Best Horse Practices Podcast
116 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -The podcast is an enlightened place for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and discover ways to connect better and make progress with their horses.
We interview people who are actively engaged in improving the lives of horses and their owners through best practices, be it directly through riding or through products, research, education, policy, or facility management.
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Season Finale: On the Fence with Jec and Maddy
April 04, 2024 18:50 - 21 minutes - 25.4 MBWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 27 of Season 4. In it, Jec and I have a fun On the Fence conversation in which we talk some about identity and, mmm, maybe a bit of barn politics and shenanigans that we sometimes see in horse communities. The topic came up when I was listening to an interview that Ezra Klein did with Agnes Cal...
Buck the Trend, Wyoming Clinician Sara Lowe
March 08, 2024 16:13 - 32 minutes - 37.6 MBWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 26 of Season 4. In it, I interview Sara Lowe, a horsewoman and police detective from Wyoming. She’s a clinician and colt starter, and she participated in the Buck the Trend mental health forum held last month here in southwest Colorado. This is the fourth in a series of interviews around Buc...
Daniel Dauphin, Buck the Trend Mental Health Forum
March 05, 2024 18:07 - 28 minutes - 32.8 MBWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 25 of Season 4. In it, Daniel Dauphin is back, not to talk about bits and horse mouth anatomy but to talk about Buck the Trend, the mental health forum held last month. Daniel attended BTT and we have been visiting on the phone about mental health in our horse community since the Best Horse Prac...
Buck the Trend Therapists, KD Bryant and Joseph Prekup
March 04, 2024 16:39 - 27 minutes - 32 MBWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 24 of Season 4. In it, I interview KD Bryant and Joseph Prekup, the two therapists who anchored the development and facilitation of Buck the Trend, the mental health forum held recently in southwestern Colorado. BTT got its start thanks to a generous grant from the LOR Foundation and with the s...
Dan Flitner - Buck the Trend Mental Health Forum
February 28, 2024 16:26 - 31 minutes - 36.2 MBWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 23 of Season 4. In it, I interview Dan Flitner in one of several new episodes about Buck the Trend, the mental health forum held recently in southwestern Colorado. Buck the Trend, operated under the auspices of the Best Horse Practices Summit, attempts to address the following issues: -- Ou...
Katrin Silva and Jec Ballou talk books
February 27, 2024 23:08 - 26 minutes - 30.1 MBWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 22 of Season 4. In it, Jec interviews Katrin Silva for a Coaches’ Corner. It’s always fun when these two get together because they know so much. A bit humbling sometimes because their depth of knowledge is vast. Katrin is an accomplished teacher and trainer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In...
Ben Longwell: Meanings of partnership
February 12, 2024 16:39 - 35 minutes - 40.3 MBOur show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover skills, strategies, tools, ideas, and insights for better connecting with their horses, with all horses and for getting work done. We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 21 of Season 4. In it, I interview Ben Longwell, who ...
Julie Goodnight
February 08, 2024 17:02 - 28 minutes - 32.5 MBWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 20 of Season 4. In it, Jec interviews Julie Goodnight. I feel like this interview has been a long time coming. Jec has admired Julie for years and it took quite a bit of effort to finally coordinate the online meet up. I remember watching Julie at the Equine Affaire in Massachusetts, back in ma...
Coaches' Corner with Bit Expert Daniel Dauphin
February 01, 2024 16:46 - 31 minutes - 36.5 MBWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 19 of Season 4. In it, Jec interviews Daniel Dauphin, an accomplished horseman from Louisiana and someone who is steadily gaining a reputation for being the expert on bits, how they function, as well as horse mouth anatomy. He gave two excellent presentations at the Best Horse Practices Summit. ...
On the Fence: Looking Ahead and Looking Back
January 23, 2024 21:23 - 21 minutes - 25.3 MBWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 18 of Season 4 and it’s an On the Fence episode in which Jec and I talk about some upcoming goals as well as potential podcast discussions, like horse rescues and social media concerns. We also enumerate some of our favorite past episodes including: Coaches’ Corners with Amy Skinner ...
