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 PonyBox News Trending I am going to type up, in detail, all my experiences with retraining Moonfire. I'm going to tell you what I did and when, what the results were, what my thoughts were, what Moonfire's progression is and so on. I hope to ...
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We may dislike it, but there are still many people who eat horse meat. A few years ago, I interviewed a woman from Malta who was living in Britain. When I asked her what she missed, she said the beauty of the island and her mother serving horse meat. For her, horse meat was a tas ...
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The Dartmoor Hill Pony Association is looking at selling ponies for meat as one way to maintain the dwindling numbers of feral horses. Selling ponies for meat could make it worthwhile for farmers to maintain their herds. While the horse loving Brits may find eating horsemeat dist ...
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My horse is now eighteen, and although I anticipate a few good years more with her, and have no intention of selling her, I have been wondering what my next horse might be. When I picture a horse in my mind, I usually see an Arabian or an Anglo-Arab. Those are what I grew up ridi ...
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Can you ride a zebra? They are gaited like a horse. They look much like a horse and those broad backs look comfortable to sit on. Well, Lord Lionel proved you can drive them. There may be a reason why that pony was along though. Turns out Rothschild had a bit of time getting thos ...
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I always wondered why this fencing was popular in some areas, but didn’t catch on elsewhere. A little internet sleuthing turned up one possible answer. Pipe was cheap to buy in areas with lots of oil drilling. So you will see more pipe fencing in places like Texas. The downside t ...
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The annual round up of New Forest Ponies in Britain has been delayed. It’s not protesters or red tape that is slowing things, but a bacteria called Streptococcus equi. The bacteria responsible likes to hitch a ride in horses’ upper airways and is commonly known as strangles or ...
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I don’t watch television, and I refuse to read the circulars that land at the end of the driveway. I avoid stores, feed and tack shop notwithstanding, and rarely listen to the radio. But, I can’t help but be aware that Christmas is coming. So, I’ve decided to get my list of what ...
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Twitching a horse is a common practice when it’s important that the horse be absolutely still for something like hoof trimming, vaccinations, mane pulling and doctoring minor wounds. It’s often used instead of an injected tranquilizer to prevent a horse from struggling for a brie ...
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How many horse owners really have this dream? Once you start owning horses, reality sets in. My horse experience, as I am sure many others can relate, has been more akin to the poor man’s life. My horses have been swaybacked and arthritic. They have manes rubbed out on trees and ...
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We know riding can be a risky sport, and we can reduce the risk by using protective equipment and learning about good riding and safety with horses. But even the most careful and safety conscious of us might not have thought of these odd hazards. ...
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This is a rant. I was walking my dog recently along some trails that I often ride on. The local county forest has signs at each entrance clearly marking that there are no motor vehicles allowed. That doesn’t mean that you won’t encounter any. I’d walked less than a few hundred m ...
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Pasture potatoes tend to be more prone to sand colic. Horses pick up a lot of sand and grit when they eat. Ideally, it should pass on through. In active horses, it usually does. But because the pasture potato rarely travels out of a walk, the intestinal tract doesn’t get the shak ...
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First of all, a lot of people think that we control our horses, especially the direction they are going in, by turning their heads, and that we need a bit to do this. But, this isn't really true. After all, I can make my horse stand still or walk, and pull her head around to my k ...
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The first horse I rode, probably the one I could attribute to ‘starting it all’ was a 16hh dark bay gelding named Manitou. Manitou was my mother’s, and if you were to pick a child’s horse he’d be close to the last one you'd choose. He was temperamental, opinionated and too big f ...
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Yuck! The weather here is hovering around the freezing mark in the mornings. I’ve been clutching onto summer, convincing myself that it’s not over until I say it’s over. But Mother Nature and the calendar conspire against me. Reluctantly, I’ve packed my summer clothes and stashed ...
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One argument used by barefoot advocates against shoeing is that it was a fad that caught on, and continues to hold us, even though there’s no real reason to shoe a horse, and all horses are better off without shoes. The folks that run The Barefoot Horse website explain that 'Hors ...
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When I was a kid, I desperately wanted a bareback pad. They were so cool and colorful. But my mother would never let me have one. I now understand why, because they can be more of a hazard than a help since they can slip and turn easily, and they rarely have safety stirrups. Any ...
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Horses haven’t been part of the general population’s daily life for a very long time. But, most of us talk horse without even realizing it. Here are ways we still talk about horses, even though we may never have been near a horse. ...
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Long before horse assisted therapy became mainstream, I was involved with helping give hippotherapy to a little girl who had suffered severely crippling injuries in a car accident. At the time, we knew nothing about riding for the disabled. We were told that riding was good exerc ...
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The site of the plowing match I attended is now an open field, and the little village that expanded to a population of over a 100,000 has now settled back to fifty. But it will take a few years before the site has recovered, thanks to something called ‘soil compaction’, caused by ...
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Somebody called me an equestrian writer. The label makes me cringe. Most people would ride their horse, enjoy themselves and then would largely forget about it unless something really outstanding happened. But every time I ride, I feel a pressure to look for something to write ab ...
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In my dream world, I live in a totally recyclable, off-grid, compostable world. I don’t just have a green thumb, I’m head-to-toe green as I prepare my organically grown garden produce over my low-carbon-footprint cooking appliance. I glance out the reclaimed windows of my energy ...
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Sable Island is a thin, smile shaped, 27 miles (42 km) long, 1 mile (1.5 km) wide strip of sand and wind southeast of Nova Scotia, Canada. It is surrounded by shoals, and before the time of modern sea navigation, these shoals, the surrounding fog and difficult weather took hundre ...
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There are some things you just shouldn't say to a horse person. Here are a few that I've heard, and I wish I hadn't. Horse Poo Stinks!... No, it doesn't. The people who declare this don't have the refined olfactory senses most horse people do. And when a horse passes wind? It's ...
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Did you participate in the ice-water challenge? If, for some reason, you’ve had your head stuck deep in a round bale over the last few weeks and don’t know what it is, here’s a quick explanation. Post a video of yourself dumping a bucket of ice-water on your head to a social netw ...
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Horse hoof prints represent the number of horses the rider has taken in a raid. Sometimes, the hoof prints appear to be bottomless rectangles. A circle painted around a horse's eye was to help it have clearer vision. A green circle was particularly powerful. Zigzag marks painted ...
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Picking colors is important and many horse owners go to great lengths to coordinate their gear. With so many colors, it can be hard to choose. Using a color wheel can be helpful. Colors opposite on the color wheel are called complementary colors. The two colors on either side of ...
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I noticed a field of broodmares and foals recently, and what a pretty picture they made. The arrival of a foal is usually an exciting time for most horse owners, especially if the foal is born to a favorite mare, and the arrival is a highly anticipated event. Foals are cute, but ...
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One thing I see consistently no matter where I go to horse shows or other events is horses and hay bags tied so low, they’re in danger of becoming a tangling hazard. I was recently amazed to see a very seasoned competitor tie their horse so low the rope was hanging on the ground. ...
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I recently asked the question of some of my Facebook friends - do you have your winter hay yet? One person, answered yes, and it makes me so happy. Which left me wondering, what things make a horse person happy?
Of course, being on your horse, or spending time with your horse ...
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