Overview of Horse

Man has been keeping horses since he came on earth. Horses have always been a close friend to humans and humans have been taking benefits from them. But there are a few ways that should be adapted in order to maintain the health of the Horses. If these ways are not followed a Horse may fall ill and the owner might pay the price of this carelessness. If you are a new horse keeper and do not know how to take care of your horse. A few helpful advices are written below:

First of all you should know that from which family does the horse belongs. If you do not know these basics you will never be able to keep good care of her. For this purpose you can ask the person from whom you are buying the horse and if you are doing this as a job you can ask the owner of the horse. If nothing works you can surf the internet or can take the horse to equine doctor who can give you information about the horse.

You should know natural horse care tricks or else you might get confused between the supplements available in the market. Nothing goes best than natural horse health techniques. You can ask the doctor again to know the tidbits of taking care of a horse. You can also go to some library and read books for this purpose. Nowadays, horse keeping academies are opened and you can also join one of the academies to be a good horse keeper. There are so many ways from which you can gather information.

You should also make good relationship with the horse. Horses like calm and quite environment. If you provide them with this and groom them regularly they will be ultimately get attached to you. Once you get attached to horse you can learn her needs and can fulfill them very easily.

They key to success in this whole process is keenness. If you are doing this with heart and have interest in horses you can turn out to be a very good horse keeper and if you do not have any interest in this work you will never learn to be a god horse keeper.

In the end you can try the most easy and beneficial step. You can take training from some horse keeper. He can teach you all the tricks and will tell you that how to cope with different conditions. He will also tell you the natural remedies of many horse diseases which you cannot find in any book of this world.

Equi-Sure is an natural supplement for your horses.

Horses are normally very faithful animals and they always do what their owners ask them to do. But when your horse refuses to act on your instructions and starts behaving odd you should understand that there is something wrong going on with your horse. Horses are very sensitive creatures and thus you should take good care of them. It is better to stop the disease at its initial stages or it does much harm to horse. You should notice the symptoms and deduce that what wrong with your horse. The most confusing symptoms are of ulcer and mostly people overlook these simple symptoms of ulcers.

If your horse starts biting and kicking while you are tightening the girth or if he refrains from jumping you should take it seriously. If the horse continually pins his ears your mind must alarm as these are not mere attitude problem but your horse is having serious symptoms of ulcers. According to research ulcers are of two types.

1. Colonic ulcers

2. Gastric Ulcers

Both the ulcers are very dangerous and may end up with the death of the horse. The reason of these ulcers is also very clear. According to veterinarians, ulcers tend to rise in those horses that are given high carbohydrate meals infrequently. They are not given proper hay and feeding. Jockeys strictly train them ignoring their rest. Horses like calm places and in heavy stress environments they get irritated and this also becomes a cause of ulcers. Some people like to overdose the inorganic, non – steroidal supplements to horses that not only damage the health but also cause ulcers in such horses.

Immediate Cure:

Equi-Sure is a product that is made to cure different problems of the horses. It comprises of only natural minerals and provides the body of horse with all the essential nutrients. During ulcers horses stop eating that becomes a cause of malnutrition resulting into poor heath of the horses. Equi-Sure not only increases appetite but also strengthens the immune system of the horses.

In the past horsemen used to look for a natural supplement that is cost effective and is time saving. Equi-Sure is then made to meet this requirement of the horsemen. Horsemen can buy Equi-Sure and use it according to the prescription or asked by their equine doctors. Equi-Sure has one more advantage over medications and inorganic supplements that it has no side effects.

Therefore, once you notice these symptoms in your horse you should immediately give him 10cc of Equi-Sure and if still there is no change in the condition it is advised that your take your horse to veterinarian.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen horse trainers tell their students they’ve got to act more like a herd leader, but forget even the most basic of requirements for a horse to want to work with you.

Think about it for a moment. Whenever you visit another country, for example, don’t you think it’s at least polite that you learn some basic things in their language so you don’t seem rude? Things like hello, goodbye, please and thank you?

