Category: The Herd Connection

  • Pain anticipation with Risada

    Pain anticipation with Risada

    Working with the reasons behind aggression to strangers… When we experience pain there will be an association that goes with that pain. It could be a wasp landing on us and we anticipate a sting because we were stung once before. We slipped down a few carpeted steps once and hurt our back, so now…

  • More cribbing healing sessions

    More cribbing healing sessions

    And Risada joined in too – looking for some help with her upper back leg. This a long video but I have tried not to cut too much out as it shows how long these sessions need to be sometimes. When we did our session on the 8th March (see previous video and post) we…

  • Chocolate selecting clove oil

    Chocolate selecting clove oil

    Chocolate shows us what many of the reactions look like in horses when offering essential oils.. This video shows Chocolate selecting clove oil and taking quite a lot of it. We tend to know clove oil mostly as a means of pain relief for toothache, but it has anti bacterial properties and can be good…

  • Wormwood self-selection

    I just wanted to share this little video of my guys self-selecting wormwood. There is also a little bit in there as I was also wandering around with a bucket of marine algae to see if anybody wanted any. Risada shows us really nicely how she is deciding to have some wormwood, and then when…

  • Change your perspective..

    Change your perspective..

    Change the reflection.. The behaviours of the animals that share our environment are in all likelihood a subconscious habit developed from a conscious reaction to something we feel or do subconsciously. “What on earth does all that mean?” I hear you asking. I will try and explain. The subconscious mind is where our habits are.…

  • Checking in on Trust (2)

    The Next Day……… After spending time with Neige and her trusting me enough to lie down when I was on the ground on 25th January, (see Checking in on Trust post 25th January 2022), the next day she was in the yard standing and resting. I went and stood with her, just being still and…

  • Checking in on Trust

    Using part of the Trust Technique teaching with Neige to check in on our relationship…… I have not spent a lot of time with Neige in a ‘just being’ sense since her Uveitis and sight loss. We do have a lovely relationship and I am always astonished at her level of trust in me and…

  • ..and Risada accepts the bridle

    Following on from my post three days ago Yesterday I asked Risada to come into the arena alone. At first she was quite fidgety and mouthy, and it took about 20 minutes for us to reach a place where we could be peaceful, no thinking, worrying, wondering what was next, etc. This we did in…

  • A 3 way conversation about bridles..

    A 3 way conversation about bridles..

    When the horses are ready to talk about something they will. We just have to be ready to listen…. Timmy, Risada & I started the New Year with a conversation about bridles. I have been walking my pony out with a Micklem bridle which allows me to attach the lead rope to the top of…

  • Riding Epiphanies

    Letting go of riding & then a lightbulb moment! So here is a little thing I want to share…I felt last week that I should spend some time looking at my feelings about riding – How me getting back in the saddle would feel. It is the time of year for a little look over…