Prepare a young horse for saddling and having its feet handled with Rudy Lara’s progressive rope drills.
Catching a hind leg to start a green horse horse teaches it to yield to pressure, and keeps colt starters safe if done correctly.
From the tractor in the yard and the placement of each gate, to the types of feeders and the fencing materials each place utilizes, everything on a property represents choices, labor and sacrifices made.
LOCATION: Approximately 10 miles northwest of Weatherford & 50 minutes to Will Rogers Coliseum. Directions – From the Weatherford…
Maintaining and trimming horse hooves are essential in order to sustain optimal hoof health. …
Proper trimming is vital to preventing lameness and injury for horses. Keeping a horse’s bars aligned and healthy are dependent upon trimming as well. Bars appear as white lines along the frog and are made up of lamina. Think of the bars like plastic straws …
Proper trimming is vital to horses’ overall health and quality of life. When hooves aren’t trimmed properly, horses distribute their weight unevenly, and land on their feet differently. This can cause horses to become lame. …
When a person wears the same pair of shoes for a long period of time, parts of the shoes wear out more than others based on how the person walks and distributes his or her weight. Once shoes wear out, the feet are not properly supported. This scenario is also true for horseshoes and hooves …