You mean humans can appear rude to their animals?

When we encounter another animal, those basic, common courtesies go right out the window. Now dogs, for the most part, if they are generally well-socialized, they’ll pretty much accept your rudeness, ignore it, and still wag their tails while you pat them on the head (many dogs, however, have told me they grumble to themselves about how intrusive such an action is to their personal space). Now, I’m not suggesting you go about butt sniffing the next dog you meet, but at least give the dog the benefit of not being so dominant and aggressive towards them by smacking the poor guy on top of his head repeatedly.

And what about horses? Well, horses are significantly more formal about their greetings and even more insulted by invasion of their personal space, especially when it comes to their face than dogs. There’s nothing more insulting, or more threatening than some two-legged primate striding forcefully up to him head on and pat him directly between the eyes. The horse can’t see directly in front of him too well, so you’ve invaded a partial blind area – which already triggers his emotional flight response at the worst, and at the least, it speeds up his heart rate a bit. No horse, and I repeat, no horse wants you to smack him on his face along his blaze without first coming up to his shoulder or side or walking towards him at an arc and saying hi. Now that you’ve so rudely invaded his personal space, and humiliated him by touching him in one his most risky spots, first – without his invitation, let’s continue on with explaining how this creates unnecessary challenges.

How You Approach Your Horse Sets the Entire Tone of Your Relationship

With that many strikes against you, how do you think your horse feels about your relationship? That’s right, you’re a total hay bag. Or maybe your horse feels like you just acted like a slimy little worm.

Your horse might be the gregarious and generous type and just ignores a couple of these insults, roll his eyes, and snort a bit, and ask you for a treat. But over time, day in, day out, he’s eventually going to move away from you. Or he might start trying to invade your personal space, because you established the parameters for the “space-invasion let’s see who’s more dominant” game.

Maybe your horse has long since dismissed you as any intelligent creature worth his time or energy would. Yeah, sure, you might be good for a grooming session now and again, but then again, so is a good, sturdy post. And all your insistence that he obeys you for the hour or so every other day in the arena or out on the trails, well, he can probably handle that, as long as you don’t ask for too much and skedaddle on your way home and leave him in peace afterwords.

You see, whether you like it or not, you’ve become nothing more to him than an annoyance. Worse yet, you’ve established all this to him in less than five seconds by demeaning him, insulting him. You’ve also demonstrated your predatorial nature to him beyond a shadow of a doubt (you did just walk right up to him without pause, because you mean business, right?). So, no matter how badly you think you might want to partner up with him, now you’ve got to work twice as hard just to gain his respect and trust. Admiration and affection? Outside of demanding a treat out of your pocket? That’s now just completely out of the picture.

So, What’s a Horse Person to Learn From All This?

Well, before I answer that question, I want you to go out and watch how horses greet each other. Especially note how strange horses greet each other for the first time. You’ll find, if you are a very careful, astute observer, that there’s quite a bit of ritual posturing, snorting, gesturing, and, if you don’t realize it yet, there’s also blowing in each other’s direction. As you may or may not already know, the horse’s most powerful sense is his sense of smell. Blowing towards one another enables them to begin to sort out details about the other horse.

Everything from how he positions his feet, to how he tips his ears, everything is deliberate in the ritualized greeting. For those of you who aren’t yet able to sense or see energy, there’s also a bit of an energetic, intuitive communication going on beneath all that posturing.

There’s one thing you should make note of, neither horse pushes into the other horse’s personal space until there’s a give in the energy field of someone first. Somebody opens the energy and offers the invitation first. Or they both do. But it’s still a very formal ritual.

Now, there’s some vital, important parts to all this ritualized, formal greeting behavior, including how horses approach each other. If you’ve spent any time in the world of horses, you’ll see that horses in the wild walk in an arc towards each other and especially towards things they aren’t sure of. They also pause after a few steps. They rarely charge right up to another unless they are extremely dominant. They don’t walk in a straight line or directly towards the face of another – that’s a human/predatorial approach, and considered very aggressive behavior.

