The correct leg position Your knee should be turned in to rest against the knee roll, but it should not grip. Your knee should be bent to allow your lower leg to hang at an angle by the horse’s side. Read more…
Horse hoof walls are made of keratinized skin cells, the same material hair, horns, and antlers. When freshly cut, hoof trimmings and hoof shavings are flexible and somewhat soft. The fresh keratin cells and the bouquet of odors in trimmings Read more…
In parts of Russia and throughout Central Asia, horse is a central feature in traditional cuisine and is considered almost mandatory on special occasions. Expert butchers leave no part of a horse unused, and while they might disagree with Mr. Read more…
Horses learn by repetition. If you want your horse to be confident in a certain situation, the best thing you can do is to keep putting your horse in similar situations. For example: if your horse lacks confidence on trail Read more…
Riding keep to the left. keep both hands on the reins unless you are signalling. keep both feet in the stirrups. not carry another person. not carry anything which might affect your balance or get tangled up with the reins. Read more…
Horses are not color blind, they have two-color, or dichromatic vision. This means they distinguish colors in two wavelength regions of visible light, compared to the three-color (trichromic vision) of most humans. What colors do horses see best? Horses can Read more…
But an ABC News investigation found that large numbers of the horses have been tortured and beaten to produce that dancing gait, and that the abuse includes a painful practice called “soring,” in which caustic chemicals are smeared on the Read more…
Vision. Vision is the most widely studied sense in horses. What is a horse’s strongest sense? Sight is probably the most important of the equine senses. With eyes on the side of its head, the horse can see almost all Read more…
Hold the lead rope in your hand and slowly bend down at the waist with your head down. Gently guide the horse’s head down with you. This should pull your horse out of his alert, guarded pose, and over time Read more…
These are touch (tactile), smell (olfactory), hearing (auditory), taste (gustatory) and sight (vision). The horse is by nature a prey animal, which requires it to be acutely perceptive and aware of its environment at all times in order to avoid Read more…