Equine Body Pain Evaluation Clinic - Feb 5th

Saturday, February 5th, we will be sponsoring a clinic by Dee Howe of "Helping Others With Equines", www.DeeHowe.net that is the first in a series of three teaching you how to enhance a horse's vitality using integrative body work, that we will be sponsoring at our ranch.

This Stage 1 clinic - Evaluation/Body Work. You will learn techniques to tell if your horse is uncomfortable and what is needed when unwanted behavior happens; such as bucking, biting, rearing, throwing it's head, kicking, pawing, pacing, hard to catch, cross firing, turning one way better than the other, etc. By releasing the tension and addressing the root of the problem the horse can then concentrate, making training/riding easier and more efficient.

Since this is a hands-on clinic and each student will get some one-on-one with Dee, attendance is limited to 10 and reservations are needed. Cost is $100 for this full-day clinic and lunch and snacks are provided. For reservations contact Lauren at 951-566-7217 or horseluverlns@hotmail.com. Credit Cards are accepted.

It's a sunny winter day and the temperature outside is close to 80 degrees. Not bad for January when the rest of the country is cold and snowy and perfect for a short ride from the ranch. So today is Chance's turn for her first real trail ride.

Tabi has been working with Chance on and off over the summer. You guys may remember the bad injury Chance got to her lower jaw just as her training was being started last April. While it healed quickly (thanks to the Ox-E-Drops 2% solution) it was a few months before she went back to Tabi for training. Chance got about 2 solid months of training mostly in the arena and within the fenced property of the training ranch, but no real riding other than that.

Chance has been back here since September and we were just letting her be a horse. She is only 2 1/2 years old so there is no reason to hurry training along. She is too young and her body is still growing to put too much stress on it with athletic riding - which is exactly what she is built for.

With that in mind, today is the first day that anyone has been on her or even worked her in the round pen since last September. Much like we expected, she acted like it was just yesterday that she was worked and picked up right where her and Tabi left off. Ten minutes in the round pen and ready to ride.

Bo (Triton), Tabi's horse, was not too happy that his mom chose Chance to ride instead of him, so he ran the entire fenceline keeping up with them. Then he whinnied while there were gone. Boy was he glad when they got back.

No fuss, no muss. Lary and Tabi rode past the cows, along a busy black top road, across the road to ride behind our friends cattle dairy. There she got to ride through grazing cattle, up and down hills and short ravines, over and across some water and even took the lead when Houdini didn't want to stay in front.

This filly is going to make someone an AWESOME horse. She is level headed, smart, an eager learner and just no fuss no muss. We measured her height and she is 14.2hh today and we know she is going to be another 4-6 inches taller at maturity.

Chance is available for adoption. Her adoption fee is $1000. Right now she is green and needs trail miles. She is also at the perfect age to train for competitive trail riding because she has no bad habits, no fears and is willing to try anything. When she gets a few years older and her bones are complete, she will make a great cow horse, ranch sorting, or other things require good athletic skills.

Chance has been handled since birth and loves people. This is a very "aim to please" you horses that will bond with rider and LOVES to have a job. So please spread the word. If you know someone who wants horse that will be a great, solid trail horse, competitive trail, eventually (in a year or two) work with cows, etc. She's the one. Help us find a good home for her.

Christine
760-703-4860

P.S. Chance's mother was saved from slaughter and was adopted earlier this year and it is clear that Chance got her demeanor, brains, build and abilities from her mom. So we have pictures of her mom and can tell you all about her mom too.

Bizzy is available for Adoption

Well this has been a very busy past few months. I am taking 20 college units this semester going to school 4 nights a week and boy is that keeping me busy. That is in addition to working and doing all our horsey stuff. So it has been a while since I made a post.

But now I have exciting news for you to share. Bizzy is ready for adoption. Many of you may remember that we went all the way up to the northern California/Nevada border to pick up her and her sire - Red Ryder last June.

