Didn’t ride the horses today – partly because we were both busy and ran out of daylight, but also because they are currently without shoes. In the interview I did with Chris she noted that I needed to get them shod asap. When I turned them out today they were a bit ‘footy’, i.e. their [...]
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‘Bringing in’ the animal – to shoe or not to shoe!
Posted in Brain storming on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Some thoughts on environmental determinism…
Posted in Brain storming on March 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It struck me this evening as I reflected on my interview with Chris, and my own previous ruminations on Welsh cobs (see Hurn 2007, 2008a and b) that what I am proposing is essentially a form of environmental determinism – that the cobs are the best horses to ride locally because they have ‘evolved’ within [...]
