How to care for the basic health needs of horses
Dr. Clair Thunes defines the differences between grains, concentrates, and complete feeds for horses and explains how much a horse needs.
Find out why a mare might be guarding her caretakers during feeding.
From feeding and training to shoeing and warm-up protocols, learn how to keep your dressage horse fit to perform.
Drug screening can offer additional information pertaining to the horse’s ability to fit a buyer’s needs.
A veterinarian and horse behavior expert addresses a senior horse’s bad experience with an electric fence.
Learn about three techniques riders can use to improve motion deficits using the horse’s proprioceptive awareness.
Get tips on choosing hind leg protection for your horse from Nicole Carroll of Walnut Creek, California.
Rarely a week goes by during late summer and fall that a state animal health authority doesn’t report vesicular stomatitis cases. But, what is this disease and should you be concerned about it infecting your horses?
An equine behavior expert and veterinarian explores the reasons why a horse might buck.
Horses are at risk for contracting a number of diseases that can have mild to devastating consequences.
Find out how dynamic mobilization, core strengthening, and balancing exercises can help stabilize the horse’s spine and the fore- and hind limbs’ attachment to the body.
During exercise skin temperature under boots or wraps increases significantly–in a recent study sometimes more than 30%. Whether that leg temperature increase is good or bad, though, remains to be determined.
Animals that consume water with some types of algal blooms can die suddenly or suffer from weakness, staggering, or photosensitization depending on the type of toxin and how much they ingested.
Are you concerned about transporting your horse during a vesicular stomatitis (VS) outbreak? A veterinarian shares tips on how to protect your equids while traveling.
Learn about 20 important equine infectious diseases that could make your horse sick, how they are spread, and ways to prevent them in our easy-to-follow visual guide.
Do all the supplements, concentrates, and forages on the market have you confused about what’s best to feed your horse? Learn what your horse really needs to eat from equine nutritionist and consultant, Dr. Clair Thunes.
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