EquiSapience

11/12/2023

красоты в ленту :) Фриз играет на закате

Мощь и энергия фризского коня, играем в поле на закатеvery beautiful video of a black horse playing with a man in a field at sunset, black shaggy powerful Fr...

06/09/2023

Do you think Misha Can spell his name 😎?

06/09/2023

03/09/2023

Handsome Misha

30/08/2023

We started to experiment a little bit more and asked Misha to perform the movement which called Ter-a-ter and then spell it out .😊

лошадь выполняет команду, делает тер и потом собирает это слово из букв horse ...

27/08/2023

A small new performance from Ivan :)

Лошадь делает в сборе много элементов под музыку

24/07/2023

*** 10 Amazing Facts About Equine Vision
Equine vision is different from human vision in almost every way, and it is helpful to us when riding and training to understand the differences.
1. Horses are not colorblind
Horses can identify some colors; they see yellow and blue the best, but cannot recognize red. One study showed that horses could easily tell blue, yellow and green from gray, but not red. Horses also have a difficulty separating red from green, similar to humans who experience red/green color blindness. Horses still see red things – they just appear as an intermediate color or even as gray.

2. Horses have superior night vision
Horses have more rods than humans, as well as a tapetum lucidum (a reflecting membrane) that increases the amount of light available to the photoreceptors, giving them superior night vision. This also gives them better vision on slightly cloudy days, relative to bright, sunny days. The large eye of the horse also improves achromatic tasks, particularly in dim conditions, helpful in the detection of predators. However, horses are less able to adjust to changes in light conditions such as from a bright day to a dark barn or trailer.

3. Horses can’t discriminate fine detail well
A horse’s acuity – the ability to discriminate fine detail while focusing on something in the centre of the visual field – is considerably worse than ours. A typical horse’s acuity is about 20/30. Details we can see from a distance of 30 feet, he can only see from 20 feet. A horse has to be 50 per cent closer to see the same details we can. Even in bright light, a horse’s perception of a jump or barrel or clump of weeds is hazy, flat and vague.

4. Individual horses have differences in acuity
Individual horses, like individual people, have differences in acuity. About a third of domestic horses are nearsighted, which means they do not see details clearly until they get very close to an object and about 43 per cent of horses are farsighted, able to make out details only as they get farther from an object. These differences can affect how well a horse may do at particular activities, and how they respond to visual stimuli at a distance.

5.Horses’ vision peaks at age seven
Acuity is also affected by age and head shape. As a horse ages, like in people, the eye’s lens loses flexibility over time. The best acuity in horses occurs around age seven. Prior to that it is not fully developed, and thereafter it begins to deteriorate. Horses with long convex noses, like many Standardbreds and Thoroughbreds, have better acuity than do horses with short concave noses, like Arabians.

6. Horses have a 350-degree range of vision
Human vision is limited to roughly 45 degrees on either side of our noses. Test this by holding your finger out to your side while staring straight ahead. You won’t be able to see your finger. Then slowly bring your arm forward until you can see it. By contrast, if your horse could hold his hind hoof straight out to his side, it would be almost in the centre of his vision. Because his eyes are on the sides of his head, he has a 350-degree view, almost four times greater than the range we see. The horse’s visual range stretches from the end of his nose all the way around to an imaginary line extending straight back from his hip. The Attack Umbrella that you cannot see approaching from your side is well within his line of sight.

7.Horses have less depth perception that humans
While his visual range is wide, there is a trade-off: The placement of the horse’s eyes decreases the possible range of binocular vision to around 65 degrees on a horizontal plane, occurring in a triangular shape primarily in front of the horse’s face. Therefore, the horse has a smaller field of depth perception than a human, making relative distances hard to determine.

8. Horses have two blind spots
A horse cannot see anything directly behind him. But that is not unexpected. A second blind spot may be more surprising. A blind spot exists in front of the horse’s face, from his eye level to the ground below his nose and out to about six feet. He cannot see the grass he grazes, nor the bit or the carrot held to his mouth. He uses the whiskers around his mouth to sense these objects.

9. Horses’ forward blind spot affects how they approach objects
The forward blind spot can be particularly hard for humans to remember and accommodate since our forward-facing eyes see things right in front of us more clearly. Many times we encourage our horses to approach things that scare them head on. Not only can the horse not see things well head on, but as he gets closer, the object will disappear. Attempts to pivot (or jump) sideways to see the object better, are generally thwarted. Approaching at an angle or looping ever closer to the object is a much better strategy.

10. Horses have excellent peripheral vision
Evolution has equipped horses to be highly aware of peripheral motion. The human brain takes about a half a second to process what our eyes “see”; colour, size, distance, approach etc. That processing is not an option for wild horses. They need to note any flicker of movement or change in the environment and blow that popsicle stand. Whether the danger is real or not doesn’t matter. There is no evolutionary advantage to waiting around to find out.

15/07/2023

Huomenna nähdään!☀️

15/07/2023

would you like to learn :
❗️how to motivate your horse to work with you
❗️games you can play with your horse ( no matter how old or young
❗️introduction to work at liberty
❗️introduction to reading
❗️lateral moves
we are running 2 days course . There is no limit on horse’s age. Total beginners or more advanced riders are very welcome.
You can bring your own horse or work with our horses. There would be theory part and particle. 📍Located in Sääsniemi
Dates: 5-6 Aug.

02/07/2023

Maastakäsittely on avain yhteistyöhön hevosen kanssa. Sitä voidaan käyttää porttina satulaan, m***a se on myös oma lajinsa jota viedä eteenpäin.

Meidän leirillä 3.-7.7 on vielä tilaa nuoremmille ratsastajille ja hevosharrastajille. Kokoonnumme 4.7 tutustumaan yhdessä EquiSapience n Elena Smirnova ja Elena Molchanova oppeihin maastakäsittelystä. He tuovat mukanaan omat hevosensa, joiden avulla on mahdollista oivaltaa miten ja millä tavalla hevoselta pyydetään asioita ja miten hevosta palkataan sen tekemästä työstä.

Leirin hinta on 350 eur ja se sisältää koulutuksen maastakäsin sekä myös ratsastusta muina päivinä. Majoitutaan kaikkien mukavuuksien äärelle huvilaan. Mahdollista osallistua myös vain 4.7 maastakäsittelypäivään! Kysy lisätietoja!

Ilmoittautumiset 30.6 mennessä. 😀

08/06/2023

Hey guys I am travelling this route on Monday 12.06.23, pm me if anyone wants to book a lesson.

23/05/2023

21/05/2023

We had some lovely visitors 😍

14/05/2023

Hey guys, we are doing 2 new projects at the moment. The videos is pretty much self explanatory. Feel free to pm for more information or follow our educational group Horse training at liberty & cognitive development by Equisapince

13/05/2023

A young 2 years old Lusitano c**t. It was a very windy day , just having a little play 😊

10/05/2023

Art & horse , лошадь и искусство

08/05/2023

A play day with both horses in the paddock. The ground is not very good at the moment due to weather conditions 🤪. Easia ( cremello Lusitano filly) is watching closely and taking some lessons from the boys 🐴

08/05/2023

We took horse for a walk in the forest yesterday. Zhora ,( Appaloosa) was in supper good mood and showed us this , Misha was patiently waiting and be part of a “camera man “😀

14/04/2023

Hey guys, last time we had a post about Zhora who learned the number . This time this video is about Misha 😊.

03/04/2023

Cremello Lusitano filly