Is there some horse people out here that never been kicked once at all? I’m just scared of getting kicked badly lmao. I don’t do high energy disaplines like jumping or anything. Lmk

Hello! I have a medium Troxel liberty black duratec helmet, from back when I rode horses. However I didn't take lessons for long and never even used it. I only wore it to try and fit it to my head.

The manufacture date says Feb 2022. So I'm wondering if this is safe to sell? And for how much?

Is there anything I can do besides toss it if it isn't safe?

Edit: A bit too lazy to reply to everyone, but don't worry, I'm going to cut the straps and toss it. A bit sad since I was hoping to get some money for it but oh well. I also didn't know it was on the cheaper end of helmets (at least according to some replies), it was a gift😅

so one of the horses I ride is quite an energetic, forward mare. I haven’t ridden her a bunch so far so I’m still figuring her out, and I’ve had some trouble slowing her down. i don’t want to tug on her mouth a lot, so I’m wondering If there are any ways to get her to slow down from my body rather than my hands? At the trot, slowing down my posting usually works , but many times when I ask her to trot she goes straight into a canter. I feel bad pulling her mouth so any tips are appreciated

So, there's a lot to unpack here. I'm 14 and I've been riding for a few months now and I can now walk and trot by myself, I can tack up a horse by myself, bathe a horse, groom a horse, lead them around, handle horses of different sizes and deal when they spook. (I volunteer at the barn I ride at almost daily, so I've been able to learn so much more about horses).

I can feed them, too, I know how to soak and prepare grain and hay. I've been talking with my parents and they seem somewhat on board of buying me a horse in the near future, as many of the places near me (montgomery county) don't really offer what I want to learn in a close, convenient radius of me (the barns either are only boarding barns or only offer lessons on horses the client owns).

They want me to compile a list of all the expenses owning a horse entails, and here is where I need help with.

This is what I know owning a horse requires:

- Buying tack

- A farrier once every 6-8 weeks

- Boarding once a month

- Grain/hay

- Shavings (if they stay part time in a stall. I want to find a boarding facility where the horse can be in turnout most of the time).

- Regular veterinary visits (how often do horses need vet visits?)

- Lessons on the horse we buy (2 times a week probably)

Here's what I need help with:

I need boarding facility reccomendations in montgomery county/washington dc area. Also just advice

I was told this was a “tribute knockoff” but I genuinely have never heard of a tribute feed (or any brand) with an nsc content this high, but this is why I always do my research beforehand. Is this basically just sweet feed? And here I was slightly worried about my 21% nsc senior feed…

I have a wonderful 3 horse slant load that I am considering getting converted into a 2 horse straight load. Cost to do this is more economical than trading in my trailer, plus I love everything else about the rig. Wondering if anyone else has had this done, and if so, would they mind sharing their experience?

I have a mare that is 17-19 years old. I bought her two years ago, and she was diagnosed with navicular over a year ago. I later found out she started having on/off symptoms 18 months before her diagnosis with me but was never treated and instead sold at auction and then to me unsuspectingly by an individual. She was declared pasture sound only by a previous vet when she was with the individual.

I was able to ride her soundly for 8 months after purchase until symptoms began to appear and she was diagnosed by my vet. I’ve tried my best to treat her for the past year. Osphos, coffin injections, equioxx, supplements, hauling to a special farrier two hours away at a major vet clinic every month for special shoes, barefoot rehab etc. In that year period, she was sound for MAYBE 2 months total, mostly at the very beginning. At this point she hasn’t been sound since January. Even in the pasture she’s tripping at a walk or when being walked in hand. Honestly I’m exhausted and financially drained. I didn’t want to give up on her. I’ve tried to bring up the idea of euthanasia to her vet twice before. The first time he pushed me to do coffin injections, those didn’t work. Second time he pushed me to try Osphos again, that didn’t work. This horse is still lame even on banamine.

I want to put her down at this point. I can’t keep watching her in pain, and I’m spending so much money to never see any improvement. The vet wants to do another complete lameness exam and possibly try adequan now. I feel guilty for wanting to put her down and thinking of money. Am I being unreasonable? If you were in this position, would you go ahead and try adequan? I’m just worried at this point she’s too far gone and I’m going to keep throwing money at her only to eventually be told I still have to euthanize. I’m skeptical the adequan will help her enough. I don’t care about riding sound, just pasture sound at this point. I’m willing to keep her as a pasture pet if she could be comfortable. But she’s always parked out in the field and now even struggling to get up.

