Welcoming our NEW HORSES!
We are welcoming new horses in our family!
Say hi to our golden boy, and our black beauty, both very Arabian, young, powerful, listening, cute, flying like the wind in the desert… Indeed, they both have only qualities, and 0 default!
Welcoming new horses in a very normal process in our stable. It is normal for a big stable such as ours of approximately 40 horses, with the majority of them for our work, and a minority of private horses, to buy new horses for our business. However, we have to talk a bit about how we buy our horses, how we check on them for business and for their health! Let’s see that.
First of all, we have to proudly say that we have one of the best supplier of horses in the whole country. The team working to find the best horses of Egypt to bring them to us is a very qualified team, looking all around the country to propose to us the best deals. We for sure keep secret the way this team is really working for us, and how they look around to bring the best horses to us. Let’s just say that we are very proud of our horses, and very happy about our partnership with this team of treasure hunters!
Then, let’s explain a bit the process of welcoming new horses into our stables.
After the team working for us has been seeing hundreds of horses in the country, they select only 3 or 4 horses, and show them to us. If we want them, they are sent by car transportation for some days, so that we can see how they are in real life, check their body, their mental, meaning their general health. Then, we also try them for riding, first easily, and then in the desert. We need to know kind of as fast as possible if:
- The horse has health problems which were hidden when arriving (such as leg problems, shoulder problems, diseases, etc.)
- Mental issues: you never know which trauma some horses have faced in their past… and this is something very important to check. We are a stable for tourism, and we can’t allow to have too many mental cases. We for sure had some, and we fixed them. But this is not our goal to do that all the time, we also need safe and mentally good horses.
- How the horse is behaving with other horses: this is mostly important for stallions. We need to know if the stallion is gonna be dangerous or not. If the stallion is too dangerous, we don’t want that for our business and our clients.
- How the horse is reacting to work in the desert: some horses may not have the physic, the strength or the willingness to do what we are doing, these long horse-riding trips in the desert. Some horses can be trained, some horses adapt directly, and some will not, and this is what we have to check very fast.
Then, after checking on new horses, we decide if we keep them or not. If not, for any of the reasons mostly mentioned, the horse is sent back to his owner. If yes, well we start the process to make them as much confortable as possible in their new home with us, and as quickly as possible!
When horses are new, of course they need to adapt to their new place, their new friend horses, their new work, maybe new food… We take special care of our new horses for some weeks, to make sure they are completely okay. We also are very careful during the rides that they don’t come too close to the other horses – mostly talking about stallions – so that no fight happen. Indeed, at the beginning before all horses know each other, stallions may want to fight between them, this is in their complete normal nature. Thus, we are very careful with this point, and most of the time after some weeks, and the horses all know each other, no fighting energy anymore, and some stallions even become friends together! This is all a lot of work, patience, careful behaviors, and sensitivity, that our team works on everyday with new stallions.
Last but not least, we want to remind our dear lectors and, inch’Allah future visitors, that we also have sometimes some births in the stable! We then keep our babies, leave them free in the stable with their mothers and their friends, all together. When they are old enough, we start to train them and start the riding. Most of our babies are kept in our stables. They are only ridden by our guides at the beginning, then by customers.
So, what are you waiting for to meet our new two last Arabian beauties?
Welcome to Stable Tunis and our adventures!
