At Medi-Vet, we carry a variety of medication and treatments for horses and large animals. This includes anabolic steroids for horses, heifers and more. Can steroids be purchased legally? It’s only legal to purchase anabolic steroids with a prescription from Read more…
How fast. The fastest horse ran 43.97 mph. The fastest cat ran 31 mph. What animal is faster than a horse? Capable of going from 0 to 60 miles per hour in less than three seconds, the cheetah is considered Read more…
about 2,400 B.C.. The earliest evidence for the presence of domesticated horse is from Early Bronze Age contexts at Newgrange, Co. Meath dating to about 2,400 B.C. (Van Wijngaarden-Bakker 1975: 345) (Fig. 1). Did the ancient Irish have horses? Remains Read more…
In Jeremiah 12:5 God says to the prophet, “If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the Read more…
eight. Twelve horses were expected to compete, but four scratched before the race, leaving a field of only eight. In addition to his record-making odds, Donerail won the Derby with the fastest time recorded to that point. What horse won Read more…
Chewing on objects is typically self-medication for the horse. Chewing, or self-medicating, is most likely due to discomfort – stemming from physical and/or mental stress from lack of forage. Chewing activates saliva production, which buffers gastric acid. Why is chewing Read more…
1. : a hitching post. : a mail carrier who makes deliveries on horseback. : a mail service performed by such carriers. What is a horse post? noun. a horse kept, as at a station on a post road, for Read more…
When Robert Falcon Scott set sail in 1910 on a quest to be the first to reach the South Pole, he took with him 19 Siberian ponies. Five of their names will always be remembered. Who took horses to Antarctica? Read more…
Unwanted behaviors are repetitive, purposeless behaviors that take up a large portion of a horse’s time. Common examples include cribbing, biting and weaving. These behaviors frustrate horse owners. As a result, we often refer to them as vices. A vice Read more…
Each horse and rider pair go round the cross-country course, in canter or gallop, jumping over solid obstacles. These include features such as water, ditches and steps up and down and also technical tests such as jumping narrow fences and Read more…