Recent content by Phoebe1

I have made up two questionnaires. One for the individual horse owner who has produced a home bred foal and the other for professional horse breeders or stud yards. I have only asked gerneral questions on if they used natural cover or AI and what they think is important in choosing a...

I am still needing more people who breed horses/ponies or anyone who has bred their own horse to complete my questionnaire, which I have made up to help me with college assignment.:) Please PM me with your email address or email me directly on: phoebe-questionnaire@mail.com and I will forward a...

I still need more people who breed horses or have bred a foal to fill in my questionnaire as part of my college assignment. No information will be passed onto anyone and you only have to fill in the bits you wish....Please email me on phoebe-questionnaire@mail.com so I can send a copy of my...

Hi,Firstly I think you are very brave for writting about it. Lots of people must feel like this but maybe just bury the pain and deal with it in different ways. I agree with several other posts, I think you should try to look for your horse, someone somewhere will know something. Even if your...

I am desperately seeking anyone who has bred from their mare, either recently or years ago who would be willing to fill in a questionnaire or tell me about about their experiences. I have created a questionnaire to help me with a college assignment about breeding and need as many people as...

Thanks for your reply. Yes I know that western riding is different in style but I don't know how they begin breaking in and I don't know where I can get information on breaking in/training in different parts of the world. I mean do they all start with, biting, free lunging, long reining, puting...

Just looking at traditional ways of training in the UK and comparing to other parts of the world. Does anyone know how the breaking and training of horses differs or compares to other parts of the world? In the UK I am getting the impression that racehorses for example would be broken sooner...

Thank you for your reply. You break in horses and that is really helpful to know, and I hope you won't mind me asking more? When you say traditional do you mean the usual, halter, biting, loose lunging, long reining, backing then ridden? How long on average does it take you to achieve this? Do...

Thank you for that. I wonder how many people are sucessful in their outcome using Monty Roberts technique rather than traditional methods?

No its not rambling! Really the more said and opinions given the more helpful as I want to consider from all angles. So thank you for replying. Do you think that the Monty Roberts technique or these so called modern methods are perhaps helping to make people relate to the fact that the horse is...

I would appreciate your thoughts/opinions to help me with part of a project I am doing for college - On how the breaking in and training of horses and ponies may changed over the years and whether anyone uses either the Monty Roberts natural horsemanship or Parelli ground work to break in and...