When to Blanket Your Horse
Does your horse need a blanket? Answer the questions and find out!
Third and final part in the series of how to go from absolute beginner to ready to buy your own horse. I will outline the 8 steps to buying your first horse.
How to tell if your horse is overheating, what to do, and how to prevent it in the future.
The wisdom of tomorrow-self is this: Focus on one thing you can do today to make tomorrow easier. Repeat.
If you replace “Chuck Norris” with “Mares” in jokes about him it’s scarily accurate… Lets check it out:
One of the biggest questions horse owners have when things aren’t going right is whether its a pain induced response or a behavior. Many times Veterinarians are called out to examine the horse and if an obvious reason isn’t found then the horse is considered to have learned a bad behavior. Other times the behavior is brushed off and its said that is just how that horse is, when in reality that horse is trying to tell you that they are in pain.
Horses are measured in hands, but hands have been a measurement tool for centuries before standardized measuring systems existed. The hand was standardized to mean 4” for measuring horses during the rule of Henry VIII in 1540.
You might have heard to give your horse a warm bran mash when the temperature drops to prevent colic in horses, but is this the best way?