Travel with a Horse, a challenge not to compare with anything else!Travel with a Horse is a challenge not to compare with anything else. To work with horses is like looking in a mirror. To live with horses is be part off a hurdle. To travel with a horse we need: Yes Horses! The real stars of our journey are Aysha and Isabella. No doubt about that. Before our trip, we did have minor experiences with horses what so ever. We bought Aysha and Isabella early October 2005. Not two years ago. Aysha is than 10 years old, Isabella 5. Aysha is well trained in everything. Isabella walks along reasonably in the team, but besides that, she is only a half trained animal. They both come from a big herd of about forty horses. They have been declaring healthy by the vet, but can’t be calling fat. Moreover, that’s an understatement. Takes some more time before we can travel with our horses.
No experiences at all!We, at that point had also little experience with horses. John rode a horse and carriage with a single horse for two years, about 25 years ago. Thea had no experience at all.Not with horses and not traveling with a horse. This article about Carriage Driving, explaines the essentials of driving Education necessary for us! Because of our inexperience’s we have lots of questions to begin with. Especially because we know that, we can’t have the horses at home at the moment. We still have to work each day end we want them to be fine when we are away. Important questions, before we travel with a horse, to us are: What should we look for in a stable?
How far do we want to drive (after a long day work?)
What's included in the boarding fee?
In the book below all kind of questions are answered in a clear way! Read how to find a boarding stable where you and your horse will be happy. How to Find the Perfect Place for Your Pony
With this “luggage”, we placed them near a youth institute in Breda, a 10 minutes drive from our house. Here we adapt the nursery and placement schedules of the caretakers present. Children are taking riding lessons on syha and Isabella, fully dresses with great riding apparel and riding boots. Nice to see we can do something back! Looking back on that time, we learned a lot there about the relationship between nutrition and behaviour. Isabella is really behaving terribly especially when we travel with her. At first, the children of the institute ride them, but that ended soon. The combination of bad behaviour and the lack of experience from our side made the horse caretaker decide not to bring her along anymore. Isabella did pull a caravan before, together with her mother Aysha, so at least the have travel experience! Sidebar: one of the best things we can advice, is to study Pat Parelli! and his book:Natural Horse-Man-Ship: Six Keys to a Natural Horse-Human Relationship An interesting view on Training your Horse:
Calm Your Horse With Sing Song.
In the preparation time of this journey, we try to imaging what we need to take care of the two ladies, when we travel with a horse. They are a little spoiled with vitamins and nutritional supplements. We have no clue if Aysha and Isabella can stay outside when it’s freezing. The temperature in the East of Europe can be very cold! Therefore, we took precaution and bought two horse blankets. Dangerous All time low in that period was Isabella pulling on the rope all of a sudden while we were walking. Than kicking back hitting John in the chest. This is alarming. We asked for help from a “horse whisperer,” he helps us terrifically. He told us that Aysha seems friendly but doesn’t really show respect to the leader. He also adviced us to learn some other things: We have to improve our riding and behavior skills. This way we will bond with Aysha and Isabella. Equestrian sport psychology can make a big difference and Training from the Neck Up will show us how..
This book is from the same author as the previous one, clear and helpfull. We want to set goals that will help us to learn more effectively and feel more successful when riding with Isabella Learn what causes our butterflies and how to manage them. Control our emotional intensity for maximum learning and performance because we are to stressed. Use visualization to overcome fears, learn new skills, and perform more successfully. With some exercises, we learn the basic principles of interaction between man and horse. The basis that we have picked up: be unequivocal, but soft. In addition, how important distance-closeness is and man as leader decides that this. By the way, more experienced horse trainers have told us to sell Isabella because she is too dangerous. Luckily, we haven’t listened to them because we DID travel with a horse Haflinger and a Noriker, There!. We have also taken private riding lessons, ( don't worry, we are not dressed up in riding apparel and riding boots!)this is fun and we learn that Isabella has a lot to learn and isn’t an unwilling or angry horse. More like a soft and a bit frightened horse. Time will learn us how to handle, (ex:
How to Pick up a Horses Hoof)
now we are almost ready to travel with a horse.
Soon we have to take a ferry and a dangerous bridge. Look how the hurdle take that one.
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Our horses and life changing attitude brings lots of insight
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Horse Training: Calm Your Horse With Sing Song
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