Category: All About Horses
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Creating a Well Mannered Horse
Part 3 Tacking Up Now that your horse is leading correctly and is calm around you you can begin to introduce the tack. The young horse that’s never been saddled before should be started in a box stall so that he cannot run away if he becomes afraid by the…
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Probiotic Supplement
If feeding antibiotics such as doxycycline or minocyline ,a probiotic is recommended These will replace the good gut bacteria from what was lost during the treatment.
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Dehydration and Horse Care
You can pinch the horses’ skin to see if it is dehydrated . The skin should return to normal after one second. If your horse is getting dehydrated this product should help. Avoid dehydration as this could lead to more serious problems in the horse such as colic. Make sure…
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Creating a Horse with Good Manners
Part Two You can begin to work with your horse when the horse is calm around you . You must be able to provide the correct environment for the animal by making sure that your horse doesn’t feel insecure . Sometimes this means that you cannot take the the horse…
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Padded Crown Bridles-Important update
Many bridles are sold with the nose band and crown pieces sewn together at the top. If you have one of these please make sure that the bit is resting evenly in the horse’s mouth. I’ve been noticing that sometimes there is a fault in the placement of the crown…
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Creating a Horse with Good Manners
Part One It is very important that your horse has good manners and does not push you around and get into your space. Horses are very large and strong animals and they can hurt you! Therefore you should be sure not to put yourself in a position where you can…
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Rein aids and Softening the Jaw
Riding a horse with a light connection is the way to go . Horses will not do well if they are getting their mouths pulled on . This creates a horse that ends up with “ upside down “ muscles. Horse that are ridden correctly from the rider’s leg,seat and…
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Seat and Leg aids
First your horse moves forward from the leg when you squeeze and release with both legs simultaneously .Then a well trained horse will move forward and sideways equally when you use one leg . He will move away from that leg aid . The rider must use a simple squeeze…
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Riding into the corners
In order to be confident the riding horse needs to be balanced. We talked about the horses traveling on two tracks meaning that the left hind leg must follow the left foreleg and the right hind leg must follow the right fore leg. This is called going straight in “the…
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Dewormer for February
Pyrantel Pamoate sold under the brand name Strongid or Exodus .
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Allow with your hands
Watch the horses with their riders or when free in the pasture. If you watch closely you will see that he does not move his legs in diagonal pairs in the walk but he moves his two left legs forward and then moves his two right legs forward . The…
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