Breaking the Strangles Cycle
…horses, your risk drops to near zero, while if you keep your horse in a busy barn with a lot of traffic on and off the premises, your risk of…
…horses, your risk drops to near zero, while if you keep your horse in a busy barn with a lot of traffic on and off the premises, your risk of…
…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….
…the horse is not too violent. This is important information for the vet. If the weather is cold, cover the horse with a blanket or wool cooler. Keep the horse…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…the horse is not too violent. This is important information for the vet. If the weather is cold, cover the horse with a blanket or wool cooler. Keep the horse…
…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…
…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…