Hi Judy,
I was very surprised to learn how playful Faxi was shortly after I
bought him. I worked on establishing with him a bond and trustful
relationship. One of our daily habits was to take him from his paddock
and go 'play/exercise' in the very large arena where I boarded him.
Since I wa
By Wrangler Jayne:
HORSES ARE PLAYFUL!
One of the most joyful - and enjoyable - things about horses is their
desire and willingness to play! They play with each other, with 'toys', with
us, with other animals!
Do you think your horse likes to play? How would you rate him or h
Response to Dr. Phil's comment on horse ownership as exercise:
At this time of year, after the holidays, ads for weight-loss
programs saturate print media and the airwaves. Even TV talk shows
devote time to "The battle of the Bulge". I caught part of a Dr. Phil
episode in which the prominent s
Jean Francois Pignon will be at the British Open:
http://www.britishopenshowjumping.com/Pagebuilder.aspx?pagename=Latest%20News%20Jean%20Francois%20Pignon
Judy
http://icehorses.net
http://clickryder.com
Want to come hang out with us at the Union County shows?
I may try to go to some of them.
Karen Thomas
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>>> I have a Reactor Panel saddle and would need a cover for the flex
panels. Raven <;]
Oh...I wouldn't being to know how to make booties for the Reactor Panel. We
don't even have the FnE any more, so I couldn't even copy those.
Karen Thomas
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>> Seriously, if I run across some fabric, I'll let you know. You can
get a Skito cover made with your own fabric if you order from Kaaren
Jordan
I have a Reactor Panel saddle and would need a cover for the flex
panels. Raven <;]
>> Look at # 7 - could this be the No-see-um repellant we are all
looking for? Could it be that easy?! :-) Well, who knew...?
>> P. S. The basic ingredient is FISH OIL
There is no way that I would use WD-40 on my ponies.
Main ingredients, from the material safety sheet are:
50% Stoddard solve
On 2/1/07, Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Uhmm, let me think. No. No way! I'd starve if I had to depend on this to
> make a living, and I'd go nuts. I don't mind making a few things for
> myself, but if I get frustrated, I can just stop. Customers wouldn't be
> happy if I thre
How does this work if you have a dryback pad? Would you just put the
cover over the whole thing?
Oh, no, at least I don't think so. What I'm talking about is simply taking
the foam out of your existing Skito and putting it into another cover - sort
of an "empty" Skito pad. (I guess they co
Karen??? Want to go into the custom pad making business? >bg<
Uhmm, let me think. No. No way! I'd starve if I had to depend on this to
make a living, and I'd go nuts. I don't mind making a few things for
myself, but if I get frustrated, I can just stop. Customers wouldn't be
happy if I t
Karen Thomas wrote:
> Seriously, if I run across some fabric, I'll let you know. You can get a
> Skito cover made with your own fabric if you order from Kaaren Jordan.
How does this work if you have a dryback pad? Would you just put the
cover over the whole thing?
Trish
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 04:37:31PM -0600, Wanda Lauscher wrote:
> However, I tried and tried and tried to get Hreggur to TROT over poles
> and I had no success. He did his little version of pace...and that
> was it.
wanda -- just wanted to say that i had trotting poles set up for stjarni
yesterd
On 2/1/07, Raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Beautiful! So, if you come across some beautiful black/purple
> tapestry, you must make Huginn's RP saddle a cover. PLEASE!! I'd pay
> ya! Raven <;]
In all honesty I need a custom bootie set for the RP for showing this year...
Karen??? Want to g
>>> When are you going to have a sewing clinic? ;-) What a pretty
pad
Thanks, but no, you wouldn't like me when I'm doing this - I get pretty
grumpy. :) I'm TRYING to make a tan leather pommel bag with a tapestry
insert to match the pad now. I think there's a good chance it will go to
> You've got way too much energy on 'snow' days. But come to think of it,
> I'm all energetic on the first snow day. ... it does wear off though.
Ha! I wouldn't know!
Karen Thomas
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Beautiful! So, if you come across some beautiful black/purple tapestry,
you must make Huginn's RP saddle a cover. PLEASE!! I'd pay ya! Raven <;]
I'm not sure I have the patience to do one for anyone else. It helps
knowing that if I get ticked off, I can just check the whole thing in the
g
> I'd say that's a very good sample of an in-hand video of such a young one.
> We can lead our babies, but I haven't tried leading them at any speed.
> We'll have to try it soon - but not in this muddy slush!
>
> I saw a lot of transitions from gait to gait, and yes, I think I saw some
> saddle ra
Beautiful! So, if you come across some beautiful black/purple
tapestry, you must make Huginn's RP saddle a cover. PLEASE!! I'd pay
ya! Raven <;]
Raven
Lucy & Molly, the Girl Doggies
Huginn, the American Ice Pony
Dixie Chick, the Mini Barn Goddess
Western WI, USA, Planet Earth
> I made a tan/brown/hunter tapestry saddle pad to fit over my Equine Comfort
> Correction pad. I think this color will work well for Melnir and Flekka.
