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How To Determine Your Horse Tack List
When you enter a horse tack shop for the first time, it can be quite an eye opener. You may only have a single horse or pony and yet the store is filled with hundreds of tempting pieces of tack, equipment and horse supplies to take home.
Benjamin Wise
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Navicular Disease in Horses
Navicular-disease is lameness of the front feet caused by an injury or inflammation to the navicular bone which is part of the coffin joint in a horse's foot. The condition has been recognized for well over 200 years but there is still no single effective treatment.
Ronnie Kellner
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Basic Facts For Horse Care When Feeding Forage
The basic diet when caring for horses is the forage we are feeding them. Forages fall into two very broad categories. They are grass hays and legumes. Grass hays have a seed like fruit, jointed stems and long narrow leaves. A few examples of grass hays are bromegrass, timothy, fescue and orchardgrass. Having seedpods legumes include peas and beans, clover and alfalfa.
Fran Mullens
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Buying Guide to Tack For Training a Horse
The most basic piece of training equipment is a halter. A halter is introduced to a foal (foals slip) so that he gets used to the idea of being led before he becomes full of confidence and growth to out win the handler.
Benjamin Wise
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Your Horse And Colic - Why It's So Common
Horses evolved on a different diet from the one they're expected to eat today. The manner in which horses eat and the time they spend eating has changed considerably - even a horse living on grass eats a different diet from his ancestors.
John J. Foley
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Horse Stable Games to Bond With Your Equine Partner
Using behavior modification games to teach your horse tricks and bond with him in the mean time. Great games for stall bound horses using the clicker.
Ronnie Kellner
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On Moola's Farm
Sit back and relax as Teri takes you back to the farm, as you view her childhood in wonder of beautiful horses in the golden fields of a rural lifestyle. Horses are every little girl's dream starting off with riding ponies at a summer fair. Go back to the fifties, when milk was delivered to your door, by a horse, and your family friend had a farm, Moola's Farm. A truly delightful reminder of how simple pleasures were so much richer for a child, compared to computer games today.
Teri Salvador
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Basic Horse Care Begins with Diet - Feeding Your Horse Right
Basic horse care should begin with the horse's diet. The normal ration for a horse should consist of mostly hay and pasture grass and possibly a small amount of pelleted feeds, grains, or sweet feeds only if they are needed. Unfortunately little importance is placed on the nutritional value of the forage we are giving our horses. We do not give our horses forage just to keep them busy. Forage is a most important calorie basis for horses that can vary greatly with the nutritional...
Fran Mullens
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Horse Women, It's In Their DNA
There are many questions that are asked everyday that no one knows the answer to - like why do women love horses? Learn about the genetics behind a woman's love for horses.
Ron Petracek
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Chiropractor For My Horse?
Ohhh, my aching back! Does your horse display the signs of a need for a chiropractor? Do you want to ensure his bones are aligned properly, making him comfortable in whatever job you ask of him?
Leona Douglas
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