This
newsletter is a personal letter from me to you,
a fellow horse owner and
enthusiast.
My goal is to answer some of your questions and send you interesting
stories and helpful tips for your
horse care, training, and riding.
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New ! Cherry Hill's
Horse Care for Kids
VICES AND BAD HABITS
- Part Two: Bad Habits
"When Good
Horses Do Bad Things"
Ask Cherry: Herd
Bound - Barn Sour
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New! Cherry Hill's Horse Care for Kids
Hot
off the press is my latest book
Cherry
Hill's Horse Care for Kids.
With
over 180 full color photos and drawings, your child will find this an easy to
understand guide especially designed for kids. Its focus is the care and handling
of a horse or pony. Includes behavior, choosing a horse, horsekeeping, feeding,
health care, grooming, safety, and horse care calendar. Written so the novice
can easily understand, this book will also help parents ! Designed to complement
riding books for young readers, this book focuses on all aspects or horse care
and discusses various equine community activities for kids.
Cherry
Hill's Horse Care for Kids has been chosen as a Scholastic Book Club Arrow Book
and a Children's Book of the Month Club selection.
Read
excerpts and sample pages here.
Order now. We will ship as soon as the
books arrive here - sometime in October.
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Vices and Bad
Habits
Part
Two: Bad Habits
Bad
habits are those naughty, irritating, and often dangerous things your horse does
when you are handling, leading or riding him or even when you are just feeding
him or cleaning his stall or pen. Examples are halter pulling, biting, rearing,
balking, tail wringing, striking, bucking........the list is quite long. Most
of these behaviors are due to the horse's reaction to his handling by humans.
Bad habits are usually caused by rushed or improper training, inconsistent handling,
uncertainty, insecurity, or resentment. A horse that is confused or insecure can
exhibit some pretty wild behavior and a resentful horse can be uncooperative and
resistant. A horse's resistance might be based on confusion, fear, disrespect,
fatigue, or high spirits and there seems to be an unlimited number of ways he
tell us about it.
Our goal is to prevent
bad habits by designing sound, appropriate and thoughtful patterns of handling
and training so that our horses are handled properly and consistently and become
confident, respectful animals.
If you
didn't read "When
Good Horses Do Bad Things" last month, do so now to gain a valuable base
of understanding about bad habits.
I've
also included a chart on Bad Habits that includes description, causes, and treatment
for
Balking
Biting
Barn Sour
Bolting
Bucking
Can't Handle Feet
Halter
Pulling
Hard to Catch
Head Shy
| Herd
Bound
Jigging
Kicking
Rearing
Running Away
Shying
Striking
Stumbling
Tail Wringing |
Bad
Habits Chart
The
chart is an excerpt from one of my books, Horse
for Sale.
(If you don't have this
book, there are a few blemished
copies for sale.
Before
you think about forwarding or copying anything from this newsletter, please read
this article!
Be
sure to check the Horse
Information Roundup to find information on training, horse care, grooming,
health care, hoof care, facilities and more.
Browse
the complete Cherry
Hill Horse Book Library.
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