> Karen Thomas, in melting snow in NC
You've got way too much energy on 'snow' days. But come to think of
it, I'm all energetic on the first sn
> I thought I saw a foxtrot a few times and some saddlerack (but I could
> be entirely wrong, I haven't done much of this), and of course there's a
> canter in there (her favorite gait)! What do you think?
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn9lOmnKPpw
I can't tell what is what e
Karen Thomas wrote:
> I made a tan/brown/hunter tapestry saddle pad to fit over my Equine Comfort
> Correction pad. I think this color will work well for Melnir and Flekka.
When are you going to have a sewing clinic? ;-) What a pretty pad
Trish
We have had rain in AZ. Ruined my riding plans.
Sunny weather starting tomorrow. It will be it the
70's next week. Back to normal. Lorraine
Happy Trails
Finding fabulous fares is fun.
Let Yahoo! FareCha
I thought I saw a foxtrot a few times and some saddlerack (but I could
be entirely wrong, I haven't done much of this), and of course there's a
canter in there (her favorite gait)! What do you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn9lOmnKPpw
I'd say that's a very good sample of an in-hand
We've been living with it since ... It was fun at first but it's
getting real old
I'll bet. I just can't imagine.
We're all so bored. He's gotten really pissy with the Llamas pinnin'
back his ears and pushing them around. I've opened up all the gates to all
the pastures & paddoc
BTW, I don't normally care for the medicine hat pintos, but that one is very
pretty.
Karen Thomas
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On 2/1/07, Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Flekka in front, Saga in the rear.
They look so cute!
V
>>> Starri and Kopar were pretty frisky when I let them out this
morning...our snow has already melted.
Great pics! Ours isn't all melted yet, but at least the ice has quit
building.
Karen Thomas
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On 2/1/07, Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Eitill said he thought he left all that snow and mess in Michigan. What's
> up with this?
What a pretty picture!
V
> I don't know how you folks further north handle it. I'm not a fan of
winter either.
I am from Texas, many years ago. I did not grow up here. So when I came up
here in 1990 I thought snow was beautiful. But after driving in it and
falling down in it and the ice underneath it I have change
Hi Denise,
I just went and looked at your art work on ebay - very nice!
http://stores.ebay.com/Peicasa-Fine-Animal-and-Nature-Art
Karen Thomas
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awesome! Oh she is really something! I love her neck. I think its
vey interesting that she changes gaits when she is pulled a
little faster so when her head goes up, the gait begins to morph!
very telling! I see foxtrot and saddlerack and rw i think! and the
RW is when she is very relax
http://www.thetackfinder.com/starphotos.html
The snow photos are below the sunny photos... Star was such a good
little pony, except trying to run a few times. ;)
Steph
--
"Brutality begins where skill ends."
"Correctly understood, work at the lunge line is indispensable for
rider and horse from
Canter? Sherrel
Oh I know that one... .hop, skip and jump!
Denise
Peicasa Art: http://stores.ebay.com/Peicasa-Fine-Animal-and-Nature-Art
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Sir Winston
Churchill
I dont know what happened! Now every single time I post Ihave to
manually change it to plain text. It didnt used to do that!
Janice
I never pray for snow. Since moving to Ohio I have learned to really
dislike winter. Ice in particualar.
I don't know how you folks further north handle it. I'm not a fan of winter
either.
At least the temp here is up to 33 degrees, so it doesn't appear to be
building on the power lines a
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> Ok, who else is getting snow?
We've been living with it since Thanksgiving
The other morning I went out to feed it was 8 degrees. I came in
after about an hour and was so disappointed to find it had gone down
to 5. Silly me, I didn't notice the minus sign. It had actually
gone up 3
>>> I was looking all over for canter pics to see if anything looked like
that, but couldn't find anything, it did occur to me, but I decided it
looked pretty lateral, but maybe not?
I THINK you might say that canter has both lateral and diagonal
components...?
I think what tips me to thinking ca
> Ok, who else is getting snow? It appears to be all snow at the moment,
> with a 90% chance of precipitation today.
Yep, snow here. But this time of the year we generally have snow. But
oddly it has snowed A LOT in the last two weeks and we really have very
little snow. What we have is win
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, "Karen Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I think it's the gait that I always screw up when I see it in
a "what gait"
> picture - when I'm expecting to see a soft gait. Looks like on page
191,
> figure #4 of Lee Ziegler's "Easy-Gaited Horses" - canter, I thi
Look at # 7 - could this be the No-see-um repellant we are all looking
for? Could it be that easy?! :-)
Well, who knew...?
