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If you were to use that test on my gaited horses and my friend's mft you'd find a total of 12 naked feet and no shoes. There are plenty of flat shod and unshod gaited nags that gait just fine with...

Let's see, Monday the farrier came out. He can do the parellified neighbor's horses in right around an hour, and there's seven barefoot horses. Two at my place, but he generally spends some time...

Hmm, that sounds like he must have had a hurting back to me...a preference for the pace tends to lead to back issues, might have been a vicious downward spiral for that horse. I dont mind the fact...

RE the canter--my trotty TWH can do the rocking chair canter. MY racking horse has a nice, flat, really almost a QH lope that often degenerates into the wicky wack (cantering with one end, racking...

Sadie the Satanic (the star on her forehead is in the shape of a six) kicked me a couple of times. She got mad and got even, and our relationship was a rocky one for several months after I got her. ...

I think brightskyfarm's suggestions are good, because, after all, one person's broke to death trail horse is another person's fire-snorting bronc.

I am thinking of the parellified neighbor's...

When you trail ride, its always SOMETHING. I have two steady eddies and my riding buddy has a horse that's pretty unflappable, but the day the buddy's horse saw a big wet buzzard that was sitting on...

I'd start looking at a big trail ride. There are always horses for sale and there will be plenty of folks who know the horse traders honest and otherwise. Or at a lesson barn, there are sometimes...

Some time back I commented on another thread which was about disposing of a horse's body (if said horse died where burial was prohibited by law, knacker couldnt come and pick up, etc,) that if push...

I have tons of bahia/bermuda pasture, not by any means fabulous stuff, but there's roughly ten acres of it. Here in central GA I only have to feed two horses somewhere between 75 and 100 small square...

oh, certainly if the livestock in question is eating nothing but. Otherwise, normal kale, normal ingestion, access to other foods, no, not harmful. People can and HAVE eaten themselves into vitamin...

The notion that kale is toxic is hogwash. See informative table and discussion here:
http://oxalicacidinfo.com/

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We think it is nuts for anyone not already under medical advice to...

In my limited experience (parelli-istas next door) the folks who "do" parelli at a certain level will ALWAYS look for and find signs of unreadiness in the horse due to thinking that any signs of life...

here I was feeling sorry for myself because bad weather (bad by deep south standards) a lot of work deadlines and a bad cold have all conspired to prevent my hitting the trail more than 5 or 6 times...

and I'm roughly 40 miles northeast of Macon, between Sparta and Milledgeville, almost as far from an interstate as you can get in our fair state.

I trail ride, the "trails" in question being...

I have a boss mare who hated me when I got her. Wouldnt engage with me, sullen, not the worst on the ground but she did kick me, pinned her ears constantly and so on. She was also afraid of...

My husband horse was a lesson horse that was fed up with being a lesson horse. I promised him he'd never have to do circles in an arena again and he took to trail riding like a duck to water. ...

When we relocated from GA to E. WA years ago we encountered snow in SEPTEMBER. Going the southern route to the coast and then "cutting over" sounds good on paper, but then you will be crossing the...

And then there was the old guy (in his 80s) who beat his own granddaughter at the barrel races at a mule-skinner's rodeo I once attended. His mule warn't young, neither.

I think its easier to teach a horse to be caught then to cope with one with that's put its own eye out. Or one that got something (maybe a plastic bag) caught in the halter and freaked out, or hung...

I am over 45 years older than both of my horses. With good luck and good care I will be "only" in my early to mid 70s when they are ready to retire. So I dont think I'll have to worry about...

And another Christmas greeting from soon to be snowy GA! Happy holidays to Mod 1!

Well, Paul Revere's horse wrote HER autobiography, so why not Ruffian?

http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Revere-Account-Episodes-Revealed/dp/0316517291#reader_0316517291

Although its difficult to put...

To some extent I have to conquer fear every blessed time I mount. Its the mounting itself that spooks me. I've come off both my horses more times than I would care to admit and one horrendous fall...

My very warmest coat is a woolrich hunting parka from wally world. Has a great snorkel hood and will absolutely keep you warm in very cold temps, but its a crap barn coat because it's a hay...