HeartSong Haven

11/23/2024

https://equusmagazine.com/horse-care/response-choke-53083?tum_source=EQUUSFB

When your horse develops an obstruction in his esophagus, doing the wrong thing can turn a relatively minor event into a potentially life-threatening problem. Choke can look alarming, especially if you’ve never seen it before. When a wad of poorly chewed feed or a big chunk of apple gets stuck in ...

11/23/2024

https://equusmagazine.com/horse-care/rethinking-the-box-stall?tum_source=EQUUSFB

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07/21/2024

05/19/2024

https://morningchores.com/plants-poisonous-to-horses/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2W3RR-iL6N3vY8pQph2KcXa00kvGYgHz7bsfi5Ni-xBV_lYx44ez85vOY_aem_AY1Fe_yrBLIthr2ig11vyxdDGxQ3qTgJzzdR40eZXpet0YHUhqmOoBHGlLaD1xfxL6n0Xv4AiWVr2DQHXHHOSr-s

Here is a list of some of the plants that are the most poisonous to horses. Awareness of symptoms if ingested may save your animals' lives.

12/19/2023

https://www.equiculture.net/homepage

Horse pasture/land management, horse care, welfare and care for the environment (the One Welfare concept). Alternative Equicentral grazing system.

12/16/2023

Any nasal drainage can be an important indicator of a horse's health and can even herald an emergency. Here are 6 scenarios and possible causes.

09/30/2023

Isabelle Farmer
September 26, 2019 ·
A thought-provoking read.
By Jane Smiley
Most horses pass from one human to another - some horsemen and women are patient and forgiving, others are rigorous and demanding, others are cruel, others are ignorant.
Horses have to learn how to, at the minimum, walk, trot, canter, gallop, go on trails and maybe jump, to be treated by the vet, all with sense and good manners.
Talented Thoroughbreds must learn how to win races, and if they can't do that, they must learn how to negotiate courses and jump over strange obstacles without touching them, or do complicated dance
like movements or control cattle or accommodate severely handicapped children and adults in therapy work.
Many horses learn all of these things in the course of a single lifetime. Besides this, they learn to understand and fit into the successive social systems of other horses they meet along the way.
A horse's life is rather like twenty years in foster care, or in and out of prison, while at the same time changing schools over and over and discovering that not only do the other students already have their own social groups, but that what you learned at the old school hasn't much application at the new one.
We do not require as much of any other species, including humans.
That horses frequently excel, that they exceed the expectations of their owners and trainers in such circumstances, is as much a testament to their intelligence and adaptability as to their relationship skills or their natural generosity or their inborn nature. That they sometimes manifest the same symptoms as abandoned orphans - distress, strange behaviors, anger, fear - is less surprising than that they usually don't.
No one expects a child, or even a dog to develop its intellectual capacities living in a box 23 hours a day and then doing controlled exercises the remaining one.
Mammal minds develop through social interaction and stimulation.
A horse that seems "stupid", "slow", "stubborn", etc. might just have not gotten the chance to learn!
Take care of your horses and treasure them.

06/14/2023

https://barehoofcare.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/navicular_facts.pdf

05/09/2023

04/27/2023

https://www.trailmeister.com/how-to-change-a-tire-on-your-horse-trailer/?fbclid=IwAR0j0RU_HpHru6Qzfw8zeyzkuvcrglUf9rLS2ENfIElceTtZF8dmELhFYe4

Knowing How to Change a Tire on Your Horse Trailer is an important skill for anyone who tows. Here's a safe and easy way to do it.

04/14/2023

And please please please please don't pat me especially not hard! Want to reward your horse? Try a soft stroke on the neck. NO SLAPPING

From "The Balanced Horse"
Its simple.
Shut off the noise.
The barn radio, the cell phone, the barn chatter.
Animals live in silence unless stressed.
They thrive in silence.
They can hear each others thoughts.
Dr.Temple Grandin proved this point.
Horses and people are no different.
Have you noticed everywhere you go noisey people break your focus. Its like their demanding attention, like a drowning swimmer.
Hear me See me, HEAR ME, feel my fear and stress.
It must be contagious.
Somehow it follows us to the barn.
Have you noticed the impact noise has on horses.
The louder we get the more stressed they are.
Then there is the guy who nods smiles and hardly speaks. Notice how he can work with any horse. When he is done, it no big deal.
He just nods and smiles and goes on.
Now some people are horse whispers.
They talk a good game.
The secret to sucess isn't shared.
Its the guy or gal that smiles and nods, that hear the horse, feel the fear and smooth it out.
They know the secret of how to listen to the silent voice of the horse.
Shhhhh!
That's the connection!
Remember: Silent and Listen use the same letters!
(When someone is constantly talking to a horse - I often think I hear the horses saying
“Please BE QUIET!!!”) BN