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@horbse
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this is my horse blog about horse. i make text posts i think a horse would make and i tag those with #horse posting
sometimes i dont do that and that is a #mod post
sometimes i talk about my horse from real life and that is #irl horse posting
i thought i was more on the fence about it and id be relieved if it couldnt happen but, damn. i really wanted that Kai.
maybe theres still time maybe i could ask around on FB or something but otherwise, i guess ill have to wait untill i get my own place, and i dont think im ready for something like that yet
my farrier is trying to convince me to get a foal from this years muster and i asked my teacher and she said itd be very rewarding and id be saving a life. chat am i cooked
should horbse get a second, wild, baby horse
yes this will be fun and cool and good for everyone involved
no you should find something else to do with your life
chief's landlady says she doesnt want young horses, i have to recalibrate some plans
my farrier is trying to convince me to get a foal from this years muster and i asked my teacher and she said itd be very rewarding and id be saving a life. chat am i cooked
should horbse get a second, wild, baby horse
yes this will be fun and cool and good for everyone involved
no you should find something else to do with your life
Hot Take for English Riders
direct rein and contact is overrated as hell. Do you know how gd pleasant it is to ride a horse trained to ride off the seat and indirect rein pressure? Why are we training dressage horses and show jumpers to lay into the bit and depend on us to hold their heads up? It's tiring and not good for them since tension in the bridle leads to stunted action in the hind limbs. If you actually trained them off clasical principles in the flat work and with the right jump exercises they will develop enough to learn how and when to supoort themselves.
Having a gd tug o war battle with your horse is bad horsemanship and will inevitably make them stronger in the bridle. Normalize treating the reins like side reins, picking one length that the horse can easily recieve slack in when the balance is good and only picking them up as a final touch to back your other aids up. The order of aids should be seat -> weight -> suporting leg -> driving leg -> supporting rein -> direct rein.
If you as the rider are working extra hard physically and mentally to get the horse obedient to your aids how do you think the horse feels?
Here's Venus demonstrating a moderately collected canter during a jumping exercise (withers are positioned above the apex of the hip with her haunches taking more than half the load of her weight through the movement)
Her poll is at the highest point but notice how the reins are slightly looped and her nose isnt pointed down. A horse being "on the bit" and collected or even correctly engaged is not the same thing. Because I'm not restricting her head and neck, her top line is freed up and she can step freely under herself and lift her back creating that straight line of the croup behind the saddle
Also if any western riders are feeling cocky, there is absolutely 100% a western version of this.
is it the chair seat?
Hot Take for English Riders
direct rein and contact is overrated as hell. Do you know how gd pleasant it is to ride a horse trained to ride off the seat and indirect rein pressure? Why are we training dressage horses and show jumpers to lay into the bit and depend on us to hold their heads up? It's tiring and not good for them since tension in the bridle leads to stunted action in the hind limbs. If you actually trained them off clasical principles in the flat work and with the right jump exercises they will develop enough to learn how and when to supoort themselves.
Having a gd tug o war battle with your horse is bad horsemanship and will inevitably make them stronger in the bridle. Normalize treating the reins like side reins, picking one length that the horse can easily recieve slack in when the balance is good and only picking them up as a final touch to back your other aids up. The order of aids should be seat -> weight -> suporting leg -> driving leg -> supporting rein -> direct rein.
If you as the rider are working extra hard physically and mentally to get the horse obedient to your aids how do you think the horse feels?
i learnt to ride in a hackamore and i didnt know what contact was untill i switched schools and was like "is that not just slowing them down?" to which i was told no. i still dont quite understand what it is? and dont see why i need to be micromanaging a horse's head if they can carry themselves just fine?
i like the definition of contact thats the minimum amount of presence you need through the reins to get a horse to respond to rein cues. i really really dont think the minimum amount of presence needed in the reins should be a constant pulling. it feels like an unnecessary extra for the rider and an uneccesary discomfort for the horse
ive only ever needed to do that with two horses. one of them was a fairly green ex racer standie over some jumps. jumps are a new and fun thing for him so he looves to jump long and high or just trot right through them. and the other was a little arabian pony that would just get so so so excited over a single trot pole he would leap over them like the grand prix and seat aids were not doing anything
my boy Chief is made one billion percent worse when i am micromanaging his head though. he crab walked himself right out of the arena at some point and thats when i gave up and got a hackamore and started riding mostly one handed on the buckle and lo and behold now he can turn in directions! who wouldve thunk! tbc this horse hasnt been worked consistently for at least two years so *all* his cues are kind of dull but. theres dull and distressed, and then theres just dull. and im picking the latter.
I lure you in with cute doggy then hold you hostage while I tell you about my sheep
anything newe going on with them lately?
Yeah I've always gotten very bad vibes from this man. I've seen mustangs in holding pens be less flinchy.
Compare his behavior to this injured mostly feral likely reservation horse right after she was picked up from an auction...
CC's Scarlet is a reservation horse, and she suspects she was roped to be caught because of rope burns around her legs
poor chief was soooo excited to see me yesterday and wanted to go for a ride. I felt so bad because it was raining and he was all soggy and I was inly there to treat his rain rot :( im sorry my boy I promise we’ll do something fun today
English horse stud ads be like: *confo shot* *shot of horse in performance* "Peppe le Blanc is available this breeding season, contact us for availability*
Western horse stud ads be like: *picture of horse surrounded by Hooter's girls* Granny's Hot Slut Water is available to be your broodmare's hot stud, get him while he lasts, or you'll have to wait until next season.
