Drawing an Icelandic Horse

A quick chalk drawing of an Icelandic Horse:

Icelandic Ponies Digging for Grass

Digging for Grass
Originally uploaded by fridgeirsson

Icelandic Ponies dig for grass under the snow.

More Bareback Bitless Icelandic Horse Riding

Here are some gals riding their Icelandic Horses / Islandpferde bareback and bitless and having some fun:

Yakut Horse

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Originally uploaded by White Bear

The Icelandic Horse looks quite similar to the Yakut Horse.

Clicker Training Horse Body Parts

Icelandic Horses can learn names of body parts. In this video, the Icelandic Horse is being taught "ear" and the request to "put your ear in my hand".

For more information, see the Icelandic Horses Connection, use the search box at the bottom to search clicker training.

Giving Up Control of Your Icelandic Horse

Does Your Horse Need to be Micro-Managed?

Some riders ride with constant contact on the horse's mouth, and heavy contact on the reins. What does this say about the rider? and about the horse?

If a horse *needs* constant and / or heavy contact, perhaps he's not very bright? perhaps he needs to be micro-managed? Or is it simply a matter of not being allowed to use his brain.

My horse rides on a loose rein, bitless, no noseband. She is VERY smart! She does not need to be micro-managed.

Sometimes the horse has to be "allowed" to be smart; the rider needs to give up the bit, noseband, and constant / heavy contact on the reins.

Does giving up the bit, noseband, and constant contact make the rider nervous? does it feel like the rider is giving up control?

Check out a different paradigm: Horse-Human Attraction

More information at the Icelandic Horse Connection

Icelandic Horse Wordle

This is a neat toy tool by http://wordle.net that will take your input of words and organize them in different, artistic ways.

Click onto the image above to see a larger version.

These are words from our email discussion list of Icelandic Horse owners.

Ljufur

Bernadette painted this portrait of Ljufur, my Icelandic Horse gelding, who passed away due to a cruciate ligament problem.

She did a fabulous job in making his image so life-like!

Here are some other images of Ljufur, at different ages:

Charm with Wings

Here's a little animation of my Icelandic Horse, Charm, with wings :-)

This one is just a little different:


Icelandic Horse Connection: http://iceryder.net

What is That Scarey Thing?

Icelandic Horses along with a Tinker and another horse... a little worried about the "scarey" thing in the pasture!

Let Me Show You My Teeth

My young Icelandic Horse mare shows her teeth.

Icelandic Horse

Ouch!

Ouch! This was not much for either the Icelandic Horse or the rider! Hopefully they both were alright, with no problems and were able to complete their exercise.

Originally uploaded by Linda Fanney

Bareback Riding in Halter

Riding her Icelandic Horse with a bareback pad, and a halter, jumping.

Wintec and Bates Easy Change Gullet System

The EASY-CHANGE Gullet System is a revolution in convenience and comfort for horses and riders. It's a system developed to ensure that a saddle maintains the best fit for a horse by allowing riders to change a saddle's fit to suit a horse's changing shape.



More Saddle Fit Videos

Icelandic Horse Connection

Award of Excellence to the Icelandic Horse Connection!

Icelandic Horse Hall of Shame

Two Rescue Icelandic Horses Need Homes

Von and Sam, a mare and a gelding Icelandic Horses are currently in a rescue which is closing down.  They need to find new homes.  More information about Von and Sam here:

http://iceryder.net/rescue.html

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Charm Weaves the Barrels

This is Charm, an Icelandic Horse filly, learning to weave / serpentine the barrels (obstacles).

                             

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