Cedar Lane Farm

08/05/2024

Turns out the people who claimed Trump would crash the economy and start WW3 have crashed the economy and started WW3.

Who is running this country?

07/23/2024

Saw them this morning. There must be 30-40 Danes at St. Landry Parish animal control, all colors and sizes!

07/08/2024

Looking for someone to pick up old appliances.
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07/03/2024

07/03/2024

Lipizzaner Foals Of The Spanish Riding School Of Vienna
The bloodlines of the Lipizzaner stallions at the Spanish Riding School can be traced back to the 18th century and have never been interrupted. There is no other horse breed in the world with equally high breeding and training standards.

More than 70 stallions from the race of the famous white horses live in the Hofburg in Vienna. They are the heart of this centuries-old tradition that has been preserved until today. Just like 400 years ago, the horses are trained in Vienna by riders of the Spanish Riding School, and are then presented to millions of interested spectators from all over the world.

05/28/2024

Equine Military Hospital, 1942. A horse in a gas chamber to treat a skin disease

05/10/2024

03/21/2024

"Many trainers - unaware of neural fatigue - advocate constant aids. Examples crop up in all riding disciplines.

Dressage trainers often teach riders to hold steady on the outside rein at all times, as a support to the horse. Hunter/jumper trainers frequently ask that riders maintain strong lower leg pressure, to keep the horse forward and rider secure, etc.

All of these are static cues; they are applied, maintained, and unchanged. They defy the reality of neural fatigue, causing us to ride against a horse's brain rather than with it. Very quickly, receptor cells in the horse's mouth or sides tire.

They can't continue to send ‘pressure’ signals to the horse's brain.

That's why constant aids become meaningless - its not the horse refusing to respond, it's that he'd have to override his own brain cells to do so."

- Horse Brain Human Brain, Dr. Janet Jones

02/06/2024

Dressage, Western, Western dressage - quality training and instruction for horses and riders

02/02/2024

01/14/2024

https://youtu.be/-gFPb_yafRQ?si=fWXyzira8rsxDHt1
Oh dear, Helgstrand, USA

This video was filmed at the United States Equestrian Federation Horsemastership program in January 2024. In light of the fact that all athletes and trainers...

01/10/2024

You may wonder why we pull back into the syringe when giving injections in the vein. This picture explains why. We don't pull back to make sure we're in the vessel, we do it to make sure we're in the RIGHT vessel. Today I went to give an injection and pulled back and saw blood brighter than I wanted. I decided to go and get a new dose of sedation and once again pulled back and then gave my dose of sedation. The syringe on the left was my first injection and the syringe on the right was my second injection. Does anyone know why I shouldn't have injected that first syringe? And had I injected that first injection, what would have happened?

01/07/2024

Secretariat. Churchill 1973

01/05/2024

What are kissing spines?
Did you know that between 39-80% of horses have them!?

Overriding spinous processes, also called “kissing spines” occur when two or more boney projections at the top of the vertebrae touch or overlap. Different studies suggest different percentages of the equine population having them.

But, having them isn’t necessarily significant as many have them without clinical signs (according to certain research papers).
There are other contributing and confounding factors that lead to them being significant!

Join Dr Martina Neidhart and myself in an upcoming webinar where we will dive into the world of the causes of kissing spine.

https://equineeducationhub.thinkific.com/courses/kissing-spines

Image credit to The Study of the Equine Anatomy