Horse & Rider Magazine 2009 Articles Index
…“Farrier Call: Foul Feet!,” (thrush), YHYL, July, pg. 24 Lameness “Lameness Report Card,” (grading lameness), YHYL, Mar., pg. 24 “Vet Call: Sudden Lameness,” YHYL, Apr., pg. 20 “Keep Him Sound,”…
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Breaking the Strangles Cycle
…horses. Stress, such as long transports, heavy exercise, change in location, introduction to new horses, and other factors, can temporarily weaken a horse’s immune response, making it especially important to…
Trail Riding Regions: Where to Ride Guide
…Trail-Riding Destinations Lazy Horse Ranch, Pearce, (520) 221-0722; anne@lazyhorseranch.com Riding Vacations Arizona Horseback Experience, Tucson; (520) 455-5696; www.horsebackexperience.com Casa de Caballo; Hereford; (520) 803-6692 Hilltop Hideaway Riding Paradise, Chiricahua Mountains;…
When Your Horse Turns Out to Be a Lemon
…horse prior to purchase will not defend a dishonest horse seller being sued under a CPA. Depending on your state’s particular consumer protection act, a horse buyer who has been…
Prevention and Treatment of Respiratory Infections in Horses
…as young horses, aged horses, and debilitated horses, should not be mixed with horses that do a lot of traveling. They may be harboring infectious organisms even if they are…
Put the Horse Before the Horse Cart
…the horse moves around you on a long rope. By staying behind the horse’s withers, you push the horse forward, using the horse’s driving instinct-the same instinct that will eventually…
Winter Care and Feeding
…can contribute to skin irritation and infections. Horse with blanket It is equally important that blankets fit the horse. Many horses develop rubs or sores on the point of their…
AQHA: Common Horse Health Issues
…animals from bothering the horse. Don’t: Force the horse to move. Symptom: Horse is down and refuses to get up. What It Means: Horse is either in a lot of…
Develop Your Dressage Horse’s Topline
…puzzle, there are rider pieces, horse conformation pieces, horse-reaction pieces, interpretation-of-aids pieces, temperament pieces and your horse’s heart or his willingness-to-please pieces. All of these physical, mental and emotional puzzle…
Transitions, the Secret to Balanced Riding
…the correct training one way or another. If you train well, you make an average horse into a good horse, and a good horse into a better horse and a…