horse color's and marking's

Color's:
Horses come in all diffrent color's, most breeds are the same color such as duch wormblod are oftern some kind of gray. One of the most populare colors for a horse is a chestnut you can find a chestnuts in almost eney breed. Albino horses are very rare and often don't live as long as other normal colored horses.

Marking's:



A star is a pach of hair that is in the shape of a star or diamond found on the horses frohead a star will always be white hair. Stripe is a thin long pach thsat strarts at the forhead and will end at the nose tis marking is also always white. A blaze is simaler to a stripe but the blaze is much thiker and also covers the nose.
A snip is the same shap of a star but the snip is only on  the nose of the horse. An interrupted sripe will start at the forhead with a star then have a longer stripe following and then will end with a snip on the nose. Finaly a white face covers the front of the horses face covering the nose and the hole forhead.

horse feed

There are a lot of diffrent tips of horse feeds and supliments, and averig horse should be eating at lest 5 to 6 flaks of hey a day plus one serving of all purpus horse feed. some horses need extera protin or fibre  so for that horse you should be adding an extra supliment to there regular feed. Also some breeds of horses need sertin vitamins and minerals so its a good idea to have salt and mineral licks in your horses stall. There are all kinds of feed mixes such as comprtition blends for hard working enduranc horses or plesur horse blend for your every day horse therer are even blends for older horses so it is im protant to know what activites you will be doing with your horse so you can have them on the best posibel diet for therer helth.

polo wraps and boots

A polo wrap is a long strip of fabric that is wraped around the horses legs to protect the tendints from getting hit. Wraps that are made of hard plastic are made for jumping so that if the horse hit his leg of a jumop it wont dameg or hurt there sensitive legs. If you are goingto use  wraps be shur to use the right ones polos should not be used for jumping if the wrap comes undone it could get stuck and make the horse fall. Traviling wraps cover the leg to protect them from getting cut or hit in the trailer, horses tend to move alot in the trailer so wraping its legs is always a good idea when traviling.

canter leads

A lead means that the inside front leg of the horse is leadingthe canter forword, it is important to get the right lead to hepl the horse be more balensed and confident for exampel if you are going in right derection the horses right front leg is always steping forword first.Here are some tips to help get your right lead, your inside leg should be at the gurth with your heals dwonand you outside leg a bit behind the gurth you give a clearer messag that you want them to move forword. Also you should have your horses head bent to the inside if your horse is still haveing trobel picking up his lead it is most likely your foult if you know for shour that you are doing every thing right is probebly beacous your horse is stif and needs to be streched befor riding .

Bits

There are a lot of diffrent bits you can use somme made for dressag and somme for jummping or casuel riding. A bit is made of difrent lit metals like aluminum thay are a tached to the bridel wich gose on the horses haed, the bit gose in the mouth overthe tung and sits in a larg space where there are no teeth. The bit when pulled put presher on the mouth, so if you want your horse to go to the right  you pull ont the righr rian and the horse will yurn if you want them to stop you pull back.One of the most commen bit is the ­D ring snaffle beacous it put's presher in the most basic place's of the mouth, the weymouth is a more intens bit useed comenly for drassag to give a clearer messag the the horse.

lous ring snaffel

weymouth

horse tack

Western

There are a tow mager typs of tack english and western, english (the saddel belo) is a smaller lite saddel that i used for jumping, crosscuntry and dressag it is bilt to bend and flex with the horses boddy. Also the saddel is thiner witch is importent beacous you use a lot of leg to control your horses mouvment. A western saddel is a lot biger and hevyer it is used for roping, beral raceing and raining. The saddel has a horn on the front to hold on to or to hang a saddel bag from.

English

good winter blankits

A good winter blankit should fit your horse snogly and not to long
a turnout blankit has to have leg straps so that  it dose not slip offthe side