Tea-Bag Stables

01/01/2025

Happy New Year everyone! The gathering yesterday was wonderful! It was a pleasure getting spend a little time all together! We are 1 stall short of being fully occupied again!!!! It’s such a pleasure to have such a kind group of people! I hope all of your dreams and goals are realized in the new year and that they lead to more dreams and goals.

11/19/2024

Dee Dee Duffy is coming for Chiro Dec 2 at 8:30 am. $125 per horse cash or check only.
Jill Hazen has two horses starting at 8:30
Niki has 4 horses starting at 10am
Marshal is also on the schedule.

Feb 13 Grace Keeton is coming
Niki for 4 horses starting at 9am
Anyone else interested?

Jan 16 Taryn Yarnell
Niki 4 horses
Sophia 1 horse
Amy 1 horse
Cheryl 1 horse(Cheryl Ann will you still have your horse seen?)

11/06/2024

Anyone have any CleanTrax they wanna play offload? It seems it’s been discontinued and I need some.

10/24/2024

10/04/2024

Hi all. Dee Dee Duffy will be coming for chiro sometime end of Oct beginning Nov. so far I have 5 horses. Anyone else want to be on her schedule?

09/11/2024

09/09/2024

09/01/2024

Correct bio mechanics are correct biomechanics- but what each horse needs to get there might be vastly different!!!!
Typically you need to start with the opposite of what the horse already gives.
If your horse is head up, U neck, and tight back then I’m going to encourage stretching long and low. But if a horse is built like a western pleasure horse, and is already downhill, then literally the last thing I’m going to do is ask for long and low- that horse I’m going to pick up (maybe into absolute elevation) and really focus on achieving balance over the hind end, even at the expense of creating some tension upfront.

If I’m working with a thoroughbred who is built to run, and they take big steps behind that do not step under and carry, but rather thrust all of the weight forward on to the front end,  then I am going to take tiny little steps- collected walk and baby jog type movements. 
But if that horse has a short little stride and is stuck in the body, then I’m going to encourage forward motion and swing and a bigger step.

 So often people learn one process and try to apply it to every horse…. Which I guess is fine if all of their horses are the exact same type. I ride all sorts of different types, so I need to be knowledgeable in different styles of horsemanship. But honestly, once you understand biomechanics, it’s not that difficult to look at a horse and see what’s the most important right now to bring them from dysfunction into general good health. It’s usually as simple as getting them to do the opposite of whatever their tendencies are. Eventually it gets way more detailed and complex, but even then, there is still hints of “just do the opposite”.