When Your Horse Turns Out to Be a Lemon
…the conditions of other horses in the barn (look in trash cans for syringes or pill bottles). 4. Have the horse’s owner or trainer ride the horse before you do….
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Hiring A Horse-Sitter
…best person to watch your horse while you’re away, but where do you start? Your horse-sitter should be familiar with horses, and know their way around the horse barn. Before…
Winter Care and Feeding
…can contribute to skin irritation and infections. Horse with blanket It is equally important that blankets fit the horse. Many horses develop rubs or sores on the point of their…
Prevention and Treatment of Respiratory Infections in Horses
…as young horses, aged horses, and debilitated horses, should not be mixed with horses that do a lot of traveling. They may be harboring infectious organisms even if they are…
Put the Horse Before the Horse Cart
…the horse moves around you on a long rope. By staying behind the horse’s withers, you push the horse forward, using the horse’s driving instinct-the same instinct that will eventually…
Calming without medication
…all the time, the horse gets nervous.’ I realized there was some truth to that.” Try some different vocalizations with your horse and read his reaction. If your horse remains…
AQHA: Common Horse Health Issues
…animals from bothering the horse. Don’t: Force the horse to move. Symptom: Horse is down and refuses to get up. What It Means: Horse is either in a lot of…
Develop Your Dressage Horse’s Topline
…puzzle, there are rider pieces, horse conformation pieces, horse-reaction pieces, interpretation-of-aids pieces, temperament pieces and your horse’s heart or his willingness-to-please pieces. All of these physical, mental and emotional puzzle…
Transitions, the Secret to Balanced Riding
…the correct training one way or another. If you train well, you make an average horse into a good horse, and a good horse into a better horse and a…
Connecting With Your Horse in the Round Pen
…a time and rewarding the horse promptly, a whole range of ground manners will improve. That said, round pen training isn’t ideal for every horse, particularly horses with a tendency…