Spring Cleaning Your Horse Barn
Spring is the perfect time for maintenance and cleaning projects around the horse barn.
Spring is the perfect time to tackle maintenance and cleaning projects around your horse barn. Generally, the weather is becoming more pleasant and "spring fever" starts to kick in, endowing us with energies and enthusiasm we didn't know we had!.........
Spring is the perfect time to tackle maintenance and cleaning projects around your horse barn. Generally, the weather is becoming more pleasant and "spring fever" starts to kick in, endowing us with energies and enthusiasm we didn't know we had!.........
Spring Cleaning Around the Barn
Even before the snow melts and the mud dries, horse owners are happily gearing up for warmer weather and solid ground, and are itching to be free of bulky clothes and thick gloves. While waiting out the last gasps of winter, many of us “pony up” to organize the mess we’ve made of our barns during the off-season and begin the tasks that signal spring is about to be sprung.
Tackling the Barn
Forget robins — spring arrives when you can unplug your bucket heaters and the water doesn’t freeze overnight. To have.......
Tackling the Barn
Forget robins — spring arrives when you can unplug your bucket heaters and the water doesn’t freeze overnight. To have.......
Stacy Westfall
About Stacy Westfall
Even as a young child growing up in Maine, Stacy loved horses and rode whenever she had the chance. She got her first pony Misty, when she was six. Her.......
Even as a young child growing up in Maine, Stacy loved horses and rode whenever she had the chance. She got her first pony Misty, when she was six. Her.......
Training Horses with Snaffle Bits and Curb Bits
-With Larry Trocha-
Let’s start with snaffle bits.
Most colts should be started in a snaffle bit. And, many older horses that need fixing should also be schooled in a snaffle bit.
To my way of thinking, a horse should be ridden in the mildest bit that he will respond to for the job that he is intended to do.
Here is the reason why:........
Let’s start with snaffle bits.
Most colts should be started in a snaffle bit. And, many older horses that need fixing should also be schooled in a snaffle bit.
To my way of thinking, a horse should be ridden in the mildest bit that he will respond to for the job that he is intended to do.
Here is the reason why:........