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horsesStable Scoop Episode 74 – The Extreme Cowboys
We are joined by two of America’s Extreme Cowboys, Craig Cameron and Steve Lantvit. Listen in… Stable Scoop Episode 74 – The Extreme Cowboys:
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The Bureau of Land Management’s Slippery Slope by Willis Lamb, the Alliance of Wild Horse Advocates
Opinion: The Bureau of Land Management’s Slippery Slope by Willis Lamb from the Alliance of Wild Horse Advocates I found this fascinating quote today:
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![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=05e68833-5412-44ea-814d-e4bf9b7d7d15) Upcoming Parade of Breeds Horse Exhibition
Monroe, North Carolina – The Parade of Breeds horse exhibition is an opportunity for the public to come out and see horses up close. Come early to pick your favorite breed of horse. Visitors can talk to the horse owners and learn more about the horses and find out what is involved in owning a horse. The parade will start at 3:00 p.m. sharp and all of the horses you meet will show off in front of the crowd in the covered arena with bleacher seating. You will see examples of what the horses are used for and learn interesting facts! This is a rare opportunity to meet exotic breeds like the Akhal Teke, an extremely rare breed of horse from Russia. The Norwegian Fjord is another rare breed that you will get to meet. Also meet and visit with the beautiful Arabians, the showy Saddlebreds, the all American Quarter Horse, the adorable miniature horses, and the Paso Fino’s of our host Admission to the Parade of Breeds is FREE with a suggested donation to the US Equine Rescue League (USERL). Meet some of the USERL rescue horses that have been restored to health and are looking for a forever home. You will also have a chance to meet some of the adopted rescue horses that have benefited directly from donations made to the USERL. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=8454 A Horse Blog – Mutilated Horse Rescued; ASPCA Offers $2,500 RewardCalling all horse lovers to help the ASPCA! NDA officials gently rounded up the horse and transported her to their emergency holding facility, where she was fed, watered and her wound treated by a vet. The mare was later transported to Return to Freedom, a wild horse sanctuary that eventually contacted her new forever home, a horse sanctuary outside of San Diego called Horses of Tir Na Nog. (Both are recipients of the ASPCA Equine Grant Fund.) Efforts have now shifted from the mare’s rescue to finding the person responsible for her mutilation and abandonment. The ASPCA has joined forces with the Humane Society of the United States in offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the conviction of the perpetrator, bringing the total reward to $5,000. Says ASPCA President & CEO, Ed Sayres, “Abandoned horses are the result of a struggling economy and the unscrupulous overbreeding of horses around the country. The solution involves educating breeders and owners about responsible horse care.” Questions regarding this case should be directed to the Nevada Department of Agriculture at (775) 738-8076. For Twitter Users: What do you think? Tweet on this article. Include @aspca and #AbandonedMare Photo Credit: Return to Freedom Read more and find article at: http://www.aspca.org/news/national/07-31-09.html#1 A Horse Blog – Women’s Horse Industry Conference Nov 10-11, 2009 in Louisville, Kentucky
This is the first time that the women working in the horse industry have come together to meet and exchange information and ideas and the results should be remarkable. The theme of this year’s conference is “Marketing And Making The Most Of Your Horse Industry Business”. Speakers and experts from all areas of the horse industry and marketing will be on hand to lead panels and discussions. In addition to panels and speakers, there will also be a limited number of exhibitors with space being offered on a “first come, first serve” basis. We’re expecting a substantial crowd at this event and we know that the networking opportunities will be simply amazing,” states Executive Director, Catherine Masters. “This event is for everyone who works in the horse industry and for all breeds and disciplines. Our association has members from all aspects of the industry and our conference is designed to give them the information, the contacts and the tools they need to become more successful,” adds Debby Lening, Vice President of the association. Attendees will have lots of opportunities to promote their products and services during the mass networking session on November 10th and to ask specific questions relating to their type of business. Early registration is now open and will save attendees money. Additional information and registration forms may be found at http://www.womenshorseindustry.com/ or by calling (615) 730-7833. The Women’s Horse Industry Association is the largest and only organization for women working in the horse industry. Chapters are now open in the United States, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom. Contact: A Horse Blog – POLO de DEAUVILLE PARTNERS WITH ROLEX29 July 2009 Rolex, the world’s leading watch company, has announced a major partnership with Polo Club de Deauville to become the presenting sponsor of “The Rematch” – a rematch of the 2008 Argentine Polo Open between the Ellerstina and La Dolfina teams from Argentina.  