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Category: <span>Gentle Horsemanship</span>

Category: Gentle Horsemanship

Home Archive for category "Gentle Horsemanship" (Page 2)

Teaching Equines to Pull Loads

CG Driving Training / Gentle Horsemanship May 17, 2012 May 10, 2013

Horse Drawn Stone Boat Good morning Doc, I have a question related to a pony pulling in harness. What would be the appropriate size of a stone boat for a pony that is approximately 12HH and 600 pounds? Thanks,  Jeri Hi Jeri, Good to hear from you.   The size …

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Doc Answers Questions about Issues when Bridling a Horse

CG Gentle Horsemanship April 15, 2012 April 9, 2018 1 comment

“Bridling a Horse: It’s a Relationship Thing” This student has generously given her permission to share her story of challenges and triumphs she is experiencing with her horse in hopes that it might benefit other people and their horses. A bit of background: Heather is one of our many very …

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Draft Horse Feeding question

CG Gentle Horsemanship June 15, 2011 April 9, 2018

Check out the Q and A  page on the website https://dochammill.comnews-and-tips/ Doc answers Laura’s question about feeding draft horses

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Horse-Logging with Draft Horses: Natural Horsemanship in the Woods

CG Driving Training / Farm Chores / Gentle Horsemanship March 20, 2011 May 10, 2013 2 Comments

Cathi and I love to work in the woods. It’s even better if we can work with our horses in the woods. On March 8 we had some fire wood logs ready to skid out and each of us took a horse to do the job. Here we have Kate and Ann, …

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Teachable Moments with Horses

CG Gentle Horsemanship January 20, 2011 April 9, 2018

Recently I was watching as Doc worked Kate, one of our Suffolk mares. As he helped her through an anxious moment, I was struck by how easily Doc was able to help her through this time of concern, and actually use it to help build Kate’s confidence. How often do …

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Introducing a horse to new implements

CG Driving Training / Gentle Horsemanship / Implements & Harness December 26, 2009 May 10, 2013 1 comment

From Walt Barnard Hello. Here is a brief description of how we introduced a particular horse to some new implements. The horse, Belle, is a Suffolk and there are some earlier posts about her training on this blog. Anyway, Kris and I had been working her up to actually pulling …

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A drive with Paige and Val

CG Driving Training / Gentle Horsemanship August 19, 2009 May 10, 2013

From Jane:A friend of mine and I went out to visit the Woods and their horses on Friday. It was a gorgeous warm day and one of the highlights of our visit was a wagon ride with Val and Paige. Steve hitched the mares up and drove us all over …

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Communicating with horses

CG Gentle Horsemanship July 30, 2009 April 9, 2018

From Cathi Hello Doc… Just thought I would write to you about a little work I have been doing lately with my Welsh pony JayJay. I recently brought him home; he had been away for a few years, and as it turns out the last two he spent languishing in …

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Paige takes a big stride forward

CG Gentle Horsemanship July 10, 2009 April 9, 2018

From Steve Wood:A wonderful chapter has opened in Paige’s driving career this week. She has become comfortable with a vehicle behind her, as well as a human or two being in the vehicle. She has been hooked to this vehicle as well as the single two wheeled cart, but has …

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Light, relaxed contact on the reins…

CG Driving Training / Gentle Horsemanship March 18, 2009 March 10, 2014

I get an email newsletter called “Horse Sense” written by Jessica Jahiel (pronounced ya-hell). She is a talented rider and excellent teacher. Her background and primary interest is ridden dressage, but she advises readers on a huge variety of other topics. I came across this thought-provoking quote in one of …

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