Conditioning Young Horses
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
July 11, 2024
Protecting your young horse’s musculoskeletal system can help reduce his risk of injuries later in life.
How to care for the basic health needs of horses
Protecting your young horse’s musculoskeletal system can help reduce his risk of injuries later in life.
The stress of surgery and the management changes that follow can cause gastric ulcers in horses. An equine nutritionist describes possible solutions.
Diagnostic imaging results are clearer than ever, but how they will affect a horse’s performance career isn’t always evident.
Varying the surfaces on which you exercise your horse can help produce a strong, well-rounded equine athlete.
Learn how to safely improve your horse’s fitness all week on TheHorse.com. Sponsored by NexHA.
Old wisdom tells us not to feed horses before exercise. But this outdated belief might be hurting your horse.
International units are used to quantify similar biologically active substances such as vitamins and hormones. One equine nutritionist explains.
Learn about 5 reasons to use complementary therapies such as acupuncture and chiropractic for your horse and the research behind them.
Determine why a horse is head shy, and then use learning theory principles to reverse the behavior.
Learn how ultrasound tissue characterization can help veterinarians guide horses’ return from injury.
Learn to read the vast and varied signs of equine gastric ulcer syndrome.
Learn why horses get kicked, how to treat kick injuries, and tips on preventing them in this article from the Summer 2024 issue of The Horse.
From reinforcing behaviors to reading facial expressions, adopting welfare-friendly handling practices can improve equine well-being and human safety.
Researchers reviewed literature about an anatomical variation of the equine cervical spine called TC67 that occurs most often in Warmbloods.
Follow these steps to safely and successfully add a new horse to an existing herd. Learn more in The Horse‘s 2024 Preventive Care issue.
Does your horse struggle with gastric ulcers? Learn how to identify this painful condition and how veterinarians might diagnose and treat it. Sponsored by SmartPak.
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