Flexion is to prepare your horse before you ride on a circle or corner and is used to supple your horse before asking for a bend. Once you’ve mastered the art of flexion, your horse will no longer take your inside rein as a steering aid. Why do horses need Read more…
Leading horses are usually calm, stable an wise. A leader can be an older mare, and she helps to keep the other horses safe and lead them to food. The other horses respect her very much for her wisdom, experience, guidance and providing safety. How do you know which horse Read more…
Most horses experience some degree of back pain either from a saddle that doesn’t fit perfectly, a rider who isn’t completely balanced or just sore muscles from exercise. This back pain reduction taping strategy is a very easy way to decrease your horse’s pain and support the muscles along his Read more…
Hindquarters: the large, muscular area of the hind legs, above the stifle and behind the barrel. Can also be used to refer to the back end of a horse. What are the parts of horse? Loin: Behind where the saddle sits to where the hip of the horse begins. Muzzle: Read more…
If your horse rears up, lean forward and put your reins towards your horse’s ears. DO NOT pull back, as this can cause your horse to flip over backwards. When your horse comes back down, kick them forward and disengage their hindquarters to avoid further rearing. Why is my horse Read more…
If his front feet are involved, he may stand with his feet “parked out” in front and his hind legs farther under his body than normal. These are classic signs of laminitis in horses, a potentially devastating disease that can end your horse’s career or lead to ? euthanasia. What Read more…
But what’s going on in the horse’s head? Do they even know they’re racing? According to experts who spoke to For The Win, they do and a lot of it is what’s similarly goes on in humans’ heads: The will to win — with varying degrees of competitiveness. Does a Read more…
Horses also have chestnuts on the insides of the hind legs; these are found just below the hocks. Often explained as toenail remnants from previous eons, chestnuts are actually vestiges of foot pads, the tough-fibered cushions that animals walk on. Should you remove chestnuts on horses? You don’t really have Read more…
In fact, a horse does not actively step on a man. If you’re walking through a sacred herd of horses, you’ll almost certainly be pushed down, but every horse will try to avoid stepping on you. Will a horse step on a human? Being Stepped On It is possible to Read more…
24/7 turnout means that the horse spends all day and night at pasture and lives primarily on forage, the way his ancestors did in ancient times. Knowing this, one could think that 24/7 turnout is the optimum in horse husbandry, assuming that enough space is available. Can horses be turned Read more…