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Top Tips For Looking After Your Horse’s Hooves Your horse’s hooves are impressive things. With a relatively small surface area, their complex structure supports the weight of your horse, and often a rider, which is why they need special care. Luckily, there is plenty you can do to ensure your horse is given the best foundation for healthy hooves. There are a few top tips you can put into practice to ensure your horses hooves are in as good condi...

What Are The Best Fly Sheets & Fly Masks? While summer is a favourite time for riders for obvious reasons, it’s not always fun and games for our horses. While they don’t have to worry about the cold, the warm weather brings with it its own set of complications, one of which is flies and insects. Read more: What is a fly mask & do you need one? These bugs and annoying little critters can pose a real problem for your horse. Not only...

Getting a new horse is incredibly exciting. However, it doesn’t come without its complications! Introducing a new horse to an already established herd can be tricky. Read more: How To Deal With Pesky Blanket & Rug Wreckers Depending on the temperament of the horses involved, a new horse may slot right in with no problems. However, sometimes there can be a few teething problems when integrating a new horse. Here we’re going to give...

It’s winter and there’s a magical scene of frost coating the stable roof; the paddocks have a fluffy layer of snow lying across them; perhaps sections of the pasture have frozen over entirely. We have some top tips on how to keep your horse warm over winter. When faced with a frosty forecast, the first instinct for horse owners might be to barricade your horse inside the warm stable. However, as much as this sounds like the ideal defence...

How to Recognise & Deal With Heat Stress in Horses The image of buying sunscreen for your horse at first might seem pretty surreal. Unfortunately, the same blazing heat that causes us to feel dizzy and our skin to peel also has its fair share of problematic effects for our horses - the most important of these being heat stress. As The British Horse Society have advised: “Our message is simple – horses need suntan cream and shade t...