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A friends borders want to do riding lessons with her fox trotter who is a gaited horse. I know you ride gaited horses differently so will it screw him up if he’s rode a certain way all the time and then we use him for lessons?

My 24yr old "colt" always wants to be infront when we go on group trail rides and so I have to ride at least 30 feet in front of my friends when we go trail riding, and if we are trying to walk side by side or him behind the lead horse then he goes beserk and won’t go forward, his only gear turns into reverse and pivots-right in the middle of a narrow trail that has surrounded with stickerbushes and dry sharp branches that can get me and him seriously injuried. And when he does decide to go forward its at a full blast canter. How should I handle him and do excercises to make him be more relaxed with another horse on the trail?
PS. He is great alone on the trail, and is fine with other horses in the arena @ shows but its just the group trai rides that trouble him, we have cut down half his diet so he is not so hyper so that will help him be calmer.

I’m taking my friends horse to a camp this summer and am going over to her house to prep. I am making her my project horse. I don’t know the age of the horse, but she is in riding condition. But this horse has a tendency to stumble. I lounged her and watched her movement. She does stumble quite often, she picks up her feet and is shod. Is there any suggestions that could help from her to keep stumbling?

I’m taking my friends horse to a camp this summer and am going over to her house to prep. I am making her my project horse. I don’t know the age of the horse, but she is in riding condition. But this horse has a tendency to stumble. I lounged her and watched her movement. She does stumble quite often, she picks up her feet and is shod. Is there any suggestions that could help from her to keep stumbling?

Deciding to own a horse is a major decision and a big commitment. Not just financial, but there is the time commitment to consider as a horse needs caring for 365 days a year. Among other things, there is the concern of where to keep it and who will look after it when you’re on holiday, ill, working late etc. Horses are not like having a cat or a dog, as most people will happily feed and walk a dog while you are on holiday but a horse?! Most people would run a mile, not because they don’t like horses, but because they are harder to look after, take more time and are generally more expensive to fix if something goes wrong.

The first decision that needs to be made once you have decided to have a horse is where to keep it. Some of us don’t have the option to keep our horses by our house and therefore livery yards offer a solution. Some liveries offer a ‘full’ livery service others a ‘part’ or ‘DIY’ (Do It Yourself) service. Choosing a livery yard suitable for you and your horse might depend on the type of service best suited to your needs, where your friends are or just simply down to location. Other people might be fortunate enough to keep their horse at their own property.

Wherever you keep your horse, there will be times when you need help from someone to care for you’re your horse. Whether it’s just to feed him 1 night or to do everything for 2 weeks, at some point you will need a hand and whom will you ask? For those using a full livery service this shouldn’t be a problem but for the rest of us finding help can be tricky, especially help that is competent and reliable.

Some people might temporally move their horse to a livery yard that offers a full livery service. However getting a stable on a yard when you need it might not be that easy, so travelling even further away from home might be necessary. This option can be stressful for your horse, especially if he doesn’t settle well or is a bit nervy. Others might relay on friends or other horse owners but what happens if something goes wrong? What if that person can’t make it and if the horse is injured who pays for the vet bill? This option can lead to favours been owed or friendship frayed.

So what’s the solution?

A professional mobile livery service.

Leave your horse where it is. No stress for your horse, no stress for you. Have a Mobile Livery come to care for your horse.

A Mobile Livery Service brings the services of a typical full livery to you and your horse so the horse doesn’t move and you don’t keep risking friendships or replying on family. Mobile liveries are operated by freelance grooms or horse sitters and are a professional horse care service. Whenever you are going away or are tied up with life commitments a mobile livery will come to your horse and provide all the care he needs. You won’t have the hassle of finding a livery yard with a spare stable or the inconvenience of transporting and your horse won’t get stressed by changing his routine. You can leave your horse exactly where he is and nothing will change for him. He won’t even know your not there!

Mobile livery, freelance grooms and horse sitters are all horse care professionals, caring for all types of horses and yards is what they have been trained to do. They will have equine qualifications and should be CRB checked, but most importantly will have *insurance so if something does go wrong everyone, including your horse should be protected.

Remember to always find out about the person you are leaving your horse with read more advice on what to look for at http://www.kirstyshorses.com/blog/ or locate someone to care for your horse at http://www.kirstyshorses.com

So when life gets busy or you’re going away and you need someone to care for your horse, think of the easiest solution and that’s leave your horse where it is and have a professional mobile livery come to you. Hassle free, worry free, SIMPLE.

*insurance covers my change from company to company, you should always check what the person you are using is insured for.

