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Post by sbutter on Jan 22, 2012 16:19:42 GMT -5
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Post by mystickiger on Jan 23, 2012 7:35:32 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing, Sarah. There's alot of good informative videos on that site. I hadn't watched that one before your post.
The direction of the mane signifying the sidedness of a horse is something I really don't believe. Then to tie it to the build up of one shoulder muscle over the opposite one really makes me skeptical of that theroy. Sure horses tend to favor one side more than the other and usually the left. I think we make tend to make them that way from always mounting, lunging, leading etc. from the left. But the build up of one shoulder in a riding horse can be caused by a poorly fit saddle and or a crooked rider.
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Post by Michelle Clarke on Jan 23, 2012 8:39:52 GMT -5
Have not had a chance to watch the video yet, but very much agree with MysticKiger. I have multiple horses that have manes that fall on both sides, even multiple times. I seem to notice a pattern with horses I like that have the first six inches of the mane on one side, then the rest on the other. I believe this has to do with the attachment of the nuchal ligament, which is directly under the mane. It has "feelers" that attach to each vertabrae in the neck up until the axis (the second), then it skips the atlas and goes right to the poll. This is where I see the opposite flip of the mane on horses with higher head carriages that naturally have a more collected look.  |
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Post by Michelle Clarke on Jan 23, 2012 8:41:18 GMT -5
Looking at those picts, it just dawned on me that maybe when the mane makes flips lower down, it corresponds with a vertabrae being really out....I'll have to watch that when I am working on horses.
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Post by stormyranch on Jan 23, 2012 9:14:24 GMT -5
I had this theory of the mane on my own. I started to do a thesis on it and it's not alway true.
But pretty acurate.
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Post by sbutter on Jan 23, 2012 12:45:46 GMT -5
I had wondered about the mane theory. I know with my own head that the hair likes to go different directions and that doesn't mean I am using one side of my brain more than the other  |
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Post by citykid on Jan 23, 2012 18:32:50 GMT -5
Roach the mane and then horse will be in balance .... tee hee
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