Slow feeders are a great alternative to grazing if you have limited access to a pasture. Slower feeding can be beneficial for horses prone to certain conditions like foundering, laminitis, or ulcers. Available in many different forms, slow feeders can also improve your horse’s overall health and well-being. Why do Read more…
Next is a horse getting trapped in or on mud, fences, ditches or other around-the-farm situations from which they cannot extricate themselves. These events happen very commonly to horses on farms large and small, wealthy and poor, well-run and not so well-managed. They can happen to you! How do you Read more…
Wet ground is both an issue for both barefoot and shod horses and ponies. Prolonged contact with mud and wet means that hooves don’t wear down naturally and deep mud can easily loosen and pull shoes off. Can horses get sick from being wet? Rain scald It is particularly common Read more…
A twitch is a device that is used to restrain horses for various stressful situations, such as veterinary treatment. It is usually made up of a stick-like handle loop of chain or rope on the end, or a metal ring with a rope loop which is wrapped around the upper Read more…
Some horses also do not stand still within these confining restraints. Commercial stables with wash areas that are at least 8 feet wide and 10 to 12 feet deep and that are built with a solid wall or a pipe rail behind the horse will be safer and the residents Read more…
Walk around the round pen on the left side of the horse. Continue walking left until the horse is completely relaxed and trotting along at an even pace. The horse should not seem frightened or stressed. If the horse is nervous, keep walking with it until it gets used to Read more…
Be careful to apply the proper depth of sand. With its deep, loose traction, sand deeper than 6 inches is stressful to horse tendons. Start with about 2 inches and add a ½ inch at a time as necessary. (Start with only 1½ inches for arenas used primarily for driving Read more…
Alicorns. Alicorns are pony characters in My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, My Little Pony: Pony Life, and other material, who have both a unicorn horn and Pegasus wings and, depending on the depiction, also have Earth pony power. What is a pony with a horn called? In some literature Read more…
If you do keep all your horse’s old shoes, there are countless creative DIY ways to reuse them. Key or Jewelry Holder. Nail an old shoe to a smaller piece of wood and hammer in a couple of horseshoe nails to place keys on. Wall Décor. Horseshoe Pit. Rustic Wine Read more…
A horse deprived of feed, but supplied drinking water, is capable of surviving 20 to 25 days. A horse deprived of water may only live up to 3 or 6 days. After not consuming water for two days a horse may refuse to eat and exhibit signs of colic and Read more…