Making Winter Manageable on Horse Farms
Alayne Blickle
January 2, 2026
Don’t wait for the first snowflakes to prepare your horse property for the cold, dark, and wet months ahead.
Don’t wait for the first snowflakes to prepare your horse property for the cold, dark, and wet months ahead.
Prevent odors with smart manure, mud, and urine management, plus natural fixes such as composting, footing, and vegetative buffers.
A veterinarian answers a reader’s question on why some horses have runny manure certain times of the year.
These 5 steps can help you prevent and eliminate odors on your farm and create a cleaner space for your horses.
Find out how to manage and remove horse waste from your farm in a safe and effective way.
Cultivating healthy soil in your horse’s pastures will help reduce weeds and improve pasture quality. These 4 tips can help you achieve healthy soil on your horse property.
Summer sores can worsen rapidly without prompt treatment. Find out how to prevent these lesions and explore methods veterinarians use to address them.
Cultivating healthy pastures on your horse farm can help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Here’s how.
Learn what you can do to reduce the carbon footprint of your horse farm.
How to design a multitiered insect control plan to combat flies, mosquitoes, midges, and more.
These practices will help minimize odors on your farm to keep you, your horses, and your neighbors healthy and happy.
Consider these horse health- and safety-oriented design aspects when building or renovating your barn.
Remember these three core biosecurity steps to help keep your horses as well as your fellow competitors’ horses healthy.
Do horse feeds made of products treated with herbicides and pesticides create contaminated compost that threatens the health of future gardens? Can deworming your horses then composting their manure lead to drug residue in your pile? Find out how to make the most of your horse’s manure.
An equine behavior expert addresses a question about two geldings with very different poop patterns.
Can you pass Alayne’s test? Get advice for winterizing and making your horse property chore-efficient.
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