Equine Odontoclastic Tooth Resorption and Hypercementosis (EOTRH) is a dental disease that can occur as horses age. It typically affects the incisors and sometimes canine teeth. There have been reported instances of it affecting the cheek teeth as well....
After treatment for EOTRH, owner Kym Langevin says that Peanut has never been better.
Peanut is my 13-year-old Quarter Horse/Thoroughbred gelding that I consider my third child. I purchased Peanut from my farrier when I was eight and a half...
Recently I chatted with Debbie Garcia-Bengochea, the founder education director for Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses, a charity organization that provides teams of tiny therapy horses who visit adults and children in hospitals, assisted living and disaster survivors. I...
Ask anyone what core exercises they typically do, and you’ll probably hear "a lot of crunches.” It seems simple enough—lie on your back with your knees bent and hands laced behind your head, and contract your abdominal muscles as...
Your first horse is a very special animal, one that lodges in your heart forever. However, sometimes there are first horses that make you earn their respect and a test of wills becomes a rite of horse-owning passage.Wimpy...
As equestrians, we sometimes take for granted some of the basic horse-handling skills that have become second nature to us.
We automatically know how to halter the horse. We know how to safely alert the horse to the fact...
You see it all the time: trail riders fiddling with their iPods and arena-users taking phone calls on their headsets, ears plugged with plastic, cords dangling. Somehow it’s become normal to tune out the world, even while sitting in...
Whether you’ve decided to keep your new horse at a boarding barn or at home on your farm, it’s important to take a close look at where you’re going to keep him to make sure that his new residence...
Shackleford Horse by radioactv915 on flickr.com/CC BY 2.0On the outer banks of North Carolina, amid the soft sand and rolling surf, wild horses graze among the marsh grass. Their ancestors arrived on this windswept shoreline 500 years ago.
To the...
The tropical forests, cobalt-blue sea and towering mountains of Maui lure thousands of visitors to this beautiful Hawaiian island every year. But only a few opt to see it from the back of a horse.
Exploring the West Maui...
