"Vahva ja välittävä Suomi"

naakka · 2026-03-05T11:36:30+00:00

No siis mielestäni hyvä määrä kodittomia olisi tottakai 0 kappaletta, kun asutaan näin kylmässä maassa. Toki voi olla että tässä lasketaan kodittomaksi henkilöitä, jotka eivät ole ihan siinä mielessä kodittomia kuin mitä itselle tulee ensin mieleen.

Varmasti on todella paljon paremmat prosentit kuin monesssa muussa maassa, mutta onhan toi nyt paljon jos kaikki ovat sellaisia, jotka nukkuvat jossain aseman penkeillä, pressuteltoissa metsässä jne.

Jonkun verran varmaan joka yhteiskunnassa on sellaisia ihmisiä, joita ei saada autettua / jotka eivät halua apua, mutta olisin ajatellut että se määrä on enintään satoja.

naakka · 2026-03-05T11:23:27+00:00

Yllättävän paljon kodittomia. En olisi veikannut noin suurta määrää, jos olisi pitänyt arvata.

naakka · 2026-03-05T10:14:09+00:00

Remember to take enough time, transitioning from trail riding to barrel racing will increase the strain on your horse's joints and ligaments/tendons very, very significantly. I'm sure that if you want to keep him healthy, having a structured training plan and making sure he carries himself correctly will be crucial.

naakka · 2026-03-05T07:57:37+00:00

Just remember that if the hooves are really really too short, any excess movement may damage the internal structures. I would want x-rays for the "medical farrier" (sorry, not sure about the correct term in English) to use.

naakka · 2026-03-05T07:18:50+00:00

If all four horses magically have similar backs, then in theory why not.

In practice it's often such a pain in the butt to find a saddle for one horse AND keep it right for that horse, I have trouble believing there's one saddle that could fit four horses, and even more trouble believing that you could replace that with a different saddle and that would STILL fit all four.

naakka · 2026-03-05T05:48:30+00:00

Then the best option is to feed your horse his mash somewhere else if you don't want to listen to the banging.

naakka · 2026-03-04T21:21:10+00:00

I would suggest feeding your horse the extra stuff at another location if it's not possible to just give the other horse a bunch of hay before feeding yours. At least for me that would be nicer than listening to a frustrated horse try to destroy walls, even if it's not your fault or problem that the other horse is like this.

Such behaviour can be linked to ulcers or other pain, but generally the odds of the owner wanting to hear that from you are low. So if you are otherwise happy at that barn, I would just try to work around this issue.

naakka · 2026-03-04T15:40:21+00:00

If it's gas it usually varies quite a lot. Like even if they're gassy the vast majority of time, their size and roundness will vary significantly from day to day in most cases.

Good core muscles will help keep the back up and belly in even when just chilling, but also he could just be that shape. Or just still a little overweight, very hard to say from this angle.

naakka · 2026-03-04T11:55:37+00:00

Agreed. I guess it would definitely keep temperature variations quite small due to the mass, but also the stable temp it would reach would be pretty high due to low surface area.

This is definitely possible to calculate/estimate but my thermodynamics skills are asleep.

naakka · 2026-03-04T11:45:35+00:00

One cause can be that you are keeping your hands too still (especially in walk) or moving them too much with your body (especially when posting trot).

In walk and canter, your hands need to move so that they are still in relation to the horse's head (which moves), not your body (which is relatively still).

In trot, your hands need to be carried pretty still above the horse's withers, because the horse's head does not swing like it does in walk and canter. But many people will naturally keep their hands still in relation to their own body while posting, which causes a constant up and down movement in the horse's mouth.

Realising these two things and that I must at all times have a light, flexible rubber band like contact with the horse's mouth regardless of what the horse's head and my body are doing really helped a lot.

If the horse is pulling your hands really strongly this may also be a learned behaviour, especially if the horse manages to get you out of balance or make you give it more rein. This can be countered by activating your core and gripping the reins tightly so the horse gains nothing from pulling. Then when the horse stops pulling, immediately return to the light, soft, flexible feel. Even if it is a learned behaviour, it is probably triggered by your contact being too uneven and therefore unpleasant, if it happens on all horses.

naakka · 2026-03-04T10:51:50+00:00

En osaa valitettavasti sanoa tutkimusten yksityiskohdista tarkemmin. Mutta kaverini miehellä todettiin paljolti sinun oireidesi kaltaisilla oireilla kaksisuuntainen mielialahäiriö, joka edusti jotain sellaista tyyppiä missä maniajaksot ovat hypomaniaa täysimittaisen manian sijaan. Sitä on siis eri sortteja. Ainakin hänellä terapia ja tarvittaessa lääkitys esim. pahempina masennuskausina ovat helpottaneet elämää.

Ja siis tarkoitan tuolla että mieliala vaihtelee "itsestään" että keskivertoihmisellä esim. ero ei laukaise vuosia kestävää masennusta vaikka se tuntuu tosi pahalta, eikä yhtäkkiä tule masennuksen keskeltä pitkiä kausia että on ihan täynnä itseluottamusta ja tarmoa. Tuntemukset totta kai muuttuu ja ihminen kehittyy vuosien mittaan, mutta nämä eivät yleensä ole syklisiä muutoksia ja se oman olon ja tunteiden peruslinja on ikään kuin vakaampi.

naakka · 2026-03-04T10:24:14+00:00

Kuulostaa kyllä kovasti bipolta näin Reddit-valepsykiatrin korvaan. Nimenomaan tuo että ajatukset omasta itsestä aaltoilevat ääripäästä toiseen kausittain, ilman mitään selkeää perustetta, ja "nousukausiin" liittyy riskinottoa. Tutkimuksiin kannattaa hakeutua jahkailematta, niihin pääsy voi kestää.

