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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Prevent Dehydration and Acute Mountain Sickness while Trail Riding
An effect of riding at high altitudes is dehydration, a major cause of the syndrome known as Acute Mountain Sickness. Both you and your horse need to stay hydrated to prevent dehydration, and one simple indicator of dehydration is urine color. Relatively clear urine tends to go with hydration, while dark yellow tends to indicate dehydration. Worse, urine that appears tinged with red or pink suggests serious dehydration, which can be a cause of Acute Mountain Sickness. It is important to prevent
Horse Leg Wrapping 101
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.
The Equine Lameness Exam
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.
How-to Check a Spook with Lynn Palm
Follow top horse trainer Lynn Palm?s four-step strategy for spook prevention and control on the trail.
Preventing Dehydration
To ensure that your horse remains healthy, learn to effectively replace the water and electrolytes.
Trailer-Tuneup Checklist
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.
Pure Joy Campground
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.
Handle On-Trail Encounters
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.
Team Roping Success: Increase Your Horse's Performance
Getting along with your horse is the key to improving your team roping performance, whether heading or heeling.
