A horse in moderate work does between three and five hours per week. This is made up of approximately 30% walk, 55% trot and 10% canter, 5% low jumps or other skill work. What do you feed a medium work Read more…
“Hand Wash is preferred for cleaning riding gloves” Clean gloves in lukewarm water using mild soap or leather cleanser. Let the gloves soak for 10 minutes in the water detergent mixture. Gently clean the affected area with a bristle brush Read more…
“Hand Wash is preferred for cleaning riding gloves” Clean gloves in lukewarm water using mild soap or leather cleanser. DO NOT use fabric softner / bleach / strong detergent. Let the gloves soak for 10 minutes in the water detergent Read more…
Horses are considered the “champion sweat producers” of all our domestic animals, and have two types of sweat glands: apocrine and eccrine glands. The primary sweat glands are the apocrine glands. Do horses have sweat glands? Sweat glands are part Read more…
Your horse’s skin is resilient yet surprisingly sensitive. Are horses sensitive to touch? Horses’ sense of touch is much more sensitive than humans’—especially their noses. Their whiskers—coarse tactile hairs called vibrissae around the muzzle and eyes—are important sense organs gathering Read more…
The chestnut is thought to correspond to the wrist pad of dogs and cats, or to be a vestigial scent gland similar to those found in some deer and other animals. The domestic horse is almost alone among extant equines Read more…
A horse exercise sheet is a light rug designed to be worn while riding. It is intended to protect the horse’s sensitive kidney area from draughts and cold temperatures. This is of course especially important for clipped horses. The sheet Read more…
Anatomy. The carpal canal encloses the carpal synovial sheath, which contains the superficial (SDFT) and deep (DDFT) digital flexor tendons. What tendons pass through the carpal tunnel? The carpal tunnel contains nine tendons: the flexor pollicis longus, the four flexor Read more…
General Information. Journeyman’s Horse is a tier 3 Farm Animal grown by using Journeyman’s Foal or purchased from the Marketplace. Growing a Journeyman’s Horse requires Harvester on the Destiny Board. How do I get a horse or ox in Albion Read more…
Symptoms of Hematoma in Horses The most noticeable symptom is usually a soft lump somewhere on the horse’s body which can become quite large. Some hematomas may cause unexplained bleeding, such as the ethmoid hematoma, which causes nosebleeds; other hematomas, Read more…