Everything About Horses

Give your horse’s tail a bubble bath. A handy trick for washing your horse’s tail is to put a small amount of shampoo into a small bucket and then add water to make it sudsy. Hold the bucket in one Read more…

Horsetail is the richest source of silica, with up to 25% of its dry weight being silica. No other plant includes such a high concentration of silica. Further, scientists believe that horsetail’s bone boosting benefits are due to its high Read more…

scouring rush. horsetail, (genus Equisetum), also called scouring rush, fifteen species of rushlike conspicuously jointed perennial herbs, the only living genus of plants in the order Equisetales and the class Equisetopsida. What is the phylum name for horsetail? Taxonomy and Read more…

Horsetails are troublesome as poisonous plants, especially when they are abundant in hay. There is some evidence that horses are less susceptible than sheep and cattle to the toxic principle in green plants. Equisetum palustre may be lethal to cattle, Read more…

7 days. After spraying a pasture with an herbicide, the general rule of thumb is to keep horses off of it for a minimum of 7 days. Again, it is critical to follow the manufacturers recommendations when using herbicides. Mowing Read more…

Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) Horses are susceptible to laminitis from exposure to black walnut wood in bedding. What is the most toxic plant to horses? Yew Plants Yew is one of the most toxic plants for horses. How do you Read more…

The acute lethal dosage of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) in most animal species is ~2 mg/kg. What does cyanide do to horses? Cause: ingestion of cyanogenic glycoside-containing plants can cause acute poisoning. Signs: usually within a few hours of exposure, include Read more…

the stapes. The skull consists of 34 bones. The longest single bone in the horse is the femur which joins the pelvis to the tibia. The largest single bone by area is the pelvis. The smallest bone in the horse’s Read more…

Stifle Joint. Stifle Joint – The stifle is the equivalent of the human knee and it is the largest, most complex joint in the horse. What is the largest joint in a horse? The Equine Hock Joint. Dr Peter Gillespie. Read more…

The ribs of mammals, including the horse, serve one primary purpose: to protect the vital organs of the thoracic cavity, most notably the heart and lungs. Each rib is attached to a thoracic vertebrae, so horses generally have 18 pairs Read more…