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Nicei ride english! i'd love to try western some day
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Nicei ride english! i'd love to try western some day
Same, I've just been too busy to ride. I still stalk this thread though, it's fun to see what y'all are doing with your horses!I don’t ride anymore but I used to do both.
Awesome!!!Same, I've just been too busy to ride. I still stalk this thread though, it's fun to see what y'all are doing with your horses!
Uggh! I so feel you, with her feet! TBs have notoriously complicated feet, and t's so hard to find good farriers, you try not to make judgements about what they do, because it's a challenge to even get them to show up.One of the last shoeings she had the shoe didn't sit right and was actually making her lame on her good front foot, so we had to pull it, and with the craziness of us moving she was out for like 2-3 weeks and didn't work much because I didn't want to work her much or at all without a shoe.
Awesome, congratulations! Can I ask what you majored in, and what are your plans? I know it sucks for today's young people more than it did when I graduated college, not that the job prospects were great in the early 90's recession, but at least my student loans were low enough I was able to pay them off in a reasonable amount of time, by working at basic entry-level company jobs.I am actually graduating college this week, too,
What I mean is just for you keep in a jumping or galloping position or two-point, your weight in the stirrups, your butt out of the saddle, your weight forward and your center of gravity over the center of gravity of the horse as you both go forward, so you keep your weight in your stirrups and never on her backstaying up off her back, should I switch to an english saddle when trying your methods or doing any kind of long distance exercising on the track? I ride her western. My saddle is on the lighter side at 35lbs,
Oh my gosh I know!! Ginger was a a neglect/mistreatment case before we got her, and her feet were in horrible condition. I learned how to take care of horse feet, all about thrush, etc from both my trainer and the farrier. Our farrier we have doing Ginger actually specializes in TBs, but it can be tricky to get him out sometimes in time -- nothing against him, because his work is great, but you know.Uggh! I so feel you, with her feet! TBs have notoriously complicated feet, and t's so hard to find good farriers, you try not to make judgements about what they do, because it's a challenge to even get them to show up.
Especially harder for you, since you don't officially own Ginger, so you can't pick and choose the farrier care she gets. Plus, TBs have notoriously complicated feet - flat, dry and shelly, under-run heels; then as soon as the weather gets wet, they get thrush, or abscesses, or both at the same time in different feet so you can't tell quite exactly what's making them lame.
Aw thank you!! I am getting my degree in English, however, my true passion and my current goal is to stay in the horse industry and pursue a career in that. Ginger was actually the horse that made me discover my love and skill for working with horses!Awesome, congratulations! Can I ask what you majored in, and what are your plans? I know it sucks for today's young people more than it did when I graduated college, not that the job prospects were great in the early 90's recession, but at least my student loans were low enough I was able to pay them off in a reasonable amount of time, by working at basic entry-level company jobs.
They are beautiful!!!! Congratulations!!!!!I posted on this thread last year about getting the farm ready for horses again so drum roll please…. We finally have horses again! Two Friesian x Percheron yearlings and a POA. Note: the pictures with the rope halters on were what they arrived in on the first day. They were not turned out in pasture, but a small paddock with me supervising. They were not fully halter broke when I got them and it was their first trailer ride. I let them run off some steam in the smaller paddock with me supervising until they settled down enough for me to do an initial once over injury check after trailering and then I took off the rope halters. The other halters the yearlings have on are breakaways
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Oh wow. That beautys. They look amazing. Truly stunning. Do they have names?I posted on this thread last year about getting the farm ready for horses again so drum roll please…. We finally have horses again! Two Friesian x Percheron yearlings and a POA. Note: the pictures with the rope halters on were what they arrived in on the first day. They were not turned out in pasture, but a small paddock with me supervising. They were not fully halter broke when I got them and it was their first trailer ride. I let them run off some steam in the smaller paddock with me supervising until they settled down enough for me to do an initial once over injury check after trailering and then I took off the rope halters. The other halters the yearlings have on are breakaways
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