Horses!

[A_Sparrows_Song]

Here’s my newest question! What’s your favorite horse color? My favorite is bay with little to no white markings.

I love all of them except for Chestnut and pure black!

 

[Skye'sDucks]

Midas is a Morgan who's built like a mini saddlebred and he thinks he's one of the big horses. He tries to do everything in the horse number of strides minus one. I couldn't get him to slow down pretty much the entire lesson and I got scared and cried. I also think he might be gaited? His trot is waaaaay comfier than it should be, I think.

My barn specializes in Morgans, they aren't gaited but can get some action going! Midas sounds like he's got what we call "little man syndrome" maybe lol! Likes to think he's all that and like the bigger guys.
Some lines of Morgans are hot like that and like to go go go, but I agree they can be very comfy horses to ride. Saddlebreds actually came (some what at least) from Morgans if I'm remembering my morgan history correctly, which is why sometimes they look similar. We have a little saddle seat Morgan who still picks his feet up and chugs along -- he makes a great steady lesson horse.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

this week was Zuko, Breit, Ray, and Midas!
Zuko's an ottb, he's very cranky this week, and has a super comfy trot for sitting.
Breit is so sweet and so good, he kind of drags his feet about moving faster than an amble but he's still very responsive, and I don't think I needed the crop this week! Last time I rode him, I could barely get him to canter.
Ray is a sweet old man who's been there, done that. He's usually veeeery slow, but I didn't get too tired to maintain a decent canter until the approach to the last jump of the lesson. I can accept that!
Midas is a Morgan who's built like a mini saddlebred and he thinks he's one of the big horses. He tries to do everything in the horse number of strides minus one. I couldn't get him to slow down pretty much the entire lesson and I got scared and cried. I also think he might be gaited? His trot is waaaaay comfier than it should be, I think.

Morgans can be very spunky (not all) and if they sense your fear they tend to move even faster. Not quite Arab hot, but some definitely can be. I had a chestnut Morgan x Arabian mare and I swear she was a fire breathing dragon disguised as a horse.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

Here’s my newest question! What’s your favorite horse color? My favorite is bay with little to no white markings.

I have many, many favorites. I love appys, they're all so fun and unique with their spots. And buckskins are another favorite. But there's a colt that lives near my house, and oh my word, he is gorgeous. He's super dark chestnut, probably liver chestnut, and he's got four matching socks and a huge blaze. I do love some chrome.

 

[A_Sparrows_Song]

I have many, many favorites. I love appys, they're all so fun and unique with their spots. And buckskins are another favorite. But there's a colt that lives near my house, and oh my word, he is gorgeous. He's super dark chestnut, probably liver chestnut, and he's got four matching socks and a huge blaze. I do love some chrome.

I love appaloosa's!!! they just scream western cowboys lol

 

[littledog]

I have a question for you guys! Fancy went to a show over the weekend with a different person and apparently she was biting everyone. The barn owner asked me today if she bit me and I told her no and we chatted a bit. It got me thinking how do you guys correct a horse that is biting you? The barn owner and her rider corrected her and she was fine with me today. But it made me curious how other people respond to a biting or nipping horse.

If they're coming at me with their teeth, I try to quickly raise my elbow up between their teeth and whatever of my body parts they're trying to go for. This works great if you can catch them quick (they punish themselves by running into a pointy, hard elbow) but let's face it, we can't always catch their biting immediately - we're probably in the middle of opening or closing a gate, putting on a halter, whatever, when they try it - so I like @HollowofWisp's method of grabbing their lips and moving them around! Teaches them that mean teeth lose to opposable thumbs.

 

[littledog]

i know a lot of people that smack horses for biting, but also for snapping at the air or whipping their head around in a "i might bite" way. i don't like that they do that.

I don't like smacking a horse usually, mostly because the horse doesn't learn not to do something unless the consequence comes within a few seconds. If the punishment happens more than 5 seconds or so after the naughty thing the horse did, the horse doesn't connect their action to the punishment, so the punishment doesn't make sense to them. It seems random to them, so it destroys trust.
That's why I like the "shove up your elbow so the horse's mouth hits it, and don't react other than that" method of correcting biting, because it's immediate and feels to the horse like he is punishing himself, the punishment didn't come from the human, just a natural consequence like if he bit a hot-wire.

 

[littledog]

he dentist came up with the idea of the rings, and inserted each one in the gum between the teeth where there is a natural gap. 4 in total on the front upper ones. Every time he banged his teeth it hurt, so he stopped, and his teeth recovered. They told me I could either have them removed or wait for them to fall out naturally, which they did and never caused any problems.

Holy moly, I've never heard of anything like that.

 

[littledog]

Some Apple pictures. I really wish I knew his breeding because he has some nice movement for a pony.

Could he be a POA? Super cute.

 

[littledog]

My barn specializes in Morgans, they aren't gaited but can get some action going!

Some Morgans are gaited!