Saturday 12 June 2010

Buying your first horse or pony.

When your going to buy your first pony or horse. You must be able to horse ride and afford it because keeping a horse is a little bit hard sometimes and know the basics of horses.

The first step.
The first thing is to leaning how to ride but if you don't do riding lesson's or nothing like and you don't know how to look after them or anything not a good idea to buy a horse. If you do horse riding lesson's and know how to take care of horse then you have to think if you are ready for a horse? When you have ridden enough to feel comfortable and under control at walk, trot and canter, and to know this really is how you want to spend a good chunk of your leisure time, then is time enough to think about a horse of your own. Ask your instructor whether they think you are ready. If it’s your child or yourself who wants a horse then that's fine.Right so listen your taking lesson's and you can afford a horse but The first thing to realize is that the purchase price is only the beginning and no, your first horse is not an investment. He/she has to eat 365 days a year. He/she need a farrier to trim his/her feet every six to eight weeks, and depending on his/her feet and what kind of work he’s doing, possibly shoes which really add to the cost. He/she need deworming every couple of months, yearly innoculations, and probably annual dental care. If he gets sick or injured, you’ll have extra vet bills as well. Then you’ll need to buy tack and equipment for your horse and proper riding clothes for yourself. So its a lot to think about and the livery which is keeping the horse in a stable or a field and picking the right stables too. If your buying a horse/pony make sure that you get paper work on the horse/pony just incase something goes wrong and you need the vet the vet will nee all that infomashion and whatever stables it goes to the stables will have it too if something goes wrong when you are not there.

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