Buying a Horse
Tips before you go out and start looking that could save you thousands of hours and dollars and increase the chances in getting a safer horse.
Horse Classifieds Decoded
Tips before you go out and start looking that could save you thousands of hours and dollars and increase the chances in getting a safer horse.
Horse Classifieds Decoded
Unlike humans, horses are non-verbal, providing self-reflective communication. You will directly see and learn the impact of your body language. Immediate change will provide responsive and special results with your horse experience.
In the age of technology, social media and peer pressures, mental state of wellbeing in youth is of concern through lack of ability to communicate and less contact with animals to instil natural empathy.
I grew up as the average farm girl on cattle and sheep property of around 2000acres developing mental and physical toughness and learning how to fend for ourselve’s. Helping out with farmwork, mustering, working and training horses and spending most weekends at a horse competition or camping away at polocrosse with my family of mum, dad and 2 brothers. Pretty protected from the troubles of town life, parties etc as we lived an hour out of town with a 14km dirt driveway from the main road and my first car a 1969 Torana that would shake at 80km. Having a big brother helped also on the school bus which was pretty rough.
I found this lovely poem by Tracy Meisenbach and it just touches my heart about why horses are so incredibly fantastic for girls growing up.
Parents this should without a doubt point you in the right direction with your horse decisions.
Please note that this advice relies on you knowing how to lunge a horse properly and safely and with the correct hore gear and personal attire.
For some people they are dealing with a number of factors such as lack of horse training experience, naughty undisciplined horses or just having troubles with a particular thing with their horse.
There are so many aspects and reasons why we lunge a horse but the most important item I feel is if your horse has not had regular work and you want to ensure additional safety when riding (depending on the type of horse) OR you do not know the horse ALWAYS: