsylvania, this club focuses on Barrel Racing!

2008-03-05 : The main classifieds page now shows how many ads in each section

To make it easier to see what classified areas have ads, we have modified the main Classifieds page to indicate how many ads are in currently each category. This way you can see which categories are empty. Hopefully soon, none will be empty. ;)

2008-03-02 : We have swiched to Google's custome search

Our initial choice for local search was not working so we switched to another method. We are now using Google's Custom Search. The downside of this is that the results are a bit wide, and we can't adjust that. So we're sorry to say that for some users browsers they may have to scroll sidewards to see all of the results. Luckily the part that may be obscured is not as relevant to searches on this site.

We expect the on site search to get better as Google scans more of our site.

Thanks for your patience!

2008-03-02 : HorseIceCream.com goes live!

We are happy to say after much last minute fussing with the Paypal interfaces (due to two of our applications fighting) and security systems, all is set. We hope you enjoy the site!

2008-03-01 : Help us clean up any web site problems.

If you have a problem with any page look for this "Hey Techie" graphic and click on it. You can then describe the problem in the forum, so we can fix it asap! Please include the page name where you had the problem. Thanks for helping HorseIceCream be the best it can. You can also use this system to make suggestions.

2008-03-01 : Introductory offer: First 50 non-classified advertisers get 1-2 months free.

Welcome new business advertisers! In celebration of the site going live, HorseIceCream.com (HIC) will give away one month's free Premium ad space or about two months of rotating ad space to the first 50 businesses that want to Advertise with us. After that period HIC will offer affordable ad space to all businesses.

2008-02-29 : Horse for Sale ad Sale

Our Basic Ad is just $10. Add some pictures just $3 each. You can show off your horse's history by adding a lineage for $5 more. Horse for Sale ads run until your horse sells. This is limited time offer!