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The Best Way to Calculate Horse Costs and Why It Is Important for Your Success
To figure out your costs per horse you will need to look at both your variable and fixed expenses and there are two ways you can approach this: you can go for an overall cost per horse or a more specific individual horse cost.
Horizon Structures Presents Series - Hold Your Horses ~ What Do You Know About Quarantining Equines?
Even inadvertently, horse barn owners regularly make poor choices when it comes to vaccination protocols and introductions of new horses to the barn family.
Horse Thoughts: For the New Horse Owner - Part One of Two
Thinking about getting a horse. Here is some sage advice from author Miriam Reich about some basic considerations prior to taking the plunge.
Give Your Horse a Leg-Up With a Multi-Level Feeding Program
While top quality feed may cost more per pound, the horse's utilization of nutritional benefits outweighs the additional expense as often less feed is required.
NSAIDs - Helpful or Harmful in Horses?
 It is now recognized that NSAIDs cause side effects in the gastrointestinal tract of the horse such as stomach ulcers, severe inflammation and injury to the colon, and damage to the kidneys particularly when horses are dehydrated.
Quick Tips: Q and A - Controlling Parasites in Horses
A fecal egg count gives a quantitative assessment of your horse’s worm burden and the AAEP considers a FEC to be the best assessment of parasite burden to identify the frequency of treatment needed.
Cavallo Horse & Rider Takes On Performance Concerns
Cavallo President Carole Herder helps horse owners understand how horses' hooves heal and recover from past injuries and how horses move naturally with the boots in place.
Is Your Sport Horse Ready to Go Barefoot?
The critical key is knowing all the hows, whens, and whys of keeping an equine athlete shoeless, and success involves careful management and understanding about each horse's genetics, foot health, nutrition, farriery, bedding, and more.
Botulism: More Deadly Than Wrinkles for Horses and People
Botulism is a progressive neuromuscular disease that quickly leads to weakness and flaccid paralysis or the lack of muscle tone with the reduced ability to move and typically leads to death of the horse if itâs not treated soon after the onset of clinic
Horizon Structures Presents Series: How To Manage Horse Barn Needs After Catastrophic Damage Hits Home
Losing your horse barn to a fire, flood, wind, or snow damage is a traumatic event and it will take time to recover from the experience both emotionally and financially.