Once the auction starts, you’ll bid on the horse you like once they come into the sales ring. If you place the highest bid, you will give your bidding number to the auctioneer and go fill out paperwork to officially purchase your horse. Once you sign the paperwork, the horse Read more…
The major fertilizer nutrients of horse manure compost are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. However, horse manure compost also contains the secondary nutrients magnesium, calcium, and sodium as well as micronutrients. Does manure contain calcium? Manure can contain between one and four percent calcium carbonate, depending on the diet formulation. One Read more…
There is no reason to worry. Due to its acidity, apple cider vinegar helps to break down fungus and bacteria on the skin. Apply it at full strength 2-3 times daily with a cotton ball. The horse’s mane, tail head, and legs are prone to accumulating dander and buildup. Is Read more…
In horses, hydrogen peroxide is used in cleaning wounds, treating fungal infections, removing or debriding dead tissue, stopping capillary bleeding from small vessels in abrasions and other injuries, and in disinfecting equipment and stable areas. What is hydrogen peroxide used for in horses? hydrogen peroxide (3% diluted 50:50 with water) Read more…
Differ- ences between the two animals may include: where they are found (horses worldwide and rhinos Africa and Asia); horses are taller; rhinoceroses have horns; the number of toes (horses have one and rhinos have three); how much they weigh (horses 380 kg to 900kg and rhinos 1,000 kg to Read more…
The fortunate thing about vitiligo is that it most likely doesn’t bother the horse. One exception: when it appears around the eyes and muzzle, as it predominantly does in horses, the skin might be more susceptible to sunburn, and measures should be taken to avoid overexposure to the sun. Can Read more…
between 4 and 7 months. Weaning is usually done somewhere between 4 and 7 months of age, although some ranches leave their foals on the mares a bit longer. After 4 months of age, the foal’s nutritional requirements exceed that provided by the mare’s milk, and most foals are eating Read more…
That means spritzing the hay with a hose probably won’t do. A better approach is to place the flake in a hay net and then dunk it in a large bucket of fresh water. To make sure the hay is thoroughly saturated, hold it beneath the water until no bubbles Read more…
Vitiligo is a quite unusual skin condition that causes a lot of consternation to the owners but thankfully is not at all distressing to the horse or pony. It presents as small, focal and generally well-circumscribed white spots as a result of pigment loss. What causes white markings on horses? Read more…
A white horse is actually grey – it’s a colouration that occurs when a gene causes the hair coat to gradually lose its colour. Do white horses turn grey? Graying can occur at different rates—very quickly on one horse and very slowly on another. As adults, most gray horses eventually Read more…