Now that it is April, the spring breeze is definitely in the air. This is the most opportune time to start initiating a corporate picnic. Do you know why? This is because there is so much to know about the best company picnic in New Jersey. Everyone knows that inflatables are a sure hit in a company picnic, how much more having a mechanical bull?
View More Are You Planning To Have The Most Exciting Picnic In New Jersey? Try Renting A Mechanical BullTag: rodeo
Mounting Your Horse
If you are wondering about the safest ways of mounting your pony, you have 2 choices, you can risk plenty of issues with your pony and to oneself by imitating Zorro or the Lone Ranger, or you can go the safe, standard way.
View More Mounting Your HorseHow To Develop Soft Hands For Horse Riding
Having soft hands while riding is one of the ultimate horseback goals, and the most important beneficiary will be your pony. In the tips in this post, I introduce you to some straightforward but fun physical and mental exercises that will help you in achieving soft hands.
View More How To Develop Soft Hands For Horse RidingHow to Hobble Your Horse
By teaching your horse to stand hobbled, you prep yourself, and your pony, for possible awkward situations where there’s nowhere to tie the horse. This can often occur on ranches, where hobbling is very widely used as it eliminates the risks of tying a pony by the reins or the bridle.
View More How to Hobble Your HorseBeing In Synch With Your Pony
I have written about balance many times, but I still keep getting lots of questions on this subject. I’m always pleased to provide assistance , so here I am going again.
View More Being In Synch With Your PonyBegin Your Pony Training From The Ground
It helps no end with your handling of a pony when you know just what makes him tick. In so many ways, horses share human traits on smaller scales: they’re individualistic, they are smart, they are stubborn, and they’re sensitive. When you base your approach on your recognition of these facts, you won’t go wrong.
View More Begin Your Pony Training From The GroundTraining A Barrel Pony
Barrel racing can be terribly intense for both pony and rider, and you would be badly considererd if you were to try it with a horse at less than peak athletic condition. If you attempt to run a horse in not so good shape in a barrel race and he gets sore and stiff all over, it is going to form a really negative association in his mind with barrel racing. He won’t be particularly good at the game again.
View More Training A Barrel PonyHow To Correctly Fit A Horse Saddle
Speaking in very general terms, the most popular saddles in use are either of the English or the Western style. Nonetheless even within these broad categories there are a number of sub-divisions. Aside from these 2, there are also Australian and endurance saddles. Somebody with any idea of the world of horses will be able to distinguish an English from a Western saddle at first sight. These saddle types come in variations designed for specific riding preferences, events and riders.
View More How To Correctly Fit A Horse SaddleTreating Horse Ulcers
Proper care for a horse with a history of ulcers is an entire enormous chapter in the volume of pony health care. Pony owners who’ve had plenty of experience with horse ulcers become extra-sensitive to the possibility of their horses developing new ulcers. They are alert to the smallest symptom, if it is a pony off his feed or a horse experiencing mild colic.
View More Treating Horse UlcersA Few Horse Safety Tips
If you are under the impression each equestrian accident occurs when horses are being ridden, you’ve got to do some research before you find out the hard way. Horses and their riders are equally subject to the whims of fate. Both of them can get hurt even while they are engaged in humdrum chores: grooming, feeding and watering and such like. As a pony owner, it is your job to wish for the best but make preparations for the worst! Here are some hints.
View More A Few Horse Safety TipsHow the Natural Horseman Trains Ponies
When teaching horses, you must remember that the equine species needs repetition and more repetition to learn well. A horse may usually need 5 or 50 repetitions of instructions to ultimately grasp the action, and the point is this: if you’re not capable of exercising great patience, you haven’t got any business teaching horses. If you approach your pony the right way, you will find that as the training advances, your bonding with your horse swiftly improves, and in turn, that decreases his learning cycles.
View More How the Natural Horseman Trains PoniesHorse Training Basics
We’re going to talk about some of the main features of equine groundwork in this post. You’ll be aware that groundwork is the first and possibly most imperative step in preparing a horse before you ride him.
View More Horse Training BasicsLos Angeles Horseback Riding Adventures
It’s questionable you’ll find the angels if you go trying to find them in L. A. , but you’ll have an angelic experience if you try some horseback riding in and around that city. California isn’t just the Golden State, it is also the Equine State, though there are a couple of other American states that may lay claim to that title. If you can’t find what you want in California by way of equine journeys, it doesn’t exist some place else in the world. It doesn’t matter if you’re looking for your first horseback experience, or your thousandth. It doesn’t matter either if you are on your honeymoon, on an anniversary outing with your wife or on a vacation with your family. Nor does it matter if you are part of a group of work comrades, some club or organisation members. There is no difference, either, in your riding Western or English. If you happen to be looking for horseback adventure, California has everything you need. And the area in and around L. A. is one of the equine hearts of the state.
View More Los Angeles Horseback Riding AdventuresCaring For Your Pony In Winter
Generally horses conform well to seasonal changes. But you do want to make their life less complicated to the extent that you can during the cold months of cold hard winds. It just wants a bit of extra care, as shown below.
View More Caring For Your Pony In WinterWhat Are Scopey Horses
Puzzled by the word scope in the context of horses? So was I, before I got to understand what it meant. The only meanings for scope I knew were optical instruments like rifle scopes and telescopes and the extent of an activity or chance.
View More What Are Scopey Horses