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Is Your Horse Taking Enough Beauty Sleep?

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We all understand the importance of getting an honest night’s sleep for ourselves, but what about our horses? Here at Apple Creek Farm Beaky Peckham spends a huge amount of your time browsing every imaginable thing with a horse to form sure he or she is that the very best that horse are often . A study during the 1980s revealed that horses need two to three hours of sleep a day and, of that, they have a minimum of half-an-hour to an hour’s worth of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which may only happen when the horse is lying down. How do horses sleep? Horses are like other mammal species in terms of not needing tons of sleep. Their sleep is split up into three types: 1. A snooze-type sleep. 2. A secondary sleep that's true sleep. 3. Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep. A horse can get up during types one and two, but so as to possess paradoxical sleep he has got to lie because it involves complete relaxation. What the research says In 2019, Brunel University data scie...

Secrets For Better Communication With Your Horse

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If you want to communicate with your horse, here’s the secret: slow down and pay attention to what your body is saying about your feelings. If you’re angry, upset, frustrated, or off balance regardless of how you pretend to be feeling your horse is going to know. Simply put, you can’t lie to a horse. Horses don’t care what we say because they are only reading our body language. When you’re riding, or even sitting on a horse for that matter, all the horse wants is for you to be authentic, surrender, and find your balance something that, for many of us, is not an easy task. If you’ve had a hard time keeping steady with your horse lately, you’re gonna like this one. you will learn: ·          How achieving the goals with your horse is like being a loose horse in the arena- fresh out of the stall ·          What you did to get your productive mojo back after numerous “stops” along the way ·  ...