Many horses can maintain successful athletic careers as show jumpers and dressage horses, especially in the early stages of the disease when they are only mildly affected. However, the disorder is progressive and owners can expect the horse’s movement to worsen over his lifetime. Can you ride a horse with Read more…
The wild horse grazes on average 16 hours out of every 24, so they’re using quantity to make up for the poorer nutritional content of the forage they find. What do wild horses most commonly eat? Wild horses graze on large areas of land, eating grass, the seed head of Read more…
Wait for at Least a Week Before Using Them. It typically takes a couple of weeks to get rid of the rubbery smell from horse stall mats or any other product that is made of recycled rubber. But, sunning them can help you cut down this time duration to just Read more…
The breed exhibits a natural ambling gait, called the single-foot, which replaces the trot seen in a majority of horse breeds. Both gaits are an intermediate speed between a walk and a canter or gallop; ambling gaits are four-beat gaits, whereas the trot is a two-beat gait. Are Kentucky Mountain Read more…
Trot The trot is a two beat diagonal gait where the horse’s legs work in paired diagonals. The pattern of this two beat diagonal gait may be as follows: right hind and left front then left hind and right front or left hind and right front then right hind and Read more…
Horses will crop grass down to the soil level, which means in hot, dry conditions, grass may burn and dry out before it has a chance to grow. A lot of horses kept in a small area means the soil will become compacted, and that makes it very difficult for Read more…
HORSE is actually an acronym describing a combination of five poker games: Hold’em. Omaha Hi/Lo. Razz (Seven card stud low) What does the E in HORSE stand for? HORSE is an acronym for the five poker disciplines that make up the game. Hold’em, Omaha Hi/Lo, Razz, Seven Card Stud and Read more…
Horse stall floors can be concrete, but they need covering either with a pliable material such as a rubber mat or at least 8 inches of bedding material. A bare concrete stall floor could injure a horse. What type of flooring is best for horse stalls? Horse Stable Flooring Materials Read more…
One relatively cheap and inexpensive solution is to lay some porous material—such as gravel, crushed stone or sand—over the muddy areas. These materials allow drainage of water away from the surface to help keep hooves cleaner and drier. How do you dry out a horse stall? With the shovel, pitchfork, Read more…
Trauma is believed to be the main cause of pedal osteitis in horses. As such, horses that are worked, ridden or driving a carriage, on hard surfaces such as roads, or horses that continuously land on hard ground after a jump, are more likely to develop the condition if these Read more…