Leashes and Leads Equine Park

Leashes and Leads Equine Park Riding Lessons, Horsemanship Programs, Boarding, Training, and more. Enjoy the Equine Experience with Leashes and Leads Equine Park!
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We offer a variety of services including training for your horse, riding lessons for you, a climate controlled indoor riding facility, boarding, and more!

Open to the public at Leashes & Leads Equine Park! It'll be a great time - hope to see you there!
05/14/2024

Open to the public at Leashes & Leads Equine Park! It'll be a great time - hope to see you there!

Save the date because you're invited! May 15th Horse Nutrition 101!
04/24/2024

Save the date because you're invited! May 15th Horse Nutrition 101!

Hello everyone!My name is Emma Berquam and I am so excited to be teaching lessons at Leashes and Leads! Horses are a hug...
03/26/2024

Hello everyone!

My name is Emma Berquam and I am so excited to be teaching lessons at Leashes and Leads! Horses are a huge passion of mine and I'm so glad that I can help others with that. I graduated from the University of Minnesota in May of 2023 with a degree in Animal Science Pre Vet studies and a minor in sports coaching! I come from a beef farm background and got into horses later in life. Throughout the years I have been involved in 4-H, WSCA, pony club, and many other horse show organizations! I currently love to ride and show my horse Onyx in dressage. I love getting to help riders of all ages develop their horse riding skills along with horse care and management.

I have some weekday and weekend availability!
Please contact me for scheduling needs at:
[email protected]

Life has a way of coming full circle 🥰The life of a lesson horse can be sooo rewarding, but it can be hard to maintain l...
02/13/2024

Life has a way of coming full circle 🥰
The life of a lesson horse can be sooo rewarding, but it can be hard to maintain long term. Especially for horses that love to connect with people on an emotional level and thrive in a family of their own. Rodeo was a great lesson horse, despite the fact that he is almost completely blind. With a shift to our lesson program in going more English (yes, we still have Western, too!) Rodeo was spending more time hanging out than going on adventures.
With some help, we contacted two previous owners who BOTH said they'd take him back!
We're so grateful for Cheyenne's family in welcoming him back with open arms & happy tears.
We'll all miss Rodeo at LLEP, however, we know he's right where he belongs! 🦄

📸 All to Cheyenne Holthus - the first from when they originally had Rodeo!

Sweet Malibu has done a fantastic job as a lesson horse for LLEP teaching many youth & adults to ride! However, after m...
02/12/2024

Sweet Malibu has done a fantastic job as a lesson horse for LLEP teaching many youth & adults to ride! However, after many years of service, we feel she's ready to give up the "many riders" lifestyle and settle down into a family of her own. If you've ridden Malibu over the years, please feel free to comment your experiences and send us your photos/videos to use in finding her the perfect home of her own. Thanks!!

We have lesson openings with Meredith!!Contact her at meredith.schulz30@gmail.com or give us a call at (507) 315-1500.
01/27/2024

We have lesson openings with Meredith!!
Contact her at [email protected] or give us a call at (507) 315-1500.

01/26/2024

Are you Prepared for an Equine Emergency?

Image courtesy of AAEP

01/24/2024

FUN FACT FRIDAY! Are you familiar with the many adaptations that help your horse stay warm during the cold winter months?

🌾 Hindgut digestion of hay produces the most heat, acting as a small furnace inside of the horse. This is why free choice, good quality hay is so important in the winter.

💪 Horses have a huge muscle mass and muscle activity produces heat. This includes running and playing and even shivering if their body temperature starts to drop. It is important to remember that these activities also will result in a bigger caloric demand so free choice hay and in some cases, grain, is often needed.

🧥 To blanket or not to blanket is a constant debate but either way, as it starts to get cold your horse will grow a thicker coat. If you decide to leave your horse unblanketed you may notice that they look “fluffy”. This is due to a phenomenon called piloerection where the hair stands up to better trap air within. Two layers of the coat also help with warmth. The inner layer is softer and has air pockets to create an insulating layer. The outer layer is coarse and has oils that keep moisture from penetrating the insulating layer and keep the horse warm.

⚖️ Wild horses go into the winter heavier than ideal and the fat serves as an extra layer of insulation. However, if a horse is going to be kept heavily blanketed and in a barn during the cold weather months this is unnecessary and can lead to obesity related issues.

🦵Their distal limbs (below the knees and hocks) are made of mostly bones and tendons, tissues that are resistant to the cold temperatures.

🦶The hooves have an alternative route of blood circulation through larger vessels that can be used in low temperatures. This is why horses can stand in snow without detrimental effects.

