Found 562 Results from Fun and Games with Winnie

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Let’s Play Ball

I love this video of Kye pushing the big ball. I believe he’s the first horse on our farm that has played with two of them.

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Next Fundraiser is for Ann and Pete’s Dog Rescue

Our next fund-raiser is May 1, 2011 for Ann and Pete’s Dog Rescue in Pottageville.

Our current challenge is to create the program. “Men Doing Dressage” has been a hit for the past two years. Here’s a video taken last …

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Spanish Walk Videos

Here’s Zelador and me showing the Spanish Walk with the halter and lead line, then at liberty and finally under saddle.

Here’s Bill working with Zeloso and his Spanish Walk.

http://youtu.be/zTV8TjXzbyo

 Here’s Pax (the Canadian) with his owner Ron developing …

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Watch Zelador in Action

We took this footage last weekend. Today, Ciara worked with Zelador in-hand and developed the piaffe. Of course we did NOT have a camera!…

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Fetching for an Audience

Last week I set three objects (a hat with zebra stripes on it, the ridged ball and a small pillow) about six feet apart from each other. Zelador was standing on a pedestal. I asked him to fetch the hat. …

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It Takes All Sorts

Zelador was amazing today. I did the usual fetch routine on the north wall, then moved the jump to the south wall. I prepared to start from the beginning again, but he sailed over the jump and returned over the …

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Zeloso’s Lesson

As far as the boys are concerned I’ve been doing stuff with them using a big blue tarp. Zeloso delights in lifting it off the ground, carrying it and swirling it. Zelador is much more sedate. He understands that I’d …

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Discount Code for Equine Books and DVDs

During the winter I get a little “cabin-fever” (even though I’m outdoors for seven hours!). I’ve noticed this pattern the past few years: sometime in the mentally challenging month of February I sit down in front of the computer and …

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Speaking in Llama

I believe I said something incredibly nasty to the dark llama (Jackson Brown) this afternoon. Ciara went with me to do the LAST farm-sitting session (feeding and mucking out). While we were in the loft of the bank barn, throwing …

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Adventures in Farm Sitting

I’m babysitting a farm that has three horses, two llamas and a miniature donkey. I drop the hay from the loft into the paddock below, then I go down the stairs and through the barn to the arena which acts …

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By George, I Think He’s Got It!

This morning the wind was howling around the arena, but that didn’t deter Zelador and me. I turned him loose. He trotted to the northwest corner and prepared to lay down. I joined him just as he lowered his hind …