Jenn Currie: Brain Centered Horsemanship
January 17, 2024 01:35 - 29 minutes - 33.5 MBWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 17 of Season 4 and in it, Jec interviews author, teacher, and horsewoman Jenn Currie. She offers clinics which she calls Brain-Centered Horsemanship and has a book for middle school teachers. She is blending what she knows about her teaching experiences with horse behavior in a pretty compelling ...
Mary Ann Simonds - Horses and Humans
January 13, 2024 18:00 - 38 minutes - 44.4 MBOur show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover skills, strategies, tools, ideas, and insights for better connecting with their horses, with all horses and for getting work done. We love to hear from listeners, we think this might be an episode that fosters a lot of conversation, and contacting us is easy through the contact button on best horse practices dot com. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a...
Medicine Horse, Evidence-Based Therapy with Horses
December 15, 2023 14:26 - 31 minutes - 35.9 MBOur show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover skills, strategies, tools, ideas, and insights for better connecting with their horses, with all horses and for getting work done. We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 15 of Season 4 and in it, Jec interviews Dana Schultz...
A Note about the Pause
December 05, 2023 14:21 - 6 minutes - 10.9 MBWe offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 14 of Season 4 and it’s a short one. Why? To be blunt and to speak in general terms, I’d say life and death are having their ways with us. I’m sorry to let you know that Jec lost her mother last month. As you might imagine, that’s been pretty trying for her. I lost my mom just over a year ago. While our mother-daughter relationships were very different, we both...
On the Fence: State of Our Horse Worlds
November 07, 2023 21:39 - 24 minutes - 27.9 MBWe offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 13 of Season 4 in which Jec and I have an On the Fence segment. We are returning to a little theme that has been running through our shows, in which we ask the question (and take stabs at answering it) how are we doing? How is the horse industry doing? How are the trainers and other horse professionals doing? Our hunch is that burnout is real and financial stru...
Wendy Murdoch, No Stirrup November, Plus Colt Starting
November 02, 2023 21:22 - 37 minutes - 42.7 MBWe offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 12 of Season 4 in which Jec interviews Wendy Murdoch, creator of the Murdoch Method and author of several books. Check out her online Whole Rider course here. Before this marvelous interview, I thought I’d share a few bits on my work with two young horses. It’s a departure of sorts, but I hope you enjoy it. We love to hear from listeners. Contact us here. ...
Dr. Doug Thal and the Equine Vet Crisis
October 16, 2023 21:12 - 36 minutes - 42.4 MBWe offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 11 of Season 4 and in it, Jec interviews Dr. Doug Thal, owner of Thal Equine, a veterinary practice and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Doug was tapped to present a great topic at the Best Horse Practices Summit one year ago, but came down with Covid just prior to our event. He and I have had a lot of conversations around what vets need to know, especially around horseman...
Coaches' Corner with Amy Skinner: Body Work and other forms of care
October 06, 2023 15:02 - 25 minutes - 29.2 MBThis is Episode 10 of Season 4 and in it, Jec holds a Coaches’ Corner with our frequent and friendly guest, Amy Skinner. The two horsewomen discuss body work and as well as other services that can be hired and provided to your horses. What do you think? We’ve had Jim Masterson, founder of the Masterson Method, present at the Best Horse Practices Summit twice. The evidence is certainly strong for this kind of body work helping horses. And Jim is a wonderful, generous presenter who ...
Lee McLean on Wild versus Domestic
September 28, 2023 19:33 - 29 minutes - 34.3 MBWe offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 9 of Season 4 and in it, Jec welcomes back Lee McLean to our show. It’s a great interview in which the two horsewomen discuss observations around domestic versus wild horse lives and the possible management practices around them. They get into their observations, which are insightful, as well as weighing in on the sometimes problematic online side-taking around ...
