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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Good point 😭 My assumption was somebody googled "horse bridle", looked at it for five seconds, then closed the tab and fumbled through the model, but there's a chance they didn't even get that far

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

NOOO NOT THE WEIRD UNINTENTIONAL SIDEPULL THAT WAS BASED ON A SNAFFLE WITH A DROP NOSEBAND AND THE CLASSIC ANACHRONISTIC WESTERN SADDLE 😭

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I just think horses are all trying their best, man

A goofy photo of a young baby foal with an apricot red coat, snip, and big star. He is looking at me pathetically through a fence.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I like it when we feel as if we're one in purpose, no barriers or strife. No micromanaging or chastising.

A photo of a dark brown horse in a black sidepull bridle. She is gently looking out on a small open field surrounded by oak trees.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

We're in a BROKE-broke, rural part of Oklahoma with lots and lots of rodeo horses, especially team roping. It's not uncommon to break and burn, break and burn young horses, dumping the used up horses at auction. Our primary breeding vets are down in Texas where the care is DRASTICALLY different

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

They'll get high quality, specialized grain while growing in order to fill any gaps in minerals our hay and pasture has, and eventually get put on a diet balancer with almost everyone else. We keep round bales in most of our pastures because we realistically just don't have that much land lol

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Yeah I'm not into the stalls, we're only using some right now because of baby health issues. (Long story) I personally see nothing wrong with handling the foals so long as they still get time with other horses, and our two boys are going to wean into an existing gelding herd.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

They fatten the horses on cheap, high starch feed to inadvertently hide the lacking muscling, poor growth, and low quality coats. They would think a normal weight weanling is scrawny and weak compared to the overfed ones.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The pastures often aren't maintained either, so they're full of weeds. The hay quality is often cheap and low. A lot of the most "successful", meaning make the most profit and sell the most horses, breeders locally basically run pony puppy mills.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Most of what I've seen locally is leaving broodmares out to pasture with no hoofcare, irregularly thrown cow feed or sweet feed, and most of their direct contact with people is de worming. Foals often don't receive any care or training until either weaning or when started at two.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The imprinting stuff seems goofy as hell tbh LOL Moreso what I'm thinking of is still a natural herd environment, they just ideally start receiving hoofcare at six weeks, are fed personalized diets, etc. Effectively instantly integrated into the same world their mother is.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Horses aren't "less domesticated" than cats, dogs, or cattle, this idea comes from people INTENTIONALLY leaving them feral. A couple factors are unhandled horses find pressure even more aversive, creating stronger reactions to less force, and myths about "overly" handled horses being dangerous.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The more I learn about the history behind sciences like sociology and psychology, the more I realize the excuse of "we just didn't know any better then!" doesn't hold up. People tried to study and teach better, and they got violently buried, metaphorically and sometimes literally.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

She looks so discerning LOL

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

It's interesting both being a "bitless, doesn't give a shit about the trends in the arena, just wants to climb mountains" horse person while also being a "goes into a manic episode braiding and currying and clipping and tail bagging" horse person both at the same time Not a lot of overlap there

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Expelling one more demon of procrastination out of my body before chores by horseposting

A photo of a dark brown mare in the rain wearing blue fly boots doing done crazy rearing thing. She has a light mane and tail and is built mostly like a Spanish horse.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Beyond dominance theory just being incorrect in horses definitively, it's so myopic and cynical. It's dreary how horse people desperately hold onto such harmful beliefs BECAUSE THEY'RE REAL when it's like... what, your standard for REALISTIC!! is a fucking Zach Snyder movie?

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

❤️ Just need to get Skye back in work so I can get some examples of good musculature too!

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Horse people stop confusing obedience for love and joy challenge tbh

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

They're just really really good dude

A photo taken from the side of a dark colored horse hoof. The horse is wearing a blue fly boot. It is freshly trimmed with a big mustang roll on the toe.

A photo of the bottom of the same hoof, showing a very clean sole and frog. It's pretty wet out.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Despite popular consensus, horse diets are not up to vibes and interpretation. Oats don't soothe their stomachs. Sweet feed doesn't add anything useful. "Grain" isn't the useful part of "feeding grain", it's the fortification. All horses need constant access to forage.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The weather is beautiful, and I'm fantasizing about when I had more time 🥲

A photo taken from the back of a dark brown horse with a light mane. She's in a rainbow halter and relaxed, walking through the pasture.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I'm tired that wasn't very specific, flax is a source of fat

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I assumed as much :( As far as replacements for Bloom, there are three amino supplements for protein and lots of cold milled flax supplements like Turtle Mountain Flax and Bluebonnet's Omega+

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Unfortunately the Equioxx might be connected because it's still an anti-inflammatory even though it has a lower chance of stomach ulcers. I also personally had issues with a rescue horse when he was on Bloom, it got weight on him but he just seemed more sore on it

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The hardest lesson I've learned in the horse world is probably that there are some things that can never be un-fucked. Even more difficult, and I still don't really have answers, is figuring out what all falls into that category and what we can help.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

