Keep Your Horse Cool in the Summer Heat
…Alana Harrison We’ll add to that list with these six heat-stress signposts you should never ignore, and offer tips for cooling your horse quickly. Heat-Stress Signposts Signpost 1: Elevated Respiratory…
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Water and Your Horse: Beat the Heat and Keep Your Horse Healthy and Hydrated
An exercising horse’s muscles produce a tremendous amount of heat. And that heat can build up to dangerous levels that can damage organs or even cause death. The horse has…
Trail Riding First Aid Part 4: Heatstroke
…percent humidity. The more humid and hot a day is, the higher the heat index. A heat index over 125 means heat stress is a risk. Heatstroke – Preventative Measures:…
Managing Heat Cycles in Mares
For horse owners with mares, heat cycles in mares is an entirely different element of equine management. Regardless of whether you plan to breed your mare, her heat cycles will…
Plain Facts on Heat Stroke
Summer’s heat and humidity can be much more than just uncomfortable. They can be deadly. Horses lose their lives every year to heat stroke. Countless others struggle through anything from…
Heather Long, Special Olympian
Heather Long is a special 16-year-old girl, as she demonstrated when she competed in the Illinois Special Olympics this spring in Springfield. Heather has overcome many physical limitations and surgeries….
Plain FACTS about Heat Stroke
Summer’s heat and humidity can be much more than just uncomfortable. They can be deadly. Horses lose their lives every year to heat stroke. Countless others struggle through anything from…
Heat Advisory for Horses
…related problems in horses: 1. Heat can kill: High environmental temperatures and related heat issues of dehydration, exhaustion, and heat stroke can occur in horses and can produce illness and…
Summer Increases Chances of Colic and Heat Stroke Health Conditions in Your Horse
As summer reaches peak intensity, health conditions like colic, heat stroke and heat dehydration can affect your horse. Learn how to prevent colic, heat stroke and heat dhydration in your…
WEG: Heather Reynolds — U.S. Endurance
Horse: Crystals Charm, 10 year-old, chestnut, gelding Owner: Skip Lightfoot Home: San Jose, CA Born: August 4, 1977 Heather Reynolds has only been riding in endurance events for 14 years…