Horse Hay Prices Shared by Readers
Megan Arszman
February 2, 2010
More than 1,570 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “How much are you paying for small square bales of hay?”
More than 1,570 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “How much are you paying for small square bales of hay?”
The animal cruelty trial of Nebraska horse owner Jason Meduna has attracted a lot of attention recently. More than 200 seriously malnourished and neglected horses
On Thursday in this excerpt from the Eclipse Press book Equine ER by Leslie Guttman, Quarter Horse mare Surely Awesome was able to deliver her
Debbie McDonald joins me this week as co-host and tells us about the USEF Developing Dressage Program. We also hear from Alis Carbone who gained
The 2010 Alltech World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Kentucky, may still seem a ways off (they commence September 25 and conclude October 10), but for
More than 30 allegedly malnourished Arabian horses are receiving rehabilitative care after officials removed them from a farm in Oak Harbor, Ohio.
On Friday, Animal welfare authorities from the Humane Society of Ottawa County discovered 37 animals allegedly living in filth without food or water. One horse was dead and another five were euthanized at the scene. The remaining 31 hor
The time to pull out the thermometer and stethoscope to check your horse’s temperature, pulse (heart rate), and respiration (TPR) for the first time is not when he’s looking a little puny and you and the veterinarian are on the phone trying to decide whether it’s an emergency. Instead, these baseline measurements should be part of a horse’s routine care.
Diagnosing skin diseases is probably one of the greatest challenges to horse handlers and veterinarians alike.
Adding a local analgesic to the systemic pain medications used during castration relieved pain in colts, researchers recently reported.
The researchers observed three groups of 12 colts. All of the horses received pain medication before and after surgery. One group received butorphanol, a morphine derivative; one received phenylbutazone, an anti-inflammatory; and the third receive
Your horse needs certain nutrients in his diet, but they don’t work unilaterally on his body. Instead, they help each other to help your horse. If you understand how these nutrients support each other, you can make better feeding choices.
Owners must consider how they will meet their older horses’ nutrient requirements during the winter. Providing adequate energy is the prime concern, and how you will provide those extra calories depends on available feed and each horse’s needs.
I have a 7-year-old Morgan mare who is pregnant for the first time. She has always been overly friendly and sweet; however, at several months in foal she has become aggressive. Is there an explanation for this change in personality?
Whenever my mare is in her stall, she constantly stands at the door and paws, knocking her hoof or knee against the door. If you approach the door and yell at her, or go open the door a bit, she stops, but only for a little while.
Animal health authorities have discovered more cases of equine piroplasmosis, including 13 positive horses tested as part of a routine racetrack screening program in New Mexico, and one horse in Texas that was a cohort of a positive trace-out from an ongoing investigation.
The information was included in a Jan. 25 report issued to the World Organization for Animal Health (Office I
The horse in the wild depends on keen eyesight and acute hearing to detect danger and flee from predators before they get close enough to attack.
Seven San Diego police horses will be sold in an online auction after their unit was disbanded in December. San Diego Police Assistant Chief Bob Kanaski said the seven horses, which range in age from 9 to 12 years old, will likely bring opening bids of $500 to $1,500. Their equipment will also be offered for sale.
The auction will begin today. Potential buyers can see the horses
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