I had a neighbor who had bought a new pickup. I got up very early one
Sunday morning and saw that someone had spray painted red all around
the sides of this beige truck (for
>>> In the attached picture of a western saddle, the skirt hits the horse
right in the loins. With a rider, it would be extremely uncomfortable for
the horse, as the saddle (note the downward-to-the-rear angle of the seat)
would put the rider's unbalanced weight to the back, adding to the pressure
> I wonder where the rest of the post I typed went to
Thanks Judy, I made the changes. Sherrel
I think it's the gait that I always screw up when I see it in a "what gait"
picture - when I'm expecting to see a soft gait. Looks like on page 191,
figure #4 of Lee Ziegler's "Easy-Gaited Horses" - canter, I think.
Funny how I always forget that canter has a single foot support phase too!
Do yo
Is it a rack? It looks like this is a single foot support phase, and it also
looks like the hind feet will hit the ground and pick up slightly before the
front.
Kim
> Beautiful to watch...poetry in motion. What does it mean, though,
> when
> the tail is always swishing? Is this just a habit type of thing? Trish
>
> I think, generically, tails swishing means the horse is stressed.
> However,
> I'd attribute this to a sort of physical/mental stre
On 2/1/07, Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, who else is getting snow?
We had a very light dustung this morning but now ewe are getting snow,
sleet and freezing rain - the roads will be getting bad real soon.-
luckily we have a wood stove if we lose power but water is the tough
one - n
wow a singlefoot something! rack?
Janice
--
yipie tie yie yo
I've got snow, too... About to head out to feed and I *might* try to
get on one of hte barefoot horses for a spin around the pasture.
All my life I've wanted to ride in snow and haven't ever gotten to... ;)
Steph
--
"Brutality begins where skill ends."
"Correctly understood, work at the lunge l
It
> certainly looks lovely in the video.
>
Well put response, Karen. I have seen a lot of upper level dressage
tests and sometimes you can tell that the horse is stressed and not on
a good way - probably brought along too fast, as Karen said. Even
with the tail swishing, I didn't get the impre
Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>>Snow boy.<<
HA! This is my favorite!
Susan in NV
Happy High Desert Trails
Susan in NV
Nevermore Ranch http://users.oasisol.com/nevermore/
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The fish are biting.
Get more visitors on your site usi
>>> Whew-ee! You guys got real snow...our place just looks like someone
sprinkled flour around.
We had at least 3", but now it's turned to rain...and it's still around
31-32 degrees. I'm watching the power lines ice up and I hate this! I want
it to snow or do nothing, or at least warm up. I h
On 2/1/07, Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Karen Thomas, NC
oh my gosh, now this could win a contest! You need to make a poster!
janice--
yipie tie yie yo
I am Karen... it started at about 8am and it's falling steadily. I'm, as you
know, am near Oxford, NC
Beautiful to watch...poetry in motion. What does it mean, though, when
the tail is always swishing? Is this just a habit type of thing? Trish
I think, generically, tails swishing means the horse is stressed. However,
I'd attribute this to a sort of physical/mental stress, in that the hors
On 2/1/07, Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Poor Loftur lived in Florida for a few years before I got him. He probably
> hasn't seen this much snow since he left Iceland.
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> Karen Thomas, NC
He is thinking... oh dear, somehow after I went to sleep last nite I
woke up in
We've got really wet snow right now so we'll end up iced in today and
probably tomorrow. Our roads down the mountain are steep with switchbacks
and we'd be likely to slide off the mountain if we hit ice!
Cherie
Karen Thomas wrote:
> The best tasting snow is that on your brother's withers I guess. Tifa
> snacks while Landi poses.
Whew-ee! You guys got real snow...our place just looks like someone
sprinkled flour around.
Trish
Karen Thomas wrote:
> Ok, who else is getting snow?
We are! We woke to a light dusting. Still have electric and water!
It's starting to really snow now...
Trish
Karen Thomas wrote:
> Looking at the archives, I don't think this came through when I sent it
> last week. She is a beautiful athelete
> http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=zKQgTiqhPbw
> --
> Wow - and a mare too. Not often do you see mares at that level of
> dressage.
>>>
Judy Ryder wrote:
> One of the guidelines for saddle fit is that the end of the saddle should not
> sit past the last rib on the horse.
Does this include the skirt of a western saddle or does this mean where
the tree ends?
Trish
Ok, who else is getting snow? It appears to be all snow at the moment,
with a 90% chance of precipitation today. I pray for snow, not ice -
although my REAL preference is for spring! I hate it when we lose power.
Twenty-five horses drink a lot of water, and it's kind of a pain to get the
genera
On 1/31/07, SHERREL LEININGER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wonder where the rest of the post I typed went to
> The rest of what I wrote when like this
> I put my parelli halter on Stigandi and the knots were a little closer to
> center than yours was but not much. A smaller halter might
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