Centro Ecuestre Mas Caldes

29/10/2023

Así de desastrosa puede acabar una boca de caballo descuidada

Voilà encore un bel exemple de négligence d’entretien dentaire (bouche d’un cheval croisé par un collègue au détour d’une tournée )


28/10/2023

Riesling, y Penedés a punto de sacarse la cabezada

28/10/2023

Ese momento en que tu caballo descubre que le encanta que le rasques la base de las orejas...

28/10/2023

Penedés y Único, tratando de impresionarse

26/10/2023

Otra más de las cientos de maneras que tienen los humanos de divertirse a costa de aterrorizar animales. Lamentable!

24/10/2023

Bravo Laura i Xavi!!!

19/10/2023

18/10/2023

Esos ponys con ideas propias!

15/10/2023

No es mejor jinete el que más doma, si no el que menos estropea.
The better rider is not the one who trains the most, but the one who damages the least.
Fritz Stecken montando Noble

13/10/2023

For anyone who needs to hear it. It’s more than okay if you’re not riding your horse right now, or if you’re not going to ride at all. Riding is not the only way to enjoy your horse, maybe you want to take them for walks and train on the ground, or maybe you just want to watch them be horses.

You are not “wasting” them in the paddock, they do not “need” to be ridden. So long as they are looked after, that’s what counts. Forage to chew on, Friends to interact with, and Freedom to move and play.

Enjoy your horse, whatever that looks like for you.

❤️🐴

13/10/2023

Pura belleza

13/10/2023

CAN HORSES SMELL FEAR?

I have just come across this great study again. The results suggest that horses may be able to smell human fear when presented with their body odour.

Researchers at the University of Wrocław presented twenty-one Thoroughbred and Arab horses with body odour samples collected from humans who were either happy after watching a cartoon, or frightened after watching a horror film.

Before watching the films, the humans had spent a couple of days only washing in unperfumed soap and had not smoked, drunk alcohol, eaten strong-smelling food, or performed any strenuous exercise so that their scent would be as neutral as possible. Whilst watching the cartoon or horror films the human subjects had sterile pads in their armpits to collect their body odour.

The pads were then presented to the horses and their response to the smell of fear, happiness, or a control (without odour) was recorded.

The research team found that horses showed quite different behaviours in response to the odours. They lifted their heads significantly more frequently and for longer in response to the fear odour and the control, compared to the happiness odour.

Similarly, the horses tended to touch a familiar person that was present during the test more frequently and for longer in the fear condition compared to the happiness condition.

The researchers concluded that the presentation of human body odour from humans in different emotional states is enough to induce different behavioural responses in the horse.

Olfactory-based interspecific recognition of human emotions: Horses (Equus ferus caballus) can recognize fear and happiness body odour from humans (Homo sapiens). Agnieszka Sabiniewicza, Karolina Tarnowska, Robert Świątek, Piotr Sorokowski, Matthias Laska. Applied Animal Behaviour Science (2020) vol 230; 105072

11/10/2023

11/10/2023

En serio? Que horror!!

La Isla es uno de los territorios de España con más equinos, solo de raza menorquina se superan los 2.500, pero aún así carece de este equipamiento veterinario básico. El caballo es el gran protagonista de las fiestas de Menorca y uno de los elementos más destacados de la identidad de la Isla....

09/10/2023

09/10/2023

Bienvenido a casa, bellezón!

08/10/2023

Quedan plazas!

🤩Breed Orientation Course: Places available for the seminar from October 28 until November 04🤩
This course is an in-depth learning experience, offering lectures on bloodlines in the Hannoveraner breed and on the Hannoveraner breeding program. It includes the practical judging of horses, trips to mare shows and visits to stallion stations.
The Breed Orientation Course 2023 will be held from October 28 until November 04.
A few spots are still available.
For further information please contact Juliana Küspert,
📧 [email protected] or 📞+49 (0) 42 31/67 37 65.
General information and registration:https://en.hannoveraner.com/fileadmin/dateien/Download_pdf/Stutbuch/Breed_Orientation_Course_2023_2.pdf

28/09/2023

Llamamiento!!

L'entitat treballa amb equins maltractats o abandonats que pasturen en llibertat al Pla de l’Orri, d’on n’hauran de marxar d’aquí a un mes pel fred, i aquest any no tenen finques alternatives

24/09/2023

Horses are amazingly tolerant, giving creatures.

It unfortunately means they’re often exploited due to the ambitions of the human. After their basic needs are met, you must be very thoughtful in the training of your horse.

Your first duty is to preserve the purity of the paces. What does this mean? Walk has 4 beats, trot has 2, canter has 3, gallop has 4. ALWAYS. If not, something is wrong biomechanically, and your horse is at risk of injury. BTW impure paces can usually be detected in a photograph, even though it is only a “moment in time”, AND this applies to all disciplines.

Strapping a horse’s mouth shut with a crank/flash (or other) noseband very often contributes. The fact is, a horse cannot maintain full range of motion with his hind legs if he can’t move his tongue and jaw. FACT.

For jumping, if the horse bolts off - away from, towards, or after a jump, putting on a bigger bit and a martingale will not fix it. If a horse hesitates or stops, pulling out the whip will NEVER make him more confident.

These are just a few hints that your horse is asking for HELP. Go back. Consolidate the basics. I have a FREE guide to help with this, you can download it now https://www.classicaljumping.com/next-level-freebie

Another wonderful thing about horses is they're retrainable. If you ignore the hints, eventually the horse will either break down, or will SHOUT to get your attention, and you will get hurt.

After all, horses are dangerous. We tell everyone that. But actually they are not. We wouldn’t be able to ride them if they were truly dangerous. You know what’s dangerous? People are.

Ponder this excerpt from Franz Mairinger’s book “Horses are made to be Horses”:

I recall an incident in Sydney when we had a lame horse with a very bad tendon, and the rider wanted to start the horse the next day. We asked Roy Stewart, the veterinary surgeon, and he said, ‘Yes, that’s the trouble. People always think that horses are made for man, but that’s not true. Horses are made to be horses’. I thought about that a lot, and decided that if I should write a book I would call it Horses are made to be Horses.

(Franz Mairinger was the first coach of an Australian Olympic Equestrian Team, his excellent book is out of print, but can occasionally be found second hand - buy it if you see it)

(Picture credit Thinking Art )

24/09/2023

Las alegrías de Freestyle!