Help! A Skunk Sprayed My Horse
Jennifer Whittle
September 26, 2020
Follow these steps to remove the pungent odor if your horse gets skunked.
Follow these steps to remove the pungent odor if your horse gets skunked.
An Oregon-based sports medicine practice offers advice for horse owners dealing with hazardous and unhealthy air quality.
Using a mounting block is better for your horse’s body and helpful if you have physical issues that make mounting difficult. Here are plans for how to build a sturdy mounting block that will serve you for years.
Human nutritionists encourage eating whole foods and avoiding processed ones. Does the same logic apply to our horses?
Also known as “forging,” horses with overstrides can injure themselves and pull shoes when their hind feet make contact with their front legs. A vet offers advice on how to prevent problems.
Copper is involved energy production, iron metabolism, connective tissue formation, central nervous system function, and melanin production. Is your horse getting enough? If you only feed forage, probably not.
Do you have a cinchy horse? Follow this step-by-step advice to modify his behavior.
What’s the best way to soak horses’ hay to reduce dust and sugar content?
How do you ensure a horse that’s reluctant to use his salt block and refuses to eat loose salt in his ration is getting enough?
A horse owner wonders if a vitamin C supplement will help her horse with swollen legs.
The numbers show the equine veterinary profession lacks diversity. Here, equine internal medicine specialist, University of Calgary veterinary school senior instructor of equine clinical medicine, and The Horse contributor Jean-Yin Tan, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, shares her experience as a minority in the industry.
A horse in Arizona is low-energy and losing weight in the summer heat. Find out what might help.
A reader’s horse who doesn’t like to drink when traveling recently tied up while running cross-country at an event. Our nutritionist offers advice to get the horse to hydrate in the future.
This study might support using your new Zoom skills with your horse next time you’re away from the barn.
Dr. Hilary Clayton offers advice on the best way to warm up and supple your horse at the beginning of your ride.
Planning a weight-reducing diet is easy until faced with the loving eyes of a pony begging for his alfalfa.
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