American horse for sale ads be like: *picture of clothes-drying rack with a painful expression begging for death, padded with unhelpful flab like a child wearing a puffy coat, apparently dying of tuberculosis, shot with a potato as the photographer was being tackled by a feral hog* beautiful cremello stallion, BLM rescue, backed but a little green , $10,000 great stud potential already covered several mare pretty babies (next seven photos are of goats; unclear if Progeny or just camera roll ) moves well (video of stoned animal hobbling along, spurred, its soul clearly detached from its body) no lowballs i know what i got
UK horse ads: so sorry to trouble you, but if anyone can help find a home for a lovely schoolmaster - perfect mother/daughter share and ladies’ hunter (picture of enchanting horse decorously jumping 1m at Olympics) we would be terribly grateful - please do bring your vet; the horse comes with full MOT, all previous owners have provided references, all vet visits logged in a binder, horse has British Sign Language qualification. (Video of horse doing dressage, filing taxes, and responding graciously to a difficult interview) Has been jumped, hacked, dressed at highest levels (video of most beautiful horse in the world gently taking a toddler to their dance recital) Rides and drives. Holds defensive driving license. Asking £5000 - so sorry.
Irish horse ads: (photos of extremely nice-looking animal, shot for some reason at a 35 degree angle) hOrF sal.e can ship to england for free. 10 year old mixed breed hunter (video of what appears to be an olympic warmblood in fabulous condition) £3000 or trade dfor . what you got
if i may
Kiwi horse ads:
Beautiful sb gelding looking for new home $0.5 -named something like Ganky -6-10 years old -chill guy happy to do anything -came off the track last year and has been sitting around doing nothing since -he would die for you -free to a good home -comes with tack
Happy Hacker $5,000 -"good to float shoe tie worm etc" -located in the most remote region in the country, surrounded by a mote of lava and past the cave of doom
OTTB winter project $500 -15.3hh -thats it -no more info -"suited for an experienced rider or confident teenager" (huh???)
great all rounder potential! $700 -7 year old TB -"never raced" -one photo of the horse jumping an xc fence -"three lovely paces" -"has shivers but doesn't affect anything, can't go in a straight loader" -"GENUINE REASON FOR SALE"
IMPORTED ARABIAN STALLION ONLY CHIPPENDALE BLOODLINE IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $4,500 -why is he so cheap?? -screenshot of pedigree -no seriously why is he less that 5k whats the catch here -"willing to sell sight unseen" -wtf??
Schoolmaster $14,000 $12,000 $11,000 -14.1h bush pony -named after a type of food or meteorolical phenomenon -has done everything ever
Schoolmaster $120,000 -14.1h bush pony -named after a type of food or meteorolical phenomenon -has done everything ever -sale on behalf
Warmblood yearling - amazing imported bloodlines - bred for showjumping $40,000 -photo of sire -photo of grandsire -photo of damsire -screenshot of pedigree -blurry photo of dam in paddock condition with the foal
PUREBRED GYPSY COB FOALS $600 -numerous photos of gypsy cob foals with their mothers grazing -kinda blurry -no pedigree
English horse stud ads be like: *confo shot* *shot of horse in performance* "Peppe le Blanc is available this breeding season, contact us for availability*
Western horse stud ads be like: *picture of horse surrounded by Hooter's girls* Granny's Hot Slut Water is available to be your broodmare's hot stud, get him while he lasts, or you'll have to wait until next season.
HOMIE I WISH THAT WAS STILL THE CASE THEY'RE USING GEN AI NOW
i like when they edit the horse like tiktok thirst traps
guess who has rain rot??
chief rubbed himself a bald spot with his rug last week but its only gotten bigger even though he hasnt been rugged! yay!
btw does anyone have any treatments to recommend because my plan atm is put iodine on it (this is also what his owner said with question marks at the end)
and then when i run out of iodine i will use chlorhexidine bc i have a bunch at home
guess who has rain rot??
chief rubbed himself a bald spot with his rug last week but its only gotten bigger even though he hasnt been rugged! yay!
gurl fuck the 4th of July and fuck fireworks
and the wildfires too like this shit happens every year
Fireworks are a huge hazard to wildlife, pets, livestock, and people alike but apparently we can't ban them because the general public likes the pretty colors that go boom too much. But apparently killing hoards of wolves to "protect livestock and game animals" is a cause worth trying to implement on a federal level
cant wait for them to introduce a second more invasive predator to make up for the lack of wolves /sarcasm
gurl fuck the 4th of July and fuck fireworks
and the wildfires too like this shit happens every year
Oh also! It's the last day of pride month today, and while i didn't do anything about it in here cause i was busy with IRL activities and want the blog to stay as strictly on topic as possible, i am reminding all of y'all that this game is being developed by a pan+lesbian poly trans girl with therian tendencies and perpetually dyed hair. Gay game. Gay pixel horses. When the thing is finally out, its earnings will sponsor my HRT. Rejoice! Or make peace with this, cause we ain't going anywhere ♡
idk its just that, my whole life ive had to go to the left, and now im supposed to go to the right? how do you even do that?
