March 28th, 2010
Leads
When leading your horse, never wrap a lead around your hand. If the horse bolts, it can drag you or even cause you to lose some fingers. It's best to use both hands when leading a horse. One hand (usually the left) can hold the extra length of lead while the other hand holds onto the lead closer to the horse's head Read More...
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March 22nd, 2010
Flea-bitten horse? No, that's not an insult for your horse or your stable. It's a description of a horse. It's a grey horse with red flecks throughout its coat.
Horses can be solid colors, have white or black points, or have patterns.
• Brown - dark brown color (even black) with a brown muzzle;
• Black - black hair with dark skin;
• Chestnut - red or reddish brown without black points, the mane and tail can be either darker or lighter than the coat but not black;
• Bay - red or reddish brown with black points;
• Grey - light colored coat with dark skin (can begin life as black and become grey over lifetime to end as white);
• White - white coat with pink skin;
• Palomino - gold with cream or white mane and tail;
• Dun - tan color with darker points, usually has black dorsal stripe and zebra stripes on legs;
• Buckskin - cream or gold color with black points;
• Roan - colored and white hairs intermingled on the body with the head and legs in the base color,
• strawberry roan - chestnut as the base color
• blue roan - black as the base color
• red roan - bay as the base color;
• Pinto or Paint - large spot pattern,
• Tobiano or Overo
• Piebald - black and white
• Skewbald - white and any color other than black;
Markings on the face
• Blaze - wide stripe down the face;
• Snip - small stripe on muzzle between nostrils;
• Stripe - thin stripe down the face;
• Star - spot on forehead above or between the eyes; and
• Bald face - wide blaze that extends to or past the eyes;
Markings on the legs
• sock - white past the fetlock but not to the knee or hock;
• stocking - white up to at least the knee or hock;
• fetlock - white up to the fetlock;
• pastern - white that starts at the hoof but ends before the fetlock; and
• coronet - white just above the hoof Read More...
Tags: beautiful horses, beauty of horses, conformation, horse markings
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March 14th, 2010
Bringing the horse and rider together and operating in sync can be accomplished through a training routine that involves ring work. The basic cues must be known by the rider in order to communicate directions to the horse, and the animal’s familiarity with cues can be determined in the ring. Once the rider has established the extent of the horses knowledge, a training routine can be planned Read More...
Tags: horse, rider, ring, training
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March 13th, 2010
All of us have something in our life we would like to change but are often scared to try, even if it is something small.
The truth is our lives are what we make them and we end up where we are as the result of the decisions we made yesterday and all the days before.
It’s because we have the power to make new decisions today that affect tomorrow that we can work to change our lives Read More...
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