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TheMule reacted to sbloom's post in the thread Why can’t I just do stuff with my horse? Is there a good calmer to help? with
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Do bear in mind the horses are eating any fresh growth, you may well be but you have to judge by ungrazed fields and even then they may... -
TheMule reacted to Exasperated's post in the thread Why can’t I just do stuff with my horse? Is there a good calmer to help? with Like.
Do you mean taking the two mares, and leaving the Highland foal behind on its own (Icelandic colt being at the vets)? Having bred and...
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TheMule reacted to Pearlsasinger's post in the thread Why can’t I just do stuff with my horse? Is there a good calmer to help? with Like.
I really wouldn't! You don't want to ruin her for future outings. It doesn't matter how much you have spent prior to the outing, if you...
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TheMule reacted to LadyGascoyne's post in the thread Why can’t I just do stuff with my horse? Is there a good calmer to help? with Like.
I don't think you're being too soft re weaning. If the colt is mounting mares then weaning makes sense. What I think is more important...
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TheMule reacted to SaddlePsych'D's post in the thread Why can’t I just do stuff with my horse? Is there a good calmer to help? with Like.
Is it really in her (or your) best interests to go to this particular event, at this particular point in time? Given everything going...
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TheMule replied to the thread Why can’t I just do stuff with my horse? Is there a good calmer to help?.She most likely has quite a painful udder from having just been weaned, not helped by the fact the spring grass promotes further...
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TheMule reacted to LadyGascoyne's post in the thread Why can’t I just do stuff with my horse? Is there a good calmer to help? with Like.
That will be a couple of months though won't it, so she's likely to be unsettled for a bit.
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TheMule reacted to Gloi's post in the thread Why can’t I just do stuff with my horse? Is there a good calmer to help? with Like.
Has her udder dried up properly from weaning him? Make sure she has no mastitis which would be upsetting her.
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TheMule reacted to LadyGascoyne's post in the thread Why can’t I just do stuff with my horse? Is there a good calmer to help? with Like.
Have you just weaned her foal two weeks ago? That's a huge change for her, and in combination with spring grass, changing fields etc. I...
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TheMule reacted to sbloom's post in the thread Yet another delightful rider..... not..... when will this end? with Like.
In fact a lot of the issues exist because of the effort to generate push from behind but not to train and ride the horse in such a way...
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Why do you need to lunge him?
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TheMule reacted to Burnttoast's post in the thread Yet another delightful rider..... not..... when will this end? with Like.
Photos wonderful and horrific in equal measure but I can completely believe that H&H used the second one. It's what's seen in every...
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TheMule reacted to smolmaus's post in the thread Yet another delightful rider..... not..... when will this end? with Like.
Ty @sbloom and @TheMule, excellently explained by you both 💕💕💕
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TheMule reacted to sbloom's post in the thread Yet another delightful rider..... not..... when will this end? with Like.
The bounce is there in correct work but it's this ground recoil force, USING the ground and elastic tissues to flow through the whole...
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TheMule replied to the thread Yet another delightful rider..... not..... when will this end?.As Sbloom said above, a horse lifts its feet when it moves so you don’t have to teach that, what you you is very gradually teach the...