A blog that focuses on our unique program that teaches natural horsemanship, heritage breed conservation, soil and water conservation, and even folk, roots, and Americana music. This blog discusses our efforts to prevent the extinction of the Corolla Spanish Mustang. Choctaw Colonial Spanish Horse, Marsh Tacky, and the remnants of the Grand Canyon Colonial Spanish Horse strain.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
The Truth Is Out There, And Joe Camp is Letting It Out
My herd is not so friendly in spite of....It is not so healthy in spite of...My horses are so friendly and healthy because of....the fact that they never even see a stable, wear shoes, or live off of sugary feed.
Fewer things escape the eye of the modern consumer society than the obvious. If a solution costs less than something that exacerbates the problem, most people will go for the expensive alternative. Horse ownership is outrageously expensive if one stables a horse, spends a fortune on shoes, supplements and sugary feeds and as a result incurs tremendous vet bills.
A horse who lives in as natural of an environment as possible can quite easily cost less in annual bills than does a German Shepard. And the horse will be healthier, happier and easier to train and handle.
Joe Camp's book "Soul of a Horse" should be required reading for every horse owner. He has a new book out explaining why stress is at the root of so many equine health issues and that the modern model of horse care creates that stress.
Go get that book. Natural horse care saves horse's lives and gives them lives worth living.
It just does not pump money into the financial pillars that support the established horse world. Natural horse care is the greatest threat big equine agribusiness faces. They will not take this threat lying down. Expect a lot of push back from those who use horses to make fortunes instead of using them to heal broken people.
Your horse wants to know the same thing that the early union organizers in the coal fields wanted to know:
"Which side are you on?"
(This is a shot of The Black Drink. A Corolla stallion in the Corolla off site breeding program at Boy's Home in Covington, Virginia. The Corolla Wild Horse Fund has a beautiful colt about 8 months old who is eligible for adoption to a home that will keep him as a stallion and use him to help prevent the extinction of one of Americas oldest and rarest strains of Colonial Spanish Mustangs. He is at my horse lot living as a Dog Soldier with two ancient stallions, eating hay, staying outside 24/7 and having plenty room to move. In short, he is healthy and happy.)
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