MKM Equine Synergy Services LLC

11/28/2025

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11/23/2025

I can, I am, and I will.

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11/21/2025

🎄Give the gift of
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Purchase a package of lessons and receive them at HALF PRICE!!!!

This is the greatest deal of the year.
Anyone is welcome, beginners on up.

Sessions include:

🎄Grooming & handling
🤶Equine Health & wellness education
🌲Understanding Anatomy & Physiology
🎅Hoofcare
✨️Ground work
🎄Equine behavior & communication
🤶how to saddle, bridle, and care for
equipment
🌲saddle fit
🎅learning how to regulate your
emotions
✨️observe how your own regulation helps the horse, and vice versa
🎅25 acres of trails to enjoy
🎄80×100 indoor arena for inclement weather

⏲️ Saturday Group-
9am
10:30am
Private & Semi-private
⏳️Saturdays 12pm-3pm
🕙Wednesdays & Thursdays


This is a great opportunity to see if horse ownership is for you, with leasing opportunities also available.

DM us for more details ✨️

Packages expire 1 year from the purchase date.

11/20/2025

11/12/2025

Celebratory bucks.
I don't believe in celebratory bucks, because I don't have bucks show up under saddle very often.
I don't punish bucks, or buck a horse out. I don't use restrictive techniques to prevent a horse from bucking, and I definitely don't use oppresive gadgetry. A buck is feedback that needs to be addressed,bnot repressed.

I still don't have bucks come up with any regularity. This photo was one of the three times I rode a buck over the last 5 years. Remeber my job is to start young horses, and work with troubled horses. Lots of them. It wasn't a celebratory buck. This moment wasn't from pain or anxiety either, but the other bucks I experienced were. All three were, however, the results of an error on my part.
I would say the most common reason I see for horses bucking is anxiety, but that doesn't mean it is the most common reason. Before I work with a horse with bucking issues, I ask owners to provide a clear vet and physio report. This means that I don't end up seeing as many of the pain related cases, as they are identified before I am needed. Pain may be the cause for bucking just as often as anxiety is. Saddle fit, injury or chronic pain.
Anxiety is the overwhelming cause for bucking that I see, but it is wide ranging. A horse may buck when it gets scared and can't get away from a rider holding them in, but it can also get anxious when it doesn't understand what is being asked of it.
For example, a cue for an canter transition. Kicking, or whipping to get the canter is not a communication, it is a forceful manipulation. A horse might stumble on the right answer and canter to get away from that force, but often they will get anxious about it and buck.
So, an anxious horse trying to get away, but being held, or an anxious horse not wanting to go, but being forced to,
might buck.
So what is the other reason? Like the horse in this photo. This guy used to struggle to take a united canter, and would buck to 'organize his legs'.
It is something I usually address on the ground, with exercises to help prepare for the canter depart. I am working on some videos on these exercises for my Patreon page, but it's obviously not in the scope of this article.
On this occasion I had a great photographer on hand and she asked me to canter. I knew I hadn't worked on this youngsters canter depart enough, but wisdom left the building, and I did it anyway. The smile was not glee at riding a buck, it was me laughing at my own stupidity.
It is usually around this point in the discussion about celebratory bucks that someone points out that horses run and buck from excitement when loose in their fields.
They do, and there is a function of this behavior.
If you have even seen. group of horses turned into a new pasture, you would have seen the run, kick and buck as they cover the entire area in a few seconds. They are in a heightened state, and this practice is designed to flush predators from long grass, while the herd is in a heightened state of alert.
I don't want to be riding a horse in that mental state. There have been studies on how often equestrians misread anxiety as excitement in horses, and this phenomenon adds to the celebratory buck myth.
When a horse is calm and understands what is being asked of then, they don't buck with a rider. Not because I train them not to, but because they don't feel the need to.

