Happy Horse Training

10/11/2020

If you call a cage a stall, it sounds better but it is still a cage. So many physical and mental health problems are a result of these nomadic herd animals living in isolation and confinement. When you know better, do better!

Posted • Stables were first invented to keep working horses close at hand. Confining horses to a stable is now unfortunately part of our tradition and every human has their reasons for doing so. 'My horse is too fat; My horse likes his stable; It’s's the yard rules; I'm afraid my horse will get cold at night'

In the wild horses don't have stables and they have lived for thousands of years without human interference. It's up to each individual owner to help their domesticated horses live a naturally healthy lifestyle and start treating horses like horses. Remember there's always a solution to your problem. Your horse will thank! If you get their living conditions right everything else will fall into place. Happy horses means healthy horses with healthy hooves.

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23/02/2020

An insight into a truly great master of riding.

“You are as part of the horse’s system as his kidney, his liver and intestines. You are him, and he knows that once you are sucked into his system you can balance with him with precision.
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The horse’s most precious need is precision of balance. That’s all a horse wants from you. “

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Dressage icon, Charles de Kunffy, saw his aristocratic life in Hungary crumble under Soviet oppression following World War II. Here he shares the story of ho...

28/01/2020

Barefoot heels look nothing like this! 😬 Although it can take many years for the contraction to go away once the shoes are off.

🧐 CONTRACTION - CAUSED BY SHOES!

Look at the back of the hooves on these pictures - what do you see?

The soft tissues, including the frog, have become SQUEEZED together and have started to atrophy - literally waste away!

Gradually the back of the foot begins to collapse in on itself due to the continual contraction caused by applying and reapplying the metal shoes.

The central sulcus of the frog often becomes so deep and infected that the pain at the back of the foot with EVERY stride makes the horse begin to TOE WALK.

Horses CANNOT escape this pain.

It is VERY REAL….VERY COMMON….and VERY SERIOUS!

This contraction, often coupled with infection, causes loss of use of the back of the foot, loss of flexion at the back of the foot, loss of support and shock absorption at the back of the foot.

And is DISASTROUS for the horse. 🙇‍♀️

Tendons become pulled, abscesses can be rife, the horse toe walks straining the DDFT and inflaming the NAVICULAR bursar - life becomes very difficult for the horse.

And guess what?

It is often NOT NOTICED by the owner who has no clue that their horse is in so much pain and THINKS the horse is SOUND.

Horses try really hard to mask this pain….
..until such time as they finally obviously go lame and a diagnosis such as navicular is given.

Then more often than not…remedial shoes are applied, continuing to make the whole problem WORSE! 😱

And so it goes on.

Going BAREFOOT is the ONLY way to stop this kind of PAIN in the back of the foot.

Because the foot can finally begin to de-contract.

But for some horses this can take a very, VERY long time!

Read what holistic vet Renee Tucker, DVM, has to say about the link between the stay apparatus and contracted heels, in the latest issue 25 of The Barefoot Horse Magazine.

It really gave us some food for thought 🤔

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Please don’t let CONTRACTION continue to happen to horse’s hooves.

YOU CAN HELP YOUR HORSE and we are here to help YOU!

The BHM Team ❤️