Your hardworking trail horse can easily become dehydrated. This handy allyslot chart tells you how to perform two dehydration checks, plus gives you normal readings and red alerts.
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When you suspect colic, you'll need to be able to give your horse's vital signs to your vet. We'll tell you how to gather this vital information.
If your trail horse pulls up lame, call your veterinarian immediately, and ask for a lameness exam. Here, I?ll go through each step of the lameness exam. Plus, I?ll give you the lameness scoring system from the American Association of Equine Practitioners. The more you know, the better you can fully participate in your horse?s recovery.
Follow top horse trainer Lynn Palm?s four-step strategy for spook prevention and control on the trail.
You need to wrap your horse?s legs to protect and cover an injured area; provide warmth to stiff/old tendons, ligaments, or fetlocks; control acute-injury swelling and movement; and to protect his legs while trailering hauling.
When you suspect colic, you'll need to be able to give your horse's vital signs to your vet. We'll tell you how to gather this vital information.
At Pure Country Campground in New York?s Adirondack Mountains, you?ll enjoy a host of camping amenities, and ride for miles on the Brookfield Trail System.
Time to tune up your trailer for summer?s trail-riding adventures. A well-maintained trailer will be safer for both you and your horse than one in shoddy shape. Here?s a handy checklist.
Even if you have a portable corral, there will be times when you?ll need to tie your horse on your camping adventure, such as at the trailer. So, he should be completely trustworthy standing tied before you go camping.
When you go for a trail ride, you?ll likely encounter a number of things your horse will perceive as a threat to his safety. As a prey animal, his flight instinct tells him to flee such threats. Your challenge is to keep him under control calmly and confidently. As he begins to trust you as his leader, he?ll learn to stay calm when encountering new object.
