Understanding Connection with Your Horse
As instructors, we all have our favorite analogies to help our students understand connection?when the horse’s hind legs are connected, from his hocks through his body and right into your…
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Webcast: Understanding Conformation
Speaker:?Dr.?Kathy Anderson?| University of Nebraska Summary: Selecting a new horse can be an exciting, and stressful endeavor. A horseman with a trained eye for conformation recognizes traits in a horse…
School for Survival: Understanding the Wild Side of the Tame Horse
People have been riding around on horses for a very long time now–thousands of years, in fact, although no one knows the exact date when human thighs first made contact…
Understanding Founder in Horses
The best way to understand laminitis, or founder, is to think of the healthy coffin bone as “Velcroed” to the inside of the hoof wall by interlocking sensitive and insensitive…
Understanding “Loading Dose”
Often, you’ll hear the term “loading dose,” especially when you’re dealing with a nutraceutical supplement (we’ve found it a necessity with joint supplements) or some medications. It’s not just a…
Off the Track to Over Fences: Priscilla Godsoe
…he do now and does he want to do it? In my time training these horses, I have learned one very valuable thing: It all starts with understanding. Basic understanding…
Refining Your Leadership
…are beginning to consider your horse with a greater understanding of his nature and that you may soon experience the sweetness that lies within a harmonious relationship, grounded in communication…
Know Your Horse, Know Your Self
…don’t really know, for example, that you are a fearful rider until you come across a fearful horse.” Then the situation escalates. Building Understanding Understanding horse personalities, then, can help…
Horse Psychology and Behavior (Part I)
…serve as a foundation of basic horse language that leads to partnership. The basis of understanding the horse is predicated upon our recognition of horses as prey animals. As such,…
Natural Horsemanship
…a kinder, gentler type of horse training have been around quite a bit longer than most people realize. Natural horsemanship, in it’s purest form, is the understanding of the horse’s…