Ever had the experience of getting your feet trodden on by your horse? If that’s the case you’ll have it fresh in your mind about just how excruciating it was for you. Getting your feet trodden upon by blundering equine prancers is an occupational danger with horse breeding and riding. In many other areas of [...]
Like with so many things in life, your decision on whether you get a horse like you have always wished to will be affected by economic factors. Can you afford to buy a horse, and beyond that, are you able to afford to maintain a horse?
It is extremely hard to give clean-cut answers to those [...]
To a lot of folk, dressage is just riding flatwork comprised of pretty figures and manoeuvres in a small arena. Yet to contemplate dressage in that capacity is a disservice to the discipline and the benefits dressage offers any horse.
Dressage’s Purpose
Dressage is beneficial for every horse because it is rooted in improving a horse’s suppleness, [...]
North Central Texas College is sited bang at the center of the horse belt in Gainesville, Texas. It’s a 2 year public college giving scholars associate degree options in several study fields, including Equine Science. This particular program gives students considerable scope for practical participative experience in management, breeding and training, breeding and management aside [...]
A large amount of stories have been floating around about the phenomenal performances that signal the end of the Extreme Mustang Makeover. These stories don’t do justice to those mustangs that take part in the programme and disintegration because of the great pressures they are subjected to along with the quantum of change they’re compelled [...]
Are you like most humans in that you would be very pleased to own a dynamic, good looking pony who would qualify for Mr. Or Ms. Equine Universe?
Well, if the objective behind the horse is to try for halter champ, then handsomeness or beauty and a perfect body and stature would need to be the [...]
One of the questions that’s asked of me most often in the context of horses is: how frequently do I wash my horses? My own opinion is that horses could do with a load less washes. I see a bent in pony owners to go too far. They virtually seem to wash their horses because [...]
In recent days, I’ve seen a large amount of horse owners pay serious attention to this disease. They are endeavoring to learn as much as they can about it, because too many of their brethren who neglected to vaccinate their horses against this disease paid a dreadful cost. This disease is now receiving such prominence [...]
This article will attempt to give the reader a good idea of what the illness laminitis is, and its identified causes. It must be clarified nevertheless , that there’s a lot that is unknown about this illness. It is known that laminitis affects old as well as young horses. It affects horses that are being [...]
As a horse owner, you don’t need it specifically pointed out to you the hay you feed your horses must be free of dust as much as humanly possible. That’s a clear truth. But the actual fact that hay is a natural product grown and baled in fields of mud, makes it awfully difficult to [...]
