If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!There are some basic things you need to know how to do when owning a horse.
Feeding the horse is one of the most important parts of horse ownership.
Horses require adequate pasture time. They also need vitamin supplements. […]
Talking with others about horses is easier if you understand the basic terminology used when referring to horses.
If you or someone you love is really in to horses, you will want to be able to converse with them intelligently.
Here are the basic horse terms and what they mean.
There are some basic “age related […]
It is often seen on trail rides - an inexperienced or ill-mannered rider yelling, hitting or using too big of a bit in order to “control” the horse.
Punishment does not work on horses!
Horses simply do not understand the concept of punishment. Watch a crowd of horses, do you see any form of punishment […]
Horses have been around for a long time.
There are cave drawing of primitive horses.
The first domesticated horses known to man were those located in the steppes of central Asia somewhere between 3000 and 4000 B.C.
The first horses were thought to have been kept for their meat and milk. Early man probably started […]
There are many visitors to horse stables who unintentionally do harm to horses by feeding them treats without asking the permission of the horse’s owner.
There are many reasons why giving a horse a treat may cause harm to the horse.
When a stranger feeds a horse a treat they do not know the horse. They […]
A horse that is pastured has special needs that the owner needs to be prepared to have ready for the horse before purchasing the horse.
The owner needs to be sure the horse has all of his vaccinations in order, that there is worming medicine on hand, that there is a plentiful water supply available […]
