Dressage Arena Repair and Maintenance
…like forever. It gets on your clothes, your tack, your horse. It makes its way into the lungs. Even an outdoor arena with a breeze doesn’t offer much relief. And…
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Good Call To Trainers
…their facility, board it, feed it, clean its stall (maybe) and train ”my” horse. I don’t want my horse trained. I have two acres, one four-stall barn, a separate 10,000…
Septicemia In Foals
…body a chance to respond to all bacteria in the environment and pass this on to her foal in the colostrum. • Keep foaling stalls well bedded with clean straw,…
Married with Horses: Greenhorn on a Strawberry Roan
…strawberry roan was the mother of several of the horses our jumper friends rode. These horses were all athletic and huge, with fancy strides, giant bucks and wispy forelocks. Ellie…
United Vet Has The Good-Hoof Recipe
…are feeding your horse unsupplemented grain and borderline-quality hay, deficiencies are virtually guaranteed. The chart on page 6 lists some common diets and areas of deficiency for a horse at…
Bad Baby Legs
…old standard treatment for young horses in training with nagging joint problems or boggy hocks was to turn them out for a year. This often worked and, while the horse…
Heated Water Buckets Prevent Dehydration in Horses
Not surprisingly, when winter hits, your horse doesn’t feel much like drinking ice water either. In fact, the closer your horse’s water is to freezing temperature, the less he will…
Adventures in Owning a Draft Horse
…very green horse into a suitable riding horse for Frank and I. If someone had told me, at the beginning of the week, that I would soon be embarking on…
The Perfect Small Boarding Barn
…The sense of responsibility for others’ horses is overwhelming. It’s bad enough if your own horse lames himself with a wrong step in the paddock–we all know horses are self-destructive–but…
Postcard: 2007 Washington International Show
…Horse Show get a pleasant surprise as they find themselves facing a long row of stables. Okay, so the stalls are behind chain link fence and barbed wire to discourage…