Do you fancy a necklace for your beloved horse?!

[kerilli]

look what i found (by accident, i hasten to add)

http://www.bitlessbridle.co.uk/shop/inde...products_id=100

perhaps i should get a pink one for Katy.
It does make me wonder... WHY? i mean, it's very nice and everything, but surely it would just bump up and down and frighten the horse?! Am i missing something?

 

[merlinsquest]

????????????????????????? Why

 

[jewel]

why????

 

[CastleMouse]

 

[carthorse]

If only they did braclets and earrings to match

 

[Rowreach]

Now I hate to admit this, but I read about rhythm beads some time ago, and how they can help a horse to stay in rhythm, but not wanting to embarrass my horses I went to a craft shop, bought a few of those brass jangly things (you sometimes see them round the necks of teddy bears), and tied them to my lungeing roller.

And they do work - especially with young horses - and have a very relaxing effect on sharper and more lively horses. I thought it was worth 60p for the experiment, and I have never taken them off. But I wouldn't put a necklace on my horses!

 

[AnnaandStella]

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Now I hate to admit this, but I read about rhythm beads some time ago, and how they can help a horse to stay in rhythm, but not wanting to embarrass my horses I went to a craft shop, bought a few of those brass jangly things (you sometimes see them round the necks of teddy bears), and tied them to my lungeing roller.

And they do work - especially with young horses - and have a very relaxing effect on sharper and more lively horses. I thought it was worth 60p for the experiment, and I have never taken them off. But I wouldn't put a necklace on my horses!

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That's soooo sweet! I might try that...

 

[kerilli]

Crikey, i knew there had to be a reason for them, i just couldn't work out what it was!
right, do you think if i put them on for BE i'll get laughed off the field?!

 

[Rowreach]

Well I'm not sure they're "stressage legal"

 

[hendrabonnie]

Also people use them on barefoot horses so walkers and cyclists can hear them coming. Never used them myself though

 

[scotsmare]

God, what next!! Suppose they have their uses though

 

[Natch]

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perhaps i should get a pink one for Katy.

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I have a feeling she might not approve

I can see the point in helping rider and/or horse to notice and go with a rhythm, I just can't like the idea of a necklace on a horse!!

Has intrigued me though, and I might end up buying F some bells to play around with - maybe add them to his high vis neck band thingy or something. He's far too much of a man to be seen wearing a poofy necklace though!

 

[Chestnuttymare]

they are also supposed to have a therapeutic value, crystals and colour have an effect on your well being. i think it has to do with that.

 

[teapot]

It's so your horse can chime in time to your carrot stick

 

[PennyJ]

I know a mare whose owners bought her a necklace. It didn't work on her, she stayed a nasty, bolshy, bargy cow... (they mustn't have got the colours right). Personally I think a bit of establishing the ground rules and cutting out the hard feed might have worked better...

 

[lilym]

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God, what next!! Suppose they have their uses though

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yes. they do. when you have beaten your horse with the carrot stick and it's still not complying by standing on a barrel, you can strangle it with it's necklace instead!!!

 

[PapaFrita]

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look what i found (by accident, i hasten to add)

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Yeah ... right ...

http://www.bitlessbridle.co.uk/shop/inde...products_id=100

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perhaps i should get a pink one for Katy.
It does make me wonder... WHY? i mean, it's very nice and everything, but surely it would just bump up and down and frighten the horse?! Am i missing something?

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Ah-HA!! You can stop pretending you don't really REALLY want one now