All natural horse care in the west of Ireland

1. Training April 10th 2010
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...ning with Rhianne from 11 - 2.30pm, Quick cuppa, Farrier came to Baby at 3.20pm, 4.00pm a bit of ground work with Harley, followed by a little work under saddle and then a hack out with Harley and Mag...

2. Back to Basics
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We have been doing a bit of work with Harley the last couple of weeks and he has been progressing really well. So well in fact that we have started taking him out on short hacks in the company of his

3. Meet Rhianne
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...ng on pedestals on request with only occasional (and very minimal) resistance. She needs a little more work on respecting personal space which Ann and Garth are going to work on and we will meet agai...

4. Partner in the Arena
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...aching and she starts messing around. Question: should I stop riding her on the road and do more ridden work in the arena or should I persist and try to avoid roads where there is a lot of traffic and...

5. Sarcoids and Warts
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...esult for Polly on Wednesday, the sarcoid dropped off. Harley's warts also seemed a lot calmer. So what worked, not sure if it was a combination or the Castor Oil, Apple Cider Vinegar or the Sudocreme...

6. Bute v Herbal Substitute
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...appeared to be getting progressively more lame and uncomfortable. The farrier who was doing this work for her was starting to get very unreliable. He would not pick up on calls to his phone, he...

7. Bitless Bosal Bridle Blk/Pnk Pny
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...reat gifts. I love my horses and want them to be comfortable. These are simple to use and work brilliantly Price: 25.00 EURO including postage (Ireland Only) Please email for post...

8. Bitless Bosal Bridle Blk/Grn Hrse
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... make great gifts. I love my horses and want them to be comfortable. These are simple to use and work brilliantly Price: 25.00 EURO including postage (Ireland Only) Please email for post...

9. Bitless Rope Bosal Bridle
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...nt bitless bridles, some well known and some not so well known. Always looking for one that is the works for commumicationand is comfortable for my horses.  Two things I like about this brid...

10. What is Quantum Savvy
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...mme that teaches students from all around the world, all about horses and horsemanship. Based on working with the horse's natural instincts and looking at things from the their point of view, t...

11. Positive Pony Power
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...ekend. Just before lunch, we went out to the yard to meet and get to know the horses we would be working with. In addition to Polly and Magpie we had 2 shetland ponies from the centre wh...

12. Courses
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...s You can bring along your own horse or we can try and arrange to have a horse available that you can work with. (Limited number) If you are bringing a horse you will need to bring electric fencing...

13. Side Pass Practice Polly
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...ithout contact with Polly on the ground. She moves the front ok but tends to drag her back end. Need to work on that a bit more. Polly loves to conserve energy!! She backs by the tail very nicely. Han...

14. Baby is Lame Again
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Baby has another abcess. This time in her right foot. This is the foot I was working on when she got an abcess in her left foot. This one appeared as a lump on her tendon on Tuesday morning.

15. If a Horse Leads, It Will Load
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... behind: If a horse leads, it will load   I, and my young friend Annalice, have been working with Dennis, a colt, born to Chrissy, on 22nd May 2008. Chrissy and Dennis belong to a n...

16. Baby's Story
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... grass without rugs. It was getting into winter and I offered to feed them in the mornings on my way to work. The man worked in Dublin and would only be about at the weekends although he did pu...

17. PH Clinic May 2009
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...jority interest. You can bring along your own horse or we can have horses available that you can work with for the two days. If you are bringing a horse you will need to bring electric f...

18. Feeding Whole Oats
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...going on, so be sure to investigate that. How many whole oats? Of course, that would depend on the workload, if the horse was not worked and was on good pasture, perhaps none at all. If the horse...

19. Pedestal
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...e of the tyre the weight would be evenly distributed inside the tyre. Will let you know how that works out. My friend has decided to produce Round Pens, Grading Gates, Metal Elephant Sta...

20. My First Demo
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...with Vanessa Bee in April this year soI am fairly new to this 'Natural Horsemanship' stuff myself. It isworking for me and I am finding it is the easiest way to communicate with myhorses what tasks I ...

21. More PH Courses In September
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...simple round pen, when to use a round pen, how to use around pen with different types of horses, how to work a horse on longreins and at liberty. All courses are 200 euro per place including lunch, t...

22. Ready to Ride Results
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... Monday and Tuesday covering the 'Horse Behaviour and the Psychology of Training' We had six horses to work with during the course including my three Polly, Magpie and Harley. We had two young horse...

23. Polly the Plough Horse
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...times and Magpie called back and they all seemed to settle down. I went indoors to get ready for work and by the time I came out of the house Annalice and Polly had the whole arena done!! Brill...

24. Positive Horsemanship Clinics
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... method) …it educates people to observe all styles of horsemanship and pick the bits that work for them and their horses! Using a wealth of knowledge gathered over many years we help peo...

25. Right Brain Left Brain
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...helping me out this week so we decided to take the horses out for a short hack before she and I started work.  Just us, our horses and their BB bridles. No pads or anything. This is the life!I de...

26. Equine Open Day
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...After Heather had finished Joe Collins, MRCVS provided veterinary talks which was brilliant. He was not working to any scripts when giving his views and apologised in advance if he said anything that ...

27. Practising Bareback
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... not to put my legs against the horse so I am not gripping with my legs and my seat is deeper. Seems to work. We continued on and I decided we would go a bit further but in order to do this we h...

28. Eventful Day Out
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...casionally is a handful but she is a LBI and has only two paces: Slow and Even Slower so it can be hard work on a long hack. Annalice is a young girl of 15, who back in 2003 (when she was only 1...

29. Squeeze Game - Harley
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... Anyway, we played the freindly game for a while and ended on a good note.  I really need to work on my communication skills!!          ...

30. Broken Horse
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...of Equine Wellness Magazine by Kirt Lander 'A horse must have shoes to be ridden or put to work, and attempting to do so barefoot may cause him to go lame and be ruined' You've prob...