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Feeding the veteran in winter
Winter can be challenging for veteran horses, especially once their dental function starts to decline. Adjusting the diet to ensure enough chewable fibre intake and enough energy for condition can take some juggling. In addition, over winter when grass is sparse, essential micronutrients should be elevated and a good intake of antioxidants ensured. Our horses are living for longer nowadays, … Continue reading
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Make dietary changes with care
Make all dietary changes gradually to ensure the horse’s digestive tract adapts to the new diet. This applies to both hard feed and forage, including grass, hay and haylage. Many horse owners are aware of making changes to their horse’s hard feed gradually, but some don’t realise this rule of feeding also applies to forages and indeed any change to … Continue reading
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Get More Out of Schooling with these 5 Tips…
Whatever level you ride at, whether you’re a dressage rider or show jumping rider, or you simply enjoy schooling your horse to improve his suppleness, remember these 5 tips to get the most out of every session: Ride your corners correctly. Whatever movement you’d like to do after the corner, whether a transition, a shoulder in, a halt or simply … Continue reading
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Short on Facilities? Filler Ideas
If you’re not lucky enough to have access to a full set of jumps in a lovely arena – fear not! Here’s 13 ideas you might be able to make use of… Find any of the following, then paint them, fill them and stack them to create interesting fillers which will prepare your horse for anything spooky in the ring: … Continue reading
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Does Your Horse Yawn?
We understand yawning to be a sign of tiredness or boredom, but it’s not always the case. A horse that yawns, or curls his top lip regularly (The Flehmen response), could actually be affected by gastric disturbances. This is a common behaviour for horses that smell a unknown, or particularly strong smell, but it needs investigation if a horse displays the … Continue reading
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Training Tips: Position or Posture?
POSITION OR POSTURE? It’s very important to differentiate between position and posture and ensure both are correct. You can’t have a good seat and balance unless your position is correct in the first place. The very first thing we are taught when we sit on a horse is to have a good position, which generally is a fast process; then … Continue reading
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Training Tips: How to Create Impulsion and Why it’s Important
From the early stages of learning how to ride, we hear the word ‘impulsion’. What exactly is impulsion and how do we achieve it? Impulsion has nothing to do with speed, and we should think more about ‘energy’ and ‘bounce’ instead. A horse with good impulsion will be in front of the leg, willing to move forward and reactive to … Continue reading
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18 Valuable Tips for Feeding of Laminitics
Vets, research workers and and experienced horse handlers all agree that management of a laminitic is everything. There is no cure, therefore avoiding the disease in the first place is important, and experts agree that careful management could drastically reduce the number of cases. 18 tips to help manage a laminitic: Most importantly horses and ponies should never be overfed … Continue reading
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Training Tips: Stretching Benefits for Your Horse
When we ask our horses to work in an outline with their neck round, it’s not the only thing we are asking. If done correctly we are asking our horses for a certain amount of collection, the back end will be engaged and the muscles of the whole back will work harder and the roundness of neck will start from … Continue reading
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Autumn Laminitis Caution
There is the suggestion that there are more cases of laminitis admitted to veterinary clinics in September than any other month as autumn brings the grass back to life, so supporting horses and ponies prone to laminitis is especially important at this time. Horses that are prone to laminitis should be fed low calorie, low sugar, low starch feeds which … Continue reading
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