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Four Ways to Ensure a Safe Exercise Routine for Your Horse This Winter As the winter months grow colder in some parts of the globe, you may be wondering how to ensure that your horse maintains proper exercise. Colder temperatures and snow or rainy conditions, coupled with icy footing, may make it difficult or dangerous to exercise your horses during the winter. Still, with a few helpful tips in mind, you can make sure your horse is getting the ri...

Equine First Aid – Being Prepared It’s a rare horse that never suffers an injury of some kind. Horses are active, curious, and social, which means they can run into hazards or bang into each other. Here are our Equine First Aid  tips. It's all about being prepared! The following should be at the top of the list for any emergency: Veterinarian phone numbers Insurance policy information and contact numbers A treatment authorization document...

Like A Horse To Water – Horse Hydration Tips Like any domesticated animal, providing good food and water for your horse is a baseline of care. Some horses can be surprisingly finicky about their water. What’s more, the level of exercise required of show and event horses places unique demands on their metabolism for processing their water intake. Essential Minerals The key is not the water, but the minerals associated with the water. Horses rely o...

Horse Travel Health Tips - Good Rules For The Road Your horse will inevitably have to travel for any number of reasons. Even if all the travel arrangements are made by your stable, you’ll want to know the proper protocols for yourself. There are a couple of reasons for this: A large part of keeping your horse healthy on a trip has to do with how it is stabled at the destination. You will undoubtedly be involved in this. Changes in your horse’s h...

Treat Your Horse Like The Athlete They AreComparisons are regularly drawn between competing equines and professional athletes. But there are actually no human athletes who perform the feats that hunter/jumpers or cross-country eventers do.The physics of a horse’s considerably greater mass change all the calculations for bone and muscle stress. For this reason, preventative measures to protect the well-being of your horse—much less its performance...