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Comment by Cyndi on May 14, 2011 at 9:37pm

Rose, in the yahoo Canadian Horse group there was a bit of a discussion recently about keeping black horses black.  There is a supplement called "Black-as-Knight" that is supposed to work well for enhancing the colour of any horse.  However, someone made a comment that it contains paprika, which will show up in a drug test...or something like that.  Someone else feeds their horse Norwegian kelp and flax seed and finds that it keeps her black horse very black (I'm assuming that means the mane too).  Another comment was that sweat will cause a black horse to fade, which I never knew before.

Comment by Nicola Barnes on April 20, 2011 at 7:22am

I wish I knew!

Comment by Rose Cook on April 19, 2011 at 11:42pm

I recall  that there was a comment by someone that knew how to get the red out of our Canadians manes or how to prevent it. Does anyone know of that trick besides keeping then out of the Sun? Not possible!!!!  Also how to stop the tails from those dreaded Dreadlocks. Someone suggested Olive oil.

Comment by Nicola Barnes on April 19, 2011 at 4:04am

Depending where u live, Frances :) It's been pretty good where I stay so far! =)

Comment by Frances Tufts on April 18, 2011 at 6:58pm

Raining..... snowing... It has sure been a lousy spring this year.

Comment by Nicola Barnes on April 17, 2011 at 6:39am

LOL :) Lets hope it stops raining soon! =]

Comment by Rose Cook on April 16, 2011 at 10:53pm

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Now all I have to do is wait for it to stop RAINING so I can try your ideas. We had a great time riding Thursday while it was nice. Oh if only I had a arena. I better start buying lottery tickets LOL

Comment by Queenrider on April 15, 2011 at 8:24am

Canadians are very smart and learn quickly.  sometimes they learn things inadvertently!  You have to out think them. I have bad knees so one of the first things I taught my gelding to do was to stand still especially for mounting.  He has learned that if he stands still he gets an immediate reward of a mint.Over a period of time I asked him to stand still longer and longer to earn his mint.  Now he only gets his mint occaisonally but still stands still.

Comment by Nicola Barnes on April 15, 2011 at 4:55am

Well, my horse was also like that, I don't know if this would work for you but it worked for me :)

What I did was just whistle to him as a signal to stop and then talk to him. As I'm about to get on I pull gently on the reins and let go, pull, let go, and repeat this process. As I'm on I hold him firmly but don't pull so hard it hurts his mouth and tell him "stand" in a firm but gentle voice. He used to walk off really badly and now he is almost completely out of the habit!!! =) Hope this helps... =]

Nikki

Comment by Rose Cook on April 14, 2011 at 10:49pm

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to get my stubborn mare to whoa and stay whoa. She stops but then quickly steps off before I can ask her to walk on. I don't want to continually pull on her mouth and have her be tough mouthed I am useing a D ring snaffle bit. During round pen lunging she stops on a dime and stays till I ask her to walk on. Any suggestions?

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