Polo photo courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net The Argentine Polo Open takes place annually in Buenos Aires before 18,000 spectators and is the equivalent of the polo World Cup final. “The Rematch” is the first time a rematch has taken place outside Argentina and it is the only Fédération Internationale de Polo affiliated game in Europe which features eight of the eleven best players in the world with a 10-goal handicap. Among the eight players will be the greatest of all time, the “Maradona of polo“ as he is called by his compatriots, a player who has had a 10 handicap ever since the age of 19, Adolfo Cambiaso. Jean-Noel Bioul, Co-Director of Sponsoring at Rolex, said, “‘The Rematch’ will be the highlight of the European polo season and the only time that players with such a high handicap will compete against each other this season. We are very excited about the match and delighted to be the Presenting Sponsor of this prestigious event.” Patrick Guerrand-Hermès, President of the Fédération Internationale de Polo, said, “This is the greatest polo match to be played outside Argentina ever since the beginning of the modern era of polo, and having the support of such a globally respected world-class brand highlights how very prestigious ‘The Rematch’ will be.” This historic match will open the month-long Deauville polo season in August, which includes the traditional Silver Cup and Gold Cup. Many other great names from the world of polo will participate with their teams. -END- For further information: Pascal Renauldon R&B Presse Tel: +33 (344) 620 621 email: p.renauldon@rbpresse.com AHorseBlog.com – A Detailed Dressage Blog, the Half-Halt, Traditional/Classical DressageDressage – dres·sage (drə säzh’) n. The guiding of a horse through a series of complex maneuvers by slight movements of the rider’s hands, legs, and weight. [French, preparation, training, dressage, from dresser, to set up, arrange, train, from Old French drecier, to set up, arrange. See dress.] I just spent the last 2-3 hours reading as much as I could from this great blog, SustainableDressage.net by Theresa Sandin. For anyone who wants a lot of detail about the hows and whys of riding Dressage, plus a coverages of the bits, bridles, saddles and fit, gadgets, including an amazing explanation of the use of spurs; all of it has amazing explanations including animations, drawings of anatomy and how it is all affected. I truly enjoyed reading and had a hard time stopping as everything she was saying, my dressage trainer, Kathy Daly of KDEquine Training has said before to me. (It’s helpful that kathy is a USEF Dressage judge, too – she knows what to look for in a show and what to emphasize, like anything that is a co-efficient!) You can read my comments about finally ‘getting the feel’ of melding with my horse so we can become at one in the ‘My Horses’ post. Below is an excerpt from her blog on the half-halt: (Original post by Dmitri Gromov) The Combined Half-Halt The rider feels the outside hindleg (or whichever one’s whos step shall be halfhalted) lift and protract, through her seat. As the hind-leg is protracted a driving leg aid on that same side will cause the horse to step further in under his body. When the hoof lands the aid will need to release and let seat and rein aids take over. The seat “holds” the movement for a fraction of a second by gently transferring weight backwards. This can be done as discretely as by the rider pressing the nape of her neck against the back of her collar. If more is needed the horse can be held by the legs and thighs for a fraction of a second and the oscillating movement through the riders back can be slowed. The rein on the same side as the supporting hindleg supports the seat action by asking for a slightly higher carriage of the head and thus a lifting of the base of the neck, and for slowing the forehand down. The rein aid can also help to bend the grounded hindleg, but when a horse has become that permeable, this multi-aided half-halt is hardly needed anymore. Breaking down the actions of the half-halt this way clearly shows that it is something of extremely short duration. The phases of the step where the horse protracts the hindleg and plants it on the ground, supports his weight over it until it has reached the plumb line from the hip, is no longer than 1/2 second. So in a younger, less educated, slower reacting re-schoolee this will have no other effect than upsetting him. For this great majority of horses, the 2 part half-halt will be needed to further their education. The 2 Part Half-Halt The 2 part half-halt is by definition not a half-halt but a schooling half-halt, or