Recent content by Noelle'sBlackBeauty

Yes, I will get the best hay I can find and research pasture management, make sure fences and everything else is safe. Thank you Faracat! So excited and nervous :-) Noelle

Hello all! I am new to this forum and would like some advice from those who have their own barns/horse properties. I have had my horse (first horse ever) for almost 4 years now, he just turned 10 yrs old, a TWH gelding. I was as green as grass when I bought him and after borrowing my friend;s...

Hi all! I am very happy to report my boy's eye has cleared up 98% :-)!! What a relief!! He feels better so I feel better and I actually took him out on the snowy trails for a short ride today--he loves the snow. I was in my last squeeze of my last tube of eye ointment when I rec'd 2 new tubes...

Hello Alyth and thank you for one of the very best pro- bitless statements I have EVER read! Very well stated! I always believed that it is not whats in the horses mouth that controls him but the trust and leadership on the ground and in the saddle that does Is anyone else in here from...

Thank you for the Micklem video link...I am really intrigued now by this bitless bridle and I think I am going to get one! My friend has a hackamore with the long shanks...it is so heavy, I don't think I'd like it on my horse, he may lose trust in me going to something so severe...but I may try...

I totally agree!! I'm a newer rider (2.5 yrs now) and only went to a Dr Cook's Bitless bridle bc my new horse took full advantage of me being a green rider and would spook and run off with me sometimes. He ran thru all the bits I tried and my inexperienced heavy hands only made things worse by...

Thank you all for taking time to respond to me :-) I wonder if it is my horses new stall that might be aggravating his eye... The hay is stacked above the stalls but he never had this problem in his old stall.. I feed him out of a nibble net hay bag and thinking that may aggravate or even cause...

Hello. I am new to this forum and am excited to be here. I have an 8 yr old TWH gelding, he is my first horse and I love him very much :-) My problem is that he has been battling a bad case of conjunctivitis for almost a month now. The vet has been out twice, the 2nd visit showed he had a small...