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• If your horse becomes sweaty during your ride, cover him up with a fleece or wool sheet while he is cooling out so he doesn’t catch a chill.
• Be aware of hunting in your area. If you go out on a trail ride, wear brightly colored clothing so hunters wont mistake you and your horse as a deer.

• Schedule an appointment with your vet, or if you do your shots yourself, for fall vaccinations.
• If your horse is a hard keeper, now is the time to slowly start bumping up his daily rations to decrease the likelihood of your horses dropping weight during the change in the weather and seasons.
• Give your horse dentist a call to make sure your horse’s teeth are in good condition before heading into winter. This is important for senior and young horses.

• Cover your saddle with either a clean blanket or sheet or purchase a saddle cover. which can be found for both English and Western saddles.
• If you’re in the northern climates, chances are you’ll be riding less in the winter than other seasons, making it a good time to clean and examine your tack. Leather is meant to be flexible so it can withstand a lot of fluctuation in temperature.
• To keep leather supple and in good working condition, it needs to be regularly cleaned and oiled. Remove dust, mud and horse hair with a glycerin based cleaning product of your choice. After cleaning, lightly oil the saddle. If you live in a warmer, wet climate using a product to prevent mold and mildew.
• Bridles and reins will need a little more care to keep them protected over the cold season. Hang your bridle so the crown piece is on a round hook to keep its shape. If you have any rawhide, such as bosals or quirts, use rawhide cream and then store in a plastic bin. Hang romal reins so they won’t be bowed when you use them again in the summer.
• If you do ride during the colder winter months, don’t forget that saddle pads require a little extra care too. Western saddle pads generally don’t dry quickly in cold weather so it’s ideal to have at least two you can rotate allowing one to dry while the other is in use.  English riders have an easier time keeping their pads clean and dry as they can be laundered.

Congratulations to Bert - Winner of high point and many other ribbons at the Gypsy Vanner show last weekend at Murieta Equestrian Center.

Bert is wearing his custom Buckaroo Leather tooled halter.

You can pick up your own Wild Rose Halter by clicking here.

You may have seen a horse making a strange expression where it curls its upper lip and bares its teeth into a wide grin. This makes the animal look like it’s laughing. In reality, this is part of a special nose-enhancing techniquecalled a flehmen response.

Horses pull this amusing face in order to direct scents floating in the air toward special olfactory glands that are located at the end of the horse’s nasal passage. The lip-curling and the slight tilting of head help the animal to waft these smells toward these glands. The horse isn’t laughing at you, it’s just trying to determine whether you smell bad.

The flehmen response is far more common in male than female horses.Much like giraffes, stallions often sample the urine of mares this way to check if they’re in heat.