Brigandell Diaries

I'm Erin, 21 year old dressage rider. Brigandell, 6 Y/O KWPN x Percheron cross. Bryn Lee, 3 Y/O Rhodesian Rideback x. This is our story. I'm an avid lover of God, health nut, equestrian, dog lover, photographer, reader, and dreamer. Instagram; BrigandellDiaries

[tastefullyoffensive]

Congrats. (via scruffbutt)

[brigandelldiaries]

My dad folks, he's something else.

[vasselheims-archive]

tag the fictional character you ride or die for

[myfairjoy]

It’s been almost a year since I’ve had even a sandy patch to school on, much less a perfectly furrowed covered. It’s almost pornographic.

[psychquotesss]

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via psych2go)

[brigandelldiaries]

People: Cursing isn't lady like

Me: Fuck that

[empresspinto]

hey guys, hope your skin is clear and you get a text from someone you like real soon.

also that your lunch tastes good, you find twenty dollars on the ground, and that thing coming up that you were dreading turns out not so bad

[loren-vance]

Passing this good karma

[pocketsofroses]

I reblogged this 3 days ago and my skin got clear and I got a message from a guy who refers to me as queen yesterday. Good karma vibes all around.

[blueastro-deactivated20170311]

ARE U FUCKING KIDDING ME I REBLOGGED THIS YESTERDAY AND MY SKIN IS CLEAR AS F NOW

[myfairjoy]

How can I not reblog this purely on reactions alone

[donnermaysilee]

I’m so unphotogenic what am I going to do when I’m famous

[uncleanlips-deactivated20171008]

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce  (via littlethingsaboutgod)

[garden-of-vegan]

Healthy Plant-Based Lunches on the Go - ilovevegan.com

[happy-tofu]

[infiniteequinesphotography]

one.

The Kirkwood Show

August 20th, 2016

@infiniteequinesphotography

[bruhleesi]

I want to sleep for four years then wake up with a degree, 6 million dollars, and a chemically balanced brain.

[peduncling-away-deactivated2019]

Honestly?? I’m so salty that my manager was like “a customer complained their dogs smelled - you clearly didn’t do a good enough job grooming.”

- we had 67 dogs to groom between 3 people. 1 who had never bathed dogs before. - we had no perfume left - one dog had stitches in it’s neck: there was too much risk getting those wet and we had no time for a sponge bath - we had reception and van drivers breathing down our necks to get it done - fuck you - if you want the shiny standard you’re promising customers when you overbooked and understaffed, hire more staff or fucking do it yourself

[brigandelldiaries]

Do you groom dogs? I manage a salon! I feel your pain!!

[fireinmystride]

Just a reminder from Oiselle.

[banallequinesports]

Human depravity. Putting a load of stallions together and watching them fight!. I can only assume that this is some sort of “entertainment” for the people watching. Horrible and very stressful, unnatural situation for the horses.

[equine-dreams]

Stallions can be put together. I know someone who keeps all 5 of his breeding studs in a field together. Very little fighting as mares are pastured at other side of property. This is crazy to have a competition but nothing more than horses sorting out who’s boss. I see geldings act like this too, maybe not as extreme, but the same behaviour for sure.

[banallequinesports]

Are you mad? How can you possibly defend this atrocity in the name of horses?!!!!!

[the-golden-paw]

I doubt any of you guys speaks Austrian dialect/German, so let me just clear this up for you: These stallions are about to be brought to an alm where they will spend the entire summer in an endless pasture lost in the mountains, living the best possible life really. To prevent any harm, the stallions are brought to this enclosure to meet eachother and fight out their ranks while being supervised by experienced people.

This is literally perfectly normal horse behavior, they’re just fighting over their ranks and eventually they will settle down completely, grazing up there in the mountains like a bunch of 28-year-old geldings.

Don’t just call something “animal cruelty” because you don’t understand what the flying f*ck is going on there, while neither knowing the language of the video nor being a horse behaviorist.

[sanddancingwithanxiety]

I’m crying

[equikage]

Anyone who thinks these stallions are hurting each other have never seen an actual horse fight. There’s a lot of squealing, posturing, and kicking out, but nobody is getting hurt, and the horses have plenty of room to move away.

And stallions living together in bands is a million times more ‘natural’ than stallions being isolated in stalls or individual pastures. Google ‘bachelor herds’ and learn something about real feral horses before jumping to conclusions about something which is virtually harmless.

[app-uh-latch-un]

imagine how much good you could do if you actually bothered to research what youre bitching about and find actual cruelty to take a stand against. 

[switching-reins]

[eruditionanimaladoration]

@why-animals-do-the-thing

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Yep. The above commentary is correct. These stallions are only squealing, roaring and posturing at one another. It escalates into physical contact sometimes but really it’s mostly bluffing and testing out each other’s strength, rather than a full scale fight. I suppose you could call it sparring.

