Raven Ranch

12/17/2023

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12/17/2023

12/15/2023

12/13/2023

The first photo of Miss Rodeo America 2024.

📸 Art of Aperture Photography

12/11/2023

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12/11/2023

Congratulations Emma‼️‼️‼️🙏🥰

12/10/2023

I don’t know about y’all but I’m thinking of riding weather already. We have several of our “Quill” blankets in stock and ready to ship. Get your ride ready now. Visit thundercloudsaddleblankets.com.

12/08/2023

Say what?

12/07/2023

Good morning! I hope y’all have a fabulous day and take some time to breathe deep and count your blessings ❤️

📷 Bad B***o Media

12/07/2023

Beauties & BEAST! Clyde showing these supermodels up in this

12/06/2023

Check out our weaned calves! We will have them for all of our cow clinics for the next few months.

Check out the website and look at our lessons on the flag, or cattle.

www.loaltucker.com

12/04/2023

Along with a wide array of animal feed, The Feed Bin was known for having dozens of chicks and ducklings wandering about.

12/04/2023

Private lesson package with Professional Horse Trainer, Loal Tucker. Lessons are by appointment and designed for you to learn on your horse. Once the package is purchased, you will be contacted to schedule your lessons. In the event you must cancel or reschedule, we ask for a 24-hour courtes

12/04/2023

Private lesson package with Professional Instruction by Loal Tucker and one of our LTH lesson horses and tack. All lessons are by appointment only. Purchase this package and receive 5 private lessons for only $750.00. Once purchased, we will contact you to go over your goals and schedule your l

11/30/2023

God bless ponies💗

11/30/2023

I'm sure we can all relate

11/30/2023

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11/28/2023

How much contact should one have?

This is such a variable thing with variable answers.

One thing I’m often criticized on as a teacher is not always having my students take contact-

It isn’t that the horse shouldn’t have contact in these instances but - I’m very aware of HOW we take contact and what the effect on the horses balance is.

For example, if the rider picks up the contact in a sloppy and backwards way, it will brace the neck of the horse and reduce the swing of the hind leg. So why bother “making” the contact when I could instead be teaching the rider necessary ingrained habits with their hands? It does absolutley no good to teach people to pick up a dead contact and hold it .

So for me; before a rider should be taking connection with the delicate structures of the face and mouth, a rider should have good control of some things, and self discipline to not just go to the hand first.

Here are some important skills a rider should learn before even thinking of contact, in my book:

-following the movement of the horse with the seat, and learning to feel (if you teach reins first, the rider often doesn’t learn to feel. The more hand we use the less we feel)
-learning to make changes with the seat , such as changing gait, lengthening or shortening stride without hand as the primary tool
-learning to pick up the rein witbout stopping the swing of the seat or the movement of the horse
-learning to pick up the rein without pulling it backward
-learning to balance the wrists and arms with suppleness when picking up the reins
-emotional regulation : learning not to go to the hand to solve problems of fear anger or punishment for the horse

In my book, many riders need their reins taken away for a good while to learn to really ride, before they can be reintegrated and paired back in fluidly. This goes especially for higher level riders or trainers who have learned to “get stuff done” without feel and flow in their bodies.

My teacher took my reins away for a very long time and it’s one of the best things she ever did for me. It was miserably uncomfortable and humbling, but that is often what good riding requires -

The hands cannot be the first action of the humans body - and as long as they are, contact will always be abrasive and unfriendly to the horse.

Body- leg- then hand last. Slow the hands down- waaaaaaaay down, and make them feeling and following, without restricting the movement of yourself or your horse.

11/28/2023

The Blanket Lady is ready to rest start clothing, cleaning and repair service in December.
Please call or text Carol Helms 805-550-2533, email at telschus .com or [email protected] to let me know if you may need my services again.

11/22/2023

I love to use this image of our Peruvian Paso Tondero as a visual aid for anyone considering purchasing a ThunderCloud. When we first introduced our blankets I was inundated with questions and requests for every size imaginable. One thing most folks do not understand is how involved making just one blanket is. They are far more intricate than a hand-woven blanket. Wait, what? How can that be when the design is simple? The answer is, because we are not just weaving a pattern but creating a product that if not handled with kid gloves during the building process will be deemed unusable. Yes…it’s that complicated. Which brings me back to size.

We needed to settle on one size and decided after much experimentation that a 33x33 blanket would be ideal as it can cover a standard pad well. I do not use a pad and have a round skirted saddle so I can really view the pattern on our quill blankets.

The above horse is only 14 hands, is ridden in a hybrid trail saddle with very little to zero skirting. In my opinion his blankets look fabulous. Of course I always thought the point of a blanket was to be seen a bit anyways. Hope this helps if any are struggling with size.

11/16/2023

The cargo flight had climbed to around 31,000 feet when the crew contacted Air Traffic Control to report that the horse had escaped from its stall.

11/14/2023