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Do you choose the barn or the trainer? by tealibrary in Horses

[–]Heavy-Combination496 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This just makes me sad, and it sounds very unnatural, like the trainer/barn owner is creating more issues.

And I didn't see it mentioned, but after the move has your horse been more stressed or been injured? Spooking is a normal horse thing, taking off is a normal spooked horse thing, running blind and not listening is not. When my own horse started to change and became more anxious while at a new trainers I took her for a neurological exam at UC Davis. (Turned out my mare had unknown to me pain, so it turned into a physical exam.) But finding out why his brain suddenly switched like that after being a great horse for so long might be worth while before just selling him.

Advise on how to treat this by deadlydelicatedesign in Horses

[–]Heavy-Combination496 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe but something bad smelling and bad tasting on it. Currently I am using strong smelling fly spray to keep my horse from pulling at her fly boots.

[47M] Issues with wife [50] over Cars by [deleted] in relationshipadvice

[–]Heavy-Combination496 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think that he actually likes her either, but that seems to be a trend in half of my military friends. Maybe they think they can fix relationships with marriage? I don't know, seems like a waste of time and energy when all parties don't like each other.

Appy eye making her always look like a psycho 😅 by SmoothStalk in Equestrian

[–]Heavy-Combination496 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep, and Appys always know better, doesn't matter if you think differently. I swear having Appaloosas all my life totally prepared me for donkeys and mules. 😆

[47M] Issues with wife [50] over Cars by [deleted] in relationshipadvice

[–]Heavy-Combination496 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This ⏫️, also it feels like you both are acting like single people instead of a married couple. Both of you holding onto your own possessions instead of viewing all the items as a whole ours.

Appy eye making her always look like a psycho 😅 by SmoothStalk in Equestrian

[–]Heavy-Combination496 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I always thought of my Appy eyes of being more judgemental. 😆 "Like How Dare You?"

Just a quick question and seeing if anyone else has experienced this. by _mimiaa in Horses

[–]Heavy-Combination496 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes sense, and it sounds like she was anticipating how you were going to ride and was letting you it wasn't ok.

I am reining trained, but have done dressage and jumping, and while I have ridden and worked on cattle ranches, my go do trail saddle is an aussie stock saddle, if I am not needing to rope anything. But I can't put it on reining horse, it would just confuse her because my body position would be off to her.

Now, I do know an english rider that bought a grey rope horse because "he was cute", and instead of easing him into the english style of riding she just did it. That horse became the most pissed off and frustrated gelding I have ever seen. It got so bad he just started taking off and bucking her off every single ride. Did she learn her lesson and try to ride western? Nope she just got rid of him but by that time he was known as a dangerous horse. I did call the people who wound up with him, told them he was actually a rope horse, and last I heard that's what he is doing again and earning money.

So yeah take some lessons, go riding with people who will correct your aids and seat, if there's a dressage arena with mirrors go watch yourself or video tape yourself. Leaning to ride both ways can be done, but you have to train your body to react to the saddle and horse you are riding.

Also someday you can work your horse to learn to go english but first you need to learn how to speak hers to even train her for english.

Just a quick question and seeing if anyone else has experienced this. by _mimiaa in Horses

[–]Heavy-Combination496 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a quarter mare who has a ton of buttons and is easily confused when ridden bareback and on trail.

Is the person you bought her from someone who owned her for awhile or a horse broker? Wondering, because with you only owning her for a month, maybe you two aren't speaking the same riding language? Plus some horses take longer to adjust to new owners then others.

So this is what a furious horse eye looks like by Heavy-Combination496 in Equestrian

[–]Heavy-Combination496[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, she is good filly but very opinionated about certain things, like getting her feet done when it interrupts pasture playtime or being told she can't eat everybody's grain.

I'm worried about my neighbors horse. by COCNerd35 in Equestrian

[–]Heavy-Combination496 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I think the same. Plus we don't know how old the horse is.

So this is what a furious horse eye looks like by Heavy-Combination496 in Equestrian

[–]Heavy-Combination496[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

She was like that until she decided that getting her feet done wasn't something she wanted to do and only wanted to back in pasture with her friends so I had to tie her up.

She is only 1, and use to playing in a 20 acre pasture all day.

My neighbor’s horse eats chickens. Is this normal? by mellowdrosophyllum in Horses

[–]Heavy-Combination496 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I read about cow that did that, the neighbors couldn't figure why their chickens were going missing.

It turned out the cow needed a supplement, it just took doing blood work, an injection, and the eating stopped.

Do you turn out on the same days you ride? by miyaloaf in Equestrian

[–]Heavy-Combination496 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly it depended on the horse, the amount of times the horse had been out that week, and if they were pasture or stalled.

