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Reasons Why Your Horse Should Be Insured
To its owner, a fine horse is more than an animal; It’s a major investment, requiring the maximum degree of care and protection. Horses, of course, being living creatures, there are always plentiful chances for things to go wrong. Responsible owners buy the best horse insurance policy they can to cover the costs of possible mishaps. Medical Misfortunes Horses, like humans, suffer from illness and disease. Common disorders include colic, laminitis (a crippling hoof inflammation), equine flu and a host of internal parasites. The medical management of horses is more specialized than for most animals, employing whole industries of farriers, equine veterinarians and dentists. Horse care costs are comparable to…
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Managing a Horse or Pony Prone to Laminitis
Despite the fact that research has improved our understanding of the causes of laminitis, it doesn’t seem to have resulted in a reduction in the number of cases. Why is this? Well it may have something to do with the increase in numbers of horses and ponies that are overweight or obese. Despite the fact that most owners are aware that if their horse or pony is overweight, they are at increased risk of laminitis, many find it very difficult to diet them effectively. There are many possible reasons for this but, just as with people, it is often because they simply don’t realise where the calories in the diet…
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How to Treat Heal Hoof Abscess in Horses
We all know the horse is a very faithful and lovable animal. Just like other pets like dogs, cats, cows, etc, you should also take care of your horse health like hoof abscess health. Horse hoof health is also as important as overall health and comfort. If any kind of injury or bacteria goes inside of the hoof can cause infection. Due to this your horse may be not comfortable and suffers from pain. Some horse owners even don’t know that his/her horse abscess trim regularly, while some horse needs to trim their abscess once or twice in the life. Hoof abscesses are so painful for the horses. So, here…
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Equine Supplement Bucket to Trick or Treating Bucket
My kids actually go trick or treating several times each year. We own a camper so we camp seasonally and the season includes two early October Trick or Treating weekends. By the time actual Halloween comes along it is pretty much a non-event. Since they trick or treat three times at least, it is pretty inevitable that at least one of those days will be raining. Last year, all three days were raining and any candy they did get that wasn’t eaten on that first night had to be thrown out. It was all soak and wet right through the bag and through the candy. This year we are planning…
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How I Define Weather
This is how I define weather: HHOOOTTTT – 95 degrees plus – far too hot to clean stalls, far too hot to ride a horse, far too hot for the horses. Change the water often because they aren’t huge fans of warm hay saturated tea… Hot – 80 degrees plus when my eyeballs sweat while mucking stalls Perfect Day – 65 degrees and perfect for tacking up a horse, riding, hanging out all day at the barn enjoying our horses. Too nice to bother cleaning stalls. Warm – when it is 20 degrees and I am working up just a slight sweat mucking stalls but all in…
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Adding A Little Zen To My Workspace
Everyone who knows me, knows I love horses. I have a very demanding job by day and everyone tries to add something to their workspace that offers a little bit of peace and tranquility. For me, that means adding an equine terrarium, a couple other decorative touches and a pair of silk fern plants. With all the hours I spend there I need to make a corner to “get away from it all”. Not to mention sometimes when people come to my office they are under a great deal of stress from some source. When they walk in and see this corner they instantly know that I value individuality,…
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Winter Equine Terrarium – Dollar Tree Style
Last night I was searching for terrariums and I came across equine terrariums – and fell in love. I immediately knew I totally wanted to make one of these – now that I have made one I may just make more! This was fun, quick and thanks to Dollar Tree – inexpensive. Here’s what I used: A celebration bowl (terrarium) from the wedding section – plastic not glass Two bags or rocks for the bottom of the bowl – layer at the bottom of the bowl. The bags are two different sizes of rocks – the smaller size fills in between the larger size. Four bags of white sand (snow)…
