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Leather Dog Collars
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Risk of Lameness
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Leadership Secrets
from your horse
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Buckaroo Deal!
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Kittie Wilkins Cattle Queen
In 1870, Kittie Wilkins built and empire that encompassed a large area of Southern Idaho, northern Nevada and eastern Oregon. She became an outstanding rancher and expert dealer in horses and often was called "The Horse Queen of Idaho," or "The Queen of Diamonds," due to her diamond brand.
Kittie always claimed she got her start as a small child when two of her father's friends each gave her a $20 gold piece to invest. When her father became involved in the stock company, he used the money to buy Kittie a filly, which started her in business. She soon acquired her own herd that numbered between 700 and 800 horses. Kittie was an expert horsewoman, it was said she could ride anything with four feet on the ground, or anything with one foot on the ground and three feet in the air.
To read the rest of Kittie's story click below
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Bargain Barn
Nicker Bait Cookies
at
Buckaroo Leather
Your Horses Will
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6090 Enterprise Dr.
Suite E
Diamond Springs, Ca
95619
800-873-0781
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Buckaroo Leather's
Bargain Barn
Overstocked!
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08/20/09
Buckaroo John
Buckaroo Leather's Bargain Barn is overstocked with horse tack! From old west headstalls, western halters, western bridles to western headstalls and western breast collars. There are also rustic Cowboy Iron, Mecate bridles, sidepulls and spur straps.
Get your savings now, before the items sell out!
The Sale is over when the stock is Gone!
Limited stock on hand!
Special Price:$69.00 Special Price: $59.50
Special Price: $175.50 Special Price: $90.00
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Leather Dog Collars
from Buckaroo Leather
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08/20/09
Buckaroo John
You will LOVE the quality of our newly designed Western Dog Collars & Leashes. Beautiful scalloped Hermann Oak leather available in Black Latigo, Burgundy Latigo, or Medium oil Golden Brown. Made with heavy weight supple Leather. Collar & Leash matching Set are 3/4" wide. Our hand engraved Silver Conchas available in 3 styles. OR special order any of our other conchas- see concha catagorie.
Buckaroo Leather Dog Collars
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Assessing Your Risk of Lameness
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08/20/09
John Silveira
Did you know, are you aware that even if your horse looks like it's got perfect conformation on the front which means (feet point straight ahead) that there's approximately a 98% chance the feet still aren't correct and you're still at risk of lameness ? Very true. Almost every book i've ever seen discussing feet and conformation talks about perfect conformation being the feet pointing straight ahead. I always see drawings and photos as examples. It's a very missleading example. In no way does having feet pointing straight ahead mean your horse is correct , and in fact most horses even with such feet are still mechanically pigeon toed and the risk of lameness persists. So lets not fall into that false belief ok ?
The following pictures as you'll see all are taken from a certain type of angle. They are not taken from the straight ahead angle (directly in front of the horse) but are taken off from the side a bit and directly in front of the knee. The reason is and you'll notice that all the horses knees do not point straight ahead, they point outward. This is important to know. Here's the photos. Take a close look at the knees. Then scan your eyes down directly to the feet.
This is important to know. Here's the photos. Take a close look at the knees. Then scan your eyes down directly to the feet.
Ok - you see the first two pictures ? Taken from the right side of the horse. See where the right front feet on the first two photos point in relation to the knee ? They point inward compared to the knee.
Ok , now remember Zeus "Quarter Crack Hell" ? Here he is again in the photo below , this photo is taken from the left side of the horse. But you can see again the foot's not pointing in the direction of the knee. So what happens in these cases is even though the foot is pointing straight ahead and the knees point outward(as in the cases above) in essence the horse has pigeon toed dynamics and loads on the foot along with all the traveling characteristics as well. The foot's not balanced with the body of the horse. It's not balanced with how the bones work either. If feet and knees don't point in the same direction you've got issues.
If you can really recognize this you're well on your way to understanding true traveling dynamics with the front feet of horses.
I'm going to stop here for now and we'll go to the next phaze and elaborate more on this in the next post . For now really study the photos and pick up visually on knee direction in relation the foot direction. Then you can go check your own horse and other horses as well and see for yourself. You're going to start to be amazed at what you're noticing out there.
Ok signing out this is John "TheFootDoctor" Silveira
Author Bio: John Silveira, Farrier, Aikido practitioner, spiritualist, born and raised in San Mateo California the bay area. For information on his shoeing method and the 100% track record just go to
Care4Horses and leave contact information.
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Leadership Secret Whispered by Horses -
Stop, Backup, Reset
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08/20/09
Jay Koch
When I first started working with horses, there was a mindset that once you ask a horse to do something, and she refuses, you have to keep asking until you get the results you want. Otherwise the horse "wins" and you lose respect. This sometimes got us into some real battles. There was one time that I was riding my mare, Baby, near the bank of the Rio Grande. We were turning around and heading home. I wanted Baby to back up a little for no reason other than showing her she should. I just wanted her to take one step backward. Baby felt like that if she took one step back, she would back off the bank and into the river. For some reason, it became really important to me to get Baby to back that one step. I wrestled with her for a while until she gave up and took that step.
A dozen years later, I can remember our battle, but I have no idea why it was important. I should have stopped what I was doing and started all over. The actual step was not important. What was important that I had Baby's "respect." Unfortunately, by getting into that struggle with her, I lost a lot of leadership points. It would have been so much better if I had honored her fear of stepping backward off the bank, reset, and asked her to do something else. By understanding and respecting her fear, and not making a big deal about it, I would have been a better leader.
When working with people, it's so easy to get into the "because I said so" mindset and insist on doing something a particular way when it would be in everyone's best interest to start all over again.
You don't have to have a horse to learn how horsemanship will help you be a better leader. Let me share my life lessons I learned while astride my horse.
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