DIY Dry Lot
With guidance from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (an agency of the Department of Agriculture charged with helping farmers and ranchers to optimize pasture health, among other missions), I’m building a dry lot. A dry lot is a space in which horses can move freely, […]
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DIY Saddle Racks
This easy DIY comes from the folks at the Internet Hay Exchange. Materials lists: Scrap piece of 2×4 lumber between 18 and 24 inches in length #2 Eye Bolt (eye hole is about one inch in diameter) Four-inch Rope Hook Tool list: Philips Screw Driver […]
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DIY Projects
Years ago, I sold my round pen (16 six-foot-high, heavy gauge panels, weighing about 90 pounds each) to a woman from Downeast Maine. She brought her flatbed trailer and the two of us loaded them. Twenty minutes and done. She cinched them down with ratchet […]
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ADDITIONAL POSTS
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Amy Skinner: A Bit about Bias
Amy Skinner Editor’s Note: Amy Skinner is a regular guest columnist and has been a horse gal since age six. Read...
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Silva: We Need to Ditch Autocratic Teaching
Teaching/Learning is a two-way street Editor's Note: 2018 Best Horse Practices Summit presenter Katrin Silva grew up riding dressage in Germany before...
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Micro-steps with Rewards Work Best for Dogs and Horses
Ann Chernoff Allan works with her dog at a herding competition The weather is warming. Snow is disappearing. And like riding...
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The Winding Road of Life with Horses
Katrin Silva grew up riding dressage in Germany before moving to the United States at age 19 to learn to ride Western. She’s been riding...
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Sweaters are back, thanks to Cotopaxi
No one wears sweaters any more. Why? They don’t breathe. They don’t stand up to hard work. They’re not fashionable. Sweaters are for dowdy, office...
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Delightful Days at Circle Z
Many of us are more than ready for spring. Waiting out the weather is fine, by why not escape instead? Our newest partner is the...
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