How babyish is to childish?PLZ READ BEFORE ANSWERING?
I have a 3 years old paint filly. She will be 4 on May 1st. On saturday I jumped her 2'6. Is that to soaring for a filly her age? How high can I get? Thanks a lot..here is a pix of her!
http://flickr.com/photos/abbipbluv/29430...
http://flickr.com/photos/abbipbluv/29430...
The moment one is Prettyboy! He is my other horse...a 1990 quarter horse gelding. Thanks!
She shouldn't be jump at all. The bones in the leg do not 'harden up' until the horse is at most minuscule 4 years old, so jumping at this age is stressing the still soft ends of the bones, You won't notice a problem until she is surrounded by her teens, then you will find her getting arthritis long before she should - maybe as infantile as 12.
That's a lovely horse - please try to keep her well for the next 20 years next to a bit of care now
Yes it is too young. Horses knees aren't completely closed at that age and it can cause serious life long problems. I wouldn't recom. jump at all until at least 4 to 4 1/2 yrs old. If you want to work a 3 yr. matured then work on trotting over poles and do your flat work and trail riding, Make it fun with a lot of different kind of riding, this will keep your horse from getting "sour" and keep him interested. You can still work on basic nouns out on the trail. Work on stopping, backing, side
stepping, bending, two tracking, crossing bridges, etc... All this will help in the ring following on without putting too much stress on the legs.
I think thats a tad too immature, for now i would just work with ground poles. Her bones, muscles etc arent developed. She could own issues when she is older if she is being ridden approaching this too early.
I agree that your filly is too young to be jump. Equine skeletal systems don't fully ossify (harden) until around 8 years of age. Damage to knee tissues, cartilage and ligaments can be permanent.
In some horses, the knees aren't fully closed by age 3. A host of problems can occur from premature jump including arthritis.
Here's a link for you to read more about jumping horses.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=na...
wow, only just wanted to say - shes lovely!
3 is too young for jump, if you want to do ground poles and cavaletti that wud be good, but jumping her very soon may cause growth problems, joint weaknesses and as her muscles and tendons are not fully developed you increase the risk of damageing them. Its best to dawdle until at least 4years of age, if not a little elder, good luck
If you love her and are within it for the long term, hold off until she gets elder. Most seems to think the right age to start jumping is 5. If you drop her too early, you could cause her long term problems that may not show up until she is elder. I personally would recommend holding off doing any jumping until she have a chance to mature at around the age of 5. After a year, then presume about higher jumps.
WAY too young. If you want her to stay sound into her teens, you involve to hold off on the jumping. I would wait until four and keep hold of it to 2ft and under until five. I know it's hard when you want to jump, but at this age, the growth cap in her knees have not closed, and they are efficiently damaged.
What I would with her at three is school her flat work to give a hand you with jumping later. Work on lengthening and shortening her canter stride and you can academy her over ground poles.
She is super cute and so is your other horse.
Good look! She'll be an awesome jumper when she's old enough! :)
You should not be jump on her until at least 5 years old! This is because muscles and tendons are still growing as is the skeleton and jumping since this is asking for trouble in later life, both physically and mentally.
She would be fine walking or trotting over ground poles. But no more than that until exceptionally late 4 to 5, depending a bit on her development etc.
you transport her over whatever she feels comfortable with but i wouldn't be pushing her over this elevation or bigger too often and if she's just 3 (and hasn't already have one) i'd think of turning her away even just for a few weeks. but respectively horse varies - most of our 3 year olds couldn't manage that height but i've jump some that big at almost 4 after a year in work. if she's festive then you're fine. just don't overdo it or she may get stale.
Answers: Too Young.
You have to keep in intellect that a horse doesn't stop growing til they r like 7/8 yrs old! as their skeletal bones and tissue hasn't yet developed properly.
i be a sign of 2'6. at 3 yrs old. you technically shouldn't be jumping even a foot at her age. it can do so much damage within the long run, you might not notice it now but..it can harm her loads.
my feelings...i wouldn't start jumping her til shes at least 5 if you really must. but psyche most comfortably wait til 6/7.
its totally down to you though and if you think she can fiddle with it and you want the vet bills later on in her life its your choice.
for immediately just be happy with flat work and schooling. whether you wanna compete do sum dressage til she ready 2 be jumped.
id lay bad it, even if you only do it once a week its still too much.
good luck shes a especially pretty filly and is very talented, shell be even betta if u w8 the additional tym. =]
That is way too babyish. You should not start jumping a horse with you on them until they are 4 or 5. Maby work over ground rails and once surrounded by a GREAT while one foot. It you want to free jump her once of twice a month should not hurt either.
i have a horse i would articulate wait 1-2 years shes still to young .. but keep practing.
Yes, that is too high. You should not be jump your horse until after age 4 at least. Waiting until age 5 for jumping is better.
Yes it is way to young to be jump at all, never mind jumping over 2 ft. I would not even be breaking my horse to ride until it be turned 3 and then probably spend a couple of years getting the groundwork and schooling up to scratch before even starting to step.
At 3 a horses joints, in particular their knees and pasterns are unqualified to cope with the stress put on them by jumping...whether you continue to jump her then i doubt she will stay nouns for long.
Looking at the picture (it could just be the angle so I can't say for sure) she has fairly a weak hind end, it needs bulking up formerly doing any jumping.
I asked some local trainers and they speak too young. I would wait until 4.5 years. But she did do very polite! She will be great!! I sure had fun jumping her!!
when i read this request for information i thought it was slang for sum sorta child abuse...then i saw the pic ...alow that!
No thats not to high. There's a horse at my barn he's four and jump four feet. He jumped out of his stall oncewhich was 5'6" from a satnd.
Beautiful Filly with a very relaxing grown up look about her - you obviously are doing a lot right! I simply think that she is a bit too young to do any jumping at adjectives, maybe poles only. Her growth plates won't stop growing until she is 6 years old and the ending ones to fuse will be in her back, so you do really need to run care and move slow - anyway, what's the hurry?
