Your blanketing questions answered
…horse is overheated, and a blanketed horse sweats first beneath the material, then along the neck and behind the ears. Overheating typically occurs in horses turned out during warming daytime…
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Gentle Giants: Draft Horse Breeds
…more important, a quiet calm temperament, distinguishing draft-horse breeds as cold-blooded animals. When horsepower replaced horse power, heavy horses’ numbers dropped to drastically low levels. Since then, the breeds have…
Body Language Basics for Your Horse
…for the horse to initially understand what we want. I draw an imaginary line across the horse’s withers. When I move forward of the line, the horse senses that I’m…
Clicker Training With Horses and The Power of “Yes”
…horse is one of those stiff-as-a-board, feet-stuck-in-cement horses. We’ll start out on the ground with this horse, teaching him to soften to the lead rope. You’re going to stand off…
Ponying a Horse
…Drive (never drag) the ponied horse forward and then gradually reposition him alongside the pony horse. Practice moving the ponied horse in every direction with the lead horse, in a…
5 Gaited Crossbreeds
…the family started to use curly horses in their breeding program. Today, some Gaited Curly Horses are descendants of the Damele horses. Breeders also diligently cross their Curly Horses with…
Professional Equine Grooms’ Liv Gude: Life as a Horse Groom
…things about the horse industry as a whole. It’s darn impossible to find out what the industry average is for a groom as we can be put into so many…
Glossary of Equine Terms
…— the right side of the horse. paddock — a small pasture or enclosure; larger than a pen. Paint Horse — a horse, usually of stock type, registered with the American Paint Horse…
Spanish Horse Breeds
…the Paso Fino, and the Peruvian Horse. Andalusian Horse The Iberian Horse is an ancient breed. Cave paintings of its ancestors, estimated to be 20,000 years old, have been found…
The Mustang
…American Indian Horse Registry (512) 398-6642 www.indianhorse.com American Sulphur Horse Association www.americanspanishsulphur.org American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (877) 853-4696 www.wildhorsepreservation.com Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary (605) 745-5955 www.gwtc.net/~iram/; www.wildmustangs.com Bureau…