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Karin Antoni Strives to Help Metabolic Horses How and why did you get started in business? I was gifted a morbidly obese pony in 2012 and I like to say she was one carrot away from a catastrophic metabolic event! The ideal products I needed to rehab my new fat …
With exercise, the body temperature rises. This heat must be dissipated, or the horse will literally “cook”! The body cools itself through the evaporation of sweat, so sweating is especially important for the exercising horse. The sweat contains water and electrolytes, or salts. The main electrolytes are sodium, chloride, potassium, calcium, …
Tips for Staying Motivated in the Off-Season Don’t let snow and cold temperatures deter you from pursuing your riding goals. When the wind is howling, the snow is knee-deep, and you can no longer feel your face while gathering your horses from the other side of the pasture, it’s easy …
Head to Hoof® Products Help Senior Horse Regain Health The Sturdy Horse, located in Del Norte, Colorado, researches, develops, and manufactures products made from hemp seeds that help humans, horses, and pets. One horse, Peaches, a 29-year-old Quarter Horse with extreme malnutrition due to negligence, was checked over by a …
How to Take, Measure and Track Key Vital Signs By Meriel Moore-Colyer for Haygain Maintaining good health in our horses is every owner’s responsibility. Avoiding performance-limiting viruses, preventing the development of more serious diseases, and ensuring your horse is content and living as natural a life as possible should be everyone’s …
The Benefits of Horse Ownership Go Beyond Riding Today I walked my far fields, skirted the woods my husband and I planted decades ago, and soaked in a few moments of one of the last sunny days of the year. The grass was damp from a recent rain, but the …
Unveiling the Truth Behind Equine Footwear Hoof boots—we’ve all heard of them, and it’s a love-or-hate relationship for most. I tried boots from four manufacturers a few years ago and promptly returned to traditional steel shoes. Steel has worked for me for years. Other than a few sprung shoes, failures …
It was a joy to read the essays and see the photos submitted to our Senior Horse Essay Contest this year. It was very difficult, as usual, to choose the winners. In the end, I chose those who most closely followed the submission guidelines and whose words and photos best …
Hauling Tips from A World Champion Roper and an Equine Veterinarian By Aimee Robinson for Valley Vet Supply Thousands of miles of dotted lines have passed before the view of World Champion Breakaway Roper, Jackie Crawford, while hauling her horses. She, along with Steve Allday, DVM, a competitive team roper …
5 Strategies to Make the Cold Season a Little Easier As summer fades into fall, the natural world prepares for winter. Birds migrate south, horses grow furry, and squirrels stockpile grain and nuts. We humans also need to get ready for the long cold winter and for the hardships and …