👃A horse’s nose has a robust blood supply and is rounded so that it is less susceptible to frostbite than a human’s nose.
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Courtesy of the AAEP Horse Owner Education Committee

01/13/2024

So true! 😂

01/01/2024

Happy New Year

12/31/2023

Happy New Year! 🐴❤️🥂

12/25/2023

💚❄️ Wishing you all a beautiful and very, very merry Christmas ❄️❤️

Artwork by the incredible Equine Art-Lian Meaney

12/23/2023
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12/13/2023

Found on Google from rfdtv.com

12/05/2023

Join us for the Equestrian's Workshop on January 20, 2024 at the Simon's Arena in Cannon Falls, MN! 📢

Mark those calendars for an day of shopping, learning and horsin' around. Stay tuned for updates and speaker announcements for the Equestrian's Workshop. We hope to see you there! 🐴 🤠

11/12/2023

The lessons you're really paying for when your daughter (or son) rides horses...

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11/06/2023

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The US Postal Service will issue a set of horse stamps in 2024. The horses were photographed by Stephanie Moon Photography of Ohio and Karen Wegehenkel Horse Photography of Oregon.

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6228 14th Street NW
Byron, MN
55920

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 6pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 6pm
Friday 8am - 6pm
Saturday 8am - 6pm
Sunday 8am - 6pm

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+15073151500

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Lesson openings this week Thursday 7/27 9AM with Mckenzie TAKEN 10AM with Mckenzie TAKEN Friday 7/28 5:30PM with Viviane Saturday 7/29 11AM with Mckenzie 2:15PM with Mckenzie (45min) 5PM with Jessica Anytime after noon with Hannah

We are looking for another lesson horse! Would love to do a care lease, but also open to buying. Needs to be: - SAFE for beginners - sound - steer well - w/t/l well and balanced - have good breaks Open to all breeds above 45", open to geldings and mares, any age. Does not need to be fancy, just experienced and tolerant.

A little video for you this morning on the extended trot. Malibu is one of our lesson horses and Mckenzie an instructor and trainer.

Come on out for our tack swap we are ready. 6228 14th st nw byron mn 55920 Hours are 10 to 1

Can we please just all take a moment and acknowledge how difficult Diamond's life has been lately 🤣

We had someone hired to start this week, but they changed their mind last second. So we're hiring again. Mondays through Fridays 5 hours in the AM Start time flexible between 6 and 8am. Chores include blanketing and leading horses to turnouts, feeding hay, feeding grain, cleaning stalls, misc. cleaning jobs. Pay depending on experience level Heated barn, great team. Contact us at [email protected] Video for attention.

Last minute openings for riding lessons tomorrow: 12:30-1:15PM with Hannah 4:45PM with Hannah (can be 30, 45 or 60min) TAKEN Call 507-315-1500 (leave a message if calling before 10AM tomorrow morning). Video is of Mckenzie's son Ashtin, who is almost 5yo and riding Smoke for the first time. Usually he rides Rusty :)

Briley riding Junior on poles tonight. This girl can ride! 👏🐴 Press like to vote that her dad should buy Junior for her 😊 Her mom is game, so we just need to change dad's mind about the whole "owning a horse- thing"...

Olivia and Wade getting ready for the DW Productions gaming show in Mondovi this coming weekend 😍

Ride #3. So is this filly considered kid safe since she's been started by a 10yr old? 🤷🏼‍♀️🤣

Stirrups are optional :) This is Julia learning to lope without them today.

The things barn girls do on a Friday night 🤪 Abby's first time hooked up to a carriage :)

It's a beautiful morning here at the barn and the ground is starting to dry up!

Rusty should have been a cutting horse 🤪

Lucy - 5yo Irish Draught Sports Horse Lucy came to us a month ago. She needed training for her ground manners and her riding as well. Her typical behavior when asked to lope, and sometimes trot, would be to just plant her feet and not move anymore. When I started riding her, she would refuse to trot quite often. She would kick at my leg, refuse all forward motion and once even backed up to the rail and got her foot stuck in the panel for a second. When she did move, she usually threw her head and seemed upset. I wanted her to have 5 good rides in a row without planting her feet before I'd ever ask her to lope. Her owners were only ever able to get 1-2 strides out of her. Today was her big day and she did amazing 🤗 lots of forward motion and she never even thought about stopping. Her owners are great - they are allowing her to stay for multiple months of training to get solid at the walk, trot and lope. Training is a slow process and doesn't happen overnight, so I really appreciate that 🐴

Today Java arrived for a month of training. His owners sent him to training because he needs to "grow up". Over the next month we will work on patience, ground manners, becoming easier to ride and acting more mature overall. And yes, being tied will be part of his daily routine. It appears he needs work on that 😊 But isn't he gorgeous? 4 years old and a grullo 😍

Had a good training ride on Miss Snip this week :)

A lot of times we show the highlights, when horses and people are performing at their best. This video shows a barrel horse ridden by a 10yr old. Sherbert is learning to jump so we can be competitive in jumping figure 8 this year 🐴 A nice reminder that we have to work for our success. And if we practise it enough times, we will get good at it. For now, we will see how high Sherbert will jump next week. Likely still a lot higher than needed 😅 Progress is a slow but steady process and doesn't happen overnight.

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Enjoy the Equine Experience with Leashes and Leads Equine Park! We offer a variety of services including training for your horse, riding lessons for you, a climate controlled indoor riding facility, boarding, and more!

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