Recent estimates put owning a horse at around $10,000 a year. This includes basic care costs associated with vaccinations, deworming, hoof care, nutrition and shelter.
Horses are physically designed for cold weather since a horse's coat does well, even in sub-zero temperatures by nsulating the horse from most weather conditions.
"When feeding a horse with no teeth or with very severe tooth damage, feed a slurry of complete pelleted feed and/or mashed alfalfa pellets, and add in some long stemmed soft leafy alfalfa hay because horses without teeth will still want to chew on fiber
Rumors of horse kill buyers lurking in the shadows of horse auctions and opportunists looking to snare a horse or two to be used in hog tying and tail twisting contests are causing owners who can no longer take care of their horses to second guess about h
âHorse Health Matters takes a fresh approach addressing the "big picture" topics that horse owners encounter on a daily basis. and provides useful advice and important takeaways that can immediately help the horse owner improve horse health and safety.â
âWith reports of newly confirmed infectious horse diseases such as strangles and vesicular stomatitis, horse owners are encouraged to determine the acceptable level of disease risk they are willing to assume for their horse and implement biosecurity mea
With warmer weather and school breaks, more visitors are spending weekends and vacations in horse country, whether at a dude ranch, or Uncle Ben's farm. Many of the visitors are children who have had little experience around horses, and, in fact, many
The goal of the 100 Day Horse Challenge is to increase awareness of the benefits of horse activities across the United States by aiming to engage at least 100,000 new people with an introductory horse experience.
"Halloween is a festive time with costumes, tricks and treats, and revelry for young and old, but protecting your horse from spooky situations is important for the well being of you, your horse and trick or treaters.â
Horses have many amazing traits,some of which are in common with other animals, but also several that are different.