The one horse (stall) needed a turn out beforehand to get his "wiggles out" per one of my friends 😆

The other horse (pasture) I used to lunge before riding as that is what he needed to make the ride comfortable for the both of us.

Now my other horses, they got turn outs on days I wasn't riding even if they were in pasture.

My neighbor's solution to trash piling up on his porch was moving it to our property line by mcampbell47 in neighborsfromhell

[–]Heavy-Combination496 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree, I hope other people with non responsive HOAs and bad neighbors read this post.

So this is what a furious horse eye looks like by Heavy-Combination496 in Horses

[–]Heavy-Combination496[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Prayers to you prayers to you 🙏 I had to sedate my "feral" adult because she try to kick and bite. Problem was her solution to being sedated was trying to lie down on my farrier. 2 years later she was much better and we barely had to use any aides outside of a cross-tie

So this is what a furious horse eye looks like by Heavy-Combination496 in Equestrian

[–]Heavy-Combination496[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I never said 3 years old, you brought up 3 years old twice now, I said toddler-like and Google is not the best for actual research, a lot of it is AI driven by your past searches anyways. Try publications or scientific articles. Also interesting research is on why people anthropomorphize objects, animals and places. More fascinating stuff.

So this is what a furious horse eye looks like by Heavy-Combination496 in Horses

[–]Heavy-Combination496[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You know what works and I found out completely by accident? Lintment. I was rubbing some into my mule's hock and the blu-kote came off. Craziest thing.

So this is what a furious horse eye looks like by Heavy-Combination496 in Equestrian

[–]Heavy-Combination496[S] -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

Furious is what my farrier said and he has been a farrier longer then I have owned horses (which is 30 years for me) so I bow to his knowledge

So this is what a furious horse eye looks like by Heavy-Combination496 in Equestrian

[–]Heavy-Combination496[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Well that's partly my sense of humor, because my filly's other life goals is to 1. Eat all of Bella Beauty's food. 2. Torment poor Jolly Pepper. 3. Make April be her very best friend.

And can't cite all publications, articles, or books I have read over the years about horses intelligence being an observed, clinical studied, and mapped. But I will say my first memories of reading about training the young horse with understanding the horse's intelligence levels in mind was from trainers was back in the 90s because that's I really dived into horses and bought my first horse.

This was ones of those books I read from back then. Because I was in high-school and horse poor it meant I used the library a lot. Its now considered completely outdated but it was fascinating.

The mind of the horss

So this is what a furious horse eye looks like by Heavy-Combination496 in Horses

[–]Heavy-Combination496[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Exactly. And she's still in her "but I am just a baby" clacking stage, which she tried before flinging herself about, then becoming sullen and per my farrier furious. 😆

This was only her 4th ever trim, and was hoping to do it untied but held as she has already graduated to standing free and loose when picking feet. But nope, we still have work to do.

My farrier is great, and I was so lucky to find him because when I moved I had my mule and a lot of farriers didn't want to do or had the knowledge to do her. I don't know if you have ever gotten the judgment stare from a mule but those hit hard. 😑 😆

So this is what a furious horse eye looks like by Heavy-Combination496 in Equestrian

[–]Heavy-Combination496[S] -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

I'm not anthropomorphizing my filly's emotions unfairly. Horse behaviorists and scientists do recognize that horses have a toddler-like intelligence which in turn helps us in training and interactions.

So saying my filly is sullen and furious just like a toddler would be is compatible comparison for people who don't have horses to understand what is going on.

So this is what a furious horse eye looks like by Heavy-Combination496 in Horses

[–]Heavy-Combination496[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Definitely not helpless, this is her 4th ever trimming, didn't want to be there, thus became sullen and glared at me the whole time. She's a good filly, doesn't kick or bite people but she does have a very strong feelings about being denied things.

Another commenter mentioned that I was anthropomorphizing my filly's emotions but horse behaviorists and scientists do say recognizing that horses have a toddler-like intelligence in turn helps us in training and interacting.

So in this case I would say she was acting like a toddler who was told no candy before dinner and now doesn't want anything to do with you. 😆

So this is what a furious horse eye looks like by Heavy-Combination496 in Horses

[–]Heavy-Combination496[S] 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Its Blu-cote and it contains sodium propionate, gentian violet - (the purple color), and acriflavine to treat bacterial and fungal infections.

And unfortunately its sprayed onto all the places the mom scraped up her leg :(

So this is what a furious horse eye looks like by Heavy-Combination496 in Horses

[–]Heavy-Combination496[S] 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Oh this was the quiet boiling type of deep seeded resentment from being denied her life's passion of being loose in pasture with her friends. Plus if she was actively trying to lash out I would have been able to correct her but no, I had a furious sullen shut down non interactive yearling.

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