Not everybody will bandage or wrap their horse’s legs prior to exercising them but if you choose to do so then it can be difficult to know how to wrap them properly, especially if you’ve never bandaged a horse’s legs before. For a bandage to work properly you need to wrap the horse’s legs so that they are able to …
How To Feed A Hard Keeper On A Budget
We all want the best for our horses and would love to give them the best of everything all day everyday but this isn’t always possible and with many of us making sacrifices just to keep our horses, being able to feed a hard keeper properly is curial. There are plenty of options out there for both easy and hard …
How Can I Prevent My Horse Getting Laminitis
Laminitis is an inflammation of the laminae (or lamellae) part of the horse’s hoof. It can be extremely painful and debilitating to horses and in extreme cases can lead to the coffin (or pedal) bone protruding through the sole of the hoof. When this happens it can make it impossible for the horse to stand, sadly often requiring the horse …
How To Prevent Sweet Itch In Horses
Let’s be honest nobody likes being bitten by midges and while most of the time it’s just irritating it can, in some horses, lead to sweet itch. Sometimes refer to as summer itch its proper name is Culicoides Hypersensitivity (due to the Culicoides midge that causes it) and can effect thousands of horses around the world every year. Rather like …
How do I Stop My Horse Kicking?
Before you can start to think about preventing your horse from kicking you first need to understand why he’s doing it in the first. Horses often use kicking, along with other forms of body language, as a method of communication and, unless they’re in pain, will very rarely kick without any warning at all. Is it always bad when my …
11 Ways To Successfully Bond With Your Horse
Like every other relationship we have in life the one with your horse isn’t automatic, it’s something you need to work at. Horses are flight animals that survive on their instincts so it’s important that they trust you, you’ll have a far better partnership if they do. Why is it important to bond with my horse? In the wild horses …
Where Should I Keep My Horse
A guide to finding the perfect livery yard Wouldn’t it be great if we all had enough land to be able to keep our horses at home!! Sadly for most of us that isn’t an option and if you’re not lucky enough to have your own land you’ll need to find a livery yard or boarding stables. So what should …
How To Keep A Horse From Being Bored
Horses are social animals and being isolated can lead to them being bored and ultimately stressed. The idea is to prevent them from getting bored in the first place rather than trying to reduce their stress after they start suffering from it. As they say prevention is always better than cure. In an ideal world we’d all make sure that …