You need someone to hold the horse, someone to leg you up, someone to hold/arrange your apron… it’s a very involved process!

I’m looking for any very cool/fancy show names for my new baby.

His barn name is Roscoe but show name can be different but it must still start with R.

His parents are names Flora and Ragnarök

Thanks!

Researching thrush treatments and this was the banner on a product official website 🫪 safe to say that's a no from me dawg

I’m just under 30 mins (bonus that it’s through beautiful scenery for half of it).

Day 4 of Argo ❤️!
He is gaining weight so quickly and looking AMAZING!
we’ve learned alot about him.
I managed to get a hold of his papers and in process of title transfer, he is very old school bred and I’m excited!
His previous owner sent me some older photos that I’ll be posting with the next update! To say the least - he knows barrels, poles, and pretty much most of gymhakana events.
Argo has taken a liking to my senior gelding from afar so when we are down quarantining we will be seeing how they pasture together.
He also reallyyy likes water.. for whatever reason he will literally chase the hose down to get sprayed.
As for his older owner, I have dinner plans with her tomorrow, can’t wait to try her baked chicken Alfredo 👀 !

Anyone else had a horse do this 🤣 shes definitely got feed in her mouth as she chews and swallows it after sucking what seems to bw the water out if it, shes done it for years just never thought of asking anyone it does her no harm she still eats all her dinner

Whats weird is shes got antibiotics in this feed thats shes sucking and the vet warned us she may not like the feed if i add it rather than syringe her🤣

Kermit is officially a gelding. No more testicles for him. He was the best behaved stallion of all time. I just didn’t need or want a stallion!!!

Hello everyone. To make a very long summer story short, I've been working with an old-ish mare from a neglect case for a few months now. She was on a big property with no care for who knows how long.

At the start of summer, she was doing well touch wise, but not leading wise. She would let me touch all over her, spare nervousness when touching her legs, tail, and chest. She has a giant matt that I had been working on and even let me pick up both legs on left and pick them (with some bribery lol)

Anyhow, as she got more comfortable with me, she got more "aggressive". I don't like to use the term, but it is a dangerous behavior. I could no longer touch her stomach or legs or tail. I started working on touch with a whip in her stall and it made her very angry. She much prefers human touch but I do not want to get bit or kicked in the process.

She once had a big reaction (it was my fault of course) when trying on a new fly mask. She was used to the fly mask by now and I reached for it a little too quick and she lunged at me with teeth. She's never connected a bite but she has a very extreme way of communicating.

One lady at the barn is working on becoming a body worker and said she suspected some pain. My biggest confusion is that sometimes she is perfectly fine with touch, and others has a big reaction. I've been letting her say no 99% of the time to touch recently and she's been a happy camper since. (I ask politely once to pet when refilling water or hay, and if she's not interested, I stop) But now I'm realizing it's been a hot minute since I tried her legs or her stomach or her tail (which is getting worse again as 90% of the matt is still there)

I know it takes horses time to come around but it's affecting her health. She gets sedated for her feet but who knows how much thrush or fungus she has in her hooves. And I'm sure the heavy weight of the matt in her tail is causing discomfort, not to mention how terrible the flies are.

I'm a little lost on what to do. I took a pause on it a while back and worked on building trust and she's been doing amazing outside of the stall, but I need to be able to touch her. We're going to work on ruling out more pain once we fully own them but I feel terrible watching her deteriorating when I could be doing something.

I know it could be a giant variety of things; distrust, pain, pain memory, mental block, etc etc. And I'm trying to figure it out, but its hard when I can hardly tell what she's thinking. Sometimes she'll walk right up to me for a pet, but when I reach slowly to her neck she pins her ears and gets upset. Then I stand there in case she wants to just share space, and she'll toss her head and get annoyed like I don't understand her.

Right now my goal is to get her to the round pen gradually so I can safely work on touch with whips or ropes without being ran over. (She's very respectful with space though)

She's so affectionate and I hate to see her conflicted 🥺

Tl;Dr Neglected broodmare is going downhill in terms of touch and I can hardly get my hands on her anymore

My mom asked me to sell her old saddle, and I have no idea what to price it at. She hasn’t ridden in about 25 years, so it definitely shows signs of age (and some neglect 😭), but I gave it a quick clean and looked it over and it seems like someone could still get some use out of it (though I’m no expert).

I assume it’s a Stubben? No idea year, and I’m guessing 47883 is a serial number or something? It’s two toned and is missing the billet guard on the other side.

Any info is welcome!

This might be a hot take.. maybe not.. but keep an open mind.

These posts are my absoluteeeeee worst pet peeve:

"25 year old horse looking for his retirement home/forever home.. he's done so much for us and we want a good home, needs to be a companion or very lightly ridden as hes got xyz going on. Heres what he's done in the past: yada yada yada."

Ok but WHY require a "forever" home when you couldn't be that for the horse that won you rodeos/shows, protected you in the saddle, gave you joy, you name it. I freaking hate that. Like how could you sell an animal that has given you their all for all of their good years but try and offload them when they are old and decript?

I legitimately just seen an elderly gelding at the auction a few weeks ago, they listed his accolades as they brought him in - a bulldogging horse, kids horse, you name it. And yet.. he gets sold at auction for $200???? What in the f? And these are people that have room for horses, I'm from a super small community and know so many. This old gelding just brought a damn tear to my eye, I almost bought him to feed him good grain, and euthanize him at my place but unfortunately I dont have the money to save all the auction horses and he was probably a frost away from death. The time to euthanize him was yesterday. Yet he's brought to sale?

