Welcome to the new site for the Grene Wode, a Langley, BC horse boarding and lessons facility!
The Grene Wode is a multi-disciplinary facility, with a Horses Come First approach: we strive to create a safe and sane environment for our equine denizens, allowing them the three F's all horses need: Forage, Freedom and Friends, as Jane and Stewart Myers put it, in their excellent resource, on Equiculture.
Freedom:
Another keystone to health for horses is the ability to move around freely: it assists with digestion, keeps them active in body and mind and contributes to easing of anxiety caused by constraint. Our horses roam a multi-surface track that changes often enough to keep their minds engaged and their feet moving. They stay fitter and sounder than stabled horses do.
Friends:
Horses also evolved to live in small herd structures, and when deprived of equine contact can become neurotic and destructive. Our horses are part of a larger herd that self-segregates into smaller units of 2, 3 or more horses, and as a result, are well-socialised and have no stable vices. Even confirmed cribbers, wind-suckers, wood-chewers and weavers have been "cured" of these neurotic behaviours.
After having kept my horses in all manner of facilities, I will never set them up in a "traditional" horse-keeping framework again. My horses are happier, much healthier and more capable and willing partners for any work, from trails and arena work, to lessons to driving: I have reaped the benefits of this style of horse-keeping, and so have my horses!
Contact theGreneWode@gmail.com to find out how this system might work for you and your horses, or to arrange a tour of our facility.
Thanks for reading!
The Grene Wode is a multi-disciplinary facility, with a Horses Come First approach: we strive to create a safe and sane environment for our equine denizens, allowing them the three F's all horses need: Forage, Freedom and Friends, as Jane and Stewart Myers put it, in their excellent resource, on Equiculture.
Forage:
Horses evolved to be trickle feeders and free choice forage is key to their maintaining dietary health. Our horses have access to hay in up to three locally-grown round bales in slow-feed nets, all day, every day. We have *never* had to deal with a colic incident, since instituting this forage structure.Freedom:
Another keystone to health for horses is the ability to move around freely: it assists with digestion, keeps them active in body and mind and contributes to easing of anxiety caused by constraint. Our horses roam a multi-surface track that changes often enough to keep their minds engaged and their feet moving. They stay fitter and sounder than stabled horses do.
Friends:
Horses also evolved to live in small herd structures, and when deprived of equine contact can become neurotic and destructive. Our horses are part of a larger herd that self-segregates into smaller units of 2, 3 or more horses, and as a result, are well-socialised and have no stable vices. Even confirmed cribbers, wind-suckers, wood-chewers and weavers have been "cured" of these neurotic behaviours.
After having kept my horses in all manner of facilities, I will never set them up in a "traditional" horse-keeping framework again. My horses are happier, much healthier and more capable and willing partners for any work, from trails and arena work, to lessons to driving: I have reaped the benefits of this style of horse-keeping, and so have my horses!
Contact theGreneWode@gmail.com to find out how this system might work for you and your horses, or to arrange a tour of our facility.
Thanks for reading!
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