Can You Ride A Neurological Horse?

Additionally, riding a horse with ongoing neurological abnormalities increases the risk of stumbling or falling and thus injury to both rider and horse. What do you do with a neurological horse? Your horse should have supportive care, including anti-inflammatory medication and IV fluids, if needed, but there’s no specific treatment. Read more…

Why Is Brushing Horses Important?

2. Grooming acts as preventive medicine. A good grooming session increases blood flow to the skin’s surface, massages large muscle groups, and daily hoof picking keeps the feet clean and helps prevent common hoof issues such as thrush, a bacterial disease of the sole. Do horses need daily brushing? Make Read more…

Do Horses Have A Urethra?

The urinary system or tract includes the kidneys, the ureters (tubes that connect the kidneys to the bladder), the bladder, and the urethra (the tube through which urine exits the body). Where is a horses urethra? At the tip of the penis (the glans) is the opening of the urethra. Read more…

Where Is A Horses Urethra?

penis. The urethra (the tube that transports urine from the bladder) and urethral process are inside of the penis and allow the horse to urinate. The urethral process should be distinctly visible at the center of the glans penis as a small pink opening leading up into the urethra. What Read more…