I am excited to be going to Equine expo this weekend, it looks like a great event to see a multitude of horse training and information. We cannot be gone long, my mom is doing chores and I hate h...
Horse Daughter boards 2 horses at local stable. Really likes the place, likes the owners and other boarders. There is a herd of cats running around the place and they like to hang out in the tack...
Horse Daughter's main ride, Nojack is an 8 year old Clydesdale X Thoroughbred gelding. 16 hands. His back changed constantly over the past 8 years, he grew for 7 of those years! He now seems to h...
I thought this was absolutely amazing. I will give a few warnings about it though, so people that choose to watch it are aware. It is about an hour long and they do a dissection of a horse throug...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t9472-take-a-look-inside-a-horse
Posting this for Horse Daughter, because you never know. WANTED Wintec older model Pro Jump saddle. Also seeking WIntec interchangeable gullets in wide, medium wide or extra wide. SELLING Barnsby...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t9407-seeking-wintec-saddle-parts
Seeking input, opinions, experiences. Daugther bought off the track TB over two years ago. He has been a good boy, trying hard to learn new things, except for the fact that he will not tie and go...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t8537-innjured-leg-bone-chip
Or black marble. That one glitch in an otherwise almost perfect animal. Call it what you will. But one of our horse people calls it 'the hole'. That ONE thing that will always be a problem. We ha...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t8192-every-horse-has-a-hole
Sometimes I am compelled to share things in my life. I would not be sharing this now, if my Daughter had not given me permission. It has been shared on U-Tube, so I feel I can share forward. Our ...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t7585-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-barrel-racer-a-video-of-my-daughter
Christmas day, as I am tearing around the kitchen in a state, expecting guests, Horsey Daugher decides to take Lily out for a ride. Last time Lily was ridden was late November, before snowfall, D...
Horse Daughter bought some reins over two years ago. The owner said they had just been oiled. In what, crude oil? I have never encountered such impervious grease! Daughter couldn't use them. Too ...
Horsey Daughter goes off to stable to ride today and comes back needing to vent. This was her story. She goes to the stable where she has two horse who live with a few others in a 15 acre paddock...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t6021-another-horse-mom-brag
Horses scare me. I do not like them and know nothing about them. I have no desire to get on one...until I see this guy. Bareback and he is missing an arm. But that horse is something else! h...
My horse was deliberately bred to my stallion by a man who boarded her because he wanted to keep her and her baby. She was only 1.5 years old when she was bred and gave everything to her foal, wh...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t5515-how-to-fatten-a-horse-help-please
My two think I can't hear them, but I can. Have you ever overheard a conversation that you wish you could un-hear? Well that's me and my two evil equines. I feel cheap and used. I was out near th...
Well I can finally bring my babies home this coming weekend, I just can't wait. Here are pictures of them Mine is the buckskin in the front, I really liked the palomino boy also but I can't ta...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t5734-getting-my-foals-on-the-weekend
My daughter just bought her first saddle! Now she just needs to acquire a cinch, and she can start getting her horse used to it and someday get to go for lots of rides. Of more pressing concer...
Fuelled by a case involving a friends old horse, requiring many court sessions, a new code of practice, pertaining to the health and welfare of equines ( and other farm animals) is being develope...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t5572-new-equine-code-of-practice-to-be-more-explicit
http://www.horsejunkiesunited.com/2012/09/17/top-25-best-rides-of-all-time-first-one/?fb_action_ids=10151044049842274&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210...
We had 22 riders show up for our ride today across the Kinsol Trestle and another 14km to a BC park parking lot designed solely for equestrian use. We Also had 6 carts make the ride. It was a rid...
Saw it again recently, that uber dose of politically correct caution that makes us all feel like we are being careful and concerned, really focused on safety. We all want horse riding to be a saf...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t5401-re-hashing-horse-thoughts
I am the legal guardian of the yearling, Chevy. This means Horsey Teen has very little to do with her. I do most of the handling, which does not bode well for Chevy. Teen's input mostly has been ...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t5159-bad-baby-horse-behaviour
I went out to lock everyone up for the night, one of my horses (Snoops) was at the gate as usual to greet me but my baby wasn't there (I call her baby but she is actually 3 yrs old). I go to the ...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t5029-one-of-the-worst-nights-ever
About a year ago I posted about a lump, the size and shape of a golfball, under my horse's chin. Wedged up in the tight spot between her cheeks. The vet checked it, attempted to drain it, but it ...
