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29.1.2022 Finding The Right Help

By Sue Palmer on January 29, 2022

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” Ralph Waldo Emerson It can be a minefield trying to find the right help for you and your horse, and I’ve written […]

28.1.2022 Poems by Pam

By Sue Palmer on January 28, 2022

Groom’s Winter Blues How many years have I not known the yearly winter trudge Through mud to do the horses, sometimes liquid, sometimes fudge It often starts in early fall and slows us grooms right down With lots of extra brushing off and washing greys, now brown! Why do they feel the need to roll […]

27.1.2022 Excerpt from ‘Understanding Horse Performance: Brain, Pain or Training?’

By Sue Palmer on January 27, 2022

From Chapter 12: Does your horse score 10/10 for comfort? 3. Touch inside ear What to do: Touching inside the ear): Cup your hand around your horse’s ear, and with your thumb, lightly and briefly stroke inside his ear. The ideal: A relaxed horse as you stroke inside his ear, left and right, with no […]

26.1.2022 Top Tips for Mud Fever

By Sue Palmer on January 26, 2022

I put a post on Facebook recently asking people to share their tips for resolving mud fever problems. I liked this one from Jan Daley so much that I wanted to share it with you. Jan says: “As an experienced user of essential oils, I made up a potent antibacterial, antiseptic potion and mixed it […]

25.1.2022 How To… Care For The Older Horse… In 10 Easy Steps: Chapter 8

By Sue Palmer on January 25, 2022

Chapter 8: Feeding The older horse might need different management to the younger horse, particularly in terms of feeding. As always, each horse should be assessed and treated as an individual. An older horse who is overweight is clearly getting enough calories from his feed and may benefit more from a weight loss program than […]

24.1.2022 Addressing Saddle Slip

By Sue Palmer on January 24, 2022

Recently I treated a horse whose saddle has started slipping to the right in canter. I explained to the owner that saddle slip is almost always caused by asymmetry in the horse, and I thought this would be useful information to share here. Russell MacKechnie-Guire at Centaur Biomechanics, and Dr Sue Dyson, amongst others, have […]

23.1.2022 Hilary, Max and Zen

By Sue Palmer on January 23, 2022

A Guest Blog by Hilary Moses December was another quiet month for Max. A couple of hacks and not too much else. I know some people will be very sceptical about what I did next, but I’ve done it before and been amazed. A friend told me about a lady in our village who is […]

22.1.2022 Sharing the Science

By Sue Palmer on January 22, 2022

Thoracolumbar movement in sound horses trotting in straight lines in hand and on the lunge and the relationship with hind limb symmetry or asymmetry It’s fascinating how much we just take for granted that we know, without actually having any evidence to back it up. If we want to do scientific studies on lameness, then […]

21.1.2022 Understanding is the first step to acceptance

By Sue Palmer on January 21, 2022

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” J K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire This phrase resonated with me, and I’m sharing it in case it’s what you needed to hear today. I have an analytical mind, and sometimes I find myself going over […]

20.1.2022 How To… Care For The Older Horse… In 10 Easy Steps: Chapter 7

By Sue Palmer on January 20, 2022

Chapter 7: Keep Those Legs Moving “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” George Bernard Shaw Most older horses will not move further or faster than they need to. Gone are they days when you had to close your eyes every time you turned him out so […]

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