Tag Archives: body language horse

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 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 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 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 …

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