Horse-Show Biosecurity: Is Your Horse at Risk?
…obvious health risk, even a short-term illness can disrupt training trajectories and show campaigns. If an incident occurs in a commercial boarding or training barn, the effects on a professional’s…
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Lysine Deficient Equine Diets
…Maintenance, average: 1.26 x bodyweight in kg Maintenance, high: 1.44 x bodyweight in kg For a 500 kg horse at maintenance, this results in a range of protein needs from…
Safe Plants for Horse Stable Landscaping
…“Add a little buffer zone between your walkway or barn entrance, and the beginning of your flower bed,” he suggested, “keep flowers planted along your barn perimeter trimmed below the…
Married with Horses: The Circus Comes to Town
What was thought to be a calm and peaceful day turned into a chaotic scene as a barn owner welcomes his picky new boarders and their high-maintenance horses….
What You Should Know About Horse Communities
…communities work best when they are small and owners share similar horsekeeping philosophies and riding disciplines. A common vet, farrier, barn crew and maintenance crew help keep these arrangements running…
Make Money Boarding Horses
…resentment or unintentionally creating a two-tier system at your barn, you may want to advertise your business as a cooperative barn and only take in boarders who will do chores,…
KHP Barns for Champions
…events at the Kentucky Horse Park. With three barns complete, we are looking forward to construction of a fourth barn in our complex, and the eventual refurbishment or replacement of…
Control Barn Pests
…• Cut away shrubbery growing close to the barn walls and doors. • Feed your barn cats (see sidebar). Admit There’s A Problem But what if the rodents have already…
Horse Sexual Abuse: The Elephant in the Room
…the barn, so that if an intruder enters, the barn lights up. Use battery-powered window/door alarms on stall doors and entry doors. Get a monitoring device to carry the sound…
Married with Horses: Love and Sacrifice
…the barn every time. Occasionally, there’s an inverse proportionality between how messy the barn is and my excitement. On this morning the barn was destroyed, so my excite-o-meter was registering…