1 day ago by PetShop

Spending time with your horse not only enables a close bond to develop between you both, but it also enables you to learn how your horse responds to situations and how they are in themselves. Over time you will be able to read their body language. A calm and responsive horse is generally a happy one ...

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1 day ago by admin

How to care for a horse in winter is easy. Horses can regulate their temperature better in the winter than they can in the summer. To keep them happy only a few things are needed. Having a few more calories during the winter and keeping a little extra fat will not hurt in the cold months. It is real ...

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1 day ago by sam

Bonding with your horse will allow you to learn and respond to his feelings and reactions in different situations . In time you will learn your horse’s body language . A calm and responsive horse is generally a happy one . They will keep their head lowered, and have soft eyes and a relaxed jaw . A h ...

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1 day ago by Joanne Friedman, Freelance Writer, ASEA ...

Still 'tis the season, right? So what's with all the glum faces I see around me? What I'm thinking is that we as a lump sum of humanity have become depressed, dejected, disappointed, and otherwise demented and there is no one to blame but ourselves. Sure, we're jobless. Sure, we have little hope of ...

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1 day ago by Jackie

Learn to recognize, treat, and prevent colic in your horse before it’s too late In a lifetime of riding, and a little over a year of horse-owning, I finally had to deal with my first bout of colic. Fortunately Ace just had a very minor case of gas colic from which he recovered in a just a couple hou ...

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2 days ago by halfpass

I was happy to get an e-mail from Germany! My trainer is over there, coaching a young rider for the World Youth Invitational in Frankfurt… I’ve been e-mailing her about the Christmas horse to no avail. Finally, a reply! She can’t wait to meet the horse ...

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2 days ago by Kimberly Cox Carneal

From Fran Jurga’s post, “The Quiet Americans” For whatever reason, Americans are neither rallying to protest nor hurrying to embrace the announcement of changes in FEI medication rules two weeks ago that ended the long years of zero tolerance of medications for all horses competing in FEI-sanctioned ...

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2 days ago by eqspot

Winter is definitely upon us. Full blow in some areas that are getting a foot plus of snow! But all of that is not quite the point I’m impressing on you. Many people don’t know how to help their horse during the winter. So they just keep them stalled most of the time, with minimal turnout. Fear not ...

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2 days ago by Stacey Kimmel-Smith

Well, it's happened. I have officially had "the hay talk" at every barn I have ever kept a horse. I'm getting pretty practiced at having this conversation, and it went well this time. The hay talk? If you board, and especially if your horse is a hard keeper, chances are you know this conversation. Y ...

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2 days ago by halfpass

Forty-eight hours to go! I thought that with age comes patience….It ain’t so. Patience implies that one has time to spare. When you begin to age, this simply isn’t true. I am worse than a child waiting for Santa! I am dying to post photos, share my adventures in his training, get on and just ride, p ...

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