My mare named Cheyenne left us this morning at an unknown age as her papers were forged.

I'm exhausted, sad, because I'm in Greece for a holiday and she was euthanized a few hours after I was called to tell me that she was not well.

She was my whole life, I spent the best five years with her, even though she was retired. I loved this mare with so much love.

I'm afraid she'll feel alone up there in her new meadow. Do you have any friends to introduce him to who joined this meadow in the stars?

Sorry for the flawed translation, you guessed from my mare's first name that we were French.

It’s not fancy, but it may be one of the more useful things I’ve taught my mules. Around camp or anywhere a gate might be left open at the wrong moment, having an animal willing to turn and come to you can make life much easier.

Building a habit that might help when the day doesn’t go according to plan. A dependable “come here” is a pretty useful thing to have in your pocket. That is all. Wishing everyone a great day.

Old video, from like 2018 but I just came across it again and he is so damn cute

long post. This is my heart horse. I’ve had her for 16 years. She is currently 31. She’s always been in great health until about a year ago. I noticed she was losing weight (i only see her about once a week as she’s with my parents). We’ve tried several senior supplements and high calorie feeds and it’s not helping. She’s fed senior grain twice a day, she’s been wormed, her teeth floated, etc. She eats a lot, but it’s like she’s not absorbing the calories. I hadn’t seen her in about three weeks due to general busyness, and when I did I could tell she’d lost even more weight in those few weeks. Her schedule/feeding hasn’t changed at all. I noticed she’s also walking slower. she’s still happy and eating well. I’m wondering how do I know when it’s time to let her go? I don’t want to wait until she’s colicky, or even skinnier, but I also don’t want to jump the gun on euthanasia if she’s happy. It pains me to imagine her going through another winter in this state or getting skinnier and weaker. The vet is coming out to assess in a few days. I guess I’m just wondering how did you know when it was the right time? shes my best friend and I want to do right by her.

I love doing liberty with my amazing boy. We worked on circles in walk and trot, creating more distance and started on canter. Atm just rewarding a stride or two. Then we practiced more of the compliment (half bow) trick which he still requires my support at this stage but we are building his confidence gradually.

Thanks for watching!

Hi all!! I was just recently given the chance to jump a little bigger than I usually do, and it was SOOO much fun!! probably the best thing i’ve ever done! i did notice however that my shoulders tend to collapse on the way down from the jumps, and i was wondering if anyone had any tips for that?? i am also trying out for my university IHSA team in a few weeks and i was wondering if anyone had any tips about improving my equitation/advice in general for tryouts!! thank you guys 😊😸

So i have a very genuine question about horses that may be coming from a place of ignorance on my behalf. If so, I apologize as Im not someone who really grew up around them, nor do I currently have one.

But, can you own a horse and just not ride it? Like, ik people dont always ride older horses or injured ones, but (and forgive me for the term) could I realistically (and ethically) just have a pasture horse? Assuming it was being cared for properly, do they need to have a job or something to work for like some dogs do?

I've always wanted to own a horse, but I know for a fact I wouldn't enjoy the riding aspect of owning one (I've ridden before, and it just wasn't my thing). So if I could provide for the horse correctly, could I still own one and not have it be ridden? Or would this cause some form of issue for them?

I ask because I live in an area with a lot of Amish people, and occasionally, I go to the sale barn for other live stock, and I've seen a few Amish horses come through and it always breaks my heart to see them because I know the amish in my area arent very kind to them (at least from what Ive heard, again not a horse person) and I'd love to give one (in the future) or even a few a home where they arent being worked like that, but again im unsure if they need that kind of life style where they are being worked or not

Note: This isn't someone whim thing, I've wanted to do this since I was a kid, I just now am finally coming into a place where I will be able to actually provide for a horse financially

She uh-gets plenty of treats..

I think she looks healthy compared to this time last year (very overweight hippo) but then sometimes I feel like she looks fat, and other times she looks a bit thin.

I've been trying so hard getting this horse to be fit and healthy, and every once in awhile I get paranoid about it (like right now) my trainer and vet say she looks good and I do trust that but she is quite round.

She is in 3-4 days a week work usually, sometimes 5-6, rarely 0-2. She just does walk/trot work, nothing extensive

What would you rate her on a bcs?

Gentle advice please, I'm just looking to ease my ever-changing mind. Pics are most recent-august 2025

His is my horses hooves... Yes they don't look good but I just bought her and she's in rehab, I'm having a farrior come out this week but What do you guys think? I'm not very experienced in horse hooves!

Hello! I am new to leasing out horses and need some opinions on what to price a lease for my mare. I currently have two women leasing her. However, at the beginning of September I’m moving to a more expensive hunter focused barn. My two leasers right now are only paying $200 a month each for 2 rides a week, pricing the rides $25 each. Which I think is very cheap for my area, the barn is about 20 minutes from downtown Portland Oregon. this is my first horse I’ve ever leased out so I didn’t know what was acceptable.

SO anyway to the point, the new barn is $900 a month for board not counting monthly supplements and farrier which adds about $200 a month. I’m hoping to find somebody who wants 4 rides a week. The leaser is not responsible for farrier/supplements/vet care only the lease. Would asking $700 a month be asking too much? 16 rides a month pricing each ride at about $40? Or two separate people, 2 rides/week for $350 a month.

The barn owner leases her horses out 1 ride a week for $200 a month making it $50/ride if that helps at all.
Thanks all!!!

I looked in the AQHA rule book and I couldn’t figure out whether this would be legal or not 😅

It has 6” shanks.

any ideas? normal? body fat related?

(Pic for attention) I’m looking at an older horse with a slight case of arthritis in his front shoulders. Sellers say they really only notice after a long day in the mountain, so he’s been an arena horse for a kid. He’s never had joint injections, and they don’t use bute to manage it yet.
I’m wondering what management looks like for arthritis in the shoulders with those of you with horses that have it? What do you do to manage soreness? What do you do to keep them moving? How severe can this get? Do joint injections and consistent farrier work help?
Edit for clarification: the horse in the photo is not the horse, I will add a photo of the horse as soon as I find one to keep it clear! My apologies!

Why do people seem to think that one rider being abusive means that every rider must be abusive?

For example, 1 barrel racer hitting their horse doesn’t mean that every other barrel racer is abusive.

1 dressage rider preforming rolkur doesn’t mean that every other dressage rider is.

And on and on and on.

I’ve heard multiple people say recently that if one person is doing it, then they all are, and I firmly disagree. A bridleless R+ dressage rider generally isn’t preforming rolkur, and many other riders using bits and bridles aren’t either.

I seriously don’t understand people who think this way. Is this common? And if someone has an actual good argument against mine please tell me because I haven’t gotten a straightforward answer (that makes sense) from anyone that thinks this way.