Not all paint is created equal, and many are potentially harmful to your horse. With different chemicals, compounds, and glitters it is important to ensure that you select a product that is suitable for your horse, and won’t cause harm. Here are a few points to look out for when selecting your paint!
No-Stirrup riding is a tool often used by instructors to boost rider confidence, skill, balance, and understanding of their horses movement and rhythm. Although there are a plethora of ways to introduce No-Stirrup riding to your routine, one of the best places to start is on the lunge line.
We all dream of producing the perfect horse – one that is calm, confident, and happy in all areas of life. To achieve this goal takes dedication, patience, understanding, and a large commitment of time. Although horses don’t typically start their training to ride or drive until they are 3-6 years old, in this article we will discuss some simple training activities you can use to prepare your youngstock prospects for their future sporting career.
Whether you are bringing your horse home, or boarding at a DIY livery yard, it is important to have the equipment needed to properly care for and clean your horse’s stable. Here is our comprehensive list of must-have tools, and supplies that will make light work of mucking out.
In this article we will break down the five types of materials you are likely to encounter when selecting a girth.
Imprinting is a process where an individual begins an intense and often specific handling routine immediately after the foal has been born, but is it the best method for the foal, and does it achieve the desired outcome?
The ability to test for a broken tree in an English saddle is an incredibly useful skill to have, especially when evaluating a used saddle for purchase, or checking if a saddle is still viable after an accident.
One of the most important skills any equestrian can learn is to tie your horse safely with a quick-release knot. This knot is unique in that if a horse should panic and pull back, causing the knot to become twisted, it can easily be undone by pulling the end of the rope.
Developing your horse’s training to perform in a new discipline, or to achieve success at a show will take practice and time. Many training goals are best achieved with repetition, fitness programs, and drills. But sometimes our focus on these training goals means we lose sight of other important considerations which can lead to burn out.
Wood chewing is often a repetitive behaviour in which the horse chews wood that they can find in their everyday surroundings. Typical targets for chewing include wood found in the construction of their stalls, fencing and sometimes even trees in their pastures.