Ask your horse to stand straight by pushing the appropriate hip or shoulder into alignment. As soon as your horse moves away from your push, stop pushing. You will have to move from side to side while keeping contact with Read more…
The horse’s ancestor is thought to have been a primitive creature about the size of a fox which emerged sometime after the time of the dinosaurs. Called Eohippus, this diminutive animal had four toes, and lived in the dense jungles Read more…
The Basics of Equine Behavior The horse, a prey animal, depends on flight as its primary means of survival. Horses are one of the most perceptive of all domestic animals. The horse has a very fast response time. Horses can Read more…
Showing allows a horse to be exposed to life outside the barn, which prepares him for new environments and accustoms him to different sights and sounds. Ultimately, he becomes a better behaved animal, one no so easily spooked or distracted Read more…
In my experience, most horses are more comfortable driving with blinders of some sort. They allow the horse to focus on the job at hand without having to worry about the carriage moving around in their predator warning vision. Are Read more…
Generally there are one of three reasons why you are using a hood on a horse. For warmth in cooler months and to reduce coat growth, to protect from the sun in the warmer months or most commonly for insect Read more…
Horses help move cattle from one pasture to another or gather cows and calves from grazing lands. Before it snows, ranch hands use their horses to comb the backcountry, collecting cattle over several days. Horses allow ranchers to cover great Read more…
Horses’ tactile sensation or touch is extremely sensitive. Their entire body is as sensitive as our fingertips. They can feel a fly on one single hair and any movement of the rider. Can a horse feel a fly on its Read more…
Pacifiers are mesh cups sewn onto a fabric bonnet to protect the eyes from debris kicked up by other runners, something that is believed to cause some horses to slow down. What is a horse pacifier? Pacifier is a horse Read more…
In doing so, cheekpieces partially obscure the vision of the horse, so that it cannot see what is directly behind in its peripheral vision. This results in the horse focusing on what it can see – namely the course in Read more…