Come winter cut back on the pony riding and equestrian sports and concentrate on your horse’s feed—or just how much she needs. Because when such seasons are near, you know your hard keepers are going to be harder to feed than they already are.

All horses are influenced by a range of physical and emotional factors—thin horses more than others. Some of the more significant contributing factors are teeth, calorie needs, stomach parasites, and stress.

When it comes to holistic horse health care, as an old adage goes: “nothing can’t be healed.” Whether, it is lack of energy, a puny stomach, or poor posture, there is no condition that can not be made better. But of course, it takes a lot of active participation on the part of the pony owner. An equestrian ought to know better than merely give up without exhausting all possible treatments, both conventional and alternative.

Horses have similar traits to humans, and a number of these may be employed to overcome our equestrian training problems and learning blocks.

An equestrian with enough enthusiasm in horses and enough skill to be able to make any steed a safe mount for horse riding can teach newbs some measure of riding on horseback. In fact , many trainers and owners are rather more than adequately experienced and therefore sufficiently skilled to teach intermediate lessons on not just pony riding, but other manoeuvres employed in sport and shows. But herein surfaces a dilemma, though many are capable enough and learned enough in equine and equestrian workings, many of them don’t have licenses or certificates to teach what they know.

Deworming your horses can be trickier than training for Olympic equestrian events—but that’s only if you did not train your horses for the procedure. You can try to re-train them to accept the whole trial, but on the other hand it is often better to start at the beginning. Anyway, whether you are just introducing the deworming practice or you are trying hard to get your mare to love it even just barely more than before, there’s a simple coaching scheme you can employ.