Get Your Brain Right, Get Your Horse Right
"Cognitive Laziness" is how we interact with horses today. Through agenda driven medicine and marketing, I look at the collision of new and old.
Category: Behavior
Grazing Not Browsing -Decomplexicating Equine Nutrition Part 1 of 12
All equids graze ground plants. They avoid taller plants with more woody cellulose (lignin). Ruminants browse eating short and tall plants.
Horse Behavior – An Introduction
The subject of behavior is fascinating to me because we all usually are interacting with a captive horse. Their behavior has adapted to what they kn…
Horse Behavior – Barn Damage
Horses can often destroy a barn or at least the stall they live in using their teeth and hooves.
Horse Behavior – Cribbing And Other Unusual Addictive Behavior
Cribbing is an abnormal behavior of horses where the horse bites onto an object and pulls against it.
Horse Behavior – Difficult Horse
The difficult horse is one that a person has difficulty handling or working with.
Horse Behavior – Fight Or Flight Reactions
In essence, the horse will run away from a threat but if cornered, will fight.
Horse Behavior – Flehmen Lip Curl
Every horse does this unique gesture with their nose when stimulated to do so.
Horse Behavior – Herd Hierarchy
Every group of horses has an order in the social structure that when established, brings peace to the group. But when disrupted, brings chaos.
Horse Behavior – Mutual Grooming
Mutual grooming is when two horses stand facing in opposite directions and scratch each other using their teeth on the other horse's withers, neck, an…
Horse Behavior – Normal Foal Behavior
Foals are very different than adult horses. It is very important that they be dealt with on their level which is an infant and not an adult.
Horse Behavior – Stall Kicking
The reasons for horses kicking the walls of their stall are numerous and so are the ways to protect them and the barn from the damage.
Horse Behavior – Weaving Behavior
Weaving is when a horse swings their head sideways in a pendulous motion while usually rocking back and forth from one front hoof to the other. In my…
Podcast #012 – Fight Or Flight In Horses
Fight Or Flight In Horses– The Horse’s Advocate Podcast #012
WARNING – This horse may kill you!
Remember Law 1, "A horse can kill you." Never be afraid as this is reflected in the horse. Follow a few guidelines and know that this can be achieved …
Who Is Responsible? (part 1)
Part 1 - Who is responsible for your horses' behavior? After removing physical reasons (teeth, ulcers, etc) the responsibility rests on the person cha…
Who Is Responsible? (part 2)
Part 2 - The skills of leadership. We relate with horses only when we understand who they are adjusting ourselves to meet their expectations. Listen f…
Why Is My Horse Girthy? – HorseSense™ With Doc T
This HorseSense™ 5 minute video describes the cause of grittiness in horses related to hind gut inflammation from inflammatory ingredients in horse …