Okay so I just bought an Arabian mare from a rescue type situation so I know nothing from her history except what we can piece together from her attitude and health. I rode her in a halter once then in a rope halter with snap on reigns She behaved great. I put a bridal on her once and she was kinda a brat. But with just the rope halter and reigns she is amazing. Do you think she might have been trained with a hack-more? (I have no clue how to spell that word :P) She reigns like an English horse and I thought they where more of a western thing.
They have English hackamores too. Some horses just genuinely don't like bits. I have an off the track horse who spent his whole racing career in a bit, but as a normal riding horse he can't stand having a bit in his mouth. I can ride him in a hackamore just fine.
its possible. My gelding was only trained to take a hackamore when I got him and he also only direct reined. You could always get a hackamore or some other kind of bitless bridle to see how she does. Also, if she came from a rescue-type situation with little or no history - has she had her teeth checked recently? That can cause horses to act up with bits (it also causes chewing problems of course).
She has no noticeable chewing problems. No dropping food or taking a long time to eat. But I'm hoping to bring her to my vet sometime next week for a full physical. And if my hubby remembers he will ask the blacksmith if he knows what to look for with bad teeth and have him check next week Thursday when he comes out.
This will require you to stick your hand in your horses mouth, but if he's ever had his teeth floated before he'll be used to it. Get a bucket of water or just get your whole arm really wet, and then stick your arm in there and feel around. Sharp edges will be your number one indicator that his teeth need done. But be careful, because teeth can be sharp if they haven't been done in awhile.
Nope, I hire a vet to do that and he has a tool that keeps the horses mouth open. I am aware how much force a horse can apply with its teeth and I have no desire to see what it will do to my fingers.
My Paint had mouth sores when we got him. At that time, we started using a hack until his mouth healed up. He will take and use a bit, but not as well as the hack now.
If the horse is from a rescue, I assume he was vet checked before you took hime home. Were his teeth or mouth checked? If he has any mouth sores, the bit may be aggrevating them.
He wasn't from an official rescue. Just a friend who picks up horses from auctions and turns them out on grass and treats any sores they have. When they are back in shape he tries selling them either to people he knows or at better auctions. I haven't had the vet out yet but I am planning on getting her checked asap. Sadly Asap with the move going on and the money being spent on the move is not as soon as I would like it to be. I have never stuck my arm in her moth but i have stuck my arm into a horses mouth before. I had a Quarter Horse and my husband was trying to prove to me that offering him a whole apple was fine because he always took bites out of it and didn't try to eat it whole. He tried to eat it whole and it shot into his throat and he was chocking on it. I dunked my arm into his water bucket, grabbed his lower jaw, and shoved my hand and arm in almost right to my shoulder and managed to get my nail in the apple and pull it out. I was furious because I had warned my hubby a million times that that could happen with the way this horse attacked any type of food he got and he had done it anyways. My husband from then on always cut up any apple or even carrots that he fed as treats
He wasn't from an official rescue. Just a friend who picks up horses from auctions and turns them out on grass and treats any sores they have. When they are back in shape he tries selling them either to people he knows or at better auctions.
He does do horse trading but when he sells horses for a lot less to someone he kows will take care of it instead of to a stranger for twice the money... I know he doesn do horse trading. but i\v alo seen him take an old horse and just let it live out therest of it's life on his farm without ever making a penny on it.
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