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Chisamba

I like cross training, as it were, i do jumping hacking, and a number of not quite dressage things, so i am okay with bareback riding, especially a slip of a girl like Rosie B. If it hurts the horses back, then don't do it, but if your horse is comfortable with you on its bare back, no harm no foul....

Chisamba

let me third, or fourth an outside perimeter track. Around most or all the property. Yes, spread your shavings on the track, it both composts and makes for a nice trotting/ canter track. I however also improve my pasture with my shavings and manure. i compost it for a year, then i put it on the spre...

Chisamba

i do not think one should tilt ones pelvis more to ride bare back then one does to ride in a saddle? I guess i spent so much of my life riding bareback as a kid, but I do not feel like there is a significant change in pelvis position, my legs tend to get very relaxed bare back, but i think my back, ...

Chisamba

So my focus has been on consistency in the connection. I think when Kimba gets heavier in the connection it shows me when she needs better balance. So u can pause, establish balance before proceeding. Be it simple canter, or lateral movements. So I have been paying attention with the goal to improvi...

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Today was jump day. Acacia with a student and Kimba with me. We did x rails, canter poles and then 2'6 small course. Kimba over jumps til she settles down. However she was definitely more rideable, not as strong as she used to get after the fence. Deneb suffered a catastrophic kick injury. We xrayed...

Chisamba

lol, funny

Chisamba

oh no, that is very sad, perhaps it is why he left. Cats have been known to leave home to die if they sense the time is near. My sympathies on your loss.

Chisamba

Chisamba, I think you're doing fantastic work with your horses and students. I hope that Deneb continues to show progress with the hormones! Thank you Dresseur. I love that you are having the opportunity to ride many horses with overview. I made my most dramatic progress when i was lucky enough to ...

Chisamba

Happy he is back where he belongs

Chisamba

I decided to skip the July show and aim for August, i have one day to change my mind, but the rescue of the donk and horse somewhat drained my finances. Kimba: really smooth out first level work and solidify second level to a competitive level Deneb: Maybe get to a training show before the end of Au...

Chisamba

Very clever

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Just jingles.

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Maybe a tick borne disease?

Chisamba

Does this help. They rate vitamins and use the following method

https://www.multivitaminguide.org/mob/s ... ology.html

Chisamba

Hope it all works out

Chisamba

I have done some minor research , not of specific vitamins and bio availability, but of the need for micro-nutrients. Biochemistry is something i am interested in, and things like proteins, enzymes etc. its just a fact that statistically, the majority of people do not intake sufficient vitamins and ...

Chisamba

The most exciting thing about this video is that there is nothing exciting about this video.

https://youtu.be/boOE2Mo8W7A

Chisamba

Today i achieved everything i wanted to. I set up the new round pen, i took all the recycling in, i rode all the horses i wanted to ride, the lessons i taught , my students really "got" it, and my hubby will be home for a long weekend. I was able to ride outside before the thunderstorms, a...

Chisamba

awesome update!

Chisamba

Hill work today, to enjoy the outdoors before the thunderstorms. I like how downhill works the three joints hind end .

Chisamba

When Kimba had her fracture I did clicker training 2x a day. I taught her to touch an object then moved it all around the stall in a hide and seek way. It taught me a lot about timing and extinction. Good luck with the healing.

Chisamba

A good pedicure is what I do when I feel like I need a me treat. Or a mother son treat, since I have raised my son to appreciate them too. They shape the nails trim away dead skin, rasp away hard heel calluses. I will admit to not totally trusting their disinfecting methods so I do dip my feet to di...

Chisamba

WOW - What a difference some hormones can make....You aren't even at the 21 day mark....Fingers crossed this new attitude carries through under saddle... Your a turn over every stone kind of girl!!! I will feel like a right idiot if the answer is so simple after such a long time. It took me how man...

Chisamba

I took Deneb to an equine dentist early on, they x rayed her jaw and did a float. we dealt with young teeth not coming in correctly but on a recent update all problems were resolved. Update: she has only been on the Regumate for a week, and my vet said it would take a full cycle, 21 days, to really ...

