Everything About Horses

Hogging, also known as ‘roaching’ in the US, is the practice of shaving or cutting short a horse’s mane and often, as in the case of feathered cobs, also clipping the horse’s legs so that they are clean of long Read more…

How does a cob oven work? The basic idea behind an earth oven is that you burn wood to heat the oven’s masonry dome, remove the fire, and use the heat which has been absorbed by the walls to cook Read more…

One medium ear of corn will yield approximately 1/2 cup of kernels. Four medium ears of corn will yield about 2 cups, the equivalent of a 10-ounce package of frozen corn. How much corn does a cob produce? While the Read more…

Literally this wide dressage saddle has a narrower twist and deeper seat! This is a fantastic saddle for all those wide sports horses and performance cobs! What saddle is best for a cob? Kent & Masters Cob GP| MGX Designed Read more…

One ear of corn contains roughly 800 kernels in 16 rows. How many corn cobs do you get from one plant? A single plant should produce between two and four cobs of corn. Corn is self-pollinating, with male and female Read more…

To easily remove the excess silk strands from fresh corn, wrap a large rubber band around your fingers. Then rub it against the corn kernels. The silk gets trapped in the rubber band, leaving behind a clean ear of corn. Read more…

ost everyone knows that a corn plant initiates a lot of ears, one at every stalk node up to the one that becomes the harvestable one (Nielsen, 2007). Keen observers of the corn plant also recognize that multiple ears can Read more…

Fill a dish with 1 inch of water and place the corn cob in the water. Place in a sunny spot and then admire your corn as it grows! Within a few days you will begin to see the shoots Read more…

One of the issues that leads to chewy boiled corn is leaving the corn in the simmering water too long. Before you boil it at all, it must be shucked. This refers to removing the outer husk and the silky Read more…

The reason corn cobs are not burned in pellet stoves is because corn cobs carry a high level of starch in them. The starch doesn’t convert easily to BTU’s. However, clean and dry shelled corn carries a level of sugar Read more…