Photo credit: Catherine Grace Jackson

11/08/2025

Some Friday thoughts! 💭

Have you ever wondered how the blood 🩸 is stimulated in the horses hooves? How is it able to be pumped from the top of the leg, down into the hoof, and then back up the leg again?

This is part of the intricate “Hoof Pumping Mechanism” and haemodynamic blood flow. 🌀

When the horse places weight through their hoof, the frog makes contact with the ground and the bones within the hoof descend, which compresses the digital cushion and venous plexus; a series of veins located at the back of the hoof that hold

11/07/2025

11/07/2025

•telepathy•

Growing up, I wanted nothing more than to be able to speak to animals. Especially horses, but any critter would do.

After several encounters with so called animal communicators along my horsemanship journey I was completely disillusioned.

The reading I had for Kai was nothing but lies and anthropomorphism. The practitioner even went so far as to say he was dealing with gallbladder stones. But horses do not have gallbladders, I questioned? Nor do they see colour the same way as humans, he wouldn't know his halter was rainbow.
Horses do not care about human spoken language, nor do they curse like we do.
(I take that back, they can and do curse. But that message is gotten across by intention and action and not like our human f@$*% expressions)

The amount of animal communicators that mistake a horse's physically energetic stress as excitement about the task, tells me everything I need to know about the clarity of those readings.

Plus if any of it were true, there would be a lot more horses telling these practitioners that they don't want to talk. Why doesn't that occur a lot more often?

So with all that, I laid the idea to rest.

Animal communication, or at least what is available for hire isn't legitimate like I dreamed it to be.

I carried on with my studies, and in due time became fairly handy at reading horses as well as being capable of getting my own message across.
I put in my 10,000 hours towards perfecting the techniques and "hard skills" of this work.

Somewhere along the way, I found that telepathy was already deeply interwoven in the tapestry that is horsemanship.

Telepathy is something to notice. More than something to do.

If the "hard skill" techniques of good horsemanship were marbles in a jar, telepathy would be the space that exists between the marbles.
Barely considered, but always present and tangibly real.

Horses start to offer what I was thinking about next, before I made a move.

(All those transitions they make, long before an official cue. That we humans like to call extremely fine tuned body language perception. Except, it's so fine tuned we cannot pin point what change within us the horses are picking up on. How curious?)

More and more frequently when I coach, there will be an instance I describe something brand new to the student and the horse is already on it as if they've done it before.

A lot of my students joke that their horses understand spoken English. Yet this is more of an observation than a joke.

I most recently worked with a very downhill mare. Drafty and now in her teen years, it appeared she had sunk down her thoracic sling like an old anchor on the day she was started under saddle years ago and remained there since.

I explained to her owner about what we are looking for in her posture. And then this shut down horse who had zero relationship with me to use as a foothold, lifted her withers and offered a little school halt.
I've done nothing more than talk and occasionally feed her a cookie to maintain her interest while I did.

I wouldn't have believed myself a few years ago.

From there, my own horses answer me when I ask "how was your day? How are you feeling?" when I'm back after being gone for 12 hours.
Kai once let me know the fence was down, on the one night I wouldn't have checked otherwise.

Our telepathy expresses itself within daily care and regular training.

This isn't rainbow movie magic where I meditated myself into picking up on some magical frequency, and was rewarded with gossip about a horse's past owners.

Telepathy is refined, tangible and mundane.

I do not believe in telepathy existing without solid horsemanship skill. Without those marbles, there cannot exist that space between them.

If the hard skills are skipped over by the practitioner, the soft skills are never good. There has to be both. Real telepathy cannot be bought or hired! It exists within the spaces allowed for it.

Now to those still reading this, if you ever had your horse pick up a trot that you were planning to ask for but did not do so yet.

I invite you to let this sensitivity snowball into something greater.

11/05/2025

11/05/2025

Horses who don't want to stand quietly for farriers aren't naughty, they generally have some postural issues or pain that needs to be adressed. Warming them up or gentle exercises to help with strength and mobility makes this experience more positive for everyone. How can I help?