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Check Under the Blanket - Has Your Horse's Body Condition Score Changed?
if a horse has a good appetite and seems to eat normally but is losing significant amounts of weight, owners and veterinarians have reason to suspect a serious problem.
Is Your Horse Sweating Too Much?
It is summer time and the increased heat and humidity can harm your horse if you are not paying attention. When a horse faces a combination of too much exercise and hot, humid weather, heat stroke may occur.
Horse-soring Indictments
The Humane Society of the United States has applauded US authorities including the Agriculture Office of Inspector General, The Justice Department, and the US Attorney's Office in Knoxville, Tennessee, for obtaining a horse-soring abuse indictment
Learning Life Skills Through Horse Power
Horse back riding lessons are provided by Taking the Reins, a nonprofit group that teaches horse care and riding to girls with the esteem-building aim of "empowering girls through horse power," according to the group's slogan.
Applying a Standing Wrap for Bandage Support
The standing wrap is the most basic bandage used on a horse, and one that every horseman should know how to do properly because it protects the horse's legs, tendons, and ligaments, while the horse is in a stall or during transport.
Ulcers
Learn about advances in diagnostic techniques when ulcers are suspected in your horse, why ulcers are more common than once thought, and how careful management is the key in preventing the development of ulcers in horses.
Avoid Risks to Horse Health When Traveling
Whether your horse is traveling to another continent, an out-of-state show or a mile away to the park, good equine health care starts at home.
Debunking 4 Popular Myths about Beet Pulp for Horses
Although anecdotal stories about individual horses may have lead to these myths or old wives' tales about beet pulp as feed, research and experience have largely discounted them and supplied information that horse owners can take to heart.
How Do You Love Your Horse?
Those sounds plus the rubs and strokes can cause relaxation in a horse and affirmation for jobs well done, in the saddle and from the ground.
Tips for Making Winter Riding Safer
Riding your horse during the winter gives you both a chance to keep fit and enjoy the beauty of a winter landscape. This article offers tips to help you keep safe, and prepare for a winter horse ride.