Pokeweed produces clusters of green berries, which mature to a dark purple color. The roots are the most toxic part of the plant, but horses can also be poisoned from the leaves and stems. A toxic compound, called phytolaccotoxin, can cause a burning sensation in the mouth, low grade chronic Read more…
Bracken fern contains the enzyme thiaminase, which inactivates thiamine (vitamin B1). Inactivation of thiamine results in a deficiency that may cause neural dysfunctions in the horse. Horses will typically avoid eating Bracken fern since it is fairly unpalatable. How poisonous is bracken fern? Ingestion of a large quantity of bracken Read more…
Where does horsetail grow? Horsetail especially loves moist, marshy areas but it can also be found in fields, forests, gravely soil, on slopes and even in the cracks of cement sidewalks. When the small tan-colored horsetail shoot first emerges from the soil, it can be picked and eaten raw. Where Read more…
Equisetum plants (horsetails) reproduce by producing tiny spherical spores that are typically 50 µm in diameter. The spores have four elaters, which are flexible ribbon-like appendages that are initially wrapped around the main spore body and that deploy upon drying or fold back in humid air. What plants have elaters? Read more…
The following is a partial transcript. Sandy Taylor, DVM, PhD, DACVIM-LAIM: One of [the common causes of death in horses] is exercise-associated death. That’s typically seen in racehorses and high-level performance horses, and those are typically due to pulmonary hemorrhage or some underlying heart disease… What is the most common Read more…
six horses. Horse artillery units generally used lighter pieces (6-pounders), pulled by six horses. 9-pounders were pulled by eight horses, and heavier artillery pieces (12-pounders) needed a team of twelve horses. How many horses pulled a Civil War cannon? Artillery could not function without horses. Most six-gun batteries had 120 Read more…
The Sakai Horse Armor is a unique armor given to Jin’s horse in Ghost of Tsushima: Iki Island. It can be retrieved from the Mythic Tale The Legacy of Kazumasa Sakai. How do I get Kazumasa horse armor? Head right and up the sloped rock to head around the ship. Read more…
Removing the Bone Mask After arriving in Ravensthorpe, call Eivor’s horse, press down on the D-pad, and select the cloak option. After removing the cloak, repeat this same action once again and Eivor should put on a non-Bone Mask hood and cloak. How do you trick or treat Mari LWYD? Read more…
At Aintree alone, 55 horses have died since 2000, including 15 during the Grand National itself, while in 2021 there were 200 horse fatalities across Britain. Two horses – Solwara One and Elle Est Belle – have died at the 2022 Festival. How many horses die in racing each year Read more…
At the 2022 Preakness Stakes later this year, there won’t be any horses racing that were trained by Bob Baffert. On Monday, the Maryland Racing Commission announced that Baffert is banned from competing at the Preakness Stakes as a result of drug violations among his horses in other states over Read more…