Our passion for horses and their health, along with our keen interest in nutritional science, is steeped in history and exemplified by our exclusive state-of-the-art equine research farm. This farm is part of the 1200 acre Purina Animal Nutrition Center in Gray Summit, Missouri. Where is Triple Crown horse feed Read more…
Triple Crown Complete is a beet pulp-based, high fat, high calorie diet ideal for performance horses, mature horses and harder keepers. Featuring high fiber and lower carbohydrates, it can be used when access to hay and pasture is limited or of poor quality. What is a good complete feed for Read more…
Sparta’s cavalry In 424 BC, a regular body of horses was formed, remedying long-standing neglect when compared with the infantry. Did ancient Spartans have horses? Because few people were wealthy enough to own horses, the ancient Greek cavalry was usually small; in 431 B.C.E., for example, Athens had only 1,000 Read more…
Soring, or “big lick”, is the use of chemicals to cause pain to the front feet and legs of horses when they touch the ground. This results in the horses picking up their front feet higher and faster than they would do naturally. Is the Big Lick cruel? Closer to Read more…
Thus, well before the famous journey to the west of Zhang Qian (138-126 BCE), sent by the Han emperor to negotiate an alliance against the nomadic Xiongnu, China had been importing horses from the northern nomads. When did China first get horses? THE HORSE IN EARLY CHINA. According to Chinese Read more…
Horses Travel by Rail Despite their inborn aversion to close confines—especially if they were noisy, dark and smelly—by the mid-1800s horses were being routinely transported by rail. How did they transport horses to America? By row boat. If shipping horses by oar-powered boats sounds like a terrible, terrible idea, it Read more…
The horse population grew immensely during the 1800s. In 1867, the rural horse population in America was estimated at nearly 8,000,000, while the number of farm workers was well under 7,000,000. By the early 1900’s, there were nearly 20,000,000 on America? s farms. How many horses were there in the Read more…
Saul is a seer, a gift he inherited from his great-grandfather, a skill that his beloved Ojibway grandma recognizes in the boy. Hockey, as Saul lives it in the first half of the book, is not a sport; instead, it is an embodiment of the same sort of life force Read more…
There is a scene at the end of Richard Wagamese’s book Indian Horse where the main character, Saul, travels back to Northern Ontario, to where his family calls home, a place called God’s Lake. There, he is able to heave out in sobs the sorrow and anger caused by the Read more…
“A favorite hunting horse could be trained to ride right into the stampeding buffalo herd.” For the Plains Indians, the newfound speed and efficiency of hunting on horseback provided an abundance of high-quality meat, hides for tipis and clothing, and rawhide for shields and boxes. Why was the horse important Read more…