Author Archives: Jutta Wiemers

How to navigate the Blogs – Wie Sie in den Archiven fündig werden

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How to Navigate the Blogs: Wie man durch die Archive steuert: Dear Blog Readers! Blogs will be published whenever I have time to write them. This is how to navigate the archives of articles previously published: In the top right hand corner …

Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Blog 43 – How to build a barrel horse

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Blog 42 – Ex: Lifts – Glossary

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Blog 41 – Exercises: shoulderstands etc

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Blog 40 – Exercises: Arabesques

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Blog 39 – Exercises: Standing

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Blog 38 – kick-ups, supports, wheelbarrows

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Blog 37 – Exercises Kneel-Bench-Flag

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Blog 36 – Lying and hanging exercises

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Blog 35 – Partner Transitions & Seats-

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Exercises – Blog 34 – Single Transitions

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Exercises – Blog 33 – Partner dismounts

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Catalogue of Exercises – Blog 32 – Single dismounts

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Exercise Catalogue – Blog 31 – Double Mounts

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Catagolue of exercises – Blog 30 – Single mounts

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 29 – Blog 29 – Insurance

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 28 – Blog 28 – Organize a competition

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 27 – Blog 27 – Working for a show

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 26 – Blog 26 – Training for the Kur

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 25 – Blog 25 – How to write a kur

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 24 – Blog 24 – First Freestyle

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 23 – Blog 23 – Team Kur

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 22 – Blog 22: the Flank

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 21 – Blog 21 – The Stand

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 20 – Blog 20 – The scissors

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 19 – Blog 19 – The Mill

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 18 – Blog 18 – The Flag

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 17 – Blog 17 – Dismount & Vault-off

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 16 – Blog 16 – The basic seat

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 15 – Blog 15 – Approach & Mount

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 14 – Blog 14 – The Compulsories

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 13 – Blog 13 – Vaulting Exercises

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 12 – Blog 12 – Preparation before vaulting

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 11 – Blog 11 – Talent & Technique

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 10 – Blog 10 – The meaning of training

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 9 – Blog 09 – Planning a session

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 8 – Blog 08 – The Trainer

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 7 – Blog 07 – Lunging & the lunger

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 5 – Blog 05 – The vaulting child

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 3 – Blog 04 – How to train the vaulting horse

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 2 – Blog 03 – Team member HORSE

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Chapter 1 – Blog 02 – How to start

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Equestrian Vaulting Handbook revisited – Introduction – Blog 01

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Dear readers, I get many questions still about the Equestrian Vaulting Handbook, which as you can see, has been out of print for some time. I am flattered that folks still want to read it. This book was written in …

Training & Learning – Blog 06 – The “Chips”

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Training & Learning – Part 06 – The “chips” Training & Lernen – Teil 06 – die “Jetons” In the last Blog we finished on the note of pure fun with an enthusiastic and self-motivated pupil. Good! It is clear that a …

Training & Learning – Blog 05 – Reward like a Pro

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Training & Learning – Blog 05 – Rewarding like a Pro – Part 1 Training & Lernen – Blog 05 – Belohnen wie ein Profi – Teil 1 In the last Blog we discussed the role of punishment for training …

Training & Learning – Blog 04 – Reward & Punishment

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Training & Learning – Part 04 Training & Lernen – Teil 04 Reward & Punishment In the last Blog we started talking about the ABC of Learning and explained its “A” – the “Antecedent”. We found out that the horse’s …

Training & Learning – Blog 03 – The ABC

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Training & Learning – Part 03 – The ABC Training & Lernen – Teil 03 – Das ABC So what was it that the horse in the first picture of the last Blog says? The solution was in the series “Understanding your Horse” …

Training & Learning – Blog 02 – “The Secret” !

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Training & Learning – Part 02 Training & Lernen – Teil 02 In the last Blog we touched upon the differences between the human and the horse’s brain. Naturally this has huge consequences on how we have to structure our …

Training & Learning – Blog 01 – Introduction

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Training & Learning – 01 – Introduction Trainieren & Lernen – 01 – Einführung We are training our horses, because we want them to learn something – something NEW, obviously, something they have not understood yet. This does not need …

Party Games for your Horse – Blog 11 – “Fetch!” ” Apport!”

