For everyone wondering if you can collect a bunch of horses and keep them in the pen at Beecher’s Hope…. You can’t. You can have the stable full, be riding one, and have a temporary horse in the pen at Read more…
To return the horse, all you have to do is approach the horse, press L2 to target it, then follow the prompts to calm it and walk it to its own. Now continue along the road to Valentine. Keep following Read more…
Occasionally mares that are not pregnant start producing milk. One cause for this is abnormal hormone production from one of the hormone producing glands in the body (i.e. secondary to Cushing’s Disease) and is sometimes due to a tumour forming Read more…
Japan. Most Japanese horses are descended from Chinese and Korean imports, and there was some cross-breeding with indigenous horses which had existed in Japan since the Stone Age. How did they get the horses to Japan? A whopping 19 airplanes Read more…
Polyorchidism is the incidence of more than two testicles. It is a very rare congenital disorder, with fewer than 200 cases reported in medical literature and six cases (two horses, two dogs and two cats) in veterinary literature. Can there Read more…
Some people in Russia and Asia have been drinking mare’s milk for more than 2,500 years. They turn it into a drink called kumis, or fermented mare’s milk. Kumis started off as a drink to help heal many health problems, Read more…
about 1700-1550 BC. Horses were introduced into Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period (about 1700-1550 BC). The earliest remains of horses are a few bones from Avaris and the skeleton of a horse found at Buhen. The Buhen remains date Read more…
Equestrian riders often travel overseas with their horses for events every year. It should come as no shock that horses have to travel by plane, just like people. But they are loaded into stalls that are then loaded onto cargo Read more…
Horses hold their breath over jumps and do not breathe again until they land; then, they begin by exhaling or breathing out. Do horses get out of breath when running? They have to breathe in and out with their stride. Read more…
The Importance of Respiration When a horse is running, its breathing and stride are linked in a 1:1 ratio, so for every stride they take, they also take one breath. The peak airflow they generate is very high (about 80 Read more…