a precursor to a half-halt. … More at http://www.sustainabledressage.com/collection/halfhalt.php AHorseBlog.com – The May Nor’easter’s Effect on Us in North/Central Florida and Global WarmingThis isn’t equine related – exactly – but it is in the long run as we are all affected by global warming. A good example is the strange 2 weeks of heavy rain in Florida, starting with a nor’easter and now just heavy thunderstorms. The storms and flooding are so much so that it has threatened the potato and melon crops with the farmers losing millions of dollars not just in the loss of their crops, but for the workers who get paid to harvest the crops. May is not typically a rainy season for North Florida. the potato and melon crops were just a couple weeks before their harvest time when the nor’easter hit. It has affected many others, too in the way of heavy flooding of dirt and ashplalt roads stranding many people from getting to their jobs, groceries, children to the last days of school, UPS/Fed X deliveries – you name it. Luckily for us, we have 2 all-wheel drive SUVs, but we don’t have a 4-wheel drive truck, so my husband is getting hay and shavings a little bit at a time instead of by the truckload. What is scariest is the fact that we could get our horses out in a horse trailer even if we did have 4-wheel drive trucks. One road is too muddy at the entrance and has a huge drop hole off at one spot and the other road has 3 deep washouts which are even getting difficult to transverse in the all-wheel drive vehicles. A mini-van was stuck in one of the ‘holes’ a couple of days ago, so that blocked the whole road. My husband turned around and went the other road; coming home, that road was blocked by 2 big trucks, so he tried the other road and luckily they had moved the mini-van out by then. Not getting our horses out in an emergency like if we needed to take them to the University of Florida (UF) vet department or if some other catastrophe happened is a scary feeling. When you think of a disaster, you don’t always think of a nor’easter and heavy rains doing that much harm. It certainly has caused us a lot of hassle and there has been loss of income for my neighbors who depend on using their trucks and horse trailers for business or even for horse and rescue assistance. At least my little garden is producing a lot of green and baby lima beans, but many of my yellow squash have rotted on the vine (I have gotten 2 large batches
Anyway, I wanted to include this interesting article and link I read at Discovery.com’s site about Global Warming from a UF ecologist: Global warming’s “slow-motion time bomb” of trapped greenhouse gases in the Arctic’s thawing tundra may not go off quite as fast as once feared, a new study found. Even so, it remains a problem that in the long run is still likely to worsen global warming in an uncontrollable way, researchers reported. The study, published in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature, looked at thawing parts of Alaska and found that greenhouse gas releases initially are sucked up by new plants as the Arctic gets warmer and greener. But that helpful effect doesn’t last. Eventually, between 15 and 50 years, those plants “can’t keep up” and get overwhelmed, said study lead author Ted Schuur, a University of Florida ecologist. Read more at http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/05/27/permafrost-arctic-warming.html AHorseBlog.com – Lake Butler to Palatka Horseback Riding Rail Trail Needs AssistanceThe Palatka to Lake Butler or Lake Butler to Palatka trail in NorthEast FLorida has approximately six miles of paved trail which transverses the southern tip of Clay County. The Clay County department of recreation has just completed a pavilion and hitching post for horses at the trail head/county park – Twin Lakes County Park. This is a wonderful facility and provides a beginning point for anyone wanting to ride the entire approximately 26 miles from Keystone Heights, FL to just outside of Palatka, FL. The main thing needed for this facility to become a true jewel is the involvement of the equestrian community to clean a pathway beside the trail where it is paved and to continue the clearing and development for the rest of the unpaved trail to Palatka and/or Lake Butler. If this trail is cleared and developed it would provide approximately 60 miles of “off-road” equestrian trails. While there may be funds available in the state stimulus bill, most of the work involved would only be clearing the brush beside the old railroad bed. As an additional bit of information, this trail facility connects to the Gold Head Branch State Park north of Keystone Heights where an equestrian facility also exists, and where camping is provided. Another bit of information – there are opportunities for the purchase/development of private equestrian camping facilities adjacent to the trail. If some organization or individual has the financial resources and inclination, the opportunity is there for the development of a complete equestrian camping facility in NE Florida that could