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Party Games for your Horse – Blog 11 “Fetch!  Apport!” Kleine Gesellschaftsspiele für Ihr Pferd  – Teil 11 “Apport !!” “Fetching” is a game, which can be lots of fun, but should be contemplated with caution. When a horse “fetches” …

Party Games – Blog 10 – Backward Good-Bye

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Backwards Goodbye ! – Blog 10 Rückwärts Ade ! – Blog 10 Since Beau died at the beginning of this year, writing about the happy times we used to have has become really hard. But I don’t want to forget them either! …

Beau died January 4th 2018

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Obituary on Beau Nachruf auf Beau My darling Beau, the last of my rescue horses, is dead – and leaves a huge hole in my life! For over 35 years I have never eaten an apple of which I didn’t …

Your Horse’s IQ – Blog 17 – Follow! Intelligent Disobedience

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Your horse’s IQ – Part 17 Der IQ Ihres Pferdes – Teil 17 Only two commands are left to be discussed from the learning list for guide animals – and since the information on the training of minis was so …

Your Horse’s IQ – Blog 16 – Down! Sit! Come!

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Your horse’s IQ – Part 16 Der IQ Ihres Pferdes – Teil 16 After learning a lot about obstacle avoidance in the last Blog, we now get to Point 10 on our learning list of voice commands for a guide …

Your Horse’s IQ – Blog 15 – Obstacle Avoidance

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Your horse’s IQ – Part 15 Der IQ Ihres Pferdes – Teil 15 As promised in the last Blog, now that we are putting obstacles in our way, things become interesting! Any normal horse that is not blind himself, would …

Your Horse’s IQ – Blog 14 – “Straight!”-“Steady!”-“Hup-Up!”-Left-Right!”

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Your Horse’s IQ – Part 14 Der IQ Ihres Pferdes – Teil 14 In the last Blog we ended by setting our guide pony into motion with the command “Forward!”  Now we expect our guide to take the leader initiative …

Your horse’s IQ – Blog 13 – Heel! Stand! Forward!

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Your Horse’s IQ – Blog 13 Der IQ Ihres Pferdes – Teil 13 As the blind person must totally rely on his guide, the important command # 1 “No!” (our “nein!”), is used more in training than later in his …

Your Horse’s IQ – Blog 12 – Voice Command 1 – Mechanics

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Your Horse’s IQ – Command Nr. 1 “No!” – Blog 12 Der IQ Ihres Pferdes – Kommando Nr. 1 “Nein!”– Teil 12 3) voice command association: In the last Blog I recommended to review the part 03 of the lungeing series, …

Your horse’s IQ – Blog 11 – Master Position, voice association 1

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Your horse’s IQ – Part 11 Der IQ Ihres Pferdes – Teil 11 In the last Blog we talked about housebreaking a guide animal : to control his “elimination” and even to announce when the time to go is, is …

Your Horse’s IQ – Blog 10 – Housebreaking

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Training a guide Mini – Housebreaking Ein Führpferd trainieren – stubenrein After learning so much about the scientific side of our horses’ thinking capacities I now wanted to proceed to the practical side of it – the application of how …

Your Horse’s IQ – Blog 09 – Behavioural Experiments

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Your horse’s IQ – Part 09 Der IQ Ihres Pferdes – Teil 09 We have talked about the different ways of learning and the role that memory plays in the process – and have come to the conclusion that offering …

Happy Birthday Beau!

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Beau turned 34! Beau ist 34! It gets harder to believe from year to year – but he is still hanging in there! Beau had a very happy birthday, for which even the sun came out! All our best wishes …

Your Horse’s IQ – Blog 08 – Retention of objects, quantity, words

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Your horse’s IQ – Part 08 Der IQ Ihres Pferdes – Teil 08 In discrimination tasks the horse has learned that only one stimulus, and not another, will result in getting rewarded. In the last Blog we talked about the astonishing …

Your horse’s IQ – Blog 07 – Memory

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Your horse’s IQ – Part 07 Der IQ Ihres Pferdes – Teil 07 One’s intelligence has a lot to do with memory – if you don’t retain, what you have learned, you won’t get far. Memory is the faculty of …

Your horse’s IQ – Blog 06 – Operant conditioning, Reinforcement

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Your horse’s IQ – Part 06 Der IQ Ihres Pferdes – Teil 06 In Blog 04 we started talking about Associative Learning, but then had to take a detour. We needed to stress the importance of how the horse perceives …

Your Horse’s IQ – Blog 05 – Perception, senses

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Your Horse’s IQ – Part 05 Der IQ Ihres Pferdes – Teil 05 In the last Blog we started looking at the sensory equipment the horse has for his perception – for if we don’t even know, how he sees …

