atychiphobia wrote:so i haven't been on here for so incredibly long it'd be a wonder if anybody remembered me.
anyway, ive got my own warmblood thoroughbred cross and ive had her for roughly a year now. i do eventing but my girl gem is a great jumper. i comfortably do 90cm on her but we've easily done a 1m to 1.10m spread double.
has anyone got good exercises to build up hindquarter muscle? gem lacks muscle there and it took months of hill work to get her to a good point but a small break from riding and she lost it all.
something a little different though. my uncle wants to ride a calf he has. does anyone have any idea how to break in a cow? ive assisted in multiple horse break ins but i know cows are a little different. that and then saddles and stuff, i think my uncles crazy but i won't deny that ive thought about doing similar before
oh i just remembered what i came here to ask. i have to do work experience with school and i dont know what to do. ive contacted a brumby association near me but im waiting on word back. working with horses isn't exactly what i want my future to be but i would love it. you see, i want a job where i can earn enough to ride but also give me a voice if that makes sense. i dont want to do the same thing over and over again with no meaning, just sorta merging with that dull rhythm so many people are in.
so anyway - ignore my rambling, does anyone know of any horse related work experience i could do? i dont mind the science side or practical but i just can't think of what fields are to be found with horses
just lots of groundwork first, go very slow and careful...when a cow gets angry or stubborn it is not fun...i read somewhere, gentle and be ready to do three steps back, maybe throw in some trick training and cow agility, only riding with i think 3years he i remember it right with a saddle that is alright for a cow, some horse saddle with good pad under it can work, i think i did see some who used a thick western pad with a barebacksaddle, and his weight should be right for the cow, and her back must be good for this, not all cows can be ridden....and other only from very light riders..... atleast this is what i remeber from a cow forum
but i read that it is interesting to ride cow and such...when they have streight back and are nice ones and trained well. sadly nobody here does own one, i really would love to try it once
to the working...maybe heping out with the brumby or a rescue sounds nice ....or helping with training horses or do ask to learn how to do stable management or work in a breeding stallion stable or in a science work or such ...for later when you like to work there, you make enough money, do not do one of the same thing for not enouh money and still can work with horses and people when you like) or such or do it next to a job where you can make a living and enough for riding-or a horse....
. or ask a vet for horses an large animal to go with him-her and learn...i did this too for i think 3-4weeks in school...but it was hard but interesting to bring things hold things and learn so much new
, a horse dentist, long trail riding instructor-guide, ....do research , carriage builder, saddle and harness maker, carriage driver...you can be there help and even drive sometimes and learn to train horses for this maybe, therapeutic stable work is interesting (you can learn a lot meet new people and can help) ...^^
there are some jobs with or next to horses....where you can make money.
but i too would say go for money making job first for real work after school, and then for horse job as fun thing next to normal work...like on weekends or free time or holliday.....or vet-dentist where you work for someone.
but for the school work time experience...set up a good contract together with your parents and for whom you may like to follow for 1-4 weeks, so that you can go when it does not workout and you only work the hours accepted for this time and all such,
a lot of speed jumper are those, other jumper too, also dressage horses and so on...or they stand high in blood. 
