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Simple horse twitch. A twitch is a device that is used to restrain horses during various stressful situations, such as veterinary treatment. [1] It is usually made up of a stick-like handle loop of chain or rope on the end, or a metal ring with a rope loop which is wrapped around the upper lip of the horse and tightened.
In mid-2010 Pat Parelli was videoed working with a stallion using a gum-line and holding up the horse's front leg with a rope. According to Horse & Hound, this demonstration caused an online "furore" with many angry comments about abuse. [39] Parelli asserted that the horse was a risk to his handlers and an extreme example of equine behavior.
A "half-hobble" attaches to only one foot, with the other end usually attached to a rope called a picket line. hock The tarsal joint of the equine hind leg, located midway between the horse's body and the ground. [8]: 244 Anatomically corresponds to a human's ankle and heel, but in horses is located much farther from the ground.
On a rope halter, the fiador knot is made from one continuous piece of rope, and is, along with a series of double overhand knots, one of two types of knots that comprise most rope halters. For one style of rope hobbles , a brass ring may be attached to the double loops on one side of the knot to join the hobble for the horse's other front foot.
Hobby horsing is a hobby with gymnastic elements which uses hobby horses, also known as stick horses. [1] [2] Movement sequences similar to those in show jumping or dressage are partly simulated in courses, without real horses being used. The participants predominantly use self-made hobby horses. [3] [4] [5]
Longeing is the activity of having a horse walk, trot and/or canter in a large circle around the handler at the end of a rope that is 25 to 30 feet (9.1 m) long. It is used for training and exercise. [1]: 194 A neck rope or cordeo is a rope tied around a horse's neck used to guide the horse during bridleless riding or groundwork. [3]
In the Texas tradition, where the bosal sets low on the horse's face, and on very inexperienced ("green") horses in both the California (vaquero) and Texas traditions, a specialized rope throatlatch called a fiador / ˈ f iː ə d ɔːr / is added, running over the poll to the bosal, attached to the hackamore by a browband. [25]
William Wallace Denslow's illustrations for a variant of Ride a cock horse, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose. A hobby horse (or hobby-horse) is a child's toy horse. Children played at riding a wooden hobby horse made of a straight stick with a small horse's head (of wood or stuffed fabric), and perhaps reins, attached to one end.