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Member: Penner |
Posted on Tuesday, Oct 22, 2002 - 9:41 pm: Homemade Summertime Horse TreatsIn the summer here it gets really hot (over 100 degrees F). So what I do is I buy a large watermelon (can get them for $1 here in the summer) & cut it all up (including the rind, horses eat all the parts) into small 1" pieces. Then I take a huge bowl (about 12" diameter), fill it 1/3 way with watermelon pieces, & fill the bowl up to the rim with water & freeze. I store the rest of the watermelon for another day to make this. When frozen, take it out to your horse (in a cooler if you have to travel)& shake it out of the bowl into the manger. They love it (its sweet) & lick it like a popsicle until its done. They lick the manger up too, so no worry about flies attracted to the sugar. A large piece of ice like this can last for quite a while (1/2 hour in 110 degree heat). |
Member: Lindy |
Posted on Saturday, Dec 14, 2002 - 4:55 am: Inexpensive & Exciting Jumps.We have a nice collection of plain standards & jumping poles but needed to add more variety to the jumps we were practicing on. Our solution was to cut 4 x 8 sheets of 3/4 inch plywood into thirds. We then painted the three pieces to look like a brick wall on one side and a scary bulls eye pattern on the other. Just lean the panels against your poles and you have an interesting fence. You can also stand two of them upright against your standards to create wings. If painted on both sides each sheet of plywood makes two different jumps. We have also laid these panels flat on the ground and used them to help accustom colts to walk onto bridges or trailers. They are easy to make, easy to move around and the painting possibilities are endless! Have fun! |
Member: Kayfry |
Posted on Tuesday, Apr 1, 2003 - 10:56 am: Bridging the reins is also very useful for those of us who tend to lean forward too much at times, rather than staying back over our center to use weight and body alignment most effectively. I ride hunters, but I would think it would be applicable to other disciplines as well. It's odd but it works: Try bridging your reins and holding them in one hand as you work on the flat and over jumps. This will automatically make you use your body properly to balance and turn your horse, and it will keep you from leaning up on the horse's neck. It will get your weight back and down in your heels, and your leg directly under you where it belongs. |
Member: Chrism |
Posted on Thursday, Aug 21, 2003 - 12:10 pm: Here is another "equipment tip."Sometimes something has to hit me on the head. My older horse is 15 hds and fine boned. I usually can find brush boots to fit, but wanted to have polo wraps as an alternative protection. (You know us dressage riders - all that lateral work makes us want some sort of protection from an errant scuff.) And, I was taking her to a clinic with paying auditors, so I didn't want to look like a hopeless rube (the 10 yo truck with the peeling paint, the 17 yo trailer, the 20 yo horse, the 40 yo groom and the 50 yo rider could be overlooked when dazzled with pristine white wraps? LOL) In any case, horse sized wraps give my mare a "Ruth Buzzy" look (for those of you who remember the little old lady on Laugh-in) - or make her look like an ER poster horse ... or the demo horse at the vet school ... i.e. they are too long and bulky!! So, on a whim, I tried pony wraps and they are just perfect and look very nice. Cheers! |