Officially, horsemeat is not eaten in Turkey. Not that it is illegal, but it is sort of a taboo, the horse being a very respected animal that is not permissable for consumption by Islamic law. Is horse meat haram in Islam? Earlier in Islam consuming horse meat is not haram, Read more…
A variety of conditions cause a horse to be hypersensistive to touch on the back or topline including muscle soreness and strains, various back conditions, pain from poorly fitting tack, tying up, skin conditions, some neurologic diseases, and conditions that cause lameness. What does it mean when a horse is Read more…
Horses only doze when they sleep standing. Animals vary in the amount of sleep they need; for example, cats slumber for sixteen hours a day while horses sleep for less than three hours. Do horses stand up or lay down to sleep? Horses have an amazing ability to be able Read more…
Both humans and horses mourn the loss of an equine friend. While a period of mourning is natural and expected, prolonged grief and sadness becomes pathogenic and detrimental to the body. Horses can become listless, go off-feed, get depressed or become anxious after the loss of a close friend. Do Read more…
Horses learn by repetition. If you want your horse to be confident in a certain situation, the best thing you can do is to keep putting your horse in similar situations. For example: if your horse lacks confidence on trail rides, keep practicing going on the trails and introduce them Read more…
Horses are not color blind, they have two-color, or dichromatic vision. This means they distinguish colors in two wavelength regions of visible light, compared to the three-color (trichromic vision) of most humans. What colors do horses see best? Horses can identify some colors; they see yellow and blue the best, Read more…
But an ABC News investigation found that large numbers of the horses have been tortured and beaten to produce that dancing gait, and that the abuse includes a painful practice called “soring,” in which caustic chemicals are smeared on the animals’ ankles. Is making a horse dance cruel? Charro Riding Read more…
Hold the lead rope in your hand and slowly bend down at the waist with your head down. Gently guide the horse’s head down with you. This should pull your horse out of his alert, guarded pose, and over time he will see that he can safely let his guard Read more…
These are touch (tactile), smell (olfactory), hearing (auditory), taste (gustatory) and sight (vision). The horse is by nature a prey animal, which requires it to be acutely perceptive and aware of its environment at all times in order to avoid falling victim to one of its predators. What is a Read more…
Horses also relate to their immediate environment through their sense of smell. They greet each other nose to nose and recognize each other by scent and by sight. Mares and foals immediately learn each others scents and can find each other quickly in a crowd of horses. Horses come to Read more…