Dales Equine Services

23/11/2024

I still have Spaces for December and into next year, my 2025 diary is open and ready for bookings.

🔹Clipping
🔹Mane and tail tidy
🔹Day care

Harrogate, otley, ripon, wetherby, west side of york

14/11/2024

Availability for the next few weeks:

🔹18th - Lunchtime (Otley, Harrogate,
Little Ribston Area)

🔹19th - Lunchtime (Otley, Harrogate,
Little Ribston Area)

🔹23th - Lunchtime(Harrogate,
Little Ribston Area)

🔹24th - Morning till lunch

🔹27th - Lunchtime (Otley, Harrogate,
Little Ribston Area)

🔹28th - Late morning till early afternoon
I(Otley, Harrogate areas)

Clipping, Plaiting, mane and tail tidying, morning or afternoon care. I do cover outside these areas too so please do ask

13/11/2024

Gorgeous day today ☀️

I still have availability this month and into the new year

13/11/2024

Gorgeous day today ☀️

I still have availability this month and into the new year

07/11/2024

Spaces still available

Winter is slowly drawing in. I still have availability the next few weeks:

🔹11th - Lunchtime (Otley, Harrogate,
Little Ribston Area)

🔹12th - Late morning onwards

🔹13th - Late morning onwards

🔹14th - Lunchtime (Otley, Harrogate,
Little Ribston Area)

🔹18th - Lunchtime (Otley, Harrogate,
Little Ribston Area)

🔹19th - Lunchtime (Otley, Harrogate,
Little Ribston Area)

🔹20th - Lunchtime(Otley, Harrogate,
Little Ribston Area)

🔹23th - Lunchtime(Harrogate,
Little Ribston Area)

🔹24th - Morning till lunch

Clipping, Plaiting, mane and tail tidying

05/11/2024

Winter is slowly drawing in. I still have availability the next few weeks:

🔹11th - Lunchtime (Otley, Harrogate,
Little Ribston Area)

🔹12th - Late morning onwards

🔹13th - Late morning onwards

🔹14th - Lunchtime (Otley, Harrogate,
Little Ribston Area)

🔹18th - Lunchtime (Otley, Harrogate,
Little Ribston Area)

🔹19th - Lunchtime (Otley, Harrogate,
Little Ribston Area)

🔹20th - Lunchtime(Otley, Harrogate,
Little Ribston Area)

🔹23th - Lunchtime(Harrogate,
Little Ribston Area)

🔹24th - Morning till lunch

Clipping, Plaiting, mane and tail tidying

25/10/2024

Availability!

I have space on Saturday the 9th & Sunday 10th of November

Message if your interested

24/10/2024

‘The clip hasn’t lasted long at all!’

The change in daylight hours is what triggers the winter coat change and growth -
In the UK, horse’s coats tend to start changing from (roughly) early September and can continue to grow in reasonably quickly through to the winter solstice, at which point the coat growth will slow down.

You’ll find that clips between September-December don’t ’last as long’ as clips done in the New Year. This is because the winter coat is continually growing until the solstice.
Natives/cobs/heavies tend to be on the hairier side, so some may need clipped every 4 weeks (give or take) if you want to keep them neat.
Whereas warmblood/TB/finer types may only need clipped 2/3 times over the whole winter, as they tend to grow a finer coat.

This is a rough guide, not a set in stone rule!
Every horse is different, and there are a lot of factors to consider -
• Age
• Breed
• Coat type (thick/fine/dense/long…)
• Health (Cushing’s Disease, EMS etc)
• Weight
• Workload
• Routine (in/out)
• Or, just like people - they can be hairy/not so hairy, no matter what the breed of horse is!

How often do you clip your horse? Tell me their breed etc and why you chose to do it as often as you do!

21/10/2024

Gorgeous autumn afternoon/evening today. This is when I realise how much I love my job.

21/10/2024

Gorgeous autumn afternoon/evening today. This is when I realise how much I love my job.

18/10/2024

Beautiful autumn day this morning

11/10/2024

Full clip for this lovely old boy today

07/10/2024

Clips for Dakota and Ola today ready for a weekend of fun at camp.

Spaces still available

01/10/2024

30/09/2024

Love to hear how my clients do with their horses/ponies:

“Last weekend rocky got 2nd in hand and x2 1st ridden then went on to reserve ridden champion. Today (sunday) he did his first dressage test and got 4th 🤩🥰🐴🏅 thank you!!!”

29/09/2024

“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Mark 2:17

Good training and education requires kindness, patience, understanding and a willingness to restructure and explain ideas repeatedly in numerous different ways from a variety of viewpoints.

Adult, child, Human or Horse these rules apply.

If a horse misunderstands the cues for piaffe applying those cues with greater force will not achieve success. If a child cannot read the letters ABC increasing the anger and volatile nature of the teacher will not help the child learn faster.

A gap in a students knowledge cannot be bridged by the force or indignant frustration of a teachers exasperation in teaching the subject matter.

Only with patience, time and a willingness to explore each sticking point or misunderstood concept can a student achieve confidence and competence.

We all known this. We all agree upon this.

Many of us would proudly state this concept as a part of our integrity and something we fight for.

So why do I see so many people who believe they know better, kinder more ethical ways to educate people and horses attack, bully and harass those who require education to change?

Do you not see the trap???

What a toxic mindset to foster.

“All animals are equal but some are more equal than others”

All people should be kind but I can be foul to this person because they have lots of social media followers and I think I know a better way to achieve what they’re training…

WHAT?!

How can people preach love and tolerance than attack those they believe themselves better educated than?

If we, this odd little aspect of the horse world truly are blazing the trail of enlightened horsemanship on a journey to improve horse happiness and welfare we have to stop being so foul to people who haven’t had the same realisations yet.

The mindset of a person who believes to speak love then act out hate towards others because “they deserve it”

Can you not see how twisted that is? How when people act like that they are part of the problem and genuinely bring nothing closer to a solution. No change. Nothing. Just more hate and a wider gap between both camps.

The amounts of pages on Facebook and instagram I see join together not in celebration or enthusiasm but by collective hatred. It’s sickening.

How can we grow to be a better horseman, better people if we foster such evil concepts and allow them in our world.

I do not agree with everything I see in every aspect of the horse world. But I will fight to share the ways we can improve and I will not attack every person who has not found my personally perceived level of competence but share with them the aspects I think they are lacking.

I believe bullying animals is wrong

I believe bullying people is wrong

We must do better

Hate breeds hate not love

Photography credit to JShpicture