Treat Manners
Everyone knows that hand feeding horses teaches them to bite! This is one of my favorite subjects. How is it possible that something that can teach manners and establish healthy…
Read moreChecking Fence
I needed to ride some fence. The cows are grazing corn stalks over the winter. Picking up any corn dropped by the combine and putting fertilizer back into the ground.…
Read moreBeyond The Dummy
Rusty has been practicing on the dummy. He decided that after all that hard work he was ready to try the real thing. He missed his loop but don’t we…
Read moreMore Colors
We’ve gotten to work a couple of times on our colors. Rusty is good but not great at choosing the right color when asked. He is getting very good at…
Read moreMatching Colors
I’ve been playing a lot with Ghost. Rusty hasn’t been ignored though! He knows his colors. Now were working on matching those colors. Starting with blue. Once can consistently match…
Read moreRusty Roping
This was a fun quick little video we made. Just messing around really. Simple and easy. I put it on the facebook page and it has over a thousand shares…
Read moreTricks
Why bother teaching a bunch of ‘silly tricks’? Isn’t it more important to teach the important thing? Shouldn’t our horses know how to lead, to ride, things that matter before…
Read moreStanding Quietly
A little bit of nothingness. Nothing is important. We all should be spending more time doing exactly nothing. Most of the time we spend with horses we are asking them…
Read moreA Little Backwards
We seem to have a new preferred riding style around here right now. Not sure why. It’s apparently more fun this way. For the Goblin Child. 8 always wants to…
Read moreDriving Horse
We got snow a couple of weeks ago. Lots of snow. Enough snow that I decided it was time to get the harness out and work on driving again. Apparently…
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