I'll Jump Off A Cliff For Bread

Brauðstreð
Originally uploaded by Sæbjörg

Arctic Ponies

Arctic Ponies
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Here's an incredible photo of Icelandics.

Young Icelandic Horse Geldings playing in the snow.

Icelandic Horse Bad Hair Day:

http://iceryder.net/badhairday.html

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

Charm Wants To Come In The House

Clicker Training A Horse

Click to Play

This is an Icelandic Horse (Icelandic Pony), being clicker trained.

Here's some good clinic reports that contain information about conformation and gait, which can be used with all gaited horses, including Icelandic Horses, Missouri Fox Trotters, Tennessee Walkers, Paso Finos, Peruvian Pasos:

http://iceryder.net/reports/index.html

and more information about gaits:

http://iceryder.net/lee/

Getting to Yes: Clicker Training to Improve Horsemanship

This is a fantastic new book by Sharon Foley, called Getting to Yes: Clicker Training for Improved Horsemanship. It is very effective with Icelandic Horses / Ponies.

http://iceryder.net/gettingtoyes.html

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Excellence In Horsemanship!

My Icelandic Horse filly wants to keep playing at the end of the training sessions:

Lee Ziegler's book, Easy Gaited Horses, has become the bible of gaited horse owners. The book helps owners to identify the easy, smooth gaits of their Tennessee Walkers, Missouri Fox Trotters, Peruvian Pasos, Paso Finos, Icelandic Horses, and any other gaited horse breed. The book also gives hints and tips on how to get gaits naturally.



Lee's Book Easy Gaited Horses http://tinyurl.com/7vyjo

Here's a little video of Charm, my Icelandic Horse filly, stepping up on the platform:

This is Charm, almost three years old, Icelandic Horse filly, running in pasture, doing a few lead changes in her canter.

Sokki, a 15 year old Icelandic Horse gelding, gaiting naturally.

Determining the Gait of the Icelandic Horse

This slide show was created from a video of an Icelandic Horse mare being ridden bareback in halter, to see what gait she offers naturally. Stills were grabbed from the video and put in sequential order to see the timing of the diagonal legs and lateral legs, and the support phases. This was done in order to determine what gait she was doing. In this case, it is a fox trot.

This is a jigsaw puzzle with a picture of Skumur, a grey Icelandic Horse gelding, jumping bareback and bridleless.

Click onto the puzzle to expand it to play; after playing, hit the refresh / reload button to shrink the puzzle.

This is Cookie, Icelandic Horse mare with granddaughter Taylor.

Cookie and Taylor

The palomino filly's dam, Eir, an Icelandic Horse mare.

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Here are some videos (almost ten years old) of training a young pinto Icelandic Horse gelding with natural horsemanship and clicker training:

Introduction to Clicker Training video:

Charm is an almost three-year-old Icelandic Horse filly. We decided to try to have her back-up, with the request coming from behind. We used the neckrope around her neck, with the lead rope hooked onto it, so that the request would not pull her head, but put pressure on her chest.

This is my pinto Icelandic Horse (Pony) mare, called Cookie, who is about 10 years old. She was born in Iceland, but came to the US with her dam, as a weanling. She is very calm, very people-oriented, and a very easy keeper (too easy, as we have to watch what she eats, and not give her anything that is too high in carbs).

She learns very easily, and is very willing to do new things and learn additional behaviors and tricks.

Here she is, yawning, on the cue of the ASL (American Sign Language) sign for "Y":

This is a photo cube of my Icelandic Horse filly: