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Lewis County family creates retirement home for old work horses and other animals | Agriculture

LOWVILLE — Being “put out to pasture” is both symbolically, and for horses, literally, what happens when one is no longer “useful.” That’s if a horse is lucky. Many old or sick horses end up at auctions that lead to much less idyllic ends, unless a family like the Dietrichs of Rice Road in the town of Lowville have anything to do with it. “I guess I think of us as more of a retirement home than a rescue,” said Mickey Dietrich of his family’s small, 2.2-acre hobby farm, Hyder Rock Ranch. For Mr. Dietrich, massive work horses have the most allure.

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