My Soapbox for Equestrian Writings
I’ve always thought that my horses have had pretty easy lives. Five or six days a week I ask them to carry me around for an hour or two. Sometimes that ride is just an amble; other times it involves galloping and jumping. But still, that’s not much. I wish that my workday was so, […]
Read MoreMany of have been there. We train our horses and work toward a goal only to be sidelined by an injury at the last minute. Months of work and anticipation can thwarted by a lost shoe, a tweaked tendon, an episode of colic, or a rider injury. All of that anticipation and we’re left cursing. […]
Read MoreAccording to an article in the Daily Telegraph, Moustachioed horse evades barbers, there’s a 10-year old Shire cross in the UK named Alfie that has grown a moustache that rivals some of the most famous in history. Apparently Alfie is quite proud of his facial hair. He won’t let his grooms near him if he […]
Read MoreIt wasn’t that long ago that my daughter had a treasured collection of My Little Pony figurines. But they never looked like this. Finnish artist Mari Kasurinen uses the vinyl ponies as a blank canvas transforming them into pop culture icons and movie characters. Instead of the rainbow manes and flowers, these ponies sport attitude. […]
Read MoreThere are several horse blogs that I read on a regular basis. And regularly I find that one of them has already covered a topic that I wish I’d written about. Here’s a round up of a few posts that I’ve read lately that I really liked. Building on a Balk at Barb Wire. Will […]
Read MoreNow that spring is here it’s become apparent what was hiding under all that snow: mountains of manure! A 1000-pound horse produces 35- 50 pounds of manure every day. With two horses in the pasture during the approximately three months that we were unable to push a wheelbarrow out into the field, that means we […]
Read MoreConsidering the size of a horse’s head, you’d think that it’s brain would be pretty large. And the brain in total is a reasonable size. Picture a small grapefruit. The problem is that the thinking part, the cerebrum, is only slightly larger than a walnut or slightly smaller than a lemon. The rest is cerebellum, […]
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