Where Horses Rule
Have you ever watched a horse show? What a horse show means differ from country to country, but as a general rule, it’s an event whereby you show your horse and its abilities either ridden or in hand. Some events are breed, type, or discipline-specific, whereas others are open to all. Today we will admire…
What you see here in this video is a special harness-driving combination called Troika. Rarely seen because it is a Russian tradition, one of those ‘Only in Russia’ moments. As crazy it might seem, it was actually an effective and fast way of delivering mail in the 17th and 18th centuries. Decorated troikas were commonly…
Everyone saw viral animals practicing yoga on the internet, cats, and dogs, but have you ever seen a horse doing yoga poses? Horses tend to do yoga in private when no one else is around them. There is a YouTube video published on 19 March 2018, where a horse is stretching and practicing yoga postures…
The footage seems to be emotional. It presents a blind horse that struggles but somehow he still feels and can walk without any problems. The horse can sense the tree and doesn’t get into it while walking. Experts say that they found that in working with and around a blind horse, talking to it is…
Do Horses Need Their Own Separate Stalls? Short Answer: In traditionally built barns, Yes. Whether a horse needs its own stall depends on the horse and the particular stall. If your barn has standard 12×12 or even 12×16 foot stalls, then they are too small for average-sized horses to be paired up together. But the…
WATER! Water is crucial for every function in your horse’s body from their respiratory tract to their digestive system. Horses need 2 to 3 times more water than any other feed. Horses drink an average of 5 to 10 gallons of fresh water a day. Take a look at this funny horse that can’t stop…
Donkeys today come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and coat texture. The most common coat color is grey, followed by brown and then black, roan, and broken colored donkeys (a combination of brown and white or black and white markings) and the rarest color is pure white. The one in our video is black and…
Did you know that Belgian Draft horses are very strong? These horses were very significant in wartime to Hitler, who built bunkers up and down the coast covering over 100 miles of landscape. The Germans used Belgian draft horses to pull concrete, materials, and supplies. These amazingly strong animals can pull 8,000 pounds. The interesting…
Did you know that horses can read human emotions, too, often in uncannily accurate ways, alerting us to our sadness or nervousness, sometimes before we’ve even consciously registered it? You know how it’s said: No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses. The equine ability to read human emotion through sound and touch…
Impressive, right? Kurtsystems is a PRE-TRAINING SYSTEM that prepares young horses for training and strengthens their musculoskeletal system. Kurtsystems, at Kingwood Stud in Lambourn, is a revolutionary new process designed to aid the pre-training of young racehorses before they enter a traditional race-training regime. It introduces young horses to a pre-training program without the threat…
Horses may not love each other in the same capacity as a human loving another human. But a horse can undoubtedly feel and give affection. Horses show affection for one another through vocalizations as well as by actions. For example, they nickel to show happiness when greeting other horses, scratch to show affection and love,…
I think we all heard about cat-themed restaurants/cafes or dog-themed ones. But did anyone ever heard of horse-themed restaurants? Well, in this video, we can see one. Imagine spending a few hours of your free time at this lovely restaurant, watching this beautiful horse. Maybe it would be nice to have a little picnic on…
From the Lena horse species that is now extinct, the young horse is 37 inches tall and was only two months old when it perished. Scientists dug it from its icy grave in the Batagai depression or crater – nicknamed the ‘Mouth of Hell’ – earlier this month. The prehistoric foal is part of a…
Some may think about how beautiful this horse is, how gorgeous, graceful, proud he looks. But some may think about the way he is trying to say hello to a statue. Either way, his action is a funny one. When we work with horses there are certain situations we are bound to run into sooner…
I think many of us expected the horse to panic or start running through the pastures. Well, fortunately, that didn’t happen. We can say that these horses caught the bait. Yes, they were confused at first but again, fortunately, nothing bad happened. However, I wouldn’t recommend such “jokes” with any horse because sometimes, a confused…
Many horses are fascinated by water. They may want to paw at the water, roll in the shallows or even blow bubbles. You may find that your horse will lead well until it gets to the water’s edge and then crowd between you and the water so that it doesn’t have to go into the…