be used all year due to our moderate winters. I, Rick Bebout, am the Founding President of the organization that lead the effort to purchase this abandoned rail way and I want to see it developed and used to its full potential. Please consider disseminating this information to anyone you know that may be interested in assisting. You may email me at r.s.bebout@gmail.com for more information and to provide assistance in getting this trail completed! Thanks in advance for any efforts you can provide. Also read article at http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=6841 AHorseBlog.com – Make Emergency Plans for Pets in Advance of HurricaneHurricane season gets under way in just two weeks, and Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson is reminding people to get an emergency plan in place now for their animals. Bronson says people should not wait until the last minute to think about how they are going to keep pets and other animals safe during a hurricane. While citizens know they need an emergency plan for their families, they also need one for their pets, horses and livestock. Bronson’s Division of Animal Industry provides information about pet-friendly hotels, horse sheltering facilities, and extensive emergency preparedness information for animal owners who might be impacted by a hurricane. Visit http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/ai and click on “Emergency Management” to access the information. Many county public shelters accept selected animals accompanied by their owners. Bronson says people should contact their local emergency management office to learn about that county’s specific plans. “It is important to plan ahead and not wait until an evacuation is under way because people may find themselves with no place to go if they take their animals, or they may be forced to leave them behind to fend for themselves,” Bronson said. Some tips for people with animals include: Pet Evacuation – Do not leave their pets behind when they evacuate because the animals can be injured, lost or killed. Returning to a home after a hurricane may be restricted, and it might be days or weeks before someone could check on pets left behind. – Keep ID tags and vaccinations up to date. – Prepare a pet evacuation kit, including food and water for at least a week, a manual can opener, medications, medical/vaccination records, a pet carrier, and bedding. – If possible, make arrangements in advance for evacuation with pets. Know where you can shelter with your pets along your evacuation route. – Evacuate two to three days prior to hurricane landfall to avoid traffic delays and full shelters and hotels. Contact hotels and motels along your evacuation route to check policies on accepting pets and keep the list handy. Horse Evacuation – Keep vaccinations and Coggins tests current. – If possible, make arrangements in advance for evacuation of horses. Know where you can take your horses for shelter along your evacuation route. – Make sure your horse trailer is “ready to go” or other transport arrangements are prepared well in advance. – Carry your vaccination record, Coggins test and health papers with you. – Carry two to three days of horse feed and water with you. – Evacuate two to three days prior to hurricane landfall to avoid traffic delays and full shelters. Horses and Livestock Sheltered in Place Sometimes it is not possible to evacuate horses and livestock. The following actions could greatly improve the survivability of horses and livestock sheltered in place. – Reinforce your barn, and outbuildings with hurricane straps and other measures. – Open gates or remove fencing so that animals may move to high ground during flooding and to low-lying areas during high winds. – Obtain a hand pump and enough large containers to store water for your animals for at least a week. – Protect a supply of animal feed from becoming damaged by flooding or high winds. – A generator with a safely stored supply of fuel may be essential, especially if you have electrical equipment necessary to the well being of your animals. – Secure or remove anything that could become blowing debris and injure your animals. See more disaster support/planning articles on HorsesintheSouth.com/DisasterPlanning Get a printed version in PDF format here
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On June 30, a grey filly was found roaming the desert near Round Mountain, an isolated mining community roughly 235 miles southeast of Reno, NV, close to the Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDA). The two-year-old horse had been the victim of a horrendous act of animal cruelty-the hide of her left hip, where the owner’s brand was located, had been cut off in a six-by-eight inch patch, and the skin removed to make sure the filly could not be traced back to her owner.
). My new tomato plants are really loving the rain, though! But, if we just didn’t have all of this standing water around that of course, attracts mosquitoes, and you know we couldn’t get a fly-control truck down these roads right now…
