Is Your Horse Ready to Learn?
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
August 8, 2016
Researchers found that some mental warm-up to prepare your horse to learn can go a long way toward effective training.
Researchers found that some mental warm-up to prepare your horse to learn can go a long way toward effective training.
Researchers found that training using learning theory principles can yield excellent results in weeks-old foals.
Researchers found that while many riders think they understand learning theory and its applications, few really do.
Saddle slip can negatively impact rider balance and equine locomotion, as well as rider biomechanics, researchers found.
Researchers studied personality trends in draft horses, Warmbloods, and draft-Warmblood-crosses to find out.
Researchers learned that dressage horses have the greatest risk of locomotor problems, among other findings.
Horses spent less time resting at night during weeks they worked than they did during weeks they didn’t, scientists say.
Researchers found that hard surfaces, shallow footing depths, and compacted footing could increase horses’ injury risk.
Practical ways to improve your horse’s welfare, based on discoveries from the growing field of equitation science.
Which memory system a horse uses each time he learns a task depends on a variety of factors. Here’s what to remember.
Find out how your horse can hurt his neck, risks for injury and disease, and associated therapies, so you can give your horse the best chance for a strong neck and an athletic future.
Consider horses’ unique abilities and needs to carry out welfare-friendly, efficient training, one researcher says.
What are your horses’ pasture behaviors telling you and what can you do to help groups live together harmoniously?
French researchers found that the degree of that impairment depends on training method and the individual horse.
What affects a foal’s demeanor and makes him his own, unique self? Let’s have a look at what science has to say.
Researchers hope the test will help them predict laminitis risk based on ponies’ insulin responses to food.
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