Tips to Lower Iron Intake in Horses Avoid feeding hay on the ground whenever possible to lower your horse’s soil intake. Soaking hay in water can remove a lot of iron, but this might also affect other minerals. Forages that Read more…
Sometimes called fever rings, these markings may show up any time a horse has had an elevated temperature, infection, or inflammation that disrupted his circulation and affected hoof growth. What causes rings in a horses hoof? Hoof rings, also called Read more…
The Diamond DC00B Classic Plain General Purpose Horseshoe Size 00 is a 1/4″ thick, 4-3/4″ long, 4-1/2″ wide, general purpose horseshoe. This classic plain horseshoe is a size 00, with an FIA measurement of 12-1/2″. How big is a 000 Read more…
If a horse continues working to the point that the capillaries cannot keep up with the heat he is generating, only then will he begin to sweat. Panting, like a dog, and flattening the hair to allow air to reach Read more…
An increased respiratory rate is seen with exercise, excitement, stress, pain, shock, blood loss or anemia, and certain metabolic abnormalities. Good athletic condition, sedation and anesthesia, and rarely hypothermia or shock can cause a horse to have a lower than Read more…
The horse’s respiratory tract is responsible to moving air from the atmosphere to the lungs and visa versa. The respiratory tract is divided into upper and lower portions. The upper respiratory tract is made up of the structures from the Read more…
A horse’s airflow velocity during exercise is approximately 64 to 79 liters per second — compared to a human’s four liters per second. How much air does a horse breathe? At rest, an average horse draws in roughly five liters Read more…
At rest, horses typically take around 12 breaths per minute, and this moves about 5 litres of air per breath -or about 60 litres of air moved in and out of the lungs each minute. What is the lung capacity Read more…
Mark the time and count the number of breaths over at least 15 seconds. Multiply the number of breaths by 4 (3 breaths x 4 = 12 per minute). The normal respiration rate for a horse at rest is approximately Read more…
The individual horse values for VO2max ranged from 104 to 169 ml/kg bodyweight/min. Maximal heart rate was also highly reproducible and the coefficients of variation were less than or equal to 2.7 per cent in all horses. What animal has Read more…