
Dealing With Mud and Flooding on Horse Properties
These practical strategies can help property owners manage runoff, reduce mud, and avoid common horse health issues in wet, flood-prone conditions.


These practical strategies can help property owners manage runoff, reduce mud, and avoid common horse health issues in wet, flood-prone conditions.

Moisture meters can help you determine when to bale and store your horses’ hay and can protect against barn or storage building fires.

Are your horses bored during the winter and early spring months? One farm owner offers ideas to keep them entertained.

Don’t wait for the first snowflakes to prepare your horse property for the cold, dark, and wet months ahead.

Stacking and tarping your hay correctly can ensure quality forage for your horse all winter.

Fall is a great time to renovate horse pastures due to encouraged root growth until the ground freezes.

Use this checklist of fall horse property chores to better prepare yourself and your horses for the upcoming winter months.

Prevent odors with smart manure, mud, and urine management, plus natural fixes such as composting, footing, and vegetative buffers.

Here’s why you should consider how closely horses graze, along with compost, water, and rest to cultivate healthy soil in horse pastures.

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.

Sustainable hay production involves practices that protect the environment while yielding high-quality hay. Here’s how to grow or source sustainably produced hay.

How to choose, install, and maintain your stall or shed floors to maximize horse comfort and chore convenience.

Learn about the common signs of pigeon fever in horses—including abscesses in chest—how your vet might diagnose and treat the disease, and how you can prevent it.

Improving the air quality in your barn can protect horses and humans against respiratory dysfunction.

Is one grass hay variety more palatable than another? Should I feed my horse the first or second cutting of hay? Equine nutritionists answer these questions and more.
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