On the Fence: Expertise & the Beginner's Mind
September 15, 2023 02:12 - 24 minutes - 28.6 MBWe love to hear from listeners and this week would especially love to hear about your horse work journeys, your comfort zones and stretching of them. Contacting us is easy through the contact button on best horse practices dot com. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 8 of Season 4. It’s an On the Fence show and in it, Jec and I talk about what it means to be an expert, the need for a beginne...
Trish Trips - Different Kinds of Horse Work
August 30, 2023 19:21 - 31 minutes - 35.8 MBWe offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 7 of Season 4, and in it, Jec talks with Trish Lemke, a Colorado horsewoman who leads amazing horse-riding trips across the globe and is a certified Equine Interactional Professional in Education and certified Martha Beck Life Coach. Find her website here and her Facebook page here. This conversation is a great one to wedge into a series of episodes in which ...
Kerry O'Brien and the Meeker Mustang Makeover
August 21, 2023 23:44 - 33 minutes - 39.1 MBWe offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 6 of Season 4, and in it, Jec talks with Kerry O’Brien, a Colorado trainer who is competing in the Meeker Mustang Makeover. Kerry has been on the show before in which she talks about using positive reinforcement as a training method. We're glad to have her back! First, thanks to many of you who connected with us to offer feedback from last week’s show and the ...
Coaches' Corner with Amy Skinner, plus Mental Health
August 16, 2023 14:37 - 31 minutes - 36.1 MBOur show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover skills, strategies, tools, ideas, and insights for better connecting with their horses, with all horses and for getting work done. We love to hear from listeners and often incorporate listener questions or suggestions for topics and guests into our podcast. So, let us hear from you. Contacting us is easy. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contributio...
From Cowboy to Showjumper to Cowboy: Pete Reinholz
August 09, 2023 21:46 - 21 minutes - 35.1 MBWe offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 4 of Season 4, and in it, I talk with Pete Reinholz. Maybe this is a departure of sorts. Pete does not have a website or a book or anything to sell. He does write songs. He sings and plays guitar, and that’s the context in which I met him several years ago in Elko, Nevada. Pete graduated from Montana State University with a degree in Natural Resources and R...
Weaning Strategies with Lynn Acton
August 02, 2023 18:53 - 32 minutes - 37.1 MBWe love to hear from listeners and often incorporate listener questions or suggestions for topics and guests into our podcast. So, let us hear from you. Contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. Hey, it’s hot out there and I wanted to direct your attention to an article I wrote about dogs, horses, and us managing heat. How to help. What to be aware of. With comments from a Harvard dog ...
On the Fence: Pet Peeves. Plus, Prairie Wind Hat Works
July 19, 2023 17:37 - 26 minutes - 30.9 MBThis is Episode 2 of Season 4, and in it, Jec and I reconnect after some time off and have an On the Fence chat in which we talk about some summer projects, those of our listeners, and personal pet peeves, specific to our horse worlds: "analysis paralysis", group rides, not having rider etiquette, and underestimating our equine partners, for examples. (Oh, but we have more ;) Did you know? Jec has a great shop here, where you can find the fantastic exercise and conditioning books she's...
Tying Trials & Confidence Building with Daniel Dauphin
July 13, 2023 17:18 - 29 minutes - 33.5 MBWelcome to Season Four!! of Best Horse Practices with Jec Ballou. Our show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover ways, skills, strategies, tools, ideas for better connecting with their horses, with all horses and for getting work done. Our shows are short and concise, or, at least, shorter and more concise than many shows out here in the digital universe. We love to hear from listeners and often incorporate listener q...
Prelude to Season 4
June 27, 2023 03:16 - 4 minutes - 7.41 MBHi there, this is Maddy Butcher, producer of Best Horse Practices with Jec Ballou. We’re taking a little break before launching our fourth season, but we wanted to say "Thank You" to our listeners and to our sponsors. It’s been a great 90-show journey in which we’ve talked about hooves, brain science, property management, parasites, gender gyrations, fitness, and much, much more. We’re pretty pleased with our content. We’re also excited that so many listeners have reached out to m...