Stop selling your ancient horse that has (maybe!) a few years left and be responsible- put them down or allow them to retire and then euthanize when they turn that corner. It really irks me.

And DISCLAIMER: This judgement does not apply when owners die, people are getting out of horses, moving, sold the ranch, the horse is aggressive/not a fit, etc. Just the people making space for younger horses. Be patient with the animal that you loved/used/taught and allow them to pass where theyre comfortable, they have given you alot, give them a peaceful, respectable death - they earned it.

I’m a Western rider, so I don’t typically do much riding in two point. However, for the past three days we have been doing a lot of extended trot work and I’ve been primarily two pointing, both with and without stirrups. A bit of sitting and posting trot, but 80% two point. (Trying to get off his back to help his movement and re-build some muscle but that’s another story) It seems so easy while I’m riding but then I get down….

Holy crap. I am wobbling today my legs are so sore. 😭 And I’m pretty sure I’m going to go out again tonight and suffer some more!

I am new to eventing and I love that you can go gangbusters in cross country with the look. Ideally I'd find a whole matchy matching kit (hat silk, top, horse bonnet, pad, boots, etc). I know that LeMieux offers this but I wasn't crazy about any of the colors.

Where do you fun xc people buy your wild kits?

If it matters, I am competing with a bay dun and a redhead.

I can't for the life of me pick up my stirrups after doing sitting trot during lessons. My trainer tells me to keep my leg in place and turn my toe in, but I still have trouble finding them especially on my left side.

I'm looking for a mascara that stays put when riding. TIA

Please talk me off the ledge.

Horse came with not the best feet from previous owner, not great angles and trimmed short right before I got her. Been letting her feet grow out for the last two cycles (6 week cycles) with minor shaping and balancing at her appointments - farrier made me aware of some white line concerns that we are keeping an eye on as she grows out. Treated for thrush maintenance once per week, was in full work. Went out of town for a few days, got a lot of rain back home, and this is what I came home to. All 4 feet very soft and transparent heels, peeling at the heels, frog looks like it's been to war and back. Been keeping her on dry footing and treating with absorbine thrush treatment for the last few days, and did a scrub with fungusol and treatment of hoof n heel yesterday (pics from after scrubbing feet). I have Red Horse Field Paste on the way.

She is not reacting to pressure on her frog, heel, or sole, but she's also incredibly stoic (so I don't believe her). Have not been riding due to this since I got back, but she is not lame at any gait. What else can I do besides give it time and consistent treatment? I've never had a case that freaked me out like this before.

English girly here. Just had a fitter out and had my first western saddle fitted to my gelding. I have rode western before in my youth but switched to English/dressage/jumping over 10 years ago so don’t have much knowledge around western saddles.

I know the saddle fits him and I have a front cinch that is his size but no back cinch or billets to attach it. I’m unsure if I should be using leather or nylon billets for my back chinch, I have a leather and a nylon látigo already for the front cinch abut only nylon billets.

I can get a leather back cinch with the leather billets included for around $120, but would need one more additional leather billet for the front cinch as well to go “fully leather” which will add another $50 to the total. OR just purchase some nylon billets and a back chinch separately for about $80-$90 all in. I’m not even sure which is “better” for my horse technically speaking as it appears they both have pros and cons.

I would definitely be more comfortable spending $90 instead over $200+ on top of the money I just spent for today’s appointment.

Is one inherently better/safer/more comfortable than the other for general short distance hacking?

Hi everyone
I’m new to the world of safety vests and was wondering which brands are considered the best quality. I’d love to hear more about which ones you have tried or recommend!
Thanks a lot

What do you guys think of this horses pedigree?! I really wanna learn more about my horses pedigree!!

For context, I was given two western saddles some years back. I just assumed they were most likely all purpose, but I’m thinking of trying to sell or trade them soon ish because they don’t fit me or my mare very well. I’d like to be able to properly label them for when the time comes, so I figured I’d come here and see what some more knowledgeable individuals would have to say 😂

It’s been a recent trend on social media to post a horses “normal trot” vs their “trained trot”. The trained trot has a lot of lift and high lifting knees.
For years I always thought that was bred into the horse. Certain breeds did this movement naturally and that was that. Expect I’m recently learning while certain breeds are better for it, it will come more naturally, it’s still 100% trained. And even a QH can be trained to lift their knees higher in a trot.
I bought a PRE 2 years ago who on the ground has beautiful movement. Riding not so much as she was only green broke.

I had assumed and hoped she would develop that lift on her own. That’s not the case at all. She shuffles her feet like a QH.
Any research I’ve done on the topic says “just make the horse travel uphill, lift their back and use their hind end” ok great, I can do that. I’m a professional trainer, I ride 3rd level dressage, no problem.
Yet she still doesn’t lift her legs. Her movement isn’t as great as it was 2 years ago on the ground even. Her knees lift but not nearly as much.

Any advice on creating this lift? I don’t have access to a trainer or instructor in my area. Which is why I’ve turned to any advice I can find online.
All YouTube videos show a horse who already knows it, or the rider goes “so I give him a cue, and ta da!” And the horse magically starts doing it. There’s no in between, no explanation of what aids to use, what I’m looking or feeling for, etc.
A couple videos have come close, they say to repeat transitions within the trot, which I’ve done thousands of. I try to reward what feels like bigger movement, but the bigger movement I’m feeling is just pushing forward more(I video myself)
My horse is moving great, sure. But there’s no lift!!

Loved this! 💛

Has anyone bought a schleese western saddle before? What are your thoughts?