Horse Books

[Butterscotchbitesfinger]

Second all the great advice above. Please do a lot of research before buying a horse. Books are great, but hands-on experience is a real necessity. I can't stress this enough.

We all know people who went out and got chickens or other small animals before having hands-on experience, and often they experienced a lot of failure at first (like dead animals) before modifying their chicken-keeping, with a lot of heartache and expense, to re-make a healthy and safe environment for their animals.

With horses, multiply this 100 times. They are 100 times more expensive to keep, 100 times more work, 100 times more fragile in terms of susceptibility to injury or health problems, 100 times more heartache if something happens to them.

I don't mean to sound like a jerk, and I definitely want to encourage you to have horses! Just spend at least a year getting hands-on experience before you get them. Look up barns in your area - pretty much every barn likes to have people who will do work in exchange for riding. Work at a variety of different barns, too. You will learn so much - and there is so much to learn.

Definitely read the Pony Club Manuals, and compare their quality of horse care to the barn you are working at. You will be able to make educated judgements about what is right or wrong about caring for horses, what shortcuts are OK to take, and what are not.

I wish you lots of luck in your horse journey!

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[Weeg]

Would any of you like to enter your horses in my online hors ehsow! Its in the online poultry show forum, its the only horse show! Would love to have more entries!

 

[littledog]

I would, but I can't find it. could you be more exact about where it is?