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Bluegrass farms dealing with ice storm

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January 30, 2009

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The winter storm that hit central Kentucky this week has hit farms hard, with fallen trees and limbs creating clean-up problems, and several farms losing power and still without it on Friday morning; that includes Brittany Farms, and farm manager Art Zubrod said he had no reason to believe that it would be restored within a week.

�We brought in seven big commercial generators and electricians to hook them up,� said Zubrod, �and it will probably cost us $20,000.�

Brittany still had running water on Friday morning (Jan. 30), but Zubrod said he expected the farm to lose it Friday night and have to begin hauling water. One generator was hooked up at the foaling barn, but no foals had been born since the storm knocked out power.

Walnut Hall Ltd., Walnut Hall Stock Farm, and Dunroven Stud�all located on the historic property once known as Walnut Hall Farm�also were without power to their barns on Friday morning. Generators were hooked up in foaling barns, but only Walnut Hall Ltd. had had a foal born since the storm hit.

Cane Run Farm also was without power on Friday morning.

Downed trees and limbs seemed to be relatively easy things to deal with when faced with operating without power and water. Diamond Creek Farm�s Adam Bowden said power at his farm was lost briefly. �We�re just dealing with trees and limbs, and if that�s the worst of it, I�m OK with that,� he said.

Peninsula Farm suffered tree damage and was dealing with thick ice that made it difficult to move horses inside and outside.

Peninsula picked up a new resident on Thursday, but it wasn�t a new foal. The stallion Ponder returned to Kentucky to stand at stud. Ponder, who had been standing at stud in Australia, was flown to Los Angeles and entered quarantine. He was scheduled to arrive in Lexington on Tuesday, but was delayed by the storm.

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