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My wife is having issues after doing easy, hour long trail rides. Her legs seem to fall asleep and her knees get real sore. She's riding a good sized but not huge gelding quarter horse. She's average to smaller sized and uses a basic western saddle. Any ideas appreciated, thx!
Hey all! I've looked around on the internet and read reviews, looked at Amazon etc but I want to know what your favourite helmet for regular riding is! I like the sleek, lighter-weight ones personally and cost isn't something I need to worry about. Let me know which you like the best!
I'll be taking a riding vacation the first week of June and I'm super excited for it! It's 5 days of riding with approximately 6-7 hours per day in the saddle. When I was in my teens and 20's I rode nearly every day, sometimes multiple times a day and I never thought much about my fitness. But here I am, approaching 40, I haven't been on a horse in 10 years and I'm worried about keeping up physically. All I currently do for activity is lots of walking and some yoga once or twice a week. Are there any specific exercises or muscles you work on to help with riding? I'm looking to put in some work to get in shape so I'm not dying halfway through the first day!
I recently picked up a Back in Track sheet for a great deal (friend found a deal and bought it for her horse, but it was too small. So she sold it to me at cost). I read some different reviews but was wondering if anyone on here has experience with this gear? Do you use it before you ride or after? And have you seen any type of result from using the sheet? Thanks for sharing any of your thoughts/opinions/tips!
The rule that I've always stuck by with horses is that they can carry 15% of their body weight over long distances and/or in the heat, and up to 20% over short distances in pleasant weather, and that they can pull 2-2.5 times their weight behind them. For a litany of reasons, my wife and I are thinking that our next equine should be a donkey or a mule, however in addition to draught work, packing and livestock guardianship my wife and I would like to be able to ride, she's 4' 10" and 95lbs (though that was pre-pregnancy, after the baby is born she might weigh differently) and I'm 5' 7" and 180lbs.
Also, do mules have the same or similar guarding instinct and ability to donkeys? I know that mules have more of a tendency to stand their grown (and fight) as opposed to horses who run from danger, but one of the reasons that livestock guardian donkeys (and llamas) are becoming so popular is because donkeys have no qualms about stomping a coyote to death if it enters his or her pasture/property.
Finally, would our miniature horse make a fine equine companion to other species? She was a great friend to our Canadian horse who tragically died two years ago, but of course they were both horses! I'm assuming that a mule would do fine with a horse since every mule has a horse for a mother, but what about donkeys?
Thanks.