• The Natural Horse Lessons From the Wild, book by Jaime Jackson on the U.S. Great Basin wild horses. Hooves given natural trim in Lompoc Paddock Paradise tracking system. Learning from BLM horses that came from Nevada and northern California. Destribes horses in their adaptive environment, their natural lifestyle and habitat. Equus ferus ferus and equus ferus caballus are one and the same specie. Social organisation of wild horses and importance of equine families in the horse's natural world.
  • The U.S. Great Basin wild horse model presented by Jaime Jackson through his research and observations of wild horses living naturally. Characteristics of naturally shaped hooves, natural toe length, natural toe angles, natural hoof balance, how natural gait complex and locomotion, horse riding influence shape of the hoof. Book covers how wild horse model is applied with domesticated horses, specifically watering, feeding, pasturing, grazing, stabling, equine management, parasite management, dental care.
  • The Natural Horse: Lessons from the Wild book by Jaime Jackson desribes the principles and practices of natural horse care that is divided into Four Pillars of natural Horse Care: Reasonably Natural Diet, Natural Horse Boarding (Paddock paradise), Natural Hoof Care (Natural Trim method taught by ISNHCP Institute for the Study of Natural Horse Care Practices), and Natural Horsemanship that is concerned with the way the horse moves naturally through natural gait complex.
  • Sound and healthy wild horse hoof in absence of WHID (Whole Horse Inflammatory Disease) that is the underlying condition of Laminitis, pathological separation of the hoof from the horse. When inflammation reaches catastrophic levels hoof can literally fall off the horse, so called "hoof slough". Photo showing healthy lamellar attachment.
  • The Natural Horse: Lessons from the Wild book by Jaime Jackson includes chapter on natural horsemanship and information on leads, elements of collection, impulsion, muscles of hindquarters, suenig's ring muscle groups. chapter on fundamental elements of the natural gait complex.
  • Jaime Jackson with Suffolk Stallion while working on the manuscript of The Natural Horse Lessons From the Wild. The book describes the observations of lives of wild, free-roaming horses living naturally in the U.S. Great Basin and wild horse hoof research conducted in BLM Corrals in Litchfield in 1982 - 86 that concluded in thorough descriptions of naturally shaped hooves, their symmetry, toe length, toe angle, heel angle, direction of growth, wall bevel, sole, bars, and frog, active and passive wear.
  • The Natural Horse: Lessons from the Wild, book by Jaime Jackson describes formation of the mustang roll well known in farriery circles and widely used it defines breakover, cessation of the weightbearing forces.
  • Lameness can be attributed not only to diet, mechanically obstructive shoeing and unnatural trimming methods, but also by training and riding practices that move the horse outside the boundaries of the natural gait complex. These changes can be observed in the hooves forming a club foot and lead to Navicular Syndrome. Natural Gait Complex is concerned with how the horse moves naturally in walk, trot, and canter. NGC explains locomotive styles that vary and mirror individual conformations and temperament.
  • Horses of Lompoc Paddock Paradise 2010 - 2018 investigating their "home range." Concept for natural horse boarding emerged from research on wild horses of the U.S. Great Basin by Jaime Jackson, defining the
  • Laminitis prevention and cure. Laminitis and the whole horse inflammatory disease. Stages of Laminitis: sub-clinical, Clinical, and Chronic include symptoms such as widening of white line, stretched stratum lamellatum, stress rings (event lines), bruising, blood, thrush, founder stance, lameness, P3 rotation or penetration, cresty neck, hoof defomity, lamellar wedge, colic, hoof slough, EMS, CPL, PPID.
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The Natural Horse: Lessons From the Wild (2020 edition)

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by Jaime Jackson

Perfect bound 2020 edition. 196 pp., B/W text; gloss finish, color cover.

About this book

What is natural for your horse? Based on ground-breaking research with wild horses of the U.S. Great Basin, The Natural Horse vividly describes how domestic horses can be made happier and healthier through an understanding of what nature intended for their species. This landmark book, originally published in 1992 as The Natural Horse: Lessons from the Wild by Northland Publishing, opened the doors to the current international "natural horse care" revolution.

Updated in 2020 by the author. See Table of Contents.

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