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Plan Your Horse's New Home
If it's time to build a new stable, or renovate an old one for your horse's home, here are recommendations for safe and comfortable horse stables.
Lukas Voices His Opinion - World's Smartest Horse and Touching
Touching is an essential part of our day together. In the wild, horses live in herds and stay close to each other for survival. Very social creatures, they tend to pick certain friends and engage in mutual grooming and games with them. Often forming life-long attachments, they've been known to
How to Fit a Dressage Saddle
All saddles do not fit all horses, and improperly fitting saddles can quickly irritate a horse and even lead to long-term pain issues. Because dressage saddles have a deep seat and put the rider in almost direct contact with a horse's back, these issues can come to light very quickly. When purchasin
Options for Affordably Setting Up Horse Shelters
If shelter from the elements is necessary for your animals, what are the options? Here are the benefits and drawbacks of two types of horse shelters.
Tips For Buying Your First Horse
Before you buy a horse it is important to do a little investigating. When buying a new horse, you should aim to find out as much as possible about the horse's history.
Horse Supplements and Horse Rugs As Christmas Presents for Your Horse
With Christmas just around the corner all of us animal and horse lovers with to purchase our animals a Christmas present. It may sounds weird to people who are not horse lovers or animal lovers but to many people their animals are part of the family and therefore should have a present for Christmas
How to Keep Algae From Forming in a Chicken Feeder
Algae grow easily in moist and sunny environments. Often the algae are harmless, but not always. Some algae can produce toxins harmful to animals such as chickens. Also, if you have algae growing in your chicken feeders, then the feeder is also probably growing harmful bacteria and yeast. Since alga
The History of Jodhpurs
For those who do not know, jodhpurs are tight fitting pants that horseback riders wear when riding English style. They go from the waist down to the ankle. These pants were not always tight-fitting or the length of each leg. These loose fitting riding pants originated in the city Jodhpur, India arou
How to Braid Your Own Rat Tail
Rat tails are long, thin braids that hang down your back and start at the nape of your neck. The tail usually isn't trimmed; it grows longer than the rest of the hair. As it grows, re-braid to it to keep it tight and stop it from fraying at the top. Some people keep a long section of hair for a rat
Buying a Horse - Pros and Cons of Buying a First Horse For Your Child
When buying a horse for your child, there are many aspects to horse ownership that you must take into consideration. Learn the pros and cons to help you make a better educated choice that will affect the whole family.
Horse Training - Don't Be Boxed in by Old Ideas
Think your horse is broke? Think again. Take your horse into a completely different environment or discipline and see if you can avoid the basic "I'm not broke" moves of bucking, shying, rearing, and running. If your horse isn't broke, here are three simple exercises to teach you
How to Check the Girth On a Saddle
Riding horses is fun and great exercise but it is important to do it safely. One of the most important and basic steps of riding is to saddle and girth your horse properly. Here are some tips on how to make sure that the girth is tightened properly.
Building Plans for Horse Carts
Whether you plan on building your horse cart from scratch or a kit, you will need to follow a set of plans. Horse carts come in all sizes and many shapes as well. Plans are simple to buy and execute if you follow a few guidelines to get the right size cart and make sure it is safe for you and your h
3 Steps to Designing Your Horse Fence
Deciding to build a horse fence is the easy part. The next step is putting it on paper, then buying and installing the best fence you can afford. Someone recently requested help in designing and choosing a horse fence. This is how we did it.
Horse Training Using the Alpha Mindset
The real issue involved in training a horse leads back to mindset: the horse's mindset and even more so, the person's mindset. In other words, it isn't necessarily what you're actually doing that the horse has a problem with, it is the pressure created by what you're doing,
How to Lunge a Horse
Lunging is a good way to teach and exercise a horse. Because you can see the horse from the side while lunging, you can see if his form is correct. Lunging is also a method to teach new riders, as the rider can focus on developing his own skills, while you control the horse.
How to Trim a Bulldog's Whiskers
Bulldogs have flat faces with rows of whiskers that grow on their wrinkles. They also have jutting whiskers on their chins. Most bulldog owners don't bother to trim the dog's whiskers, since they are not easily visible. However, if you are showing your bulldog, it's a good idea to give its whiskers
Tips for Improving Your Relationship With Your Horse
We all love our horses and we all want our horses to be happy. If they are happy they will be healthier and willing to 'work' for us. When we arrive at the barn each day they will greet us and want to be with us. Happy horses starts with meeting their basic needs in life. Their basic needs
Parts of a Horse Driving Harness
Before the invention of the automobile, driving meant steering a horse-drawn wagon or buggy. Today, horse driving is a sport for both miniature and draft horses. If you are interested in participating in this sport, you will need a carriage and a harness. Puzzling together a harness can be a confusi