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.

Horses, very similar to humans, are justifiably averse to getting any kind of shot of any kind of drug or vitamin or whatever. Even those bred right out of a domesticated environment will still react using an animal’s natural fight or flight reaction. Leave pony riding and equestrian training for a moment; and work on training your reliable steed to learn to put up with needles.

Your mare may never enjoy being pricked by that needle every time she needs a shot, but she can better handle it if you make the time to train her for it. Like in equestrian coaching and practicing complex dressage routines, patience and praise will do wonderful things.

An equestrian would know that horses are definitely hay burners and consume much of one’s budget. That’s why, in finance as well as other aspects, it is difficult to keep and care for just one—how much more if you are a ‘horse addict ‘ and have a herd?

Getting your own horse should come with adequate reason—you must either want her for horse riding or for sport or you see horseback maneuvers as an art form, or some other reason along those lines. No reason can be decidedly wrong, it is simply that the reason for your getting horses would then affect how you go about acquiring one. A horse that’s perfect for your motivation is essential: an occasional ride would entail an aged, well-broke pony; a challenging equestrian sport would require a talented competitive steed; and those who wish to see moving, graceful art would need horses talented enough for dressage.

There are many aspects of humans that are similar to horses. Among the more outstanding similarities: we both need camaraderie and fellowship to survive. Horses are herd animals, human beings are political animals. The core of both natures is that an individual horse or human will always need another of his kind to go on. Another important parallelism between the two species is that when in a needed form of fellowship, an individual horse or human is the subject of pressure. When several minds mingle and share identical space, pressure is unavoidable.