"gaited horses don't collect like trotting horses!" i want to say 'i don't know where this comes from!' but i know where it comes from and it's saddleseat where even the tailset is artificial and painful anyway here's some natural collection from a gaited horse lol

A dark brown mare after the rain in a very very green pasture. She is in the middle of a canter stride with only here front right foot off the ground. Her topline is flexed, pelvis tilted back slightly, and most of the weight on her hind end. She's on the vertical and her golden mane and tail flow on the wind, even while wet.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Still thinking about how people pit the idea of science and empathy against each other. They are both required SIMULTANEOUSLY to create a better world.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

When people leap into conversation on what microbes cause equine thrush with "yeast", it irritates the shit out of me because, while I do think fungus plays a role potentially, most of our current research shows the primary pathogen is bacteria AND YEAST IS HUMAN THRUSH. Horse people LEARN TO READ

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Dude it's kind of common!! It's really weird!! They won't know the ingredients on what they feed every day (hint: it's DDGs) but they'll be able to recite all the preservation compounds in a human vaccine without knowing how any of them interact with the body, just that mercury = scary

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

There are anti vaxxer horse people who are against vaccines because they have a tiny amount of formaldehyde, but then use hoof hardeners with formaldehyde without PPE.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I am irritated that metal shoes are sold as a cure when they don't TREAT lameness, they MASK it indefinitely. The aspects of lameness where they become necessary to alleviate discomfort and pathology are better aided by composites and boots due to the latter two's fewer negative effects.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

The image is a heatmap titled "Measles," showing measles cases across U.S. states from 1928 to 2003. States listed on the y-axis include Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The x-axis spans years from 1928 to 2003. A vertical line marks the introduction of the measles vaccine around 1963. The color scale at the bottom ranges from blue (0 cases) to red (4,000+ cases), with shades of green, yellow, and orange indicating intermediate values (1,000, 2,000, 3,000 cases). Before 1963, many states show frequent high case numbers (yellow to red), while after 1963, cases drop significantly, with mostly blue indicating near-zero cases.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

"I need advice but only the kind that confirms my pre existing worldview that caused this problem to begin with"

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Someday I'll make real tutorials instead of DRAW GOOD NOT BAD but for now I'm busy with school and just trying to dispel the idea of a horse hoof being a weird meat can

A blue canvas with purple drawings of hooves split up into "weird" and "natural". The weird side includes a bunch of drawings of mammal limbs ending in an awkward dark, shiny cylinder. The cylinder occasionally has a metal, U shaped horseshoe attached. The bottom is an ambiguous dark circle with no features. I derisively compare it to a plunger. There are many frownie faces. The natural side shows a normal horse's hoof, which has the cushy padded heel bulbs on the back, mostly similar to other mammalian feet, but with a nail covering the toe. It is more square and less tall and rectangular from the front. On the bottom, it's circular with a triangle in the middle coming from the heel bulbs and pointing towards the toe.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"horses are scary!!!" blep

Extreme closeup of the grey snout of a silver horse with a snip. Her tongue is barely visible, poking out.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Yeah we LOVE our dentist and she keeps us updated and has little graphics she uses to keep track of all our horses' teeth. My mare actually used to have a lot of pain issues from crappy teeth, she's doing way better now.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The kicker is when you go to check their profile and the SECOND those shoes got attached, they suddenly are riding the poorly muscled, understepping horse with even worse broken back angles now and it's like OHHHHH I see

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I've seen "My horse just CAN'T be barefoot, we tried, but he was so much more comfortable sound!" So many times followed by a video of their horse barefoot and a little tender next to a video of their horse with pain face, short striding, and all toe first landings with worse angles in metal shoes.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

If doing both at once, I'd personally pick one to be lighter. Like a super dark blue with a red and gold border. Or a really dark maroon with baby blue piping and silver thread

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Maroon is a classic color with black and seal bay from what I've seen Super dark blue is also in a similar category It also depends on vibes, like the dark blue is more "magic" or "night time" the dark red is more "luxury" and "baroque" imo?

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

So many people with horses who have health problems will ask for help then, when they receive it, are like, "How I'm doing things now is the only thing that works for him!" And what they're doing ISN'T WORKING LMAO

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Have any of y'all had experience securing shade cloth in a livestock trailer?

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I love atmospheric lighting like this

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Just because something is marketed "for horses" doesn't mean it benefits them. Feed, tack, whatever. Research it. Make sure it's actually healthy for them. And I don't just mean read off the brand website lmao

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Traditional farriers are so... like that. The "This is the best way to do it!" And somebody (or everybody) walks off in pain

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

DUDE the formaldehyde 😭 It's EVERYWHERE And copper sulfate Thrush can be treated with vinegar and people are out here pouring gasoline on horses' feet

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Yeah I've been trying my best to help get something kinda going here but there's pretty much no algorithm for the most part, it's like old Twitter. Your friends either see the post or it's just yeeted into the void.

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Tzar @pulsetzar.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The satisfaction of a perfect, on cue walk to lope transition has lasted me months I'm still not over it

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