Like most animals, horses (even stallions!) often use a set of behaviours to avoid conflict and prevent injury to both parties. This is what you can see here. A real fight is nothing like this.

Also you’ll notice that a lot of these horses are not overly stressed about the situation. Some even settle down and ignore the others to graze. 

- Moose.

[roboticmoose]

I’m probably repeating what every one else is commenting above but I have the need to make some comments about the video also as understanding natural horse behaviour is the first step in making sure that we can ensure the best possible conditions for horses to live according to their natural needs. 

It is extremely important for stallions to learn how to socialize with other horses. Young stallions are put together during the summers when they are 1 to 2 years old (at least this is the custom in Finland). During the summer they will form a hierarchy inside the herd, socialize with each other and develop their physique with play-fighting. The fights shown on the video are exactly those, the horses are not harming each other as any prey animals will avoid actual fighting as it endangers themselves to injuries. Instead they decide the hierarchy with a kind off showing off -fighting where animals very seldom actually hurt each other. Looking at the horses body language you can see that they are not actually aggressive and read each others very precisely to avoid actual fights. The less dominant horses evade from the more dominant ones. This is all normal herd behaviour. After the hierarchy is settled the horses normally end up living together very peacefully and these sort of fights happen again very rarely. This is not stallion-only kind of behaviour as any horses will settle their hierarchy on a new herd very quickly.

Stallions are often kept alone and in solitary because they are thought to be solitary animals. In fact they are like every other horses, herd animals that need the company of other horses. During the summers on the pastures the stallions will learn socializing amongst other horses. Only way to socialize stallions or any other horses (actually any other animals, including us!) is to have them learn their natural behaviour amongst their own species. All in all, this is probably the best way to make sure that the stallions will grow up to be healthy adults, both mentally and physically.

[banallequinesports]

roboticmoose tumblr has photographic evidence of “wild stallions” all penned in together and displaying this behavior “in the wild” - not.

[equine-dreams]

I’m pretty sure stallions fight just like this in the wild… It’s called competition.

[banallequinesports]

equine-dreams also has the photos to prove this.

[thisishowyoufightawar]

@banallequinesports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R_q4NnXIh8 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_cA9RT_AV4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZdgsNW2mBk

Most animals have a form of sparring that doesn’t actually hurt anyone, this is the stallion version. Can you stop whining now?

[banallequinesports]

thisishowyoufightawar you have just served to further prove my point. 

[sanddancingwithanxiety]

holy shit do you ever admit you’re wrong?????

look at these group of stallions casually walking around and not killing each other [LINK]

oh and look at these young ones again who are not competing for mares but yanno, playing [LINK]

or just read the body language in the horses from the original video? if you have spent much time with horses at all i’m sure that won’t be a problem for you :)

[thesorrowfulknight-blog]

@banallequinesports If you wanna see an actual horse fight, look up the ones staged in China. They pit two stallions against each other, after riling them up with a tease mare, and make them go at it until one is dead. Sometimes if the stallion isn’t aroused by the mare, they’ll thrash him. If you want something actually harmful to the animals to fight against, go fight that.

Otherwise, stop spreading bullshit and go find a real hobby. Maybe knitting or something will do you some good. I hear embroidery is nice.

[passthependleton-deactivated201]

INCREDIBLY fascinating!!!! Wow. This is really awesome to watch- I tell my students all the time about the importance with body language and this video is an excellent example. Many of those horses are moving each other without any physical contact. Incredible to watch. I’m floored. Love to see this in person one day

[banallequinesports]

Incredibly fascinating just how flippant humans can be. Excellent example of body language? Students? Perhaps dog or cock fighting are other excellent examples of “body language”.

Whilst it is true that horses, stallions, do have a way of avoiding serious injury whilst expressing dominance - in a natural situation, it must be remembered that putting so many stallions together is not normal and entirely stressful.

Anyone that really loves and cares about horses will be very uncomfortable to watch this video. The rest just see as fun/entertainment, par for the course in the equestrian world. 

[passthependleton-deactivated201]

Not quite sure how you are confused about the term “students”? Yes. I would use this video to demonstrate dominance in herd behavior to my students. Many of these horses are using cues that do not require physical contact to move the animals around them.

Now according to this fascinating article by a rather well known veterinary institution, stallion bachelor herds can comprise of 5-20 different animals of mature age. They exhibit signs of aggression, yes, but also instances of mutual grooming and quiet grazing side by side. Please refer to http://research.vet.upenn.edu/Portals/49/95BachelU.pdf

This requires a herd hierarchy. Someone has to be the boss. So there is, in fact, something very natural about shows of dominance. What you see here is just it happening all at once. These horses will exhibit fewer signs of stress and lower testosterone levels than stallions at the head of their harems (again If you don’t believe me please reference the article) and I think lower stress levels are what we horse lovers want to see, right?

