Posts Tagged ‘Utility Model’
What do you do with your horse?
Written by Hiddenhorse on 25/04/2010 – 12:47 pm -This is inevitably the first question that I always get asked by people when they discover that I own horses. Actually I dread it, not because I don’t ‘do’ stuff with my horses, like riding them (this is what they really mean), – I do, but to be honest, riding them is perhaps the least important aspect of what I do with horses and when someone wants to know the answer to that question I always know I am dealing with a ‘mentality’, and it is usually going to be hard work! Read more »
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Stripping down the horse
Written by Hiddenhorse on 30/11/2009 – 3:25 pm -Imagine your horse lives at the center of three concentric circles or better yet, spheres and imagine if you can that your horse is imprisoned inside these two outer shells. These shells are curved and semi-opaque and therefore distort what is inside. You can travel inside them at will but your horse is trapped, this is because these two shells are human inventions and under the control of humans, only the human can create them or destroy them through choice. Read more »
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What is an Ethogram?
Written by Hiddenhorse on 30/09/2009 – 11:24 am -My second principle of natural horse keeping states:
We base or relationship on the ethogram of the horse. That means
Life in a herd, a life full of natural movement, a diet that closely relates to the natural fiber based diet and barefoot .
The first thing about this principle that you might want to understand is, what is an ethogram? Read more »
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The Utility Model
Written by Hiddenhorse on 21/09/2009 – 7:22 pm -I don’t know where you live in the world but I happen to live in the UK, but don’t worry, the concept of the model is universal to all humans and all horses, so it applies wherever you are based.
I want you to imagine back about 150 years. If you do that for the UK you are back in the time of Queen Victoria and the British Empire, in the USA you would be in the heyday of the wild west. Just think for a moment what life was like for horses and their human masters at that time.
In those days, all horses were defined by one thing,
they were defined by their function. Read more »
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