Rancho Sananda

02/03/2024

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23/08/2023

That's so true 😍
credits: TABELO

04/03/2023

I recently ran across this Bob Bailey quote that I had saved some years ago from Bob’s Fundamentals of Animal Training DVD.

Horse training is not about teaching our horses to think.

Our horses are already very intelligent!
They know how to learn from their environment.
They know how to think.

When our horses are distracted, performing the wrong behaviors, or just slow to respond, it’s tempting to think that the horse isn’t thinking.

Instead, it is more useful to think about -- what is your horse thinking about instead?

Is the horse paying attention to something else in the environment? Is the horse confused about the cues you are giving? Is the horse afraid of something?

Good training is about clarity of communication between horse and trainer.

When we train using positive reinforcement methods and clicker training, we can give our horses opportunities to make choices and problem solve.

In addition, we also need to set up our training sessions and our shaping steps so that it is easy for our horses to learn and so that they can be confident, happy, and successful during the training process.

08/02/2023

21/01/2023

On average horses drink 7-10 gallons of water a day and this remains as important in cold weather as it is in the summer because reduced water intake can lead to gastrointestinal problems such as the dreaded impaction colic.

Studies demonstrate that horses will drink more if provided access to heated water and that most water consumption happens within three hours of feeding. How can you use this information to your advantage? Refill buckets at feed time with warm water to maximize your horse’s water intake—especially in the winter when water is more likely to be freezing or close to freezing.

As always, if you have any questions or would like to learn more about preventing colic in your horse, your equine veterinarian remains your best source of information!
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Brought to you by the AAEP Horse Owner Education Committee.

27/12/2022

Please yallllll 😂😂😂

19/10/2022

INFLUENCE VS TRAINING…

"The influence of the rider’s midsection (German: Kreuz) on the horse’s locomotive mechanism is the most powerful aid the rider has at his disposal.

It is no coincidence that it is said: The rider who possesses ‘Kreuz’ possesses the most important key for the horse’s training. No leg, much less the spur, can replace this ‘Kreuz.’

Without a connection to the Kreuz, these two create unharmonious changes in the rhythm and tact of the footfall sequence, thus becoming the source of a ‘disturbed overall expression’ of any equestrian presentation.

A ‘squeezing’ or ‘tapping’ leg is always out of sync with the horse’s motion and therefore not an ‘aid’ but an irritating ‘source of confusion’ that the horse has to put up with.”
- Brigadier Kurt Albrecht

Note this does not mean ‘driving’ the horse and grinding into their back with our seat. That’s not the way the horse’s back moves.

“First we go with the horse, then the horse goes with us, then we go together.”

We swing with, we still…

This is why the ‘master’s triangle’ is so powerful…

The last two colts I started, taught me that leg aids are too much, weight aids are too much, pressure and release at the lightest phase is still too much…

We ride the motion of the movement, and it happens, but only if we are first willing to Go With.

This is the herd.

Leadership and co-regulation are important in the herd, we know that leaders are more stressed than followers for good reason, but in motion, there’s something in place that is beyond leadership or following…there is synchronicity.

A lot of natural horsemanship forgot that ‘natural’ goes beyond dominance theories and the mastery of escalating pressure and instantaneous release… it goes into the phenomena of synchronicity.

When we’re doing bodywork, when we’re timing up with the horse’s movement, or adjusting timing, this isn’t something that behaviorism can explain, that the animal is ‘just responding to an aversive in its environment.’

This is something different…

“Researchers have been able to determine that schooling in fish, swarming in insects, and murmuration in birds is not a learned behavior. It seems to be instinctive and even involuntary.”

https://insanitek.net/schooling-swarming-and-murmuration-animal-synchronicity/

05/10/2022