I have given Bizzy her own page on the web-site so all you need to do is follow this link and you will see pictures and get the information on her. Please share this with others because Bizzy has great training already and is a sweet, good natured filly, just waiting for someone to take her home, train her and start to have fun.

Here is the link:
http://www.gentledmustangs.com/Bizzy-for_adoption.php

Help us find the perfect home for Bizzy.

New Workshop with Poppy Phillips-Mehlhaff

INTEGRATED KINESIOLOGY
Exploring Possible Impositions & Imbalances in you & your Horse!

Equine Well-Being presents the first in a series of educational workshops on Alternative Care for your horses*. Whether you are an owner, trainer or equine practitioner this series is designed to bring you the latest in therapies available for You and your horse.

Poppy Phillips-Mehlhaff

Poppy has dedicated her life to learning about Applied and Integrated Kinesiology and creating a system applicable to the animal kingdom. Through the influences of great equine chiropractors, Equine Alternatives was born in 1998 with an emphasis on bone alignment. Seeing repetitive issues, Poppy observed that bone alignment was a secondary concern to other insults to the body and was determined to develop a non evasive safe technique that allowed the animals to be healthy on all levels. The Kinesiology offered a modality to the animals in which they could voice their pains and concerns.

Poppy has successfully treated me and my animals, both dogs and horses. Her sessions were life changing and gave me new hope outside of traditional medicine.


Friday Oct.29th

10:00am – 1:00pm

Registration $75
Seating/participation is limited so there is one on one time with Poppy.

Location: Rockin LC Ranch
1984 Equestrian Trail
Ramona, CA 92065


CALL 760-703-4860 or email christine@EquineWellBeing.com
For information Poppy go to http://www.equine-alternatives.com/

*All presenters are members of Professional Horse Services of S CA http://www.phsosc.com/
Copyright cGriffin 2010 All Rights Reserved

Trusty Needs A Home ASAP 7-13-10

Beautiful Roan Gelding needs a Home!

I am dispersing some of my horses due to economics, mostly broodmares and their foals, but I have a 5 year old has been a training subject for a horse-training student who only has been working him on whatever weekend days she can get out here. I want to move him to someone who has the time to continue his training.

He is a roan with a very good disposition has had groundwork in the roundpen, carried a saddle and starting bridling, had his feet worked with, is barefoot and been bathed.

He is about 15.2 and may grow more, photos are from when he was younger he is taller now. He comes from Palomino Valley BLM and I have his adoption papers. I am only asking his original adoption fee of $125. He has never been aggressive, does not strike or kick and likes people.

He is located in Ramona, in excellent health, no bad habits. $125 is negotiable for someone who will continue his training and give him a job. Adoption contract will be required.

Kay Cox-Evenleigh

Contact Christine @ 760-703-4860 or christine@GentledMustangs.com

New Arrivals Today - Flower and Dragon

After spending almost two years with the Schooling family in Escondido, these two have found their way up to Ramona where they have a nice big pasture to run and play in. Both were bottle fed babies and have brough lots of joy to the kids who would come to Catherine's horse camp.

Catherine told me that the kids had as much fun with the goats as they did learing to ride the horses. Even though these guys have horns, they are used to being around children and I haven't seen them use their horns for anything but scratching their backs.

While I was taking pictures Dragon was very curious about the camera and got close to check it out. Made for a really nice picture. Dragon and Flower (both boys) enjoy watching the horses in the pasture and the horses are very curious about them.

Evening feeding time and I got the chance to take a picture while the sun was setting. While Flower in interested in what I am doing, Dragon loves watching all the horses.

We haven't introduced them to George, Gracie and Griffin yet. We will let them settle in a little more before the get to meet the rest of the goats.

Mustang Truth - The Anniversary

This will be a short and sweet entry. I just want to give everyone a link to Vicki's post about the Anniversary of the Three Strikes Ranch debacle:

http://mustangtruth.blogspot.com/2010/04/anniversary.html?showComment=1272087532156#c5423774854446090113


Please click and read!