Here's the question: how many times do you attempt to catch your stupid, snotty horse as it does laps around the pen with 100 feet of electric tape and a fencer bouncing behind it, before you jus...
So last winter we purchased a pony for my youngest daughter. She is a 9 year old Quarter horse (very petite so might have Welsh in her too?), anyways she was a 4-H horse for a girl from age 7-9 y...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t4946-horse-attitude-change-help-needed
I just like this pic It was a couple weeks ago so almost no green yet but I let the horses out in the backfield for a few mins to stretch their legs. The boys just wanted to eat the old hay the a...
SPent yesterday at the local riding club first Fun Day of the season. There was a lady there who wandered around with her dog, watching everyone else ride. She has a horse. Has ridden for years. ...
I thought I had better pipe in here as Uno and her marvelous stories seem to be taking over the horse section. Every May long weekend, many friends of mine head up this way from Victoria to go ca...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t4515-not-an-uno-horse-story
This is a pointless story, but hope some will express an opinion anyway. Horsey Teen goes out for ride with horsey Neighbour Lady (referred to from here on in as NL, for Neighbour Lady) NL is rid...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t4416-mother-s-day-horsey-horror
It occurs to me that for someone who does not like horses, does not ride horses, I post a lot in the horse section. Oh well. Forgive me and I understand the rolled eyes, but I can't help but toss...
This concerns the small horse who is now 1 year old and has had an umbilical hernia since birth. At first, the 'split' in the belly was about two finger tips wide. Consulted vet who advised a wai...
Small horse has injured her hind leg. Below the knee. Between her knee and her ankle, on the outside side. (this is making NO sense!) It is not a fleshy area, just skin over bone. Skin is gone. H...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t3968-hind-leg-injury-concerns
Was thinking about this today, for unknown reasons. My dad used to say: "There are three things you never loan to anyone. Your wife, your gun and your horse." What do you suppose this means...
Even if you aren't into horses this is pretty amazing to watch over a cup of coffee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5ZmDkhqhW8
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t3884-even-if-you-aren-t-into-horses
Saw an ad posted about a wonderful horse, been there done that, great guy, just fabulous...owner moving and horse MUST go to good home or he will be put down. I find this sort of blackmail extrem...
Some of you may recall that this past May a little filly was born here. Chevy. She was weaned before I would have liked, due to the mother losing vast amounts of weight. Chevy is alone in her pen...
Well, we have had another run of "bad luck" my son's horse went through the fence sometime last night, along with the rest of the horses. I have had the vet come out as I did not want to stress h...
3 of our 5 horses have developed "horse stilts" or ice balls on their feet. I have tried with no avail to rid them with the hoof pick. Cannot get under them to dislodge them. Any advice for you h...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t2889-advise-on-ridding-horses-of-ice-stilts
Some of you may remember that this fall teen horsey girl bought a former racehorse and we managed to find out who he is by tracing his tattoo. The poor fellow looks like he's on death's door. He ...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t2639-signs-of-pain-in-horse
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/11/30/horses-slaughter-meat-us.html
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t2437-usa-may-resume-slaughtering-horses-for-meat
Today at arena, Horsey Teen was free lunging Lily over a jump. Only Lily was not going to have any of that! She would go anywhere but over the jump. Yes, she has done this before, yes, she knows ...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t2220-horse-in-freezing-swamp
Are you all sick of me yet? When Horsey Teen was 12 I went to the auction and bought her a horse. The enormity of this mistake cannot be communicated. It was the very worst horse I could have bou...
I have noticed that anywhere horses spend much time on grass, as the years go by, there is less and less grass and the weeds seem to take over. Where we live any grazing is in seriously short sup...
I've been thinking (never a good thing). But follow the logic and I'm sure you will see the wisdom here. If you feed a horse 20 lbs of hay a day, it can manage, over a 24 hour period, to turn tha...
https://wcps.canadian-forum.com/t2134-horse-poo-retirement-plan
I am a bad horse mom, I admit this here. I come clean. I have said before my knowledge of horses would fill a thimble, half way. We have baby Chevy (filly), coming up 6 months. She is a scrawny l...