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Miniature Horse Driving!!!

 

Can Miniature Horses be driven on pavement?

Sitting position in the cart is important to your Miniature!

List of books/online tutorials on learning how to drive.

What "Size" is my Mini? What size cart? (Cart Balance) What size bit? What size Harness?

Miniature Horse Obstacles and Jumps-how to make a set

Need shade on your cart? Here is an idea

Video Watch a video of 5 minis going down the road.

Our First ADT (Arena Driving Trial) Experience

Watch a Roadster Champion at the Touch of Class Miniature Horses Show 2008 (video)

Watch some beautiful single pleasure movement as Blueberry Muffin is at an auction. (video)

Watch a Single Pleasure class at Touch of Class 2009 (video)

Penalties for driving your mini in Dressage

Penalties for driving your mini in Cones

Penalties for driving your mini in a Marathon

Penalties for driving your horse/pony in a VSE

Trick or Treat, so others can eat

The "Training my Horse to Drive" Journal! (Made by Anna, my 13 year old trainer)

The "Training my Horses To Drive" Journal (made by Mom)

How did I teach our Miniatures to drive a cart? (by our 10 year old trainer)

Watch Wee Wees Double Magic Lady ponying her 2008 baby Faith, behind the mini cart for the first time

Our Christmas Miniature Horse Light Parade Click here for FLV format  (Video)

Lily after 6 months in the cart (and 3 months shy of foaling) Click here for FLV format  (Video)

Saturday Morning Convoy to Chester's Out West General Store!   (Video)

 

Miniature Horse Breeding and Babies:

Miniature Horse Foaling/Nursery Journal of 2009!  May 2009 Foaling by LK Supreme Dream mare!

                                                   June 2009 Foaling by Orion Light Vant Huttensest daughter (dystocia)

When will my mare foal? (Foaling calculator, average gestation times)

Signs of Foaling

Foaling Kit - be prepared for your new baby!

List of what to do 30 days before foaling.

What does our barn look like as the foaling date nears? Our Foaling Barn (foal buzzers, monitor information!!)

List of what to do Post-Foaling

Miniature Mare Foaling Problems/Dsytocia

Using Milk Test Strips as Foaling Predictors

Predicting the Mature Height of Your Foal

A list of very good articles about Equine Reproduction

Hyperlipidemia

WHY do we breed Miniatures?

The Miniature Horse Market

Orphan Foal Automatic Nurser!

Horse studbook/Equine database! free access

Is breeding closely related horses always a bad idea?

Watch a video of an ultrasound

Watch a baby kicking inside of momma's belly. This mare is named Magic.

Our Miniature Horse Foaling/Nursery Journal of 2008!!!!!

      February 2008 Includes are pre-foaling preparations

      March 2008 Includes the foaling by Lucky Four Real Doll

      April 2008 Includes the birth by Magic, Lily, Morning and.....(Read about 2 mares foaling the same night!)

      May 2008 Includes the birth by Jewel (Dystocia)

Miniature Horse Babies of 2008

The Foaling page of Lucky Four Real Doll (Dolly)

Click here to see Dolly foaling her 2008 colt! (video of birth)

The Foaling page of Crystals Easter Lily and of Wee Wees Double Magic Lady

**Click here to see Magic foal (best video of a birth) (involves a stuck elbow)

The Foaling page of Tibbs Morning Star

The Foaling page of Sundance's Showtime Turbolina

Click here to see Turbolina foal out Painted Sun's Country Boy

Click here to see Painted Sun's Country Boy attempt his first moves!.

Watch a mare's water break. (narrated by a very excited 11 year old)

Click here to see a movie of the birth of Painted Sun's Tom Thumb (this is a long movie with poor lighting)

Click here to see Painted Sun's Country Boy "Cowboy" in Halter Breaking 101 (video)

Miniature Horse Wool For Sale. (video)

Click here to see Chance Of Gold's Don Juan breeding Painted Sun Painted Jewel for a 2009 baby.(video)

 

Stallion Breeding Contract

 

Horse Color!

That Frame Overo Gene in Miniature Horses

The Cream Gene

Coat Color Calculator for Horses!

Genetic testing/DNA testing

Common Color Codes for Miniature Horses

 

Horse and Barn Care:

Worming your Miniature Horse

How do I calculate my miniature's weight?

Our personal vaccination schedule

Does your Miniature need to see the Dentist? (video of dentist floating teeth on this page)

Miniature Horse Farrier

Do dogs ever attack minis???

A cart rack that goes on the back of the trailer...do Horse Trailers come in mini, too?

If my horse's weight is good, does he need to see a Dentist? Dental Surgery videos.

Fly Control in our Barn

Homemade Fly Spray Recipe

Can Miniature Horses be driven on pavement?

Summer heat - Can a Miniature Horse Survive a Phx summer?

Careful of Blister Beetles in Hay

Clipper Sharpening and Repair in Arizona

Sheath Cleaning

Miniature Horse Medical Kit

Click here to see a guide for poisonous plants to look for in the pasture.

How can you wash your mini on a cold day? (video)

 

General Information:

Costs of Owning A Miniature Horse (compared to a big horse)

Fun Mini Facts

Do Miniature Horses make good family pets?  

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Miniature Horse Clubs/Registries

Do Donkeys come in Miniature, too?

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Click here to celebrate with the Arizonans who represented our state so well at the 2008 Nationals!!

Wonderful "all-natural" products made here in Arizona by a homeschool family for you

 

Reference Horses Articles:

      Rhotens Little Dandy

    Bond Galahads Legacy

    Gold Melody Boy, "Modern Day Gold Rush"

      Flying W Farms Little Blue Boy

      Johnston's Vanilla

    Komokos Teenie Jeanie

    Orion Light Vant Huttenest

 

Miscellaneous

Our Big Horses

See Lisa win big at the 2007 Arizona State Finals

Video Index

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All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day.  ~Author Unknown

 

      

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