Your horse’s IQ – Blog 04 – Desensitize, classical conditioning, perception, eye

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Your horse’s IQ – Part 04 Der IQ Ihres Pferdes – Teil 04 In the last Blog we started looking into the activity of learning, beginning with Habituation. We saw that habituation, the process of exposing our horse repeatedly to …

Your horse’s IQ – Blog 03

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Your Horse’s IQ – Part 3  Learning – Habituation Der IQ Ihres Pferdes – Teil 3 Lernen – Gewöhnung I regard the achievements of guide ponies, whom we mentioned in the last Blogs, as a certain pinnacle of horse intelligence. …

Your horse’s IQ – Blog 02

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Your horse’s IQ – Part 2 Der IQ Ihres Pferdes – Teil 2 In the last Blog we have seen an impressive list of abilities, which guide animals must have to properly do their job – and we now know …

Your Horse’s IQ – Blog 01

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Your Horse’s IQ – Part 1 Der IQ Ihres Pferdes – Teil 1 From all my previous Blogs you know how convinced I am that playing with my horses and training them with nothing but positive reinforcement (according to the …

Party Games – Blog 09 – Tyre-Tower !

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Party Games for your Horse – Part 09 Partyspiele für Ihr Pferd – Teil 09 The Tyre-Tower! In my book „From Leading to Liberty“ the horses learned in Game 30 (on page 136) how to place their feet individually and …

Party Games – Blog 08 – Garrocha Part 2

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Party Games – Blog 08- Garrocha Part 2 Party Spielchen – Blog 08 – Garrocha Teil 2 In the last Blog we finished by acquainting the horse with our new Garrocha toy, and then dragged it behind us. We saw …

Party Games – Blog 07 – Garrocha Game 1

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The Garrocha Game – Part 1 Das Garrocha Spiel – Teil 1 The Garrocha Game is explained in full detail in Game 98, page 359, in the Book “From Leading to Liberty”. It is one of my favourite games! Das …

Party Games – Blog 06 – Mikado Game

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The Mikado Game – Part 06 Das Mikado Spiel – Teil 06 In my book „From Leading to Liberty“ the horses learned in Game 30 (on page 136) how to place their feet individually and on command. We mentioned that …

Party Games for your Horse – Blog 05 – Jump the Whip!

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Party Games for your Horse – Part 05 Gesellschaftsspielchen für Ihr Pferd – Teil 05 “Over the Whip!” In this game we broaden our horse’s understanding of the ordinary “send and call” games, which you were introduced to in the …

Party Games for your Horse – Blog 04 – Longe Fun!

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Fun on the Lunge Line – Part 04 Longierspaß – Teil 04 In the last game we introduced our horses to turns and rope aids in a playful manner. These games also taught us to become more adept at handling …

Party Games – Blog 03 – Dancing Waltz

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Party Games : Dancing the Waltz – 03 Gesellschafts-spielchen : Walzertanzen – 03 In the last Blog we visited the Fast-Food together – so this time we have to lose a bit of weight. So we will go dancing! In …

Party Games – Blog 02 – Take-Out Food!

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The Take-Out –Blog 02  Straßenverkauf! – Blog 02 In this series I want to suggest a few little games which will give your horse a sense of achievement and will therefore be fun for him. Teach your horse to “Touch” …

Party Games – Blog 01 – Backward Slalom at Liberty

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Party Games – Part 01  Party Games – Teil 01  In this new series I want to suggest some little games for your warm-up or cool-out time after your work with your horse. I have always played with my horses …

History of the Horse – Blog 22 – Christmas Gifts!

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History of the Horse – Part 22 Geschichte des Pferdes – Teil 22 Christmas Gifts for your Horse! For quite a few Blogs now I have had the feeling that I should be more positive about the History of our …

History of the Horse – Blog 21 – Our Times 10

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History of the Horse – Part 10 Geschichte des Pferdes – Teil 10 Our times 10: We have now looked at the significance of the relationship between horses and humans over the last Blogs – how it is or how …

History of the Horse – Blog 20 – Our Times 9

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History of the Horse – Part 20 Geschichte des Pferdes – Teil 20 Our Times 9 In the last Blogs (starting with Blog 17) we looked at the economic influence that the horse industry in general has today, culminating with the …

History of the Horse – Blog 19 – Our Times 8

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History of the Horse – Part 19 Geschichte des Pferdes – Teil 19 Our Times 8 Pro or contra horse racing? I already stated in the last Blog that I am personally not a friend of racing. Horses are rarely …

