The question of the welfare of carriage horses has been a hotly debated issue recently, after the four carriage horses collapsed in New York City, New York within a time span of six weeks, and two
These days, vaccines are commonly given to horses. But as common as vaccinations are questions about vaccinations. Read on to learn the hows, whys, whats, and whens of vaccinating horses.
Horses evolved as wandering herbivores, moving slowly for hours and taking bites of whatever forage they came across in their rambles. Modern feeding practice is quite different, with many horses given all-day access to rich forage, an invitation to obesity. Other horses are confined to stalls and given two or three large grain meals each day. Between flakes of hay with a high carbohydrate content, there are often long hours when these horses have nothing to eat. It should not be a surprise that metabolic problems and gastrointestinal upsets are quite common in today’s horses.
With the holiday season approaching and Christmas just around the corner, the pressure is on to find your loved ones the perfect gift. Let us help you take the stress out of holiday shopping with our Deck the Stalls Holiday Gift Guide. Our stable elves have been busy selecting great gifts for the horse lover on your list.
The crispness in the air and the golden leaves falling from the trees tell us that the holiday season is drawing near. For those of you who like to get your shopping done earlier and avoid the stress of that last minute search for the perfect gift, Horse Journals’ elves have put together a sneak peek at this year’s goodies for the horse lover on your list.
If mules are so wonderful, why do most people ride horses? If even half the heralded testimony from mule owners is true, we should all be riding mules. But wait… how gallant would Roy Rogers and the Lone Ranger have looked perched atop mules?
Think ‘Chernobyl’ and pictures of the nuclear meltdown from hell spring to mind. In the quarter century since, surprising things have been happening in the exclusion zone around the Ukraine’s notorious nuclear power plant.Plants and animals have returned and in some areas are thriving. But the region screams many vexing questions, none the least of which is the reason for the gradual disappearance of Przewalski’s horses that were released into the area in the late 1990s. And you have to question why an endangered species was released into such a hazardous area in the first place.
The show jumping community around the world is mourning the tragic death of Hickstead, the amazing little stallion who helped win the Individual gold medal and the Team silver medal in show jumping at the 2008 Beijing Olympics for Canadian rider Eric Lamaze.
Jonathan Asselin of Calgary, AB, finished ninth individually while Eric Lamaze of Schomberg, ON, placed 11th in show jumping competition held Saturday, October 29, 2011 at the XVI Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.
It’s not often that two agricultural industries are at loggerheads, but it seems the horse industry and the blueberry industry in British Columbia are on a collision course with each ear-splitting shotgun blast of propane cannons used to scare starlings from crops. The trouble is, those cannons can have the same fear factor effect on horses, and a horse that becomes spooked by the noise and bolts could put a rider at risk of injury.
