by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Horse Care, It's for the Horses
ARMPIT RELEASE Howdy Friends! I’m passionate about promoting the understanding of the importance of maintaining your horse’s proper and healthy, posture and body carriage. Most of what we do with our horses destroy the horse’s posture and body...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch
THE OLD GNARLED STUMP Howdy Friends! The gnarled old stump is all that remains of what had surely been a towering majestic oak. Even today in its worn and weathered state, blackened, broken and misshapen by decades of wear born of freezing, baking in the sun, birds...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Horse Care, It's for the Horses
TIPS FOR TRIMMING YOUR BAREFOOT HORSE Howdy Friends! Trimming your own barefoot horse is easy to do, and I encourage folks to learn how. One key piece of advice I like to give is, keep it simple. There seems to be a lot of conversation out there making a simple thing...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Horse Care, It's for the Horses
SOMETIMES A HORSE JUST CAN’T Howdy Friends! Sometimes a horse simply can’t do what we ask. They are not disobeying—nor do they need more training, or discipline. We need to pay closer attention to our horse. And less to our own demands, desires. Sometimes I get broken...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Horse Care, It's for the Horses
WELCOMING A NEW HORSE HOME Howdy Friends! In recent weeks I’ve had several emails from folks who have purchased a new horse and quickly became saddened, frustrated or disenchanted. All had statements along the lines of, “He wasn’t this way when I rode him there,” or...
by Dutch Henry | Coffee Clutch, Horse Care, It's for the Horses
Howdy Friends! Does your horse understand you? Have you spent the time, not teaching her or “training” her, but simply allowing her to understand you? Recently I spent the evening watching a versatility show and noticed riders operating in a different realm than their...
