Karen Thomas wrote: >>>>> oh brother, here we go. yet ANOTHER book I could have written but >>>>> someone else did it first! Gosh, I thought everyvbody knew, duh, horses >>>>> live outside, its probably good for them to live outside... >>>>> >>>>> Janice, I don't think Anneliese is the only one who's the master of the >>>>> obvious! >>>>> >>>>> That's what kind of kills me about some of these barefoot gurus - it's >>>>> like >>>>> they were the first to say these things... >>>>> This book just isn't about horses living outside. It's about keeping them moving. He studied the BLM horses at the Litchfield corrals and noted that their hooves become pretty shabby after several weeks of idleness in the compound. They were fed twice a day with hay (pushed off a truck) and when the bales would hit the ground, a group of horses would stop and feed. This is about all the activity they did, twice a day. Almost from the time they arrive they disperse, and through dominance behavior, become absorbed into various hierarchies. Movement becomes relatively stationary.
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