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Round-up November 2021
Another month passes and another huge pile of Horsey literature has passed through the inbox in need of study and
Welcome Back !
Welcome back to the Equine Independent. It is clearly very difficult to find purveyors of good material; there have been
August Reflections
September is here; with it the cooler days, the shorter evenings and a little more time to reflect on recent
Mixed Bag!
Supplementing The Equine Diet, By Alison Averis
Dietary supplementation for horses is a vexed area where the scarcity of scientific studies, owners’ desires to do the best
Behaviour Based Horse Management – A Blueprint for the 21st Century, By Andy Beck
The first question is why do we need anything other than the customary practice we’ve built up over the years? And the answer would be that many of those practices are remnants of a past that was radically different from today.
Is Pressure-Release Without Punishment? By Emma Lethbridge
For a while a conundrum has been playing with my thoughts. It all started one chilly but sunny Saturday, during
Coronavirus and the Horse
For many of us, it is a trying time and, with more and more countries implementing a lock-down, a complicated
What Do Positive Reinforcement Trainers Actually Do? By Catherine Bell
A common criticism of those who train horses using positive reinforcement is that we are so busy discussing behavioural theory
A Safe Start: The reality of training early…
There must be something in the air at the moment; I was recently expounding the virtues of delaying a horse’s