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OF CONTENTS  Take
a Peek at my New Book ! - Riding Western
Your
Horse's Physical Development - the Early Stages "Ask-Cherry"
- How Do I Put my Horse on a Diet? **********************************************************************
New Book: Riding
Western Hot off the Press from Kenilworth
Press of Buckingham, Great Britain is my new book, Riding Western, the
46th book in the Threshold Picture Guide series. The Threshold
Picture Guides started in 1986 with book #1 "Manes and Tails" and since then have
covered many topics of British-style horse care, tack, English riding, and driving.
Riding Western marks the first Western book published
by Kenilworth Press and the first Threshold Guide on a Western topic. I am pleased
to be their first American author. The Threshold Picture Guides
are 24 page 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" books, illustrated by British artist Carole Vincer.
Since Carole had never seen a Western horse or saddle before our project together,
it was my job to design the art and provide her with photos and drawings to help
her create the 90 color illustrations. The result is a pretty cool little book
with loads of information and tips packed into it. The Threshold
Guides have been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch,
Norwegian and Japanese. To see an excerpt from Riding Western,
go here: https://www.horsekeeping.com/horse_books/Riding_Western_excerpt.htm
To read more about the book, Riding Western, go here:
https://www.horsekeeping.com/horse_books/Riding_Western.htm
********************************************************************** Your
Horse's Physical Development - the Early StagesThroughout
your horse's training program, it is important to regularly evaluate the development
of his physique. As a horse exercises and is trained, he uses
particular muscle groups more than others. With repetition, these muscle groups
become dominant and subsequently affect the horse's conformation. If the work
is correct, the horse develops an attractive, smooth, and functional physique.
If the work is incorrect, the horse's conformation can become rough, develop thickenings
and bulges in some places and hollow, weak spots in others... To
read the rest of the article, go here: https://www.horsekeeping.com/horse_riding_and_mounted_training/physical_development.htm ********************************************************************** Ask-CherryTo
submit a question for Ask-Cherry for April, go here: https://www.horsekeeping.com/ask_Cherry.htm
******************* How
do I put my Horse on a Diet? Dear Cherry, My
gelding is just plain fat. I just brought him home from a boarding stable. There
he was being fed a diet of sweet feed, alfalfa hay and pasture. When I got him
home I slowly decreased his intake of sweet feed and fed him a mixed grass hay.
I also limited his pasture time. I have switched him to oats and only give him
a small amount and continue to feed him a mixed grass hay and also continue to
limit his time on the pasture. He appears to be losing a little weight but I would
like to know the best way to take weight off of this gelding. I ride but not on
a daily basis. Thank you. Linda Hi
Linda, First of all I must congratulate you on your sound approach
to getting your new gelding fit. There just isn't a more fattening
regimen than pasture + alfalfa hay + sweet feed. Add inactivity to this formula
and a horse's chance for unsoundness increases and his useful lifespan decreases
even more. So bravo to you that you've started him on the right path. It will
be worth the effort. Here are some tips for taking weight
off a fat horse..................... To read the rest of this
article, go to:
https://www.horsekeeping.com/horse_health_care/horse_diet.htm ********************************************************************** That's
it for this month. Keep your mind in the middle and a leg on each side. 
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