It’s never “fun” to watch horses fight. I break them up all the time (from a distance) I wouldn’t consider any of these horses to be in any danger- so I wouldn’t break up any of these fights. They’re raising hell and makin a racket and being typical teenaged boys in my opinion. Please go and study wild equine behaviors. Horses are a rough and tumble species, have you ever seen a mare with her foal? Or a bunch of babies out at pasture? They get nasty one minute but the next they’re happy and content. This is a snapshot in the life of these horses. You don’t see what happens after- them being released into a giant pasture with plenty of acreage to roam. They’re just getting the kinks out before they go off unsupervised.

So yes. I think this is incredible. I am in awe. My breath would be taken away if I saw this in person- and I would be impressed with the owners of these stallions to have the wherewithal to do this under their watchful eyes instead of letting them loose and potentially seeing an accident occur.

[banallequinesports]

Interesting. You obviously are some sort of highly spoilt rich brat, much like the spectators in the video. You did not clarify the type of “students” that this is such a good example for. 

Horses are a “rough and tumble species”?

You break up horse fights “from a distance?” (lol have you got the video for this?)

Your bachelor stallion reference was a good try, did someone round up loads of them, double them and penn them in all together to fight? No. This was a reference to stallions in the wild.. 

[snakescales-geckotails-deactiva]

Wow. @banallequinesports sure is a piece of work… If they new anything about horses at all they’d know that this is how all horses act when introduced to a new animal. Mares, gelding, stallions, even young yearling will act like this when a new horse is introduced to a herd. It’s a dominance thing. It’s how they sort out the pecking order. They’re letting these stallions get to know each other so they can live together safely. This isn’t fighting. This isn’t cruelty. This is horses getting to know each other. I’m sure they’re all fine now and living together like any other herd of horses. Like I said, even if you put a bunch of mares or gelding together like this they’d do exactly what these stallions are doing. Stallions usually won’t fight unless there’s a mare around I’ve had stallions living together before and they were perfectly fine. They did exactly what the horses in the video were doing to establish a pecking order, and then they lived together without problem Just like everyone is trying to say THIS IS NOT A STALLION FIGHT, why can’t they get it through their thick skull. Should you rather these horses, who are her’s animals, just live on their own so that they can feel insecure because they don’t have a herd. At least they’re letting the horses get to know each other before they put them all together. And I’m sure if there had been any problem stallions that were actually trying to hurt another horse, he would be removed from the herd. If you’re going to fight something like this make sure you know what you’re talking about first. Because you look totally ignorant and foolish. I may have reported a few things, but I was just trying to get a point across Rant over

[banallequinesports]

Another silly 14 year old, I thought there were age limits on tumblr?

[bucklesandbridles]

My drunk commentary, cause why not.

1. The horses are clearly distressed. There’s a lot of people. They have numbers on their asses. Nothing makes sense.

2. Okay, if you’re going to release them to pasture do it??? Why the fuck make a huge deal about it and paint numbers on their asses and have a bunch of stupid people hold them for 30m in a small enclosure where there isn’t nearly as much room for them to get away as this “supposed” huge horse pasture they are all going to??

3. There’s literally no need for human intervention?? If you’re going to fucking release them then do it. lmao. Let them be horses and beef it out on their own.

[peduncling-away-deactivated2019]

1. There’s a difference between being distressed and aroused/excited. The horses are actually remarkably calm considering this is a herd of stallions we’re looking at here. The conflicts start up quite aggressive with a few kicks and bites but as the arousal levels die down and they all sort out each other, you can see that it becomes less frequent and really just becomes squealing and posturing and bluffing each other.

2. I don’t know the details of this but from the look of it these stallions are likely very valuable and important breeding stock (speculation but it does seem like they’re prized by the village. If we’re talking ethics about whether we should be gaining entertainment from watching stallion sparring, that’s a different issue. From a welfare perspective these animals are well looked after, are not significantly stressed, are being allowed to engage in natural stallion behaviour (a luxury not many stallions are afforded!) and are being supervised in case something went wrong.

3. There would be need for human intervention if a fight escalated and horses received deep wounds that could very rapidly get infected if left alone. They’re being released up into the mountains, which means getting to them would be difficult and administering medical care would be very difficult. There is absolutely a degree of risk having them at close quarters but there is a bit of space for flight distance and you see some horses utilise this to avoid the conflicts. Some even start to graze. 

You’ll notice that there’s no wounds, no lameness and no blood. While there are a few kicks and bites, in a real fight, you would see deep wounds and a lot more direct physical contact. These stallions have clearly been well socialised and understand how to inhibit their kicks and bites and know how to posture and bluff. This is healthy and normal horse behaviour and a sign of good management and husbandry. 

[peeriet]

commentary of whether or not horses socializing is abuse featuring actual trained behaviourists and those learned in this field, and whiney piss babies 

[ilovelaica]

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