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Science breaks behaviours down into tiny micro units that can be used to collect data - and often isn’t testing the whole thing or a...

it is not that I don't want to learn more that I simply disagree as to the best way to deal with this. Your methods appear to be very...

the horse I described in post 125 was in fact dominant with me because of his desire for rank. He was a male chauvenistic pig who...

so how would you deal with this horse? You are saying a lot of what you don't want but not what to do. on the face of it this horse...

re your first para, not necessarily. It shows an almost feral horse that now has to become humanised. If we are going to keep horses are...

Unfortunately it's not far fetched or a fantasy. I'm glad you live in a world where all horses behaviour perfectly and you can spend...

Ok so you haven't had a horse drag you across a yard. A well placed drop of weight and a hard pull on a rope generally helps solves...

this is partly aimed at your post and partly at others in the hope some will watch it and comment. It is about SY obviously. I cannot...

love it. :D:D:D

Sooo much better the past 2 weeks! TBH I've not been in the field since new year (thank for my lifesaver of livery services in and out...

We're not quite on the home straight yet but this weeks wind has dried up a bit of the field so the knee-deep sucking mud is more...

Resource guarding IMHO develops for many reasons. In a domesticated horse it's usually man made. Wrong herd, wrong management and...

The last couple days have been lovely. I've not got any jobs done out of the general routine, but sitting on the bench in the field with...

I’ve moved him onto weekday full livery, this is week 2 and I’m loving it, I feel guilty but haven’t missed the mud, cold mornings etc...

How are we all doing? Certainly not into field recovery season yet but girls did have rugs off for full 24 hours before the rain came...