Silver Horse Equine Services

13/04/2025

12/04/2025

Second video of Doing Nothing means Something
I found the observations quite interesting and how much Flora wanted the interaction with me.

11/04/2025

Doing nothing is doing something! Warwick Schiller's Attuned Horsemanship

06/03/2025

Day 3 of float training, both loaded and ready to go for a short drive. I do this by myself so just shows how good these horses are.

06/03/2025

Both loaded perfectly and scoffing hay ready to go for a short drive. I’m running solo so it’s a great both horses load and stand well as I do this on my own.

04/03/2025

04/03/2025

What little legend this young horse is!

First day of training to load with the float / horse trailer. From sniffing and investigating the ramp to walking on with confidence and eating from the haynet…. Just under 20mins
In fact he understood the game super quick and I had to be ready for him to load! 😃

Two short sessions with a break in between of 20mins to have a drink, something to eat and process loading, standing and backing off quietly.

Second session straight on, with the partitions closed locked into place so gap was narrow, breast bar up and front ramp up. Less than 20mins and he self loads and I can put up the breaching bar behind him with lots of clanking and rattling, no bother.
Asking him to back out slowly with just a gentle picking up of the hair on his tail and weight on the lead rope and using the command, back up.

Self loading with confidence on day one!
What a little superstar he is 👏🤩

Next time we will revise what we did today, then introduce closing the rear
ramp and front top doors so it’s a more enclosed space.

02/03/2025

Do you know what’s under the skin?
A flash back to a fun morning of teaching a young student some of the muscles beneath the skin.

Individual and group sessions available for all ages.
Some basic learning of important equine muscle structures to help riders visualise and understand how a horse moves.

Get a group of friends together at your yard and have some fun learning a little bit of anatomy and some basic massage techniques to keep your horse feeling fantastic and build a stronger bond.
Safe water soluble chalks used.

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25/02/2025

Q. Do I do just hands on equine massage or do I like to utilise particular tools?

A. Depends what your horse needs on that day and what we are trying to achieve.

Sometimes hands on can be too much for some horses and this is where I might reach for some red / blue lights or multi radiance wraps. I’m very much driven by what the horse shows me during evaluation and how they may react to different pressure on their skin. I also pay attention to any specific areas or needs the horse may have. Sometimes the horse may have an injury or be stiff after competition or training and the light therapy can be perfect to treat the soft tissue.

It’s quite usual for owners to want to try a red light pad or torch on themselves while I’m treating their horse. Owners want to know how these tools feel on them, do they make them feel any better and is their treasured equine going to benefit from the treatment.

If you had the opportunity to use light therapy, how would you use it?
Which animals would use it on and why?

I’ll go first
Me ….. lower back
I use my lights on my cats, dogs and horses for recovery after surgery, injured limbs and when they look a bit chilly or just a little bit off colour.

Now you……and GO!

24/02/2025

Making use of natural obstacles to mimic the narrow channels of float / trailer loading and also for gateways and doors. Horses are often not keen on narrow and confined spaces, so by introducing them in a natural way without stress, makes the long game and goals much easier to achieve.

22/02/2025

Pre float / trailer prep….. getting the hang of walking through narrow gaps and paths. Next is backing up in an enclosed space or narrow channel. Horses have prey animal eyes and can see all the way back to their hindquarters due to having their eyes on the sides of the head, which is why they often spook at things we don’t see. Humans have the eyes of a predator on the front of their head, we are looking forwards.
In this video you can see Artúr having just walked forwards calmly through the channel is much more cautious going backwards, so I encourage him but also try to give him a bit of time work out if it’s safe to move backwards. He can back up really well so this was something different for him. I think I could have taken a little bit more time, been more patient for an even better result. Overall I’m really pleased with how Artúr responds to and works out puzzles now, he’s getting better all the time. I don’t do these exercises day after day, maybe once or twice a week in the upcoming weeks. I believe horses need time to process and digest information and they come out better next session.

19/02/2025

Learning to negotiate narrow gaps in preparation for float / trailer loading