
How to De-static Your Horse
Get tips on how to combat static electricity on your horse’s hair coat and how to avoid delivering that spooky shock to your horse.
How to care for the basic health needs of horses

Get tips on how to combat static electricity on your horse’s hair coat and how to avoid delivering that spooky shock to your horse.

Robyn Spector, who trains out of Lone Willow Ranch in Petaluma, Calif., offers advice on how to handle encounters on the trail.

Karmen Mills, of Around the Bend Farm in Newcastle, California, shares tips for checking the fit on your horse’s blanket.

Dr. Roberta Dwyer of the University of Kentucky’s Gluck Equine Research Center discusses how to properly clean leather, and why you can’t completely disinfect it.

Karmen Mills of Around the Bend farm in Newcastle, Calif., discusses situations in which horses should be blanketed and how to safely put the blanket on and take it off.
Learn how to read your horse’s lip tattoo with Patrick Kealy, a horse identifier in Northern California.

Learn how to disinfect a dirty stall with Dr. Roberta Dwyer of the University of Kentucky’s Gluck Equine Research Center.

Learn how to properly clean and disinfect non-leather horse equipment such as brushes, hoof picks, and twitches.

Learn how to make sure your horse has a clean, safe drink of water when he needs it, with Dr. Roberta Dwyer of the University of Kentucky’s Gluck Equine Research Center.

Dr. Christy Corp-Minamiji discusses what you can do to build a safe stall or make an existing stall safer.

This research could help riders select dressage mounts to ensure their ability to perform the required movements while maintaining soundness.

Our nutritionist explains how horses break down dietary fat despite not having a gallbladder for bile storage.

Both medical and surgical management resulted in more than 94% of treated horses surviving to discharge from one hospital, researchers found.

Researchers found that surgical correction of a patent urachus or infected umbilical remnants often has a good outcome.

Here’s how vets can carry out five common mildly aversive procedures using learning science and behavior modification techniques.

If foals are diagnosed and treated early they generally have a fair to good chance to make a full recovery.
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