Horse owners are advised to take steps to reduce the number of mosquitoes around their barns, stables, and homes, including eliminating standing water in farm yards to prevent diseases in horses and humans.
Some horses require sedating for clipping, dental treatment or shoeing, but calling a veterinarian each time is rather costly. Now a new drug, Dormosedan Gel is making sedation of horses safer and easier.
Springtime brings wet-dry cycles that create problems with horse's hoofs leading to brittle or cracked hooves, infiltration of bacteria that causes thrush and abscesses
Is triticale a good hay for horses?
As wood is a natural insulator, using wood for horse barn builds is a good idea.
The recent migration from small square bales to large or round bales in hay production has caused folks to revisit their ideas on whether to incorporate a loft space in a new barn design.
Cribbing, weaving and stall walking are common stable vices. Learn the 8 common causes of stereotypies and 8 steps you can take to prevent these destructive behaviors.
BLM's National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board is expected to consider the issue of surgical sterilizations as a fertility control option for curbing wild horse populations on the range.
âMonty Roberts, founder of Join-Up® International has announced a much-needed grant of $50,000 from the Disabled Veterans National Foundation that will help cover the costs of the Horse Sense and Healing clinics for veterans with Post Traumatic Stress
SmartPak has an aggressive recycling program in the office: separating all recyclables into paper, glass, plastic, and garbage, creating over 200 tons of recycling in a year!