Lee McLean on Nurturing Fun, Versatile Horses
June 08, 2023 15:45 - 30 minutes - 35.2 MBJec interviews Lee McLean from Alberta Canada. Lee likes to approach horse work with an eye on common sense, pragmatism, and fun. She grew up in a ranching family, but is savvy in side saddle, dressage, and other disciplines. While there was probably no end to topics for Jec and Lee, they picked one that I think we can all relate to, that is, how to nurture well-being for our horses in a holistic way, in a way that conjures athleticism and good movement without the snootiness and specificit...
DIY Projects
May 25, 2023 15:30 - 30 minutes - 35.7 MBThis is Episode 29 of Season 3 and in it, Jec interviews Donna-Maria Flood of DMventions. Donna Maria has scores of simple fixes and DIY projects for your horse spaces and equipment. Most are inexpensive and don’t require a year-long carpentry apprenticeship. Make it in 10 minutes, for less than 10 bucks is more like it. This episode may require you to do some visualization, and, if you’re interested. Check out Donna-Maria’s website for instructions and videos on many of the projects. We a...
Coaches' Corner on Round Pens with Amy Skinner
May 18, 2023 15:35 - 27 minutes - 31.9 MBThis is Episode 28 of Season 3 and in it, Jec interviews Amy Skinner for another Coaches’ Corner. This interview concerns the use of round pens and I found it very insightful. Like many of you, I have used round pens for working my horses. It was especially a go-to place years ago. I feel like I knew less and had images of several roundpen-using clinicians in my head. So I was, like, yeah, of course, I’m headed to the round pen to do some fundamental ground work. Like ya do. Turns out, lik...
Mother's Day Special: Super Short & Horse-y Fiction
May 11, 2023 18:43 - 19 minutes - 31.7 MBThis is Episode 27 of Season 3. I decided to do something a bit different with this episode. While I’m mostly a journalist, I have had some fun dabbling a bit with fiction. This story was published in my first book A Rider’s Reader. You can find it exclusively in the Cayuse Communication library. Scroll to the bottom. I think it’s a good one for Mother’s Day. If you enjoy it, let me know. A few notes from sponsors: We have several discounts going on. Check out Best Horse Practices sis...
Considering Science with Dr. Sheryl King
May 04, 2023 19:34 - 29 minutes - 33.9 MBThis is Episode 26 of Season 3 and in it, Jec and I talk with Dr. Sheree King about science, specifically equine research. But it’s also a conversation of how to consider science in today’s world of scholarly access, social media, and, quite frankly, the troubling politics around scientific information. For most of my life, I have embraced science, research, the power of the scientific method, putting ideas out there and testing them. I’ve conducted research and I’ve assisted others with r...
On the Fence: Breed Bias and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
April 12, 2023 16:25 - 27 minutes - 32 MBWelcome to Best Horse Practices with Jec Ballou. My name is Maddy Butcher. I produce this podcast and I would love to know what you think of our intro: Our show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover ways to better connect with their horses. Plus, we like to feel safe and have fun. Fitness, of mind and body, the ability to think critically about our horse work as well as embracing a beginner’s mind, are all parts of this lucky eq...
Daniel Dauphin and Jec discuss Equine Pain
April 05, 2023 17:56 - 39 minutes - 45.9 MBThis is Episode 24 of Season 3 and in it, Jec interviews Daniel Dauphin of Dauphin Horsemanship. He was also a 2022 Best Horse Practices Summit presenter. It’s a great conversation, in part, because in their work Jec and Daniel are not seeing the same clients or the same horses. At all. Jec is in California and works with dressage and endurance riders. Daniel is in Louisiana and his students are mostly Western riders. They talk about pain – what it means to the horse and what it means t...
