Listed below are the methods we use at Mountain View Stables. Please click on the titles to see full article.
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Raising Your Foal
Our elite and exclusive breeding program delivers much excitement during foaling season.
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Saddle Placement & The Musculoskeletal Effect
A horse’s confirmation changes throughout its lifetime, directly related to its training, levels of exercise and weight maintenance.
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Gaiting Your Horse
Gaiting your horse is by far the most complex version of Saddlebred training.
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Horses Paddocks, Daily Playtime and Twin Camps
A detailed plan for the layout and construction of twin camps for turning your horses out.
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Why Trotting Poles?
An improved gait can enhance your riding experience, or even add more value to your horse. Horses that are balanced and well developed are a pleasure to ride and to watch.
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Natural And Artificial Rider Aids
Aids are a form of communication between rider and horse. They are used on natural pressure points, acting as an extension of the rider’s body, communicating in a format that the horse understands.
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Horse’s Handler
The handler spends many hours with each individual horse on a daily basis. The relationship developed between horse and handler, is at times, stronger than the bond formed between the trainer or owner and the horse.
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Horses Paddocks and Daily Playtime
We believe that by accentuating a horse’s instinctive ground covering habits, we are able to stimulate well balanced animals, both physically and emotionally.
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Hooves and Farriery
We believe that a horse needs to be balanced and comfortable to allow optimum athleticism with minimum stress and concussion on each leg.
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Saddle Seat Equitation
We believe, equitation is the ultimate form of horsemanship. An airy art of combining horse and rider in unison; presenting themselves as one dynamic energy.
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Parasite control
By definition a parasite is an organism living off a host, obtaining nourishment while depriving the host of vital nutrients, ultimately harming the host. Regular parasite control is essential for your horse’s well being.
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Feeding Regiment and Nutritional Effect
The evolutionary horse was forever moving and covered large distances on a daily basis. While on the move, they would continuously graze. Horses are non-ruminant herbivores.
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Equine Dentistry
Dentistry in horses involves the diagnosis and treatment of conditions associated to oral disease and decay. Correct dental equilibration improves, rectifies and relieves pressure in problematic areas.
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Veterinary Chiropractic
Dr Lance Riggien completed his studies at the Durban university of Technology before qualifying as a chiropractor in 2003. He has been working in private practice for the last 13 years.