Category: General Health & Management

Horse Care Tips & Tricks in Fluctuating Weather – Part 2

As you continue to care for your equine companion through the seasons, it’s important to adapt your horse care approach...

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Horse Care Tips & Tricks in Fluctuating Weather – Part 1

Caring for your equine partner is a year-round commitment that requires regular adjustment to their changing needs. When the weather...

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Adjusting Your Horse’s Diet for Seasonal Changes

As the seasons shift, a horse’s dietary needs also change. Whether you’re preparing a horse for the colder months or...

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Monitoring both body weight and body condition will help keep your horse healthy

Knowing how much your horse weighs is important, but body condition is a key factor in determining how fit they are. Body condition measures the level of both fat and muscle in the horse’s body.

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Why You Should Know Your Horse’s Weight

You can take a look at your horse and have an idea whether they’re thin or fat or just about right, to your eye. But it’s important to know (and monitor) your horse’s weight more accurately than “eyeballing” it.

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Storing Supplements in Hot Weather

How a supplement is affected by temperature depends on the formulation of the supplement. Typically powders and pellets tend to be more …

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Can Clover Slobbers Hurt Your Horse?

Excessive salivation in a horse can be dramatic when it appears as a bubbly or foamy mouth with strings of drool leading to a puddle on the barn floor.

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Fluctuating weather can affect your horse

While patience and proper training techniques are essential when working with any horse, some horses can benefit from nutrients that support the normal activity of neurotransmitters (the chemicals responsible for transmitting impulses along nerve cells).

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Are you ready for spring?

Below is a list of spring horse care reminders you should consider while gearing up for the busy season ahead.

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Tips for keeping your horse safe on icy ground

How much ice you get each winter and how you deal with it depends on where you live. Regardless of how long the slippery stuff is around, keeping your horses safe is a key concern.

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Learn how to Body Condition Score your horse

Article re-posted with kind permission by Equine Guelph: http://equineguelph.ca/index.php Equine Guelph has made a New Year’s Resolution to empower horse owners...

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When Is It Too Cold to Bathe Your Horse?

Once a horse is completely wet they can get cold very quickly. The average critical temperature for a horse with...

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Steps for Managing EMS Horses During the Winter

Winter can negatively impact horses challenged by equine metabolic syndrome in a variety of ways, and this can increase their...

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Preparing for Winter Starts Now

10 feeding tips to help your horse get through the cold winter months 1. Don’t rely on pasture as your...

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Horse Pasture Management Tips

Healthy pastures require year-round maintenance. Fall is an important time to evaluate your horse pastures. Depending on your situation, you...

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Reduce your horse’s seasonal stress by slowly switching from pasture grass to hay

Click here to download a print version of this infographic. Text-only version of “Reduce your horse’s seasonal stress by slowly...

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Lyme Disease in Horses

Lyme disease is a tick-borne disease that affects humans and animals, including horses. It is caused by a bacterial spirochete,...

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Research Confirms It: Tall Horses Are More Likely to Roar

Roaring (recurrent laryngeal neuropathy or RLN) occurs when part of the larynx is paralyzed, blocking the airway. As the horse...

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Measure Me

The directions clearly state “Feed one scoop per day to a 1000-pound horse.” Is it a barely full scoop, an...

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Tips for Picky Eaters of the Horse World

There is nothing more maddening than trying to feed a critical supplement to your horse and having him not eat it. If you have a picky eater, introducing a new supplement slowly will help short-circuit any possible protests. How slowly depends on the horse and just how suspicious he or she is.

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