Ferguson Family Farm LLC

12/19/2024

Geoffrey hopping on the trailer like a trained pro.

12/19/2024

Geoffrey self loading. This didn’t take me long with him honestly even though he was a nightmare at times to load.

12/09/2024

I had a great time auditing the Jean Luc Cornille clinic today at Kinney Hill in South Hampton, NH!

He was one of the first names I came across in 2014 when I was looking for resources on navicular rehab. It was awesome to see him in person! I’m glad he spent quite a bit of time today talking about navicular and some of the cases he has “fixed” through proper carriage/riding and proper biomechanics, and while I am not as skilled when it comes to riding knowledge, I look for proper biomechanics on the ground with all my navicular rehab cases as well!

I believe there are still auditor spots open for tomorrow, if you’re interested in biomechanics/classical training check out this link to sign up -

https://facebook.com/events/s/jean-luc-cornille-clinic-and-l/1184827652632855/

12/05/2024

Hello. A drawing for a cold December day. I hope you’re ok wherever you are in the world.

12/04/2024

12/04/2024

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11/03/2024

11/02/2024

A couple of years ago I had a one 2 one tutoring with Dr Sue Dyson MA. vetMB, Ph.D, DEO, DipECVSMR. I wanted to “read the navicular bone” and have an educated guess as to what was wrong, or right with that bone.

Fast forward 2 years and I watched my tutoring again as I am preparing for my navicular class. I watched with new eyes. I realise that I did not always understand what Dr Dyson was teaching me but now I have another 2 years studying this bone and navicular syndrome in general, my eyes are opened!

I had a lot of navicular bones that I had collected over the years and we discussed a few of them, their lumps and bumps, their holes and indentations. Parts had new bone laid down in specific areas and Dr Dyson explained to me why this was occurring. Some navicular bones had little chips out of them at the area where the impar ligament attached. These were called distal border fragments.

Dr Dyson made it super clear that I was not to focus on “just the bone’ but to look at all the soft tissue as well, plus the sites where ligaments attach.

My eyes were certainly opened during that session but they are even more opened now.

I’ll be talking about all of this in my zoom class 14th November. Please contact me by email if you would like to see the agenda and see if this class is a good fit for you.

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11/01/2024

Unpopular opinion loose the nose band, hell, loose the bridle all together.

It should be obvious...but for many equestrians it isn't so at all...

10/29/2024

Pat on the back for me…

10/29/2024

Just another example of the complexity of stallion behaviour. These two boys were mustered in together with the latest herd, there were also two mares, Electra & Eclipse both heavily pregnant, a yearling filly, Emma, and a filly foal, Evie. Now these two stallions do bicker a bit, they are both young, nothing serious just jostling over food and who gets to stand next to which mare. However along with their jostling they also spend time grooming each other sleeping next to one another and playing together.

I think the reason they are able to co-exist still within the herd, in a limited space now they are here, is that they do a lot of conflict avoidance behaviour as well as lots of bonding activities each day. Most disagreements are done over the poo piles and who managed to poo on the very top of the pile. So there is squealing and pawing but very little actual physical aggression and then they devout a lot of their time to this each mutually grooming every day that seems to strengthen bonds.

I’ve witnessed this lots in the wild, in areas where there is a high density of stallions. Sometimes when there is more than one stallion in a herd, or between bachelors. I’ve also seen young bachelors kicked out of the herd not be allowed to be near but them and the herd stallion go out and groom what looks like their outcast younger sons.

When stallions fight there is no doubt they mean business and it’s scary to watch. However it is definitely not the only behaviour they exhibit! This mutual grooming and behaviours that avoid conflict or build bonds between horses in the same area I’ve seen many times too.

There always seems to be a pattern with these boys to they squeal at each first thing in the morning, followed by a grooming session a few hours later. Then the same again in the afternoon.

With Equifest now over it won’t be long until we start working these gorgeous boys too!

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