A podcast by Abbey’s Run Equestrian

An Equine Conversation

Welcome to An Equine Conversation, a podcast brought to you by Abbey’s Run Equestrian.

This podcast aims to help you, the horse owner, improve your knowledge by giving you access to top quality information that will help you be the best horse owner you can be so that you can give your horses the best life possible.

Through An Equine Conversation, I’ll share my expertise with you along with helping you connect to and hear from some amazing experts in their own fields – because while I have a lot of knowledge, I am by no means the expert in all of the things. We’ll also be talking with horse owners about their journey with their animals.

We’ll explore ways our horses can be physically and mentally healthier through topics around training, horse-health, enrichment, emergency preparedness, history, our own mental wellbeing and physical health and more. We’ll be giving you practical actions you can implement with your horses and information to explore, consider and further investigate.

These podcast episodes are absolutely designed to be thought-provoking and they may bring you some ideas, approaches or information that you haven’t come across previously.

Thank you to Matthew Bliss for podcast production & consultation. If you'd like him to help with your podcast, get in touch by email at business@mbpod.com


Episode 4: Preparing for Bushfires as a Horse Owner with Sharon Merritt
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Episode 4: Preparing for Bushfires as a Horse Owner with Sharon Merritt

In this week’s episode, I chat with Sharon Merritt from Victoria’s Country Fire Authority, better known here as the CFA, on preparing for bushfire (or you might know it as wildfire events) when we own horses. This is something we feel strongly about having had friends and family impacted in some of the more recent major fire events in our Country and having had fire come close to where our horses live a number of times. While we’re having a very wet Spring in our part of the world, fires still happen, and all the vegetation growth brought on by the rain will be creating fuel load for future fires. Join us for invaluable information and actions to implement that we all need to be aware of and implement for our own and our horses safety.

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Episode 3: Getting Your Ducks in a Row
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Episode 3: Getting Your Ducks in a Row

In this episode, we’re going to discuss why getting our horsie ducks in a row is a challenge, acknowledging that this is happening for us all, and look at what we can do about it.

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Episode 2: Talking Emergency Response & First Aid with Dr Lizzie McCready
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Episode 2: Talking Emergency Response & First Aid with Dr Lizzie McCready

In this episode I’m talking with Dr Lizzie McCready who has taken her profession from on the road practice to working with horse owners to improve their emergency response skills. Find out some top tips to improve your own skills & be better prepared for those inevitable emergencies that arise when we have horses.

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Episode 1: When Your Horse Says ‘No’
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Episode 1: When Your Horse Says ‘No’

In this episode we’re going to explore why it’s okay that our horses say no, how our horses are saying ‘no’, why we should listen to and respect the ‘no’ and what to do when the horse says ‘no’. We’ll also touch on when it’s okay to override the no.

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