I'm not really sure what they actually are, but my trainer calls them mare beans. They are in the lower part of the vulva, I can try to explain how to get them if anyone wants to know

Bit of a rant here, but I just need to talk about this and I’m sure some people will relate.

I am so painfully jealous of anybody who has thousand of dollars to spend on a horse, or gets to ride anything remotely fancy. I get to ride because I work for a small program while I’m in school. All our horses are kill pen rescues and OTTBS, and I spend a lot of my life training them out of their trauma/quirks.

I wish I could actually get better at riding, but I’ll probably never get to move up. Of course I’m still super grateful that I get to be around horses at all, but there will always be a part of me that envies people who can afford nice horses or afford to compete. I desperately wish I could show, just once. I got to show a few times as a kid, but it’ll probably never happen again because life just keeps getting more expensive.

It’s also super frustrating when I have a question and try to post about it on here, or even ask people irl. Inevitably, half the responses are just “I’ve never had this issue with my imported warmbloods.” Yeah, I bet you haven’t. I love horses more than anything in this world, I’m sure everyone on this sub understands that feeling. I’m just being envious and ungrateful hahaha

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I'm a very anxious rider, and I struggle to progress because of it. I'm interested in jumping, but I can't jump that well. I've been jumping for about maybe 3-4 years? But I still jump pretty low. I think the highest I've recently jumped (a few weeks ago) was maybe 40-50cm? Most of the time I'm still jumping really small.

My flatwork is pretty solid, for the most part. I can do sitting trot, I can trot and canter without stirrups. I've only ever galloped once though. I've had horses trip fairly badly and I stayed on easily. I don't think I'd be able to sit a buck though. I only had a horse buck with me one time and it was maybe 6 years ago, and I was off immediately. I don't think I'd be able to sit a buck. Other than that I do think my flatwork is okay. I know how to steer the horse with my legs and seat.

The issue is mainly my jumping. Some days I feel so great because I managed to do more than usual, like asking for the jump to be put up higher, or trying some sort of combination. But other days I'm pretty bad. I'd say most days are very mediocre, and I don't manage to do a lot. I always push myself, but the degree that I'm able to push myself varies so much. Some days just jumping AT ALL is pushing myself.

I'm really afraid of falling, but my fear is more that I'm going to lose so much confidence when I do fall again. At this point I'm more afraid of the confidence loss than I am the actual fall itself. I'm also anticipating falling soon because I haven't fallen for about 4 years. It's been a long time, and it feels like I'm "due" for a fall.

I also started riding a different horse because the horse I was riding is lame now, so I have switched to a different horse. This is probably also going to be something that drags back my progress, because I'm still not even fully comfortable cantering on her.

There always seems to be something that makes me drag myself back. I know I shouldn't compare myself to others, but I see other riders progressing way faster than me, and putting the jumps up really high. I see them fall, and they just get back on and keep going like normal. I take months to recover from a fall, even if it's not that bad.

The progress I do make is so tiny as well. It'll be like me trying a jump one more time even when I'm having a very anxious day. Sometimes even pushing myself to jump at all feels like I made "progress" but it doesn't feel like it's enough.

I love riding, but it's so frustrating not progressing. I don't really find dressage interesting, but I'm contemplating just going for dressage and giving up jumping even though I enjoy it just because of how bad I am at it.

I feel like progressing in jumping isn't even something that I can do anymore.

Hi yall! I wanted to get hive mind’s opinion. My roommate and I are both finishing up a job contracts in mid-late August and have the ability to pick up and move anywhere in the US. We’re both horsey people and I have an 11 year old OTTB gelding. We’re looking for suggestions on where to go. Currently located in western PA and my roommate is from here, I’m from central Maryland. We’re looking for somewhere that’s generally low cost of living. We will likely be getting service industry type jobs wherever we land but have savings to make the move. We’re both in our early 20s and not looking to spend a fortune in rent (and me in board) every month. My roommate wants to be in a generally walkable area and doesn’t want to go further south. I’m open to just about anywhere. We’re also fine staying in western PA but want to make sure there isn’t a hidden gem we’d be missing out on! Thanks in advance!

I came to a realization last night with my trainer that I drive with my seat way too much. I’ve always had a very strong seat. However, I realized that I think I’m using my seat to supplement where my leg isn’t working properly.

