The Beginning of this month we visitedThe Australian Equine Behaviour Centre in Melbourne Australia. The AEBC is owned and run by Andrew and Manuela McLean. They work with training and retraining difficult horses. We were Lucky enough to witness them work with two horses that had been sent to them with problems. The transformation was amazing.
Their set up was incredible from the bunk rooms for spectators to the huge indoor arena every detail had been taken care of.
With parts of Australia having the Equine Flu
we were very concerned about going and because of the flu many people did not attend the four day course. So the course ended up quite small and personal. Quite good for us But I guess a bit dissapointing for them. Although the flu has not been found in Victoria.
Before leaving we checked up with the authorities here to ensure all was OK for us to attend.
On leaving the centre we took their advise and washed all of our clothes and washed our shoes in a sterilising solution. Well we have been back now since the 10th and all is well.
We had a great time and learnt lots. On returning home I was able to shoe one of our horses that had previously not been able to be shod without tying up the hind legs . WOW. I am soooooo impressed. I also was able to show a client this week how to make a difficult horse stand to be shod. While I have a long way to go, with lots of practice needed, this all looks promising.
If anyone want to know more about AEBC check out their web site http://www.aebc.com.au/ Their unique training regime is described in their books
''Horse Training the McLean Way " and "The Truth about Horses"
3 comments:
Hi there, Pete! Yes I've managed to catch some quiet time to create a blog a/c. This is cool! I was telling "Bart's Dad" about the success we had today whilst shoeing - I'm still amazed that Bart stood still while you did his hind feet. Not a single twitch or a flick like he usually does, especially on the right hind. Those tips you brought back with you from the Andrew Mclean clinic really worked! Focussing on the horse, anticipating what he might do and using the actions that you showed me really made for a pleasant shoeing experience all round. We tried some of the groundwork exercises you demonstrated as well and just about had him going on the forehand. We finished with a lovely ride around Aria and a few small jumps in the arena - check out the pics on my blog - you'd think we were doing XC!
Hi Bart's Mum
Thanks for the comments.
I enjoyed your Blog as well. I looked at this a week ago but didn't have time to respond.
Great to see you wearing the safty gear. A client of mine was riding on the baech last week and a motor boke ( dirt bike ) did a wheel stand very close to her and the horse dumped her. I'm not sure if she had on any safty gear but fortunatly she was ok although a bit sore. A good case for wearing a safty hat and vest.
farrierpete
As someone who works with horse feet you may be interested in the references below:
I have just been to the Darwin Exhibition http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/400/darwin-home)
One part of it details the evolution of the horse , as an exmaple of how evolution is more of branching bush than a striaght line. It appears to use part of a previous exhibition from the Museum Of Natural History that is subject of a paper I am reading for my MA on information by Bruno Latour: A textbook case revisited.
( curiously, I had just gone to the museum to fill in time, not knowing the exhibit was on, and had the very paper in my bag. It was strange moment! )
Anyway, the origional exhibit displayed both the "straight line trajectory" of the theory of the modern horse and with it the specimens that did not 'fit' and thus forced a knowledge that took more account of differnt time scales as part of the process.
In trying to find reference to the original exhibition I came across this article.
http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/features/109-fossils.shtml
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