Many products are derived from horses including meat, milk, hide, hair, bone and pharmaceuticals extracted from the urine of pregnant mares. Humans provide domesticated horses with food, water and shelter as well as attention from specialists such as veterinarians and Read more…
The horse meat scandal was limited to Europe. No American grocers, including Walmart, Aldi US, or distant Aldi cousin Trader Joe’s, sold any of the meat. (At least 80% of the beef sold in the United States comes from inside Read more…
Hoof glue is a form of animal glue made by boiling down the hooves of ungulates into partially hydrolyzed keratin. What are horses hooves used for? Hooves help them walk and run on hard ground. In animals such as the Read more…
Cows are just more efficient sources of food than horses. Get a head start on the morning’s top stories. Brian Palmer of Slate explains that in terms of caloric content, 3 ounces of cows give you more bang per pound: Read more…
Even without complications, tail alteration is cruel because it changes the way a horse can use his tail and sometimes prevents him from using it at all. Tail function is important to equine well-being. Why would a horses tail be Read more…
Horsetail (Equisetum arvense) is an herbal remedy that dates back to ancient Roman and Greek times. It was used traditionally to stop bleeding, heal ulcers and wounds, and treat tuberculosis and kidney problems. Why do they cut horses tails? Docking Read more…
Horsetail hair is sold by the pound, for as much as $400-$500 for white palomino hair. What is horsehair worth? Most horsehair comes from slaughtered horses. Hair for bows comes from tails of horses in cold climates, and is sorted Read more…
In early spring Horsetail exhibits small brown shoots with a whorled cone at the top, which contains spores. At maturity the cones release their spores and the plant turns an army green. The young edible brown shoots have a flavor Read more…
A tail chewing foal will either chew his mother’s tail or another horse’s that is in the pasture with him. Tail chewing is a problem because it both mars the appearance of the other horse and can cause digestive problems Read more…
Like it or not, branding horses makes for efficient, effective identification for the ranches that raise them and the people who ride them. In one glance, we can tell where the horse came from, who he is out of, who Read more…