JUST YOUR DREAM HORSE
Keeping your horse safe isn ' t all about what they eat though , keeping your horse safe also means being careful about where they step and where they sleep . When you get a horse , get a metal hoof shoe to protect their hoofs from rocks and nails . According to the book “ Caring for your horse ” ,” you can use a hoof pick to clean the dirt and rocks out of the metal hoof shoe .” When you get a horse , clean the whole area to make sure there ' s nothing to hurt the horse . You have to muck your horse ' s stall once a day to keep it clean . The word
“ muck ” or “ mucking ” means to clean out the stable from dirt and manure . When the horse sleeps , the bedding should be at least 8 inches .
Getting stronger
There are many ways to give your horse exercise , one of those ways is longeing . Longeing is when you have one end of a rope on your horse and you or a machine is / are holding the other end , your horse walks in a circle around you . The best exercise for a horse is riding it , it makes the horse happy and gets it stronger . Horses need at least 30-60 minutes of exercise a day . A way to get your horse stronger and its muscles stronger is Hill work .
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Hill work is when you either ride on your horse up the hill or hold onto it with a rope while it walks up a hill . Hill work is a great way to make your horse gain muscle .
A horses body
Some things that make horses as beautiful as they are , are the colors and patterns on them . There are 200 breeds of horses but they are all unique in their own way . In some breeds they have stripes like a zebra but other breeds have spots like a ladybug . Have you ever seen a horse with a white spot near their eye ? Well that spot is called a strip ! Horses are measured in hands . When you measure in hands , you ' re measuring by 4 inches , an example is ; If a horse is measured by 24 inches , you would divide 80 by 4 because a hand is 4 inches , leaving you with 20 inches meaning the horse is 20 hands tall . They are measured from their feet to their shoulders . Some big horses can be taller than 6 feet !
A horse longeging !