{"id":2202,"date":"2022-10-28T09:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T13:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2022-10-28T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T13:04:09","slug":"halloween-at-the-uvm-horse-barn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/halloween-at-the-uvm-horse-barn\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween at the UVM Horse Barn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2204\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/10\/HalloweenBarn4-1.jpeg?resize=525%2C291\" alt=\"three people standing in front of a horse barn. Two are students wearing Halloween costumes next to a horse dressed in costume.\" width=\"525\" height=\"291\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Halloween Barn returned in full force this year after a few years&#8217; hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The event, held annually at the UVM Horse Barn for the past two decades, welcomes community members and their families to trick or treat through the horse barn stalls where they are greeted by students and their horses in costume.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Halloween Barn drew roughly 450 community members and supported by over 40 UVM student volunteers. Students in the CREAM program also joined in the fun by bringing a few cows in costume.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to the students in the UVM Horse Barn Co-Op who organized the event, and to the students in EQUUS and Dressage Team who dressed up with their horses!<\/p>\n<p>View more photos from the event on the UVM Dept. of Animal and Veterinary Sciences <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set?vanity=UVMASCI&amp;set=a.551233053673003\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween Barn returned in full force this year after a few years&#8217; hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The event, held annually at the UVM Horse Barn for the past two decades, welcomes community members and their families to trick or treat through the horse barn stalls where they are greeted by students and their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/halloween-at-the-uvm-horse-barn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Halloween at the UVM Horse Barn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7974,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[92,16],"class_list":["post-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cals","category-events","tag-animal-science","tag-asci"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3759,"url":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/uvm-morgan-horse-farm-2023-season-highlights\/","url_meta":{"origin":2202,"position":0},"title":"UVM Morgan Horse Farm 2023 Season Highlights","author":"CALS Communications","date":"November 28, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"We welcomed six healthy foals in 2023.\u00a0 In the photo, Apprentice Ryley Dubois stands next to a 2023 colt sired by UVM Nobel, and UVM ASCI alumna Lila Barker holds the dam, UVM Beloved. 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