Vision Science and a Scary Colic
March 30, 2023 16:04 - 19 minutes - 31.4 MBThis is Episode 23 of Season 3 and in it, I’m going to talk a bit about brain science as well as a scary colic incident. You can find articles on vision science here and here. It's fascinating stuff! You will learn about place cells, grid cells, boundary cells, and more. Did you know? Place cells – some of the hundred billion neurons in the brain – are individual neurons that fire when an animal is in a specific location. The rate at which certain neurons fire depends on the animal’s loc...
Coaches' Corner with Lynn Acton
March 23, 2023 14:26 - 25 minutes - 47.2 MBIt's good to remind listeners of our mission once in a while. Here it is: Our show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover ways to better connect with their horses. Plus, we like to feel safe and have fun. Fitness, of mind and body, the ability to think critically about our horse work as well as embracing a beginner’s mind, are all parts of this lucky equine equation that Jec and I hold dear. We offer these shows for free. If y...
Kristen Vlietstra on Saddle Fit and More
March 16, 2023 19:48 - 30 minutes - 56.8 MBThis is Episode 21 of Season 3 and in it, Jec is back and interviewing Kristen Vliestra, who runs Saddlery Solutions in California. Jec and Kristen have talked before about saddle fit and in this episode, Jec asks some particular questions that have been bugging her for a while. As I found out while recruiting Kristen for the saddle fit elective at the Best Horse Practices Summit, she knows a lot. A lot about how people ride. A lot about horse anatomy. A lot about saddle construction an...
Stories & Poetry, II
March 08, 2023 20:27 - 30 minutes - 48.8 MBPlease accept my apologies as we initially uploaded an erroneous file for this great episode. Sorry times ten! We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is episode 20 of season 3 and we have the second and final installment of Summit storytelling! These stories were recorded at the Best Horse Practices Summit, the conference that I direct. Last week on the podcast, we featured Josh Nichol, Katrin Silva, and N...
Summit Stories and "Heirloom" by Sampson Moss
February 28, 2023 19:20 - 30 minutes - 49.7 MBWe offer this podcast for free. If you find it worthy of your support. Please contribute here. This is Episode 19 of Season 3 and it’s another special detour of sorts, this time to the storytelling that was featured on Saturday night at the Best Horse Practices Summit at Spy Coast Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, late last year. The storytellers are Josh Nichol, Katrin Silva, and Nahshon Cook. Also featured at Spy Coast that evening were Daniel Dauphin, Patrick King, and Amy Skinner. You’ll ...
Fear to Joy: On the Fence with Jec and Maddy
February 15, 2023 21:33 - 25 minutes - 46.3 MBWe offer these shows for free. If you think they're worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 18 of Season 3 and it’s an On the Fence segment in which Jec and I discuss a prompt from Art, a listener in Michigan. It concerns how best to introduce a non-horse-y person to the horse experience. I think we have some good starting points and will look forward to any suggestions you all might like to add. Just a humble disclaimer here: I finally got Covid...
BHPS presenters discuss, II
February 01, 2023 17:10 - 50 minutes - 92.4 MBThis is Episode 16 of Season Three. Another special episode! We offer this week another recorded Question and Answer session with presenters at the Best Horse Practices Summit, an annual conference I direct, with academic and arena presentations. In this session, Dr. Sheryl King moderates and presenters Josh Nichol, Patrick King, and Jec Ballou offer answers. Dr. King also chimes in with her thoughts. The questions for this session are: What are five basic skills your horses should know...
BHPS presenters discuss!
January 26, 2023 15:28 - 46 minutes - 74.5 MBThis is Episode 15 of Season Three. A special episode! You listeners might know that I direct the Best Horse Practices Summit, an annual conference with academic and arena presentations. This year, it was held in Kentucky and we had many fabulous presenters on everything from colic to stockmanship to saddlefit. At the last minute, however, Dr. Doug Thal, a veterinarian from New Mexico, came down with Covid and was not able to present. We needed to improvise quickly and decided to fill his ...
