How to Prepare Your Horse for Showjumping Grow Your Horse’s Confidence Early. Ensure Your Form is Correct. Don’t Push Your Horse Too Hard. Walk the Course Before Riding It. Practice Different Stride Lengths. Have Access to a Jumping Facility. Never Train to Jump Alone. Warm Your Horse Up Properly. What Read more…
Caution: There are no studies of safe or recommended dosages of ginger, and its caustic properties mean it might be unwise to feed it to horses with a history of gastric ulcers. Is ginger safe for horses? Ginger is a great herbal supplement for horses, with multiple beneficial properties. Known Read more…
In fact, cases of maple poisoning have been identified in horses that consumed wilted leaves from the sugar maple (Acer saccharum). Horses are most likely to encounter wilted leaves after summer storms bring down branches or blow leaves into pastures and paddocks. Is maple syrup OK for horses? * Maple Read more…
Most horses love it. If your horse isn’t an applesauce fan, other options include pancake syrup, molasses or yogurt. Feed the “carrier” to your horse plain a few times first to make sure he or she will readily eat it. Can horses eat syrup? * Maple Syrup, and honey are Read more…
Structural correctness is critical for soundness as well as correct and clean movement. This is determined by proper structure and alignment of bone, particularly pertaining to the legs. Structural correctness is tied very closely to balance and influences the way a horse moves. What are three conformational faults in a Read more…
As a rider, you need to learn the ability to keep your balance on a moving horse without falling off. Moreover, each rider needs to learn to maintain balance and rhythm on a moving horse in all gaits, both vertically and horizontally. Without a good balance you will never become Read more…
To administer medications, halter your horse, slide the syringe up one side of the horse’s mouth inside the cheek, and try to dispense the mixture onto the tongue. Hold your horse’s head up until he swal- lows. Use this same technique when dosing your horse with paste medications that come Read more…
The common name for the avocado tree is alligator pear and it is very toxic for your horse. All parts, from leaves to the fruit, carry the toxin. How poisonous are avocados to horses? In horses that ingest avocados, the toxin can cause colic, irregular heartbeat, respiratory distress, neurologic dysfunction, Read more…
Glucose derived from non-structural carbohydrate digestion serves as an important energy source in the diet of performance horses, providing the horse does not have a dietary carbohydrate sensitivity, such as with insulin resistance or PPID. Is glucose good for horses? The sugars in horse feed are known as water-soluble carbohydrate Read more…
Carbohydrates provide the primary source of energy in the horse’s diet. A horse should receive at least 1% of its body weight in forage. Most horses will eat 1.5–2% of their body weight in forage to safely meet their energy needs. Carbohydrates such as forage and energy grains make up Read more…