Number one: Chickens can carry salmonella (though this can be found in soil anyway). It’s important to keep your chickens out of your horse feed and hay. Another thing to keep in mind is that even though chickens can eat Read more…
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…
Horses are thought to have about 300 million olfactory receptors, which is considerably higher than humans (five or six million olfactory receptors). Horses have an accessory olfactory system known as the vomeronasal organ that detects pheromones and volatile odors. Can Read more…
Straw is a traditional material used for bedding horse stalls, but many other materials—sawdust, peat moss, shredded paper, sand, pine needles—have also been used. Can I use pine needles instead of straw? Pine Needles Can Work as Mulch Pine needles, Read more…
Horse bedding – pelleted bedding for horses, also called equine bedding, can also work for cat litter even though it is not specifically marketed as such. However, it is made of 100% pine, just like the cat litter brands and Read more…
Yes, you can compost soiled and saturated animal pellet bedding. In fact, rotted horse, cow, chicken and other animal manure is one of gardeners’ favorite fertilizers. Rotted manure makes better fertilizer because the nutrients are more dense than in fresh Read more…
Horses do not necessarily need more protein in their diets. If your horse has an amino acid deficiency, the solution is not giving him more protein but giving him better protein. Therefore, alfalfa pellets can be used to add pellets Read more…
Dry, Whole Bedding Pellets To use the dry pellet form simply pour the desired amount of pellets onto the floor of the habitat. The size of the animal will guide how many pellets should be used. As an example a Read more…
Anyone under the age of 18 is prohibited from riding unless they are wearing a helmet that meets current ASTM, BSI or European Safety standards for horse riding, hard soled footwear with a heel of no less than 1.5 centimeters Read more…
People riding horses can be seen by the side of the road in the counties. The regulations are simple: a horse is a non-vehicle mode of transportation, which is acceptable. You simply have to make sure you don’t impede any Read more…