Sophia

my horse is a pretty hard puller. ive owned him for 6 years and i have finally gotten him used to a nice snaffle bit, but if he doesnt feel like stopping or slowing down he wont and i hate to yank on his mouth so much.

i do know that a flash would help to keep his mouth closed and i have used one and yes it does help. but in my search for a new flash, i found the kineton noseband.

i thought this might be usefull..

so my question is, has anyone here used one? and if so, how did you like it?

thanks!

im on a new fly spray hunt....

im using bronco right now. i hear its one of the best...and its really cheap where i buy it.

BUT, whats YOUR favorite fly spray?

how often do you use it?

how much do you pay for it?

and do you order online or buy from a store and if so in bulk or single bottles?

sorry if this is kinda a probey question, but i want the best spray for my horses and id love to hear your personal experiences with fly spray :)

thanks!

ok..so my horse is kinda oldish. ive had him for 6 yrs and never had this problem that i can recall. and its concerning.

its been real hot and humid lately. so i put my horses in the cooler pasture with grass. i have been noticing some not so ball type poops..you know kinda more like a patty eww. anyways, when i put my horses over in the other pasture..i noticed that when im bringing them back my horse will like open his mouth a little and water will come out. and it almost seems like he has a runny mouth..idk its really weird. and its weirding me out. idk why hes doin that.

if anyone has seen this before pls help! is there anything i can do or is this normal?

thank!

so i just got a job today, but i have to do a drug test. how long does it take for weed to go through your system!?

so earlier i saw an answer where someone said to always feed a horse(i think it was in reference to older horses) their hay/forage before the grain.

why is this? and is this for all horses?

so i know that someone on here asked if they could feed horses grass clippings. everyone said NO. haha i dont disagree. BUT...i have to admit, i let my horses eat grass clippings and ive never had a problem with colic or choking. so, i have a couple questions:

1. wouldnt your horse know if the grass clippings arent good? like, would they be able to smell the chemicals of gas and such? an instinct type of thing.

i have a picky horse and a very not so much picky horse. my picky horse eats hardly anything new, but my other one will eat anything. but they both eat grass clippings happily.

2. i know there are different types of mowers. typical lawn mowers and then the tractor mowers. do they make a difference? my neighbor has a tractor mower and mows his field that has really long grass in it. ive snuck over and raked some of the grass and given it to my horses. haha :P but on those mowers, isnt the cutter/blade thing not under the mower but sorta behind or to the side? so no gas would get on it..right? whereas a normal lawn mower the blade is right under the mower..please correct me if im wrong! thanks :)

and 3. what about hay? its been mowed. and yes been dried, but what about the same gas problem?

i have here a picture of two bridles...but i dont know what the difference of them are. they are completely different thought. someone help?

http://www.sstack.com/english_bridles_snaffle-/pro...

i am doing a research project and i need to find primary sources. i have been looking and looking and i cant seem to find anything.

is there a site that i can go to that has alot of primary sources? or just good articles and info?

ok so the horse section is going really slow tonight. so, whats ur favorite breed? mine is a thoroughbred.

I was just wondering because I attened one of his clinics this winter and I wanted to know if anyone had heard of him and if they liked him.

I havent been on this for a while and im seeing all these things on trolls. what is this??

OK, so I have asked advise for this here i think it was like 2 months ago. I have a Standerded bred ex-racer mare.I have had her for 5 yrs and we have never had any problems with her. But at the beggining of the summer, She had a fluid pocket on her stiffle. I iced it, hosed it, and even had my vet drain it. I gave Myra (my horse) intibiotics and bute and bantamine. just this month, her fluid finaly started going down. so i started lunging her and hosing her fluid after. it dramaticly went don in size but its still not gone and it is going to be fall in 1 month!!Myra is off all medications. today I lunged her and put some Mineral Ice on her fluid. If anyone sits on her she limps. but the other day i put a 6yr old on her and she did really good. no limping. i have not cantered her at all on the lunge line but i have trotting about 5 times around me at once on each side. a little more sometimes. what else can i do for her? why hasnt the fluid left yet?? any thoughts will be helpful!!

I have used a Kimberwick on my horse and he did pretty good. I was working on bending and good contact. Is this a good bit to use or should i think of using a different bit?

I have already used a snaffle, a double-jointed D ring,and an eggbutt. My horse really liked the snaffle but he didnt always listen to me if he was full of himself. I have used the kimberwick with the slot-like things and right now im using a regular.

I own a 18 y/o saddlebred/ arab mix. I have had him for 4 years. Before i got him he was cowboyed. He now has a very hard mouth. And whenever i ride he fights to run and never relaxes. The past four years he has gotten better but not nearly where i wish him to be. His brakes are the worst part. I am looking for bit suggestions that would allow me to have better brakes but still allow me to have good contact. p.s. i ride english.

My horse all of a sudden was lame one evening. the next morning, she was standing in the middle of the pasture. she wouldnt even move for her grain. She had a huge fluid pocket on her stifle area.I called the vet and she gave me some antibiodics. later, we ended up draining the pocket. it filled back up, like i knew it would. it has now been maybe 4 weeks of no antibiotics and its been almost a month since my horse has had the fluid pocket and she still has it. what should i do?

Before I bought my horse, he was cowboyed. If you dont know what that is,its when a horse is made to run barrels and nothing else. No fun trails or anything. So when I bought him, he was pretty much crazy. Over the 3 years that i have owned him, I have trained him alot. But now I have been working on some dressage with him and I have been lunging him over some caveleti. (hope i spelt that right) he has been doing really good in the ring but if I want to just take him on a pleasure ride he gets all hyper and he doesnt have any brakes at all. I have tried using different riding hand and leg signals and i have tried using a kimberwick strait mouth, a double jointed D-ring, a snaffle, and an eggbutt. the one that worked the best was the kimberwick. but it just didnt have what i wanted. not enough brakes.i thought about using a slow twisted snaffle for more brakes. should i?