Impervious floors may be sloped toward a drain so that urine and water can run out of the stall. Even impervious floors have a few inches of sand or fine gravel underneath for material stability and drainage of subsurface water. What do you put in the bottom of a horse Read more…
Cleaning Moldy Tack: Wipe mold away with a damp cloth, then clean with a mild leather cleaner (but never soap!) Condition and oil to prevent future issues. Dispose of and ideally disinfect your sponges, buckets, and rags that you used to clean the moldy tack. Leave anything out in the Read more…
This is called a Flehman response and it’s believed that this helps concentrate the scent on the vomeronasal organ. All sexes do this, but it’s most commonly seen in stallions sniffing manure, possibly to process the reproductive status of a mare. Flehman comes from a German word, meaning to bear Read more…
After Paul receives a rocking horse one Christmas, he rides it often and develops a strange intuitive power that enables him to correctly predict the winners of horses races. At racetracks, he wins thousands of pounds that he sets aside to defray his mother’s debts. Hester: Paul’s mother. What is Read more…
“The Rocking Horse Winner” tells the story of a little boy who seeks to relieve his family’s financial worries by accurately predicting the outcome of horse races, a feat he achieves by riding his toy rocking horse for hours until he reaches a clairvoyant state. What kind of story is Read more…
The main themes in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” are money and socioeconomic status, luck and success, and family dynamics. What are the themes in The Rocking Horse Winner? Greed and Materialism The plot of “The Rocking-Horse Winner” is fueled by a cycle of approval and greed. Hester sets this cycle in Read more…
WHITE HORSE – Depending on the culture, white horses symbolize purity, heroism or death. White is the rarest color of horse, and white horses have been associated with nobility in chivalry, with the sun in Greek mythology and with the end of the world in Christianity. What does a white Read more…
Aram. “The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse” is narrated by a nine-year-old Armenian boy named Aram, a member of the Garoghlanian tribe, living among the lush fruit orchards and vineyards of the San Joaquin valley in California. Who is the antagonist in The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse? Read more…
Aries (March 21 – April 19) Personality: With high self-awareness, people born in the Year of the Horse with western astrological Aries sign are initiative and inspiring. They are enthusiastic, innocent and dynamic, usually presenting an image of boldness and power. Which zodiac sign is a horse? Zodiac Horse Years Read more…
There are so many tricks to choose from. You can teach your horse to bow, count, smile, give a kiss, pick up an object, shake his head ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or retrieve an object. The possibilities for trick horse training are endless! Think of all the things you have seen Read more…