Horse Training Success

And today we have a bit of a theme going on. It's home remedy time. Trying to medicate your horse? Trying to keep the insects away? One of these tips might be just what you're after. Oh, and a neat approach to introducing a horse to being clipped as well.

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I've found the simplest fly repellent to stop those black flies and deer flies from eating my horse alive at his privates. A hint... It’s used on babies… Yep… just cover it with a coat of Vaseline, flies will stick but won’t be able to bite. After a day or two, just wipe and apply another clean coat.

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I guess you all know how difficult it can be to give "Equibutazone" or "beaut powder" to your horse. I know I have wasted lots over the time. I have found the easiest way is to get a big 50ml syringe and mix the powder with "apple sauce" like you would use with roast pork. Syringe the mixture over the back of the horses tongue, HOW EASY IS THAT!

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We have an Exmoor pony who had really bad sweet itch and we tried all the fly spray lotions to keep the biting insects causing the sweet itch off her. But none of them would work. We were at the end of our tether on what to do. We even kept her in the stable but that made her miserable. We ordered fly rugs but she just ripped them by scraping across the wire fence, and also she suffered with the heat.

Then my friend came up with the idea of boiling water with lemon or lime, onion, garlic, and vinegar. Boil it until everything is all soft and mushy then strain it and use the juices to spray it on the horse when it's cold. It really works, and now we have a happy little pony. Hope this tip is useful to people.
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My husband and I came back to South Africa about 10 years ago from Zambia where I was born and having had horses all my life soon got involved all over again only this time we started taking in rescue horses and working with the local SPCA. Often these had been neglected, mistreated or abandoned. Many were just ponies but there were also Thoroughbreds off the track that no-one wanted. We had endless trouble getting them to eat properly and deworming was often a nightmare. Not easy to get a syringe of paste into a horse that won't even let you near his face to put on a head collar because he has been beaten around the head.

However, my daughter and I tried the usual carrots, apples etc, most of which these animals had never had the pleasure of being offered.

Strangely enough many of them would take brown bread until you put something into it – wormer, equipalazone etc. So we decided to try a concoction that we came up with, and called it Sugar Balls.

SUGAR BAllS

2 cups grated carrot
2 cups grated apple
2 cups Molassas meal
1 Loaf whole wheat bread (crumbled)
1 cup liquid molassas

Mix all together and roll into golf ball size balls, store in a container in the fridge (will keep for a couple of days – if they last that long) add a little water if the mixture is a bit to dry to keep its shape.

Your horses will love you, and you can disguise all sorts of things by putting it in the middle and slipping the spiked one in amongst the others!Hope this helps anyone who has a fussy eater or a horse that is iffy about strange tastes.
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We own three miniatures, the biggest being 32 inches, and the smallest being 27 inches. I was trying to get these two ready for a miniature show, and clipping usually takes a bit as you all know. Bullet, my lovable gelding, stands perfectly still while clipping, even his lower legs and around the hooves, which undoubtedly gave me a false sense of security. Since I had only owned little Zach, my little 27 inch stallion, for a couple of months, I soon found him not to be the dashing little gentlemen I had once thought.

First, I had to cut his hair, which was so long and thick, with the scissors just to get it down enough to use the clippers. That he didn't mind to much. Now, comes the good part. After a short walk I tied him back up, started the clippers, and before I could scream "yikes", the little guy was up in my arms. Needless to say, this caught me off guard and I was a little stunned. I shut the clippers off, turned a bucket over, and sat there with him while I tried to figure out the best way to do this.

Me sitting there on that bucket, and him just standing there in bewilderment at what kind of MONSTER BEE had just attacked him, we obviously were a sight to see. Me and him discussed it, and decided we needed another break. So, I lead him around the pasture, came back, tied him up again, started the clippers, and again he went airborne. This was getting serious, I just couldn't understand what his problem was, he lets me clean his hooves, groom him, put his blanket on........what is this little guy's problem?

I finally realized that just watching me clip Bullet wasn't enough to introduce the poor little guy to clippers, and it was going to take a bit more brain-storming. Once again, I sat down on the bucket. I knew it was the noise that he was afraid of, and the vibration of the blades, but I couldn't clip him with them turned off.

I talked to him for a bit, then gently starting making a buzzing sound through my teeth, sort of like the clippers, and I started rubbing him all over, and later adding quivering motions with my hand. He didn't like that at first either, but gradually realized he wasn't being hurt. I then started the clippers and laid them next to him, and then started rubbing the back of the clippers on him. Soon I was clipping him with ease. Well, until I got to the hind legs anyway, that one we are still working on.

So, if you have a horse afraid of the sound of clippers, just try buzzing, may-BEE it will work for you too.
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