Horse Health
Keeping Your Feeding System as Natural as Possible, Part One
Horses are non-ruminant herbivores also known as a “hindgut fermenters.” Their digestive tract is made up of a simple stomach, small intestine and large intestine.…
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Horse Health
How To Deal With Horse Obesity
It’s tough to spot an obese horse when it’s your own. We tend to think, “She’s just big boned,” or “It’s her breed.” Many owners…
2 years ago
Horse Health
Team Therapy
Like any top level equestrian event, the Palm Beach Masters is a bustling ecosystem of equine professionals and practitioners moving in methodical bursts from one…
2 years ago
Horse Health
What’s In Your Feed: Co-Products or By-Products?
There is a trend these days to label many highly nutritious feed ingredients as worthless wastes. This particularly falls on anything that might be classified…
2 years ago
Horse Health
Impaction Colic: What You Need to Know
Colic is a catchall term used by horsemen to describe equine gastrointestinal distress, but there are several different causes. Impaction colic is one of the…
2 years ago
Horse Health
16 Fascinating Facts About Horse Digestion
This probably comes as no surprise, but the horse is a unique animal. This is especially true when it comes to how they digest food.…
2 years ago
Horse Health
Cold Weather Laminitis?
It happens every winter. A horse that may not even have a prior history of laminitis is found to be very lame and reluctant to…
2 years ago
Dressage
Keeping the Sport Horse Sound and Fit
If anyone is uniquely qualified to offer tips for keeping the sport horse fit and sound, it’s Ashlee Watts. As the director of the Comparative…
2 years ago
Horse Health
Cold Weather and Stiff Horses
Research has proven that exposure to cold causes increased stiffness in both muscle and connective tissue, including tendons and ligaments. A recent human study also…
2 years ago
Horse Health
Managing the Skinny Older Horse
Impending winter weather and loss of good pasture make all owners of thin senior horses anxious. Some things to consider when a horse is underweight…
2 years ago
Horse Health
Cell Phones Aren’t Just for Taking Pretty Horse Pictures
I walked into the pasture and Jimbo, a 36-year-old Quarter Horse, came toward me with his hind end listing off to one side. Then his…
2 years ago
Horse Health
Weather Or Not: A No-Nonsense Guide to Blanketing
Unfortunately it’s that time of year again. The days grow shorter, the air whips colder, and our concern for the wellbeing of our equine companions…
2 years ago
Horse Health
Cooling Out a Hot Horse
You do it at the end of every ride—take ten minutes to walk your horse out, then maybe rinse them with cool water in the…
2 years ago
Hoof Care
Getting a Feel for Hoof Flares
“The equine hoof is a complex marvel of natural engineering,” say Susan Kauffmann and Christina Cline in The Essential Hoof Book. “Developing an eye for…
2 years ago
Horse Health
Natural Remedies for Hock Pain
My very first horse was an ex-hunter/jumper in her twenties. She was a true gem of a horse, aptly named Lady Be Good. Due to…
2 years ago
Horse Health
Is My Horse Overweight?
We’ve all seen at least one article claiming a high percentage of horses are overweight, or even that it’s an epidemic. While the numbers are…
2 years ago
Horse Health
10 Tips to Prep Your Horse for Cooler Weather
Although it doesn’t quite feel like it, fall is finally here again (in the northern hemisphere, anyway). The leaves will soon change, and the daylight…
2 years ago
Horse Health
Overlooked Warning Signs of Cushing’s Disease
The classical signs of Cushing’s Disease in horses (pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction/PPID) of poor topline, sagging belly and long curly coat that fails to shed…
2 years ago
Horse Health
8 Foods You Should Never Feed Your Horse
Most of us understand that horses tend to have a “tricky” gastrointestinal system. Sudden changes in feed, moldy hay, too much grain or lush grass—they…
2 years ago
Horse Health
The Head Scratcher That Is DMSO
DMSO is the much quicker and easier way to say, “Dimethyl sulfoxide.” About that, pretty much everyone agrees. It goes downhill from there. Although it…