Kelowna & District Pony Club

I'm good to my farrier. I'm undeniably, unwaveringly good to my farrier. I'm not sure when equestrians decided farriers serve them, & I don't care. But I see p...eople going through farrier after farrier & I think maybe the problem isn't the farrier. I don't need to hear your comments about how people don't want to work & farriers are lazy. I'm just saying if you expect your farrier to crawl under your dumpster donkey & you aren't willing to take responsibility for that man's experience while he's holding up a hoof that can cripple his ability to feed his family, you're the problem. I'm blessed & I know that. I have a talented, capable farrier that is always available & is always good to my horses. But if I wasn't as good to him as he is to me, I wouldn't expect him to work for me. Paying someone for their services doesn't mean you deserve respect that you're not willing to give. Treat your farrier well. Don't expect your farrier to trim your trashy horse & deal with your bad manners for $40.

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" 'Am I a good rider?’ She asked, pensively, sat upon her 14.2 cob, covered in poo stains that she couldn’t quite get out before her lesson, that she had persua...ded her mum to buy a year ago for just 400. (It wasn’t wanted anymore) ‘Why do you ask that?’ Her instructor replied, for she knew how this young girl felt, her eyes often lingered somewhere inbetween her horses ears or the other side of the school when teaching. ‘Because I want to be one’ Her instructor pondered on this for a good few minutes, whilst reassuring the nervous cob in front, and then said, ‘A good rider is not someone who buys flashy horses and competes every Saturday and makes it to the top within a year. A good rider is not who jumps the highest jumps or owns the fastest horse. A good rider isn’t made just because they’ve been riding since they were 3. A good rider is not someone who can move their forward horse forward... no A good rider is that pony clubber you see fall off every time she gets on something new, yet still gets back on with a smile on her face, A good rider is that girl who cries in the tack room because of how her horse behaved and how hard it’s been to cope watching everyone else be successful, but to her it seems like she is the only one failing, yet still rewards her horse with a treat and a smile because at least he was better than last time, A good rider is the boy with the angel horse, yet doesn’t claim any of its successes for himself ‘It was all him’, he would say, I just sat to it’ A good rider listens A good rider is soft A good rider makes sure the horse is always happy, As a matter of fact, a good rider often has nothing to do with the riding, If you love it, and you try, and you try again, even when you fall off and it was your fault, even when people point because your seat isn’t quite as deep as they’d prefer, if you never give up, That’s what makes a good rider.' " Author Unknown

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The Carneddau ponies in North Wales, UK. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mmHLGeByvm8

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Happy New Year to Pony Club members here & around the world. And to thoroughbreds every where Happy Birthday

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In the UK there is no minimum age to begin learning to ride & care for horses & ponies. https://www.facebook.com/163107983745918/posts/2713855158671175?d=n&sfns=mo

