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Equine Health and Nutrition: How to Keep your Horse or Pony Fit and Healthy

Clean a Horse Sheath

How to Clean a Horse Sheath - A Must Do Job for Better Health Eliminating Pain and Discomfort Cleanliness in any form is a good thing. Keeping your horses sheath clean and free of beans is a very … [Read More...]

Causes of Lameness in Horses

Lameness is when a horse has discomfort or pain in its legs or body causing a limp or awkwardness it the stride. It is important to notice lameness in your horse as well as to treat it accordingly. … [Read More...]

Checking Head Injuries in Horses

How to Check if Your Horse or Pony has Severe Brain or Head Trauma Today, I'm going to give you 3 simple field tests you can perform with your horse in the field. When you learn them, you'll be able … [Read More...]

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Bone Breaks in Horses

What to Expect When a Horse Breaks a Bone It is important to note that any and all bone breaks/fractures in horses require immediate veterinary attention! We have all heard that horses must be … [Read More...]

hoof abscess

Treat a Horse Hoof Abscess

A hoof abscess can be one of the scariest things a horse owner may witness. One day the owner walks into the stable to visit his beloved horse and, behold, the horse appears lame, refusing to place … [Read More...]

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Horse Training

Tips on horse training from the ground up including correcting unwanted behaviour, information on various training techniques, how to choose a trainer, and many other topics horses require training and preparation for.

Choosing a Barrel Horse

barrel racing at Calgary Stampede

When you look at horses for sale, you may be looking for a horse that will be good with the kids. You might be looking for a horse that you can bring into the racing world. But some of you will be … [Read more...]

By Filed Under: Horse Training Tagged With: barrel racing, western

First Lessons

stabled horses

One of the reasons it’s so hard to write about training horses is that everyone wants a recipe. Do this, then that, then this other thing. Use such and such equipment, do so and so exercises a certain … [Read more...]

By Filed Under: Horse Training

Longer Sliding Stops

competitive sliding stop

A pro's advice about what it takes for a horse to perform big-time sliding stops. For this discussion I’m going to assume you already have your horse doing a decent stop at a slow lope. When you … [Read more...]

By Filed Under: Horse Training Tagged With: sliding stop

Mastering Natural Horsemanship

longe without lead line

Most people think you control a horse by controlling its head. You put on a lead rope or a bridle and you use that to show the horse how you want him to start and stop and turn and move his feet … [Read more...]

By Filed Under: Horse Training Tagged With: natural horsemanship, reactions, trust

How to Trailer a Horse

Horse coming off trailer

The Art of Loading a Horse onto a Trailer by: Andy Curry If there is an art to getting horses to load in a trailer, then this it. The first thing that must happen is communication between … [Read more...]

By Filed Under: Horse Training Tagged With: communication, loading, trailer

Horse Logic

horse hugging woman

by Ron Meredith Parkersburg, WV, -- Good horse training is boring to watch. It looks like nothing is happening. Many people are impressed by training methods that are nothing more than a blatant … [Read more...]

By Filed Under: Horse Training Tagged With: herd, logic, prey animals

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