Category Archives: Understanding Your Horse

Understand your Horse – Blog 23 – Sounds 2

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Understand your Horse – Part 23 Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 23 Sounds 2 In the last Blog we talked about greeting noises, such as “blubbering”, different nickers and the neigh. Let us continue with more sounds a horse can …

Understand your Horse – Blog 22 – Sounds 1

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Understand your Horse – Part 22  Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 22  SOUNDS After looking at the body language of the horse in depth, ranging from the ears to the tail, and analysing how he might attempt to communicate his feelings …

Understand your Horse – Blog 21 – The Legs

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Understand your Horse – Part 21  Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 21 The Legs We finished last time by looking at the feelings, which the horse can convey with the language of his tail. The language of the legs is not …

Understand your Horse – Blog 20 – the Tail

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Understand your Horse – Part 20  Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 20  The Tail In the last part we concluded the language of the horse’s neck – this leaves us to look at the expressions of the tail and his legs. …

Understand your Horse – Blog 19 – Neck 3

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Understand your Horse – Part 19 Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 19 Neck 3 In the last part we looked at turning heads, bobbing, thrusting and jerking of the head. 11)    Head wobble:  In the head wobble the nose …

Understand your Horse – Blog 18 – Neck 2

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Understand your Horse – Blog 18  Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 18 Neck 2 In the last part we looked at High Heads (in flight and display behaviour), at the head Toss, the Head Shake, and the Low head and …

Understand your Horse – Blog 17 – Neck 1

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Understand your Horse – Part 17  Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 17 Neck & Head 1 In the last part we looked at the horse’s mouth and the moods we can read from its expressions. In this Blog we will …

Understand your Horse – Blog 16 – Mouth 2

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Understand your Horse – Part 16  Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 16 The Mouth 2 In the last part we looked at the function of the horse’s mouth, and saw what foals express in terms of emotion and communication by …

Understand your Horse – Blog 15 – Mouth 1

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Understand your Horse – Part 15 Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 15 Mouth 1 In the last part we looked at the horse’s nose – its function as well as the moods he can convey with it. Nose and mouth …

Understand your Horse – Blog 14 – Nose

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  Understand your Horse – Blog 14 Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 14 Nose So far we looked at the expressions of the horse’s ears and eyes, with which (apart from their functional movements) he communicates some of his feelings …

Understand your Horse – Blog 13 – Eyes 3

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Understand your Horse – Part 13  Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 13 Eyes 3 In the last part we looked at different expressions of the horse’s eyes and noted, just as we did when looking at the ears, that they …

Understand your Horse – Blog 12 – Eyes 2

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Understand your Horse – Part 12  Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 12 Eyes 2 In the last part we got an idea of how our horses perceive the world – quite differently from us! Now we want to look at …

Understand your Horse – Blog 11 – Eyes 1

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Understand your Horse – Part 11  Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 11 Eyes 1   In the last Blogs we looked at the “language” of the horse’s ears and found that there is a whole list: Attentive ears, including attentive …

Understand your Horse – Blog 10 – Ears 4

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Understand your Horse – Part 10  Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 10 continued – Ears 4 In the last part we saw some “Airplane” ears and learned to look out for depression or pain. We looked at lots of “questioning …

Understand your Horse – Blog 09 – Ears 3

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Understand your Horse – Part 09 Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 09 continued: Ears 3 In the last part we ended by looking at some “questioning ears”. We saw that they can be dropped sideways to varying degrees – and …

Understand your Horse – Blog 08 – Ears 2

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Understand your Horse – Part 08  Ears instalment 2 Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 08 Fortsetzung Ohren 2 In the last part we started looking at the ears of the horse by themselves, trying to find out what they can tell …

Understand Your Horse – Blog 07 – Ears 1

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Understand your Horse – Part 07 Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 07 Ears – part 1 In the last part we looked at grooming and greeting faces and realized that each “face” is made up of a conglomeration of expressions …

Understand your Horse – Blog 06 – Face 2

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Understand your Horse – Part 06  Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 06 In the last part we got the first taste of the complexity of analysing the horse’s face and the mood it might express, because we recognized that it …

Understand your Horse – Blog 05 – Face 1

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Faces – Part 1 Gesichter – Teil 1 In the last two Blogs we looked at the signals a horse might send to you by using his whole body. I started with that, because it is easier to interpret than …

Understand your Horse – Blog 04 – Whole Body 2

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Understand your Horse – Part 04  Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 04 In the last part we observed the first two things the horse can express with his whole body, by decreasing or increasing the distance between you. Here we …

Understand your Horse – Blog 03 – Whole Body 1

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  Understand your Horse – Part 03  Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 03 In the last part we discussed that most of the signals, sent out by your horse to you for communication, are the “soft” signals, which are happening …

Understand your Horse – Blog 02 – Awareness of signals

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Understanding your horse – Part 02  Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 02 Awareness of signals sent Our last conversation example: In the last Blog I told you about a conversation between my horses and myself, into which we must now …

Understanding Your Horse – Blog 01 – Introduction

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Understanding your horse – Part 01  Ihr Pferd verstehen – Teil 01 Introduction to the conversation:  It will not be news to you that horses communicate with body language. But what may be new to you is HOW MUCH they …

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