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69 percent for us

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I am so very sorry.

Chisamba

Aww I love them! Please tell us more about Vega when you start playing with him. Vega had two shoes on, one front and one hind, and was way overdue for a trim, the farrier came and trimmed his feet, he was quite good and seems to have good feet, however there was a bit of a chunk of hoof gone on th...

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The number 10 pen is the name given to those who are not purchased, are cheap enough to make meat profit, and not considered likely to attract higher price at another auction. So yes, if they are still in the ten pen by weekend they go on the slaughter truck. If they are sound, trained and registere...

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I named the gelding Vega, anyone know who Deneb, Vega and Altair are?

here is Vega.

Chisamba

Did you know that I acquired an donkey? I picked up a potential older gelding at the local auction house, the horse did not sell in the sale so he went to the ten pen. I only saw him ridden but he seems fairly mild mannered and I hope will be a worth while barn horse. Anyway, I also picked up an abo...

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I am glad to see you updating here, because it makes the record more complete, and that did help when i looked back on my progress with Deneb

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I would worry about how much they flex in canter.

Chisamba

hayburner i have been told that if regumate really works then Spaying may work, if it does not help, then spaying will not either. I am not certain that hormones are the cause, so it really is a last ditch effort to solve the problem, if it does not work, then , as you say, she can find another job.

Chisamba

Khall. I may be wrong, but the seasonal aspect may point to a solution.

MC... I have treated and tested for the usual suspects.... Lymes, ulcers, pain, acupuncture....with no obvious change.

Chisamba

So, I am a nanosecond away from giving up. On another thread I mentioned how she tried to leave the indoor via the mirror whole I was riding her. It has not much improved. In various training situations she has reverted to strange behavior. We have done many trot poles, cavaletti and small jumps but...

Chisamba

I am very sorry. Words seem inadequate at this time. Sending hugs and jingles.

Chisamba

It looks like a beautiful joyful occasion. Sorry about the hives

Chisamba

five days of quarantine is not long enough to protect anyone against anything, least of all EIA. what you have is a situation where the owner wants to keep everything low level, co dependent.

Only you can answer your question to your satisfaction about staying or moving

Chisamba

Sounds like a marvelous trip and i am so glad you had lots of positives. It sounds very enriching and fulfilling

Chisamba

we have a mare with anhydrosis at my barn that does well on Red Cell. I am not sure why it helps, nor am i sure what made her owner try it, but it seems to help. Other than that we do hose and scrape when its very hot, to reduce her body temperature, and yes, out at night and in with a fan during th...

Chisamba

If Raoul trained C, and you loved riding him, he could not have been doing that bad a job of riding/training. just my observation

Chisamba

I find the increase in body temp interesting, but it doesn't worry me. If you do not increase your horses body temp in walk, you aren't doing it correctly I have had numerous return from lay up recovery, with very good vets, and they all consist of return to work in walk, for months, carefully and g...

Chisamba

Great update to hear, Mountaineer. Rye, for several hours preceeding the show I really baulked emotionally...
But it did focus my attention on certain aspects of training in a positive manner

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Very clever

Chisamba

As humans we can easily overdo things. IE too much long and low, or too much up and out. I do like longing without and side reins sometimes, to see where the horse naturally puts himself when I like the action of the back most. It is often confirmation related. Horses built with very laid back shoul...

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I warm up in the walk, allowing the horse to stretch and even look around, not on the contact, in each direction, then i begin to gather the reins, and start to add circles, spiraling in and out, then depending on the level of training of the horse, i will begin to shoulder in, leg yield and go thro...

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This half-halt exercise has been working well with Kyra lately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWPQN9sBYNc Basically, working trot, almost walk, trot off again briskly. . so none of you noticed that the horse came behind the vertical through the exercise? In the video. and despite what the instruc...

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Congratulations! Couldn't you have picked a better photo. :twisted: I saw the Class List. You had some very tough competition in that First 3 class. You should be very proud. Chisamba, how long does it take you to get to the Sussex show grounds? That is a horrible drive for me. I went there once 30...

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