Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #172461 in Books
• Published on: 1997-12-31
• Original language: German
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Synopsis
Based on Ground-Breaking Research with Wild Horses, this Book Vividly Describes how Domestic Horses can be Made Happier and Healthier Through an Understanding of what Nature Intended for the Horse, it will Help you to: Provide Natural Care for your Horse; Understand the Natural Shape of Hooves & how to Achieve them; Discover a Horse is Natural Movements & those which may Harm them; Improve your Riding, Communication with and Understanding of your Horse.

Customer Reviews

The book that should be read before all other horse books
The old adage goes "No hoof, no horse," but you don't know what that means until you read this book. Jackson has done the (unfortunately) radical thing of asking Nature how a natural horse is made, and made to be happy and healthy. What he found through looking at horses in the wild -- exhaustively, scientifically, and compassionately -- should do nothing less than change the way we treat our horses: it defines our responsibilities as caretakers, the all-important issue of natural hoofs that permit natural movement, and the way to understand an animal with whom a partnership leads to happiness all round -- and with whom a dominance-based, consumerist approach leads to tragedy. Oddly, for a book that is based on fact, diagram, observation, measurement, description -- the result is at times as emotionally moving as the most genuine work of art. If you care about horses, you must read this book.

A refreshing and acurate study of horse reality.
Jamie definately shows us a refreshing look at the natural horse thru the horses eyes. Readers will come away from this book with a new understanding of why horses do what they do and why humans have errored in the past. Take a real look at what we thought a hoof should look like and now see " the natural hoof" and it's advantages. Getting back to the basics will shatter modern beliefs about horse care. This information has been slow coming and will take generations to take hold, and it will!

The Natural Horse
This is a very good read and the research about wild horses is great, it is very detailed and will help informed horse owners to understand what we are actually asking our horses to do and the mechanisms of this, such as going into an outline. The work on hoof care is also excellent although I feel it is slightly dated now but still important in the evolution of barefoot hores riding today.