Karen Briggs

Karen Briggs is the author of six books, including the recently updated Understanding Equine Nutrition as well as Understanding The Pony, both published by Eclipse Press. She’s written a few thousand articles on subjects ranging from guttural pouch infections to how to compost your manure. She is also a Canadian certified riding coach, an equine nutritionist, and works in media relations for the harness racing industry. She lives with her band of off-the-track Thoroughbreds on a farm near Guelph, Ontario, and dabbles in eventing.

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Hemp A Hit In Ontario

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Dietary Needs: Striking a Balance

You can’t watch TV for more than half an hour these days without viewing at least one ad preaching the virtues of a balanced diet. Public service announcements emphasize the value of getting enough servings of fruits and vegetables. Cereal

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Heavy Metal: Farm Tractors

Keeping horses on your property? Then you don’t need me to tell you how much work there always is to do. In addition to all the actual horse care, there are endless weeds to whack, riding rings or tracks to be harrowed, bales of hay to be moved fro

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Safe And Secure Fencing

Sandra had installed her fencing in good faith, on the advice of experts – yet in only weeks, one of her horses had been seriously injured. Would another kind of barrier have been any safer? It seems everyone’s got at least one fencing horror story”andra had installed her fencing in good faith, on the advice of experts – yet in only weeks, one of her horses had been seriously injured. Would another kind of barrier have been any”ndra had installed her fencing in good faith, on the advice of experts – yet in only weeks, one of her horses had bee”dra had installed her fencing in good faith, on the adv

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Genetically Altered Feeds: Modified Munchies

Since their introduction on a commercial level in 1995, genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, have become widely incorporated in livestock feeds. It’s estimated that some 80% of the genetically modified corn produced in the United States is used

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Fly Protection Uncovered

These days, we have quite an arsenal at our disposal to attack and repel flies. From electric bug zappers, to pheromone traps, to parasitic wasps that feed on fly pupae, we’ve explored all sorts of ways and means of getting rid of flying insects.

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Echinacea Proven Effective In Horses

The Equine Research Centre (ERC) in Guelph, Ontario, in the past year has undertaken an exhaustive series of studies on the safety and efficacy of herbal supplements for horses. Many of these studies are the first quantifiable, species-specific

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Secrets Of Rubber Mats

Where would we be without rubber? Make all the jokes you want; rubber’s indispensable stuff, especially in the barn. The tire on your wheelbarrow, the handle grip on your longe whip, your two-year-old’s first snaffle bit, that flexible curry

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Extruded Feeds

The first time you saw extruded feed, you probably thought, Ick. Dog food! The nondescript brown lumps do look a lot like your hound’s kibble, or some sort of uninspired version of Cocoa Puffs, and in fact they’re made by the same process–but”P>The first time you saw extruded feed, you probably thought, Ick. Dog food! The nondescript brown lumps do look a lot like your hound’s kibble, or some sort of uninspired version of”>The first time you saw extruded feed, you probably thought, Ick. Dog food! The nondescript brown lumps do look a lot l”The first time you saw extruded feed, you probably thought,

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Big Appetites In Big Horses (Drafts)

Nothing says sheer power like a draft horse. Nothing else exudes such strength with such a mild-mannered attitude. To watch these gentle giants in action is to get a sense of our own history and the invaluable role horses played, and continue to

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Shoeing The Laminitic Horse

Of all the medical crises that can afflict a horse, laminitis surely is one of the most alarming. Horribly painful, and potentially devastating to his long-term soundness, the strange syndrome whereby the coffin bone inside the hoof begins to

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Are You My Mother?: Maternal Behavior

Anyone who has witnessed a foal’s first few minutes in this world might agree that one of the most miraculous parts of the process is the way a mare greets and bonds with her newborn. With a deep sniff at the baby’s nostrils, that distinctive

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Permeable Stall Flooring, Some Options

Permeable stall floor coverings function differently than rubber stall mats, whose main purpose is to provide cushioning for your horse’s legs. Rubber is basically waterproof, so urine and other liquids pool on top of such a surface, to be soaked up

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Nutrition 101

You don’t need to be a novice to be confused about the subject of equine nutrition. Many long-time horse owners have never dabbled in the mysteries of feeding because their horses always were kept at boarding stables or managed by

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What’s in Your Feed? (Contamination)

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What is it? you call over your shoulder.

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What is it? you call over your shoulder.

There are huge lumps of molasses in this bag of feed!”Yuck! you hear your friend exclaim from the feed room as you move down the barn aisle one evening, doling out flakes of hay.

What is it? you call over your shoulder.

There are huge lumps of molasses in this bag of feed”Yuck! you hear your friend exclaim from the feed room as you move down the barn aisle one evening, doling out flakes of hay.

What is it? you call over your shoulder.

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What is it? you call over your shoulder.

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The Latest on Laminitis

Of all the ailments a horse can suffer, laminitis is the one that unfailingly strikes fear into the heart of an owner.

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