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…
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TLC for the Senior Horse: 8 Essential Steps
…the aging process, she notes, so care and feeding should be targeted to meet the horse’s specific requirements. Base Feed on Need Regular exercise will benefit a senior horse as…
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
…and while being handled, groomed and tacked. Look at the horse’s overall physical and mental condition. An overly relaxed horse may have been drugged. Inspect the horse’s living conditions and…
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…
Feeding for weight gain
…can eat undisturbed. Another option for horses in turnout is to distribute hay around to multiple feeders, or to use one that the horses can access from all sides without…
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…
Architecture of the Equine Digestive System
…small meals often; feed only high-quality hay; make any feeding changes gradually; never feed cattle feed to horses, etc. Why does feeding your horse seem so complicated, and why so…
AQHA: Common Horse Health Issues
…from other horses, and do not put other horses into an area that may be contaminated by the discharge. But don’t move horses that may have already been exposed. Blanket…
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…