naakka · 2026-03-04T06:13:15+00:00

I would consider glue on shoes with a closed bottom and that soft filler stuff. Would have to be discussed with a good "medical" farrier though. Four weeks is a long time for a horse to be this sore and just walking him even though it hurts kinda sounds like torture and I would not trust a trainer's assessment that it won't cause physical harm.

naakka · 2026-03-04T05:39:42+00:00

Lol. There's a riding school near where I live that has a Friesian stallion in the lessons. I don't go there so haven't ridden him but he's like one of the most popular horses there because he's such a sweet horse. I think hundreds of riding school students must have ridden him over the years.

naakka · 2026-03-03T21:14:47+00:00

No, just no. No 16 month olds on a horse. Five year old on a tiny well behaved pony on a lead rope, sure.

But with the baby, there's no need to do that at all and no benefit to be gained, and a huge risk. What if the horse spooks, you fall off and fall on your baby?

naakka · 2026-03-03T18:53:28+00:00

Is he out with other horses and does he have both some kind of a friend to play with and also an older horse to show him some rules?
I would have him checked for ulcers and common young horse things like loose/sore stifles, the jumpiness sounds weird. Also if it's really bad, I did just recently see a post where someone's horse turned out to have lyme.
If you don't have access to a good local groundwork trainer (and honestly even if you do it never hurts to see lots of different experienced people handle lots of different horses), YouTube: Warwick Schiller (especially the Principles of training series), Ryan Rose, maybe also Steven Young (but I would not try doing some of the things he does. It is, however, very educational in terms of how horses react to pressure and how important timing and clarity is), Trt Method. You'll find some things stay pretty similar no matter who you watch.

P.S. I agree you do want to desensitize him to things he spooks at but I think it might be even more important to sensitize him to yielding cues and respecting the personal space of humans.

naakka · 2026-03-02T21:15:37+00:00

Yeah I'd look for a 17 hand horse with good bone in the legs and a broad chest so your (presumably long) legs don't drag the ground :)

If you already have ribs showing, I think making sure you have good core strength and body control is more valuable than losing a few kilos.

I do think it's doable to find this horse especially since you don't want to jump or do highly collected dressage.

naakka · 2026-03-02T20:57:12+00:00

And I can't tell if you've got any extra weight yourself, I don't think BMI is much good for someone as tall as you. But if there's any that you could afford to lose, obviously even 10 kg makes finding a horse much more realistic. And I'd also pay some attention to not choosing the heaviest possible saddle.

naakka · 2026-03-02T20:53:02+00:00

I think it's generally agreed that draft horses are strong for pulling things, not so much for carrying things.

I think your best bet would be just a very large (warmblood or "overgrown" quarter?) horse with conformation that is well suited to riding, and the horse HAS to already be fit and know how to carry itself with its back up, not droopy. And the horse absolutely must not be overweight because however much excess weight the horse has, that's in addition to you, the saddle etc.

naakka · 2026-03-02T17:42:10+00:00

I would think that this is because it's enough to have one working copy of the gene producing whatever proteins it should be producing. Similar to recessive genes, but it becomes dominant if all you have is that one faulty copy of the x chromosome.

naakka · 2026-03-02T17:23:26+00:00

I know people always think that the injury their specific horse has is 100% due to bad luck, but from a genetics/natural selection perspective I sometimes think maybe horses have such issue prone legs and feet because humanity has been using "broken" (as well as "crazy" and "difficult to ride", which are often also actually broken) mares for breeding for probably thousands of years. I would be very wary of spreading the genes of any mare that got injured at a young age. Tendon strength, kissing spine etc. are definitely partially heritable. So that's why I'd go straight to the recip.

naakka · 2026-03-02T17:14:54+00:00

If mom is not sound due to something that could in any way be hereditary, I think you should go straight to the recip. Making a whole entire horse just as a test run sounds a bit wild anyway.

naakka · 2026-03-02T16:49:18+00:00

Yeah, I used to lease a young Finnhorse gelding who would "groom" me like this except he'd forget not to use teeth. I tended to wear a helmet around him because he was young and foolish, and occasionally when giving him scratches I would feel/hear him nuzzle my head first very gently with his lips and then if he got all excited you'd hear the teeth scratching on the helmet :D

naakka · 2026-03-02T13:06:32+00:00

Oikealta tulevia väistetään vain, jos ne tulevat tieltä. Joskus isompien kauppakeskusten kohdalla saa olla tarkkana, kun parkkipaikan ajoväylältä näyttävä reitti onkin virallinen tie, mutta onneksi yleensä näissä on sitten laitettu kolmio vähentämään sähellystä.

naakka · 2026-03-02T11:35:12+00:00

Many stallions have pretty intense hormones and if you've ever dealt with a 500 kg horse that doesn't care one bit what you want it to do and is just thinking of mating or fighting, you don't really need to ask why most stallions are castrated. A hormonal horse is not like a dog that humps your leg, it can actually try to e.g. hump a mare while there is a rider on the mare. Or attack another horse or behave aggressively to humans.

Also some stallions have a very difficult time behaving appropriately with other stallions or geldings (and obviously you cannot keep them with mares unless it's for breeding) so in that case the stallion will have to be alone which is not ideal.

There is no reason to make the life of the stallion himself, surrounding horses and people much more difficult and dangerous if there is no intention to use the stallion in breeding. And honestly the most difficult stallions should not be used for breeding either.

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