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Does your trainer have any school horses you can use? I would suggest riding a placid schoolie until you are good enough to ride your horse well, so you can concentrate on your riding nd not on when our horse will turn into a bronc. I would also send your horse to a trainer to get her problems...

Louse powder for horse can be used on donkeys. No pour-on, as mentioned by several other posters. Use the horse worming schedule reccommened for your area by your vet.

I have an arab gelding that is very prone to choke (chewing is apparently a foreign concept :rolleyes: ) and until we switched his feed, we had to soak everything. He also does not gain weight easily. I did not like Purina's Equine Senior, it was very sugary and gave him a lot of energy that he...

Thanks, I got some Oxbow because the Purina comes in 25-50 pound bags, and for one rabbit, that would be 7 months of food... maybe an excuse to get another rabbit or two? :D

I was thinking of changing from Forti-Diet to either Purina Rabbit Chow Fibre3 or Oxbow Bunny Basics T and adding more veggies to her diet, as well as changing from a water bottle to a crock. Am I on the right track?

This is my first rabbit, she is a REW Netherland Dwarf doe about 9 months old and very cuddly. She had been getting fat (I could no longer feel any bones, just a bunny block of fat) when she was six months old, but about two months later I noticed that I could feel her spine and ribs, and hip...

Ponies are very intelligent and can be strong-willed, which is why they sometimes get a bad name. Sometimes, people think "It's a pony, so it is bound to bite/kick/be disobedient," which is absolutely not true. If they are trained correctly, most can be very good partners for a small adult or a...

If any horse person tells you that they are never afraid, they are full of you-know-what. You are right, horses are much larger than a human, and much stronger. But they are also prey animals that are very sensitive to the emotions of the animals around it, and they feed off the emotions of...

We call these shakes woogies! My pinto pony and my arab gelding both do it. I think it tickles when they sweat, so they shake like a dog. The curly filly I rode almost never woogied, but she'd randomly walk off on the trail into a very brushy patch to scratch her belly and between her legs. I...

I agree. I once found a cat tail in a small square of hay :sick ! Take into consideration how well your horses use their food. We have two horses who would eat themselves into obesity even on lower quality hay.

Distance Riding, Open Showing (usually hunt or in-hand), Dressage

I would get him used to cantering on the longe with a kissing noise, which you can then carry over into the saddle. Be sure you are not leaning forward, even the tiniest bit, and that you are looking far out into the distance. If you lean forward and look down, the horse gets tipped onto the...

...you have two saddles sitting in the living room. ...your shoe collection is half boots. ...you would rather muck stalls than clean your bathroom. ...you would rather wash blankets and pads than do your own laundry.

It does sound as if your horse snorked up the beet pulp, or maybe choked on it. Beet pulp needs to soak a really long time before you feed it, and really all it does for the horse is gets some water in them. It isn't very easy to chew and has next to no nutritional value because the sugar...

Our mini donk would bray at exactly 6:30 each morning, even changing with the time changes. :lol: It sure was a nice alarm clock, he had a very nice voive.

I had someone call a snaffle bit a snapple, several times. The same person was riding with their knees above the knee roll of a hunt saddle, and when I showed them where their leg was supposed to be positioned, they said "Well I guess we were riding western, then!" :th Sometimes, I hate...

You don't use a curb chain on your kimberwick? You must use a curb chain on the kimberwick, or its rotation in the horse's mouth may cause more discomfort than its action with a curb chain. This is because a kimberwick is a mild curb bit, to put it simply, and all curb bits should be ridden with...

Mmmm, I love the smell of good saddle leather and saddle soaps. I also love sitting in front of the TV and scrubbing for HOURS on bridles, saddles, reins, etc. Saddles are the most fun to clean, and the results are great. You can't go wrong with Murphey's Oil Soap! ;) It makes the leather feel...

The problem with a curb is that you have to have hands to ride in one, otherwise, the bit hurts. With a curb, what I have been taught is that, the horse should be well trained enough (and the rider should be good enough) to ride without the bit at all. It takes very gentle hands to ride with a...

In my memory, we've had two farriers at our place. We have always had our horses barefoot, so our horses have all generally had sound feet. Our current Farrier is great; he loves to gossip (our only horse gossip around here), he gets the job done correctly and fairly quickly, and he's great with...