History of the Horse – Blog 18 – Our Times 7

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History of the Horse – Part 18 Geschichte des Pferdes – Teil 18 Our Times 7 In the last Blog we started looking at the equestrian industry in terms of economics – and found that it is quite important in terms …

History of the Horse – Blog 17 – Our times 6

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History of the Horse – Blog 17 Geschichte des Pferdes – Blog 17  Our times 6 – Some Statistics Unser Zeitalter -etwas Statistik We are getting to the end of our History of the Horses. We have killed them in wars, …

History of the Horse – Blog 16 – Our Times 5

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History of the Horse – Part 16 Geschichte des Pferdes – Teil 16 We saw in the last Blog that horses had to share the miseries of humans in war as well as in their working environment. Another thing we …

History of the Horse – Blog 15 – Our Times 4

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History of the Horse – Part 15 – Our Times 4 Geschichte des Pferdes – Teil 15 – Unser Zeitalter Life as a working horse: War is certainly the most terrible thing that humans ever inflicted on horses (and on themselves, …

History of the Horse – Blog 14 – Our Times 3

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History of the Horse – Part 14 Geschichte des Pferdes – Teil 14 In the last Blog we looked at the situation of horses during the First World War – and I find the topic so depressing that the going …

History of the Horse – Blog 13 – Our Times 2

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History of the Horse – Part 13 Geschichte des Pferdes – Teil 13 Our times 2 In the last Blog we looked at the types of horses used for warfare. Regardless what function they would be used for, whether pulling equipment …

History of the Horse – Blog 12 – Our Times 1

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History of the Horse – Part 12 – Our Times 1 Geschichte des Pferdes – Teil 12 – Unser Zeitalter 1 We have almost arrived in the present!  We saw in the last Blog that at the end of the Ice Age there was …

History of the Horse – Blog 11 – Holocene

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History of the Horse – Part 11  Geschichte des Pferdes – Teil 11 Holocene The period, which started about 10,000 years ago, is called Holocene. It comprises the end of last major glacial epoch as already since about 16,000 years ago there was a …

History of the Horse – Blog 10 – Pleistocene

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History of the Horse – Part 10 Geschichte des Pferdes – Teil 10  Pleistocene We have arrived in the Pleistocene – which started about 2 million years ago and lasted 1 million years. We mentioned in the last Blog that the …

History of the Horse – Blog 09 – Pliocene 2

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History of the Horse – Part 09  Geschichte des Pferdes – Teil 09 Pliocene 2   The animals: Many of the animal species just carried over from the Miocene. The largest ones were the mastodons and giraffes. The first real pigs …

History of the Horse – Blog 08 – Pliocene 1

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History of the Horse – Part 08  Geschichte des Pferdes  – Teil 08 Pliocene 1 During the Miocene, which lasted about 17.7 million years, we saw great changes in the geography (all those mountain ranges!) as well as in  our primeval horses – …

History of the Horse – Blog 07 – Miocene 2

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History of the Horse – Part 07  Geschichte des Pferdes – Teil 07  Miocene 2 At the end of the last Blog we showed how the anatomy of the horses’ legs started to change. Now they had to search for food in …

History of the Horse – Blog 06 – Miocene 1

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History of the Horse – Part 06 Geschichte des Pferdes – Teil 06 The Miocene : At the end of the last Blog we saw that during the Oligocene Miohippus was the star of the development in North America – while all …

History of the Horse – Blog 05 – Oligocene

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History of the Horse –  Part 5 Geschichte des Pferdes –   Teil 5 In the last 4 Blogs we saw that the development of the very first horse-like animals on our planet began 56 million years ago, in an …

History of the Horse – Blog 04 – Eocene 4

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History of the Horse – Eocene 4 – Part 4 Geschichte des Pferdes – Eozän 4 – Teil 4 Up to now we had in the Eocene an even temperature of about 35 ° C (95° F) around the whole globe …

History of the Horse – Blog 03 – Eocene 3

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The Eocene era – Part 3 Das Eozän – Teil 3 We heard in the last Blog that the climate on our planet was tropical and the animal world quite exotic in the middle of the Eocene era, which is about …

History of the Horse – Blog 02 – Eocene 2

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History of the Horse – The Eocene era – Part 2 Die Geschichte des Pferdes – Das Eozän – Teil 2 At the end of the last Blog we asked ourselves what was so special about the beginning of the …

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