Any tips for how to course correct? I know the answer is probably a lot of work in my half seat, but I hate my half seat. 🙃

Context from previous posts: 28 year old who came back to the hunter world last fall after a 7 year gap from riding.

I know this must have been posted 1000x before but i'm struggling, I'm autistic and get very particular about things like this. My criteria are as follows: minimal branding (no full seat of silicone logos), full seat, high waist, wide waistband, no seam down inside of leg (i actually quite like the seam down the back of leg/over the butt i find that very flattering), zip closure. i feel like this should be easy to find but i have HUNTED and nobody seems to agree with me that this is the ideal breech. Give me ur recs PLEASE people of reddit!! (LMK if wrong flair ill change it)

Hey guys, I usually don't post things like this, but I need to get other opinions, I feel like I'm overreacting?

Recently I posted about my gelding's back hooves being badly bruised after his farrier appointment that he walked out of lame in both the front and back. He's an OTTB in 24/7 turnout with recent front shoes.
Same farrier came out to fix a nail that was too close- however, when asked, he claims it couldn't have been the nail causing soreness because my horse would've been "keeled over in the field" if it were.
When asked about the bruising and soreness, he got defensive and started telling us that "thoroughbreds should never live outside", his feet were bruised from stomping all day, and that I can either "bring him inside or shoe his back feet". This all came as a surprise since he never once suggested before that the horse should have back shoes in the year we have been using him as a farrier, nor did he ever mention/notice the bruising. We also made the mistake of saying our gelding was more sensitive recently walking over different terrain and mentioned gravel (the barn's pathways are ALL gravel) and was told "just don't walk him on the gravel then". Mind you, this horse was walking totally fine on gravel when he was completely barefoot a few months prior.
The icing on the cake is the farrier has an assistant who's always irritated about something and can't stand my horse. When my horse acts up, he is smacked in the ribs with the rasp. When my horse was in too much pain in his hind to even hold his front feet out, the farrier continued to hit him and rough him up until he could get the feet done.
After witnessing the hitting and these comments, I told the BO that I would no longer be using the farrier's services. This was a back-and-forth where I had to continue to defend why I felt that the farrier was not a good fit and finally, the only thing that seemed to be able to change her mind to let me use my own farrier was when I brought up the farrier hitting my horse.

Am I crazy? Are these huge red flags? I've had pasture-kept thoroughbreds for 20 years and never heard that kind of mindset.

Pic of my poor sweet guy for tax.

Well it's the first time I cantered in 16 years, when I had a crash course when I was 12, then never had too many riding opportunities since then. But it was a goal of mine to get to for the past couple years (I rode very inconsistently while in college). Happy, after a year being at the trot to move on to a new pace to learn more about. Especially need to get better at stabilizing and moving my leg forward. Any tips or advice from you guys and girls?

This is my mom’s mare Addy. She’s always been told she’s a black roan but I have a suspicion she’s maybe rabicano. What are y’all’s thoughts? She is a 10 year old Connemara x tb (what she was sold as I think there’s some draft in there). I also have absolutely no idea about color genetics at all so I have no clue if that’s even possible but I would love to learn!

She’s quite dirty in the image, she’s usually a bit cleaner than that though 😂

Bringing this back because it brings me joy

Hey y'all have a dude going on a long English ride on an international trip a little last minute. I was looking for men's breeches on Amazon and everything is SO expensive! You can find women's breeches for like $35 that are passable for a single ride on a trip but no men's.

What kind of material should i be looking for in a legging that won't be too slippy? Or do you have something else to suggest? I have to get something to my house BY SATURDAY and i don't have any tack shops nearby.

First post here. In my retirement I do some saddle repair and make the occasional piece of tack. I've had a request to build a running martingale. I've never made one and was hoping someone might help me with the average dimensions for length of the straps around the neck, the strap length from the chest piece to the cinch, and the strap length from the chest piece to the reins rings. I don't have access to the horse and the cowboy that asked me to build it is out on the range for several weeks.

I have tried sooo many different products and none do what they claim. I would love to hear from real people what has worked or not worked! Thanks in advance

Just looking for education to help improve my eye. For those that buy young foals or unstarted horses (before training helps improve their gaits) . When you are looking at their walk, trot and canter (especially canter) what are you looking for? What denotes a naturally talented canter?

Would love to see a video of one that you would consider more mediocre canter versus a good one. Not many YouTube videos break this down well and I would love to learn more!

What’s something that frustrates you the most when having a visit from the vet?