Author: Kirsty Rickett
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Once in a while you come across great kid’s horses that are ponies. My younger siblings had one named Tony Pony.

Tony was a champion with kids. After my brothers out grew him he went to a dude string and gave kids rides for several more years. This is one of the problems with ponies, the kids outgrow them. It happens faster than you can believe. Then you are faced with keeping the pony forever as a pet that eats a lot and does other things a lot that have to be picked up and disposed of. Ponies often live a long time as well, Tony was up around forty when he finally went to that golden stable in the sky. It’s good they can live so long, as long as the child is riding them but it’s a lot of mucking stalls if your child is grown up and gone and you’re still taking care of the pony.

The other alternative is you sell the pony to some other deserving child’s parents. Even though you know, deep down inside you did a good thing, you still have to face the looks given to you by your wife and grown child for the next few months or depending on how well liked the pony was, maybe a few years. Don’t worry, they will finally forgive you, it just may take awhile. All joking aside, it truly is like selling off a family member or maybe a little harder.

Most ponies are very ill mannered. An old man told me years ago that if you have a kid you hate buy him a Shetland pony. One of the main reasons for this, I believe, is because it’s hard to find a good trainer that is light enough to ride them. Hence, finding a well broke pony is much more difficult than finding a well broke horse. As a kid I would ride anything just to get the chance to ride. Therefore, when we went to visit friends that owned a pony that was less than well trained I was enlisted into service on the spot. I’ve ridden ponies that would bite, buck, run away, sull, rear and one, that if all of the above tricks failed to get you off, he would throw himself to the ground. I also rode some that were very nice to ride and a couple that were good heeling horses (although I never took them to a jackpot or rodeo where people would see me rope off them).

Another thing that’s of least importance in buying a Kid’s horse is color. I know we all like a pretty horse but in the case of a Kid’s horse I feel it’s much more important how the horse handles and in general, how he gets along with the child, than it is how pretty the horse is. Believe me, if the horse takes good care of your children, he is soon going to be the prettiest horse around, to both you and your child.

The age of a Kid’s horse, when you buy him is very much irrelevant. While it’s true you don’t want a horse that is on his last legs, as long as the horse has a few good years in him, he can teach your kid more on how to ride than all the instructors going. If he rides right, takes care of your child or children, then he may be the best Kid’s horse going, even though he’s thirty years old. On the other hand some horses are just born a Kid’s horse. I had a colt years ago that as a green broke three year old was the best Kid’s horse going. My five year old daughter learned to ride on him and I wouldn’t have risked her safety for the world. To sum it up Kid’s horses come in all ages, colors and sizes. You need to exercise patience, do your home work and shop around to find the one that fits your child the best.

I want to remind you right here that all of these guidelines are generalities and there are constant exceptions to every one of them. That is one of the things that makes horses so much fun is their individual personalities. They are all different and they are best suited for different types of jobs. Now, let’s discuss some of the more important things to consider.

Disposition, handle, and what the horse’s job is going to be are far more important factors to consider than height, color and age. If a horse has the right disposition, isn’t spooky or ill tempered it counts for a ton of peace of mind for the parents. It also makes the child’s rides more pleasant and they can learn to really enjoy riding horses.

If a horse handles easy, he neck reins or, in English riding, is what they call, light in the bridle, a kid can handle a horse with ease. No matter what is happening, if a horse will stop when you ask him to, just about everything else can be fixed.

What the child is going to use the horse for is probably thought about the least by first horse parents. Yet this may be the most important factor to consider from the stand point of the child’s future with horses. Take for example if the Dad, wanting to be the hero, shows up one day with a good riding, Kid’s horse that is nice and slow and easy going the child will be ecstatic for awhile. But, let’s say the child is a little girl, who unknown to her parents because they didn’t ask, idolizes Charmayne James and wants to be a world champion barrel racer. She is going to get tired of old Plug Along and getting beat every time she competes pretty fast. Soon barrel racing’s not fun anymore and boys, hot cars and alcohol are. Do you see a pattern here that could’ve been prevented with the right horse? More often than not what happens is the family ends up owning and feeding two horses even though the girl only rides the new barrel horse. It’s often just too hard to sell off old Plug Along.

A kid’s horse should be what we call bomb proof. It means he doesn’t get excited even if you set a bomb off underneath him. He should handle well and fit the job the kid wants to do with him. Good Kid’s horses are hard to find but they do exist. A good one is worth whatever you have to pay for him. He’s a combination baby sitter, best friend, confidant, entertainment center and psychiatrist. I personally, won’t hardly ride anything else.

