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Last Updated on Thursday, 30 September 2010 02:43 |
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Well, it's that time of year again when our steeds start to grow in their winter coat.
It isn't the change of the weather that gets the coat to grow. It's the sunlight. When the days get shorter, mother nature start to grow the winter coat.
Make sure that you curry your horse when this starts, to make sure it doesn't grow in nappy. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 30 September 2010 02:59 |
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Some people have never seen a horse roll. When we get visitors they are just amazed how a horse will roll on the ground.
They ask me why they do that.
Several reasons. When they are a lot of flies out, it puts a coating of dust on their body. Flies are less opt to attack a horse that is covered with dirt. It keeps some, but not all away.
It allows a horse to scratch some spots that can not reach with their head.
And it probably feels good. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 30 September 2010 03:18 |
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Some horses work better with different bits. Some horses work better with different riders.
I was talking to a teenage girl in a tack store. She told the sales lady that her horse had bucked her off with an O-ring snaffle and her trainer advised her to get a different bit. The sales lady told her to buy this $100 bit by Reinsman, which was an Argentine snaffle, 3 piece, with a roller cricket in the middle. The bit was made in China, by the way.
I tried to tell the girl that her horse would buck her off with a most any bit, and this wasn't a magic cure to her problem. If she got bucked off with an O-ring snaffle, I was betting she would get bucked off with the Chinese bit.
The tack store in Shadow Hills, CA was more interested to make money on a Chinese bit then to advise her of the real issue. The training of the horse and rider.
I showed them a USA made bit which was about 50% less and would be a easier transition from the O-ring snaffle. Of course, the sales person ignored me. How shameful that this store was only interested in making money. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 30 September 2010 03:09 |
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