Winter Horse Care
The Horse Staff
November 16, 2012
Equine nutrition, hydration, exercise, blanketing, and respiratory health can be concerns as temperatures dip.
Equine nutrition, hydration, exercise, blanketing, and respiratory health can be concerns as temperatures dip.
Whether your region’s winter weather consists of cooler temps and occasional rains or you’re in for months of frigid winds and endless snowfall, you can take steps to make the season more manageable.
Clipped horses achieved faster post-exercise recovery than unclipped horses when working in cold temperatures.
New research indicates horses can slow body processes to conserve energy when environmental factors dictate.
Complicated and emerging equine skin disorders do exist, but they are rare, according to one researcher.
Senior horses have a propensity for developing hyperthermia, or elevated body temperature, when exercising.
Someone turned up the heat and humidity this week, which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,500 beef cattle
A horse’s body temperature can indicate everything from an internal ailment (such as colic) to an infectious disease to hypothermia. Or it can simply confirm that a horse is healthy and ready for action. While most owners and veterinarians step to
A hot humid day. One rider. One horse. Both are exercising at a moderate level. Who is more likely to overheat?
With the exception of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, which began in September to allow for the southern hemisphere’s “reversed” order of seasons–winter in Australia is summer in North America–the summer Olympic Games generally are held in just that: the good old summertime.
During hot weather, heat dissipation is primarily dependent on evaporation of sweat on the skin surface. Horses are capable of producing large quantities of sweat–sweating rates of 10-15 liters/hour have been reported during exercise in hot conditions.
Are foals born with the ability to sweat, or cool themselves?
Here’s what you need to know about keeping your horse from overheating during exercise in hot weather.
Here are a few things to keep in mind when designing a warm-up program for your horse.
A horse asked to perform strenuous exercise often is pushed to the limits of his body’s mechanisms to recover. In most cases, these mechanisms allow the horse to finish the exercise with no problem. Sometimes, however, the horse’s ability to
We know that all horses have a guttural pouch, and some of their distant relations have a smaller version of the same structure. But until very recently, we didn’t know why they existed.
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