Horse Care For Beginners

Understanding and Treating Navicular Disease. There are a variety of disorders that can affect your horse, so it is important to have a farm vet that you can call when things go wrong. If you want to provide the very best care, however, your best bet is to simply learn about horse health. When you [...]

The Parelli horse training program is named after the founder, Pat Parelli. He developed the program over his twenty five years of training horses.

Horses are a very sturdy animal in that they tend to be healthy and are less prone to sickness than other animals may be.     But it’s important to note that because of their unusual anatomy, they spend nearly all of their time standing. In fact, horses rarely lay down; a horse that lays [...]

As a horse owner, it’s important that you have a basic understanding of horse anatomy. Providing the best possible care for you horse requires that you learn as much as you can about their physical needs. Having knowledge of how your horse’s body works not only helps you care for your horse better, it helps you recognize when there’s a problem that may need a veterinarian’s attention.

There’s going to be some excitement whenever you have little ones that enter your life or the life of your animal. Caring for newborn foals is a very important part of raising horses, and it is something that you should know a lot about right from the start. You’re first consideration is to be sure [...]

In this Post I’d like to briefly talk about some of the different kinds of horse rugs. I’m sure you’ll be aware of the importance of horse rugs to provide protection for your horse in varying conditions, both inside and outside his stable. You can select the blankets you need from a whole range of different kinds, each serving a specific purpose. These include …

Once again, as a change of pace for my Posts, this time I’m talking about a “horse game”.
The game challenges players on three fronts: cross country, show jumping and dressage. The ultimate goal of the game is for you to win all four-star events in Adelaide, Badminton, Burghley, and Kentucky. Before you get ahead of yourself, however, you need to cover the basics.

Here’s a simple checklist for you to refer to in your daily grooming routine. Caring for your horse’s hooves is a important part of maintaining your horses overall health.  If at all possible depending on your day’s routine you should check your horses hooves daily. At the very least, two to three times per week.  [...]

There’s been a lot written on the subject, but I have never before stopped to really think about just how extensive the list is, and just how dangerous some plants can be to horses. Obviously the list of plants will vary according to a number of factors such as which country or territory you’re in, the climatic conditions including the temperature range and rainfall, and the condition of your pasture. I’ll not try to cover them all (Wikipedia lists over 80 species) but just those that probably the most significant.

My first experience of horse loneliness was about nine years ago. A year prior my partner, Jill, and I moved from the mainland to a property in Tasmania bringing our horses with us … plus two dogs and a cat! We’d been here roughly a year and where just driving out to meet a friend in Hobart. Our horses were in our front paddock and as we drove past I had a feeling that something was wrong.