A Guide to Fencing for Your Horse
…In addition, most vinyl fences used to enclose horses are white, which can keep horses from colliding with them at night (other colors are also available), and horses are not…
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Fifteen Pointers for a Healthier Horse
…Respect Your Horse’s instincts. As a prey animal, your horse sees and understands things from a unique perspective. “Think about how amazing it is that horses let predators get on…
Horse Body Language
Most of the time, horses use body language to communicate with each other. As horses communicate with each other, they can tell if they are playful, mad, or submissive. The…
Glossary Of Horse Terminology – Horse Terms & Definitions
aged –?more than seven years old. The average lifespan of a horse is 20 to 25 years, although many horses and some horses live for 30 years or more. aids…
Ask Horse Journal: 01/06
…when present in excess, but iron overload has not been studied in horses beyond one short-term feeding study. In horses, all we know for sure is that foals are easily…
Diary from American Endurance Rider Beverly Gray in Malasia
…billboards announcing the Sultans Cup. A brief history of Endurance in Malaysia: A Malaysian team attended the 1998 World Endurance Championship. (riding whatever they had – polo horses, thoroughbreds, criollos)….
What is ACTHA?
…Therefore, many of the horses are repeat performers. Best estimates are we’ll have 20,000 individual horsesand their riders show up to ACTHA rides over the next 12 months — performing,…
Your Horse May Be Living With An Ulcer
…our horses have some degree of gastric ulceration. Estimates of ulcer prevalence are 25 to 50% in foals and 60 to 90% in adult horses depending on age and performance…
Horse-Related Zoning Battles
…make it more difficult to keep horses (although horse supporters can always seek changes through their local governments to make zoning favorable to horses). Other times, horses become an unintended…
Vaccination Update: 06/02
…Twenty cases occurred in horses that had both inoculations. This means 11% of the new cases were in fully vaccinated horses. Half of those became symptomatic within 10 days of…