WiseAssWallace on Helmets and Colt-Starting
January 18, 2023 21:05 - 13 minutes - 21.6 MBThis is Episode 14 of Season Three. And in it, we give Wise Ass Wallace the mic again to talk about two juicy topics: helmets and colt starting competitions. Wise Ass got some help from the likes of Mark Rashid and Amy Skinner on the colt starting bit. And around helmets, he had some communication with the board of the Best Horse Practices Summit. WiseAss is having his day because of what Jec and I see as a troubling trend we are in the horse world. There seems to be an increased focus on...
Hoof Rehabilitation with Alicia Harlov
January 04, 2023 23:31 - 33 minutes - 60.7 MBJec interviews Alicia Harlov, owner of the Humble Hoof and the Humble Hoof podcast. In their conversation, Jec and Alicia talk a lot about horse management - things that might not seem like they have anything to do with hooves. But, of course, everything has to do with hooves and hooves are like canaries in a coal mine. I mean, the wellness of a hoof can tell you a lot about the whole horse, its environment, its diet. If the hoof is unwell, then something is likely off in the way that hors...
Coaches' Corner with Amy Skinner
December 20, 2022 16:43 - 28 minutes - 32.8 MBThis is Episode 12 of Season Three and in it, Jec interviews Amy Skinner for a Coaches’ Corner. Jec and Amy continue a thread that we have recently introduced to our podcast. It’s a pushback from what we see as a trend towards the warm and fuzzies in horse circles. By warm and fuzzies, we mean attending to methods, promotions of hacks, and proclamations that may indeed serve the human and her need to feel connected and in a relationship, but, in fact, don’t serve the horse one bit. Or, eve...
Dr. Sheryl King - Mythbusting our horse keeping ways
December 15, 2022 14:24 - 26 minutes - 47.9 MBThis is Episode 11 of Season three and in it, Jec interviews Dr. Sheryl King, this year’s keynote speaker at the Best Horse Practices Summit in Kentucky. In this conversation, Jec and Dr. King discuss a few myth-busting ideas around horse management. It’s a good segue from last week’s introduction to the anti-warm and fuzzies campaign-- maybe we should call it the cool and clear-zies dialogue? Cool and clear are what nights are like lately, here in Colorado. Maybe not just cool. Downright ...
The Warm & Fuzzies and introducing WiseAssWallace
December 08, 2022 16:24 - 19 minutes - 35 MBThis episode marks the beginning of what Jec and I believe will be intermittent commentary on a troubling trend we are seeing in the horse world. Led by certain entities - and by entities, we mean individuals, teams, and the programs and platforms they generate - there’s an increasing focus on what we’ll call for shorthand the warm and fuzzies. Let’s define the warm and fuzzies here as strategies, practices, ideas, methods, marketing, and proclamations that may indeed serve the human and...
Andria Massie - Rehabilitation and Integrative Therapies
December 01, 2022 15:09 - 28 minutes - 51.8 MBThis is episode 9 of season three and in it, Jec interviews Andria Massie, an integrative therapist who works with her husband, Dr. Keaton Massie, in Oregon. Together, they run Massie Veterinary Service. Here, Jec and Andria discuss rehabilitation and also the trend in collaborative care, one might even call it palliative care for horses. Some interesting ideas, especially for high level performers and well-resourced owners. Our title sponsor is Lucerne Farms, producers of quality forage...
Dr. Stacie Boswell Talks about gastric ulcers and other stress-related ailments
November 30, 2022 14:40 - 29 minutes - 53.7 MBJec interviews Dr. Stacie Boswell, a vet and author based in Montana. Stacie wrote The Ultimate Guide for Horses in Need, a book about the care, training, and rehabilitation for rescues, adoptions, and horses in transition. Here, Jec and Stacie discuss horse stress: How does stress manifest in horses? How can we help them? As you might imagine, I have two cents on this. Most stress for horses is caused by us humans. How we handle them and how we keep them directly impacts their physica...