The Mustang

…– story of the dispersal of wild horses living on New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range. It’s a dramatic tale, full of heartbreak, heroes, and horses. Cost: $25. Contact:www.nobodyshorses.com. (Buy…

EIA Remains A Problem In The U.S.

…and depression. One cc of blood from these horses at times when they have fever (coinciding with large numbers of circulating virus) is sufficient to infect 10,000 horses. Most horses

Horse Vision and Eyesight

horse’s fault, because everyone knows horses only see a certain way. But how do we know what another species sees, when we may not even know what other people see?…

Judging Horse Age from Teeth

…otherwise paperless horses, and for the small number of horses offered or represented fraudulently, dentition remains an indispensable–though somewhat flawed–tool in establishing age. So the next time you find yourself…

The mystery of shivers

…firsthand experience with shivers—owners of affected horses. “We designed an online survey for owners—this was in 2008 and one of the first web-based epidemiologic studies in horses—and we put the…

Mountain Horse Breeds

Mountain Horses – Rocky Mountain Horses and Kentucky Mountain Horses – are people horses perfect for trail riding. If you doubt this, just ask Mike and Kathy Hartong of Cedar…

Your blanketing questions answered

…“definitely” the correct responses for certain classes of horses. Blanketing is necessary for competition horses and foxhunters who are routinely clipped during colder weather to maintain a sleek appearance, reduce…

5 Gaited Crossbreeds

…the family started to use curly horses in their breeding program. Today, some Gaited Curly Horses are descendants of the Damele horses. Breeders also diligently cross their Curly Horses with…

Perfect Recall

…short-term memory for such tasks as keeping a phone number in mind for a few moments. In one scientific study with horses, a researcher reported that horses had poor spatial…