Now, when it’s invited, there’s an arching and stretching of the neck and a further prick of the ears and some blowing towards the other horse. This is the beginning of the breath exchange.

The Breath Exchange

Breath exchange is the very first thing a horse encounters before he is invited to touch another horse. They touch noses, nostril to nostril, and share breath for a moment. This sharing of breath helps them further analyze hormones, state of health, status of energy, and sets the stage for a statement of intention. Sometimes they’ll switch positions and share breath through alternate nostrils, if they feel aligned in intention, just to make sure. Ears twitch, then sometimes snorting. But, if one horse is seeking to establish a chain of command, or wants something of the other horse and demands acquiescence, you’ll see ears begin flipping back and forth, pin back and either ritual striking out or stomping of the ground begins, then usually one horse begins to chase the other.

But that split moment where they’ve exchanged breath and talked, that’s where the magic happens.

Breath exchange is a formal greeting. Between horses as friends, as strangers and as mates.

Exchanging Breath With Your Horse

So, the next time you head on out to the barn, why not practice saying “hello” by exchanging breath with your horse, nose to nose, by leaning into you with your hands behind your back – before you touch him – and see if his attitude towards you shifts a bit. I guarantee the first time you try this experiment it will shake him up a bit, make him wonder about you, make him very curious as to what’s going on in your brain. Chances are, he’ll be more inclined to play with you.

Are you interested in learning how to really work with, train, and build wonderful relationships with hyper-sensitive or challenging “problem” horses, without using harsh aids, bits, spurs, or other forms of force or intimidation? Are you sick of “gurus” trying to sell you the latest instant fix gimmick?

Are you sick and tired of the “herd leader” dominant pushy approach to horsemanship?

There is another, easier way, to building a great partnership with your equine friend.

Get educated, read The Equus Manifesto. it’s the key to unlocking your horse’s problems.

Caring for horses can be very expensive and time consuming. If you are planning on getting a horse, you will need to make sure that you have adequate funds to not only to buy feed, but to pay veterinarian bills and buy the necessary equipment. It is also important to do research if you have not spent a lot of time taking care of one. Make sure that you know what you are getting into before you take on the responsibility.

Another thing that you need to know about before you are getting a horse is whether or not the horse is broke to ride or if it bites or has any other behavior issues. Somebody who does not have a lot of experience with a horse should not get a horse that acts up. Dealing with these kinds of things can be very dangerous and if you do not know how, you should not take on something like this by yourself.

Some horses may also require more care than others. Sometimes there is a special food that they need to have. Just like people or any other animal, a horse cannot eat just anything. Some need higher protein than others.

It is also important to have adequate housing or room in your pasture and barn so that they can get in out of the weather. The fencing and barn should be safe for them also. Make sure that the horse is not going to get caught up in the fence or get cut on it because of a nail sticking out of a wall or some other danger. Even the best of horses can get exciting from time to time.

A should be fed a variety. They need hay and grain as well as fresh grass. The amount that they need to be fed will depend on how big the horse is and how active they are. If you are unsure about what should be fed and how much, you can ask your veterinarian. All of this can depend on what you are doing with your horse and the size of it.

It also important to make sure that your horse get their hooves trimmed regularly. A horse that does not get this done can have a lot of problems. Their feet will be sore and they may not eat properly because it hurts them to walk to their food so they do not eat. They may also lie down and that alone can cause more problems.

Your stalls need to be kept clean also. It is important to regularly clean out the stalls because otherwise they will be standing in their feces. That is not healthy. It can attract many different insects as well as bacteria.

A horse also needs to be kept clean. Their ears need to be checked for mites and they need to be washed just like we do. They should also be brushed regularly to keep their coat looking nice. That is not the only reason though. It keeps it healthy too. Your horse is depending on you for everything that it needs.