Troy Andrew Smith was born in the small rural town of Nowata, Oklahoma. He was raised on a ten acre place just outside of town and grew up dreaming of being a cowboy. As an adult, Troy worked as a ranch hand, machinist, carpenter, guide, dude wrangler, and Country Western Singer. He also wrote a weekly column for the Nowata newspaper and had several of his Cowboy Poems published in various publications.

While attending film school at Montana State University, Troy supplemented his income with movie jobs in the summers and started writing novels and screenplays. He has ridden horses or driven teams in numerous movies and TV shows, including three seasons on HBO’s series DEADWOOD.

At this time Troy is concentrating his efforts on his skills as a Screenwriter, Author and Actor.

Troy Andrew Smith is the author of the western novel Radersburg Gold published by Hailstone Press.

http://www.hailstonepress.com/radersburg-gold.html

Author: Troy Andrew Smith
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I’m picking out my first horse in two weeks. I’ve ridden before with other friends horse but all we do is ride around the pasture. And my mom said if i have my own horse i could do dressage and hunter/jumping.

Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of your first horse. It’s time to either move your new responsibility to a boarding stable or to your own farm. There are many horsemen who will haul your horse for a reasonable price. However, although they may be slightly higher in price, there are also many hauling companies nationwide that usually have very large horse vans that may be better equipped to move your new family member. Either way, the best advice would be to spend a little more money for a reputable hauler as they usually provide very experienced drivers.

If you are looking to purchase your own trailer for hauling, you have many companies to choose from as well as many different types. There are two, three, four and six horse trailers and so on. You can get the standard trailer with horses walking straight into the trailer, or slant trailers where the horses are loaded on a slant, or vans that the horses can walk up into and are backed into the stall, and basically they are facing each other as they travel. Keep in mind that hauling this animal is probably the most unnatural thing you will do with your horse. If you find that your horse is not good with hauling, then you must approach this problem carefully. Having a trailer with a ramp instead of a step up trailer is to your advantage in this situation. Some horses love to go for a ride, and of course, some don’t. Some horses will, with patience and a small amount of encouragement, enter a trailer fairly quickly. Some horses will be reluctant to leave their environment and their friends and will be much more difficult and sometimes become quite angry. In these cases, make sure you have an experienced horse person to help you. Sometimes it may be necessary to load another horse, who does not mind getting onto a trailer, temporarily, in order to convince the stubborn horse that it is alright to go on. As soon as the reluctant horse goes onto the trailer, you will have to unload the decoy horse quickly, lock and secure the ramps and doors immediately, and start on your way. Leaving a horse or horses standing in a trailer for more than a minute or two can be asking for trouble, especially with a horse who did not want to leave in the first place. This time frame goes both ways for getting them into the trailer, and getting them off as quickly as possible.

Some horses are claustrophobic and will be much more willing to load on a larger van. If you cannot get your horse loaded on a smaller type trailer, you may have to postpone your move to another day and consider a larger van as an option. Keeping in mind that a horse’s body temperature is higher than ours, normally between 101 degrees to 102 degrees, as horses will start to sweat quickly once placed in the trailer. As you move off, the air passing through the open windows in the trailer will help to keep them cool. It is a good practice to put shipping bandages on your horse, but by an experienced horse person, as bandages too tight or too loose are dangerous. Learning to bandage the legs of a horse is fairly simple and with practice, under experienced instruction, can become an easy task.

Driving a trailer or van is a very big responsibility, not just because of the equipment being used, but also for the precious cargo that is depending on you to get them to their destination safely. TAKE YOUR TIME. Going too fast and having to stop suddenly could be a disaster. Going too fast around the turns can cause the horse to be thrown around in the trailer and step on themselves causing injury to their legs or coronet bands, especially if they have shoes on or if their legs are not protected by shipping bandages. You always want each and every hauling experience to be a pleasant one. Also, make sure you have quality hay for them to munch on during their journey, either in a hanging hay rack or the hay sacks provided in the trailer. If you and your horse are about to head out on a long journey, make sure you have a water bucket and a large amount of water in a container so you can offer your horse water at stops every few hours. Remember, dehydration can be deadly.

In the future, I will be coming back to articulate on different aspects of hauling vehicles and problem horses that refuse to load. Patience and understanding is priority when transporting horses.

Beverly Jansen
http://bevshorseadvice.com
I’m a licensed Thoroughbred Horse Trainer and a licensed Equine Message Therapist. I have devoted my entire life to horses and have over 40 years experience to share. My blog site was created to share my knowledge and will soon offer exceptional, all natural horse products that are above and beyond any other products in comparison and will guarantee fantastic results. I will also be posting “How To” videos on my YouTube channel soon.

Author: Beverly Jansen
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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