Like with such a lot of things in life, your decision on whether you get a horse like you’ve always wanted to will be affected by economic factors. Can you afford to get a pony, and beyond that, are you able to afford to maintain a pony? It is very hard to give definite answers […]
One of the questions that is asked of me most often in the context of horses is: how often do I wash my horses? My own opinion is that horses could do with a load less washes. I see a bias in horse owners to overdo it. They virtually seem to wash their horses because […]
This article is going to attempt to give the reader a good idea of what the disease laminitis is, and its identified causes. It must be clarified nevertheless , that there’s a lot that’s unknown about this illness. It is understood that laminitis affects old as well as young horses. It affects horses that are […]
Each time the season changes, we deworm our horses. Some pony owners don’t even wait for a change of season. They deworm their horses every month, each week, and often, for a couple of days continuously. I find this a shocking piece of negligence. I presume these horse owners act on the assumption that it’s […]
The white line illness that troubles horse hoofs appears to have become something of an epidemic. White line disease causes corrosion of the inner hoof wall. Unless early action is taken, white line disease builds up until it brings about a full break between the hoof wall and the laminae, which ends in coffin bone […]
For equestrian hopefuls perhaps the very first thing they should need to know is the simplest way to tell a superbly healthy pony from one that isn’t. Before horse riding or sport and dressage competitions, an equestrian first needs to identify a sickness or developing illness properly. Besides, you will have to be well placed […]
Owning a pony is not a simple matter. You are responsible for providing for your pony, for meeting all of its necessary needs. It isn’t a case of simply supplying food, shelter and exercise, either. There are a large amount of smaller needs that may not individually seem to be of great consequence, but are […]
There are horses that are the best for weekend horse riding, and there are horses that are out standing champs of dressage level competition. But whatever a pony may excel at, it may catch your eye and you’ll so decide to breed her or him. Passing on the genes of an accomplished pony is a […]
Over the years I have come across a large amount of horses suffering from the consequences of hoof flares. Hoof flares particularly affect unshod horses. It’s not an accident that the prevalence of this condition has shot up acutely with the recent trend for keeping horses shoeless. I have seen an increase in the amount […]
If you have not studied horse training, it can be a mystifying subject. Even more of a puzzle is a horse with a behavioral problem.This causes the owner stress and frustration. Several people simply do not realise that the issues commonly lies with the trainer and not the horse. The first step is unscrambling the […]
