Churchill Chimes Equestrian Centre

05/30/2026

Our farm being primarily an adult barn now it’s rare to have mother daughter pairs. Carolyn and her daughter Sam had a great ride today on two lovely Le Cheval Canadien horses, Angus and Whisper. #

05/30/2026

Beautiful night to have our Horse & Rider Yoga-themed Fun Friday!

05/09/2026

Awesome weather for riding and lots of fun this weekend riding out and about

05/09/2026

Hey Churchill Chimes Family,

There has been interest recently in the how-tos of sheath cleaning. Tyya is the resident specialist who has tackled the dirty and the cheeky geldings Tyya has offered to share her knowledge, experience and skills It is an important step in the hygiene and health of geldings; preventing the build up of bacteria and the infections/ discomfort that comes with it.

It’s an easy DIY project (lol) and a part of horsemanship we are happy to teach any interested parties To facilitate this leaning we are offering a sheath cleaning clinic this Sunday May 10th @ 2pm. Our sincere apology for not sharing this sooner, outside of our boarder/part boarder group
It will be approximately two hours and we will cover the how- to's of cleaning and different ways to handle a gelding whose seems nervous about the process. Then of course help some of our boys out.

If you are interested in joining, please let us know

04/27/2026

I think our horses favourite day of the year is their first pasture day. Even though it’s only an hour and a half it’s so exciting!

04/22/2026

The Wednesday night ladies were the first to have a ride around the east hayfield. Spring is here!

04/19/2026

Hot off the presses! Our 2026 Events Schedule is now posted! We have already had an amazing start to our Event Year with a Good Friday Quadrille as well as a highly successful Bodywork Fundamentals Clinic!

04/18/2026

Great Bodywork Clinic at the farm today!
Photo 1: Learning all about posture vs conformation and where a body restriction affecting posture can be mistaken as a conformation "flaw"
Photo 2-4: Learning how to release shoulders
Thank you everyone who attended and helped run it, as well as Pamela for the photos!

04/11/2026

This is why we have been a pioneer in outdoor hybrid board and outdoor herd living for our school horses. To serve our horses better. We turn in for individually tailored meals and then immediately turn our horses out to herd life. No solitary confinement. No bars. Nothing fancy at the expense of welfare. Letting horses be horses.

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A few decades ago, animal welfare researchers began to look more deeply into the basic needs of animals, and they came up with what is known as the Five Freedoms, and these are:

🌀 Freedom from hunger and thirst
🌀 Freedom from discomfort
🌀 Freedom from pain, injury and disease
🌀 Freedom to express normal behaviours
🌀 Freedom from fear and distress

These 5 freedoms are all about the proper care of animals, like horses, to enable them to live in a healthy way.

If you look at them more closely, you will see that they are all about providing the bare essentials to life; they are not focused at all on how to make a horse’s life more worthwhile or enjoyable for their own sake.

Part of the reason that this has not previously come into our consciousness is because the study of positive welfare states of animals is quite new.

More recently, scientists began to look beyond what gives an animal a physically healthy life, to now considering what can we do as animal caretakers, to make an animal’s life worth living.

As we began to learn more about the effects of depriving animals from certain other mental needs, a new model emerged, known as The Five Domains Model of Animal Welfare.

The Five Domains Model of Animal Welfare focuses on moving beyond the basic care of animals to a ‘life worth living’. It is about the difference between care and welfare.

The welfare of an animal comes about when we enable it to access an optimal life.

The 5 Domains Model focuses on four major areas of an animal’s life that each contribute to the fifth domain, which is the mental domain (mental welfare).

💡 Attached is a summarising diagram of The 2020 Five Domains Model of animal welfare for equines from Modern Horse Training: Equitation Science Principles & Practice, Volume 1 which is available for purchase on our website.