Everything About Horses

(simile) To work very hard; to toil. What is the meaning of the idiom eat like a horse? to always eat a lot of food: She’s so thin, yet she eats like a horse. Hungry & thirsty. (I’m so hungry), Read more…

While horses are beautiful animals, they are also used for many jobs, and require a lot of care. This essay will explain how horses are very hard working animals, how you care for horses, as well as caring for horses Read more…

Horses can be used in logging operations and agritourism operations for activities like hayrides, wagon rides, or sleigh rides (Leslie, 2013). Horses can also be used to complete tasks around the farm such as hauling maple syrup or firewood, spreading Read more…

Polo ponies even get a new set of shoes about every 21 days from a blacksmith. Horse’s manes are shaved or braided to prevent entanglement. A free flowing mane and tail would increase the likelihood of becoming entangled with players’ Read more…

Molasses supplies horses with digestible energy because it is composed almost entirely of sucrose, glucose, and fructose, sugars that are readily absorbed from the digestive tract. The amount of molasses in a typical helping of a textured feed cannot, however, Read more…

grass. Their natural diet is mainly grass, which has high roughage content. Horses should be provided with a predominantly fibre-based diet, either grass, hay, haylage or a hay replacement in order to mimic their natural feeding pattern as closely as Read more…

But feeding a chaff is a very useful addition to the diet, not only does it provide forage (which should be the foundation of any horse’s diet) but it also encourages chewing. This is important because unlike humans, horses only Read more…

Another consideration is that chaff is mainly short fibre compared to the long fibre in hay and there is a higher risk of colic in horses fed all their fibre as short cut chaff. What is the most common cause Read more…

Sugar beet is a great way to provide horses with extra calories but with a high fibre, low starch diet. Linseed or rapeseed oil can be added to it for even more energy. You can also feed it along with Read more…

Roughage/Forage Roughage, found in hay or grass, is the bulk of the horse’s food. Grass or alfalfa hay, or a combination of the two, are good sources of roughage. Grass hay is generally higher in fiber and dry matter than Read more…