2 days ago by Sophie

This morning, frost was everywhere. I thought it was a good day to try Star’s new winter coat on and it suits her so well! She is like a little mother Christmas! Star showing off in her new red coat! She was not too happy about me touching her ankles and I could feel the scabs were a bit harder than ...

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3 days ago by Sophie

OK so I went back to the stables in the afternoon. I stopped at the local tack shop and they told me to go to the Equine Hospital to get some home made mud fever cream. When I got there they told me I needed prescription so whatever! I’ll go and get some Sudocream from Boots tomorrow morning and tha ...

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3 days ago by horsemanship

In August, a foal named “Mira” became a sign of success for a rare scientific procedure: the collection of oocytes (immature egg cells) from a post mortem dam. The scientists involved, Sylvia Bedford-Guaus, DVM and reproductive expert at Cornell University, along with her lab team, dissected the dam ...

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3 days ago by horsemanship

Statistically speaking, yes, according to researchers at the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Urbana. After analyzing to data from “large populations of patients,” experts have found these trends: Strangulating lipomas are common in older Arabians and Quarter Horses. A lipoma i ...

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3 days ago by horsemanship

The Jacksonville Daily News reported yesterday that three horses in the Newport, North Carolina, area have died from Eastern Equine Encephalitis since October. Read the article here. The American Association of Equine Practitioners defines EEE as a “ viral infection of the horse’s brain and spinal c ...

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3 days ago by Sophie

OK so I got really worried again yesterday as Star looked slightly lame. It was very subtle and only because I know her very well I could spot something was not quite right. Obviously I thought about another hoof infection but this morning, as I inspected her, I found some scabs at the back of her l ...

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4 days ago by Sophie

I went to the yard shortly after lunch and I was very excited about riding my Star. It was very cold but sunny so I was looking forward to this. I found Star in deep mud, her rug and neck covered in mud and I thought I was going to have a hard time cleaning her… A friend of mine was there and told m ...

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5 days ago by Daniel Beatty DVM

A horse is built to move. In the wild a horse is a grazer and the herd moves several miles a day in search of food. We as humans use this to our advantage – in the beginning a horse was used as a mode of transportation, because how they are built to move. Today our recreational use of horses still i ...

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5 days ago by charmian

You often hear people say that they have been riding since they were three years old, or they were practically born in the saddle. Simple logic will belie this. No child of three years has enough coordination or strength. However, children do have a natural balance but no particular rhythm. Every sp ...

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6 days ago by SierraRanch

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