Whether you are bringing your horse home, or boarding at a DIY livery yard, it is important to have the equipment needed to properly care for and clean your horse’s stable. Here is our comprehensive list of must-have tools, and supplies that will make light work of mucking out.
Wood chewing is often a repetitive behaviour in which the horse chews wood that they can find in their everyday surroundings. Typical targets for chewing include wood found in the construction of their stalls, fencing and sometimes even trees in their pastures.
With your horse’s rugs and blankets being a magnet for built up sweat, dirt, and grease it is important to keep your stable and turnout rugs clean and free of debris. Allowing this dirt and grime build up can lead to irritation, discomfort, and even hair loss on their shoulders, mane, and body as it grips, rubs, and pulls on areas of hair.
Riding without stirrups is a fantastic tool for riders across all disciplines, and with No-stirrup November finally here there is no better time to learn more about the benefits it has to offer.
n our previous article we covered how to ensure your stirrups are adjusted appropriately for flat work and dressage, but when a rider begins to jump, it is important to re-evaluate our stirrup length.
Lunging is a technique often used when training, exercising, and working horses. When lunging the handler utilizes commands and cues to communicate with their horse while they work at the end of a line navigating a circular pattern.
This fun and easy project is a great way to add some delicious holiday cheer to your home, and even barn! Supplies: Hard Peppermint Candies Metal Cookie Cutters Baking Tray/Sheet Nonstick Cooking Spray Parchment Paper Steps: Step One: Preheat your oven to 350F (175C) Step Two: Line the baking tray/sheet with parchment paper …
Halloween treats aren’t just for the kids, and grown-ups! This year for Halloween treat your stalled friends with some of our delicious pumpkin bites!
The Bot Fly is an ectoparasite, which can easily be mistaken for a Bee buzzing often found buzzing around your horse’s head, and lower legs. These flies utilize our horses as a living host, and are capable of laying 100’s and sometimes 1000’s of eggs on your horse’s coat in their short week long adult life span.
Fire is a fury of heat, light, and combustion that has the ability to flatten structures, destroy nature, and take lives at shockingly fast speeds. The thought of a fire in a horse barn or equestrian property is anxiety inducing nightmare fuel, and no horse owner ever wishes to experience the reality of it. But with temperatures rising, prolonged droughts, and wildfires on the rise across the U.S. how many of us are prepared, or have even considered a plan in case we need to evacuate our horses?