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**please stop using cribbing collars** **thisisgoodscience** #Nomorecribbingcollars# Crib-biting is a form of oral stereotypy affecting 48% of horses whereby... the motivation to perform this behaviour is as high as the opportunity to eat sweetened grain and greater than the desire for a companion (Houpt, 2012). Once this behaviour has become established, it is very difficult to eliminate, leading people to use cribbing collars, muzzles, surgery, or electrifying surfaces (sometimes the entire stable!!!) which renders the performance of this behaviour impossible. Cribbing or crib biting involves a horse grasping a solid object with its incisor teeth, then arching its neck, and contracting the lower neck muscles. The force the horse uses to generate the muscle contraction in this behaviour is phenomenal. Windsucking is when the horse does the same but no longer grasps an object to perform this behaviour. These collars are used for both conditions. Wood chewing without the muscle contractions is wood chewing and should not be confused with cribbing. Often these methods are used because of the negative association of this behaviour (e.g. it’s a VICE my horse will get colic or gastric ulcers from cribbing) and/or peer pressure (cribbing will be copied your horse is destroying the fence/stable), or even for a seemly beneficial reason (stopping teeth erosion). As a result, preventing this behaviour from being performed seems like an obvious *WIN*, particularly when you are surrounded by less-informed people who also share this view (just look at the cribbing collar marketing photo attached to this post-horse looks so relaxed wearing the collar!). However, crib-biting if prevented, causes significant psychological and physiological stress and these physiological and psychological effects should always be taken into consideration when any decision is made to prevent cribbing. More than 20 years ago McGreevy and Nicol (1998a and b) showed that if you prevent cribbing, horses will develop foregut stasis resulting in abnormal gut function and if you prevent cribbing and then remove the collar, horses will enter a post-inhibitory rebound state and play catch-up by increasing the performance of cribbing. Behaviours that exhibit this pattern of motivation are generally considered functional and by preventing them, are severely compromising horse welfare. Ten years later Nagy et al (2009) showed that horses prevented from performing crib-biting had elevated stress levels (increased heart rate during periods of prevention) and recently Briefer Freymond et al (2015) demonstrated that horses prevented from crib-biting had higher cortisol levels than those allowed to perform the behaviour. It is therefore likely that horses that develop crib-biting have higher basal sympathetic activity (predisposition to anxious/flight behaviour and or those in pain which can be internalised and displayed as a very quiet amenable horse) and therefore use crib-biting as a coping mechanism particularly when roughage is low and concentrates are high (high levels of sugars). Cribbing activates the vagus nerve which is used in human medicine for treatment of drug-resistant depression.....think about that as an interesting parallel! If you have a horse which crib-bites the best advice, assuming that all other husbandry conditions are the best they can possibly be, allow the horse to perform the behaviour in a controlled way (e.g. providing a suitable dedicated surface such as rubber). References Houpt, K.: 2012 Motivation for cribbing by horses. Animal Welfare, 21:1-7. McGreevy, P. D. and C. J. Nicol: Physiological and behavioral consequences associated with short-term prevention of crib-biting in horses. Physiol Behav 65(1) 1523, 1998a. McGreevy PD, Nicol CJ. The effect of short-term prevention on the subsequent rate of crib-biting in thoroughbred horses. Equine Vet J Suppl. 1998a (27):30-4. Nagy, K., Bodó, G., Bárdos, G., Harnos, A., Kabai, P.: The effect of a feeding stress-test on the behaviour and heart rate variability of control and crib-biting horses (with or without inhibition), Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Volume 121, Issue 2, 2009. Briefer Freymond, s., Bardou, D., Briefer, E.F., Bruckmaier, R., Fouché, N., Fleury, J., Maigrot, A-L., Ramseyer, A., Zuberbühler, Z., Bachmann, I.: The physiological consequences of crib-biting in horses in response to an ACTH challenge test, Physiology & Behavior, Volume 151, 2015. See more

So y’all, I had the opportunity to do something really unique today! How many of you have heard of Harry DeLeyer and Snowman? He saved a horse from going to s...laughter and turned him into a national show jumper. Anyway Harry is about 90 yo now and lives in a nursing home close tom me. I heard through a friend that he wanted to see a horse one more time. I was able to take Joker to see him!! He has dementia but was able to give Joker some carrots and love on him a little. He spoke very little but boy did he give us some great smiles and several thumbs up. He was happy but I think I was happier being able to do it!! http://www.harryandsnowman.com

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Have you visited the CPC website lately? Because it may look much different... the CPC National Board has been working very hard to improve the website for our members and launched the new site today! Go check it out on your computer or phone https://canadianponyclub.org/

It’s fast, furious and very good fun! Today we’ve been meeting members of The Pony Club who are taking part in the Prince Philip Cup Mounted Games at the Horse ...of the Year Show. Check our Instagram story for lots of behind-the-scenes action and stay tuned for a special episode of the British Equestrian Podcast... #BritishEquestrian

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Join us in August and meet one of the world's leading horse and animal scientist for our seminar and clinic, Dr. Andrew Mc Lean. See info on our website. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFOPjY1kggc&t=191s

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Do you know all the weeds that are poisonous for horses in your area? Take a minute to download this online book from RDCO. http://www.rdno.ca//environm/noxious-weeds-invasive-plants

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