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There are more and more videos on YouTube that relate to endurance riding – horses in training and videos from actual rides. Some of them are better than others. It’s another nice way to check out the trails at a ride you are thinking of attending. Or just want to remember a ride. Here are some videos from rides in California. Swanton Pacific 100 Mile Ride, W Region (California) Eastern Mojave Scenic Pioneer Continue reading California Endurance Riding Videos on YouTube Ice water anyone? Watering horses this time of the year in a cold climate can be a challenge. Recently, Merri at The Equestrian Vagabond posted about getting water heaters installed in the water troughs in Idaho. She waited too long and had to do it after things froze! I use the plug type water heaters for my troughs (like this one). I have two troughs that are heated, and one that isn’t Continue reading Watering horses in the winter
There are lots of great videos on YouTube these days. Here is one I learned about from a Facebook friend and is about one rein stops. Great info, and if you click here you can go to the Horse Problems website and get even more info. Also, be sure to check out some of the horse problem training videos on YouTube – great stuff! If the video doesn’t load or display, you Continue reading Training video on one rein stop – great stuff for any horse rider! I have done a bit of rearranging on the blog today. I removed the current visitors Feedjit -mainly because it wasn’t that accurate (WordPress gives me way better stats-for example, my blog has already had 21,868 visitors for the month of December!) and I think it slowed loading times down. I also added a few feeds in the right hand column which shows a few of the most recent posts from each of those Continue reading Blog and online shopping savings Endurance riding can lead to significant losses of water and electrolytes, which can cause clinical illnesses related to increased neuromuscular excitability, including cardiac arrhythmia, muscle cramping and twitching, and gut motility changes. When plasma potassium (K+) increases–as it does with increasing exercise intensity–there is a concomitant increase in neuromuscular excitability. Yet, many endurance riders believe that oral potassium supplementation before and during competition is critical to the good health of their horses. Click here Continue reading Endurance Horse Electrolyte Research If you use MIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer) be sure to read this! Microsoft confirms that all versions of IE have critical new bug or click here to go directly to the Microsoft advisory page. I use Firefox mainly which is free and doesn’t usually have the security vulnerabilities that MIE does. Click here to go to the Firefox download page. I’ve heard that the Google browser Chrome is also good, but haven’t tried it Continue reading New Internet Explorer Security Advisory Weaver hobbled I’ve lost count the number of times my horses have not been injured because they had been previously hobble broke. I was really lucky at Bryce in ’07 that when Tigger put his hind leg over his cotton rope that he didn’t struggle and fight and create a much more serious injury. Usually a rope burn caused by a cotton rope is a fairly minor injury. Yet, if the horse panics Continue reading Why it is important to hobble train your horse
There are three puppies left out of the original six. Two girls and a boy – Amaya, Ayumi and Aki. The other three went to their new forever homes last weekend. They are now 9 weeks old. Not much time left but if you want to watch some totally cute pups, check out this link:http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.45.swf?cid=317016 It’s kind of fun to check in on the little guys and see how they are growing and Continue reading The Shiba Puppies Turn Into Dogs |
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