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Determining and Monitoring Your Horse’s Weight

Checking your horse's weight regularly is important to his health. Learn how to figure out if they need to gain or lose weight, then monitor their weight over time to detect changes.

Choosing the Right Bridle: Impact on Horse Behavior and Performance

We cannot avoid every nerve on the horse's face, but we can increase our awareness, be mindful of the bridle we select and its placement, and educate ourselves on the correct fit for enhanced comfort. With no consideration of this, the horses' welfare will indeed be compromised.

How To Care For The Older Horse

Do you have an older horse in your life? Do you still ride him? Do you work him in hand, or take him out for walks?

Sue Palmer shows us how to prioritise an older horse's health and comfort.

Ask the Vet | Strangles

Strangles - the very name is enough to instil fear into even the most experienced horse owners. With around 600 outbreaks reported each year in the UK alone, resulting in immense welfare problems for horses and heavy financial burdens to their owners, its significance cannot be underestimated.

Natural Boarding: The Natural Needs and Wants of Horses

The number of equines suffering from digestive issues, mental neurosis, behavioural problems, and poor physical care is concerning. The way manage our horses can either enhance or negatively impact them, the way we have been brought up to care for them may not actually lead to a healthy horse.

Paddock Enrichment for Horses

It can be pretty easy to glance over to the field in spring and summer, see your horse grazing away and think they are content with life, having everything they possibly need. While a horse is quite happy just being a horse, a domestic environment doesn't always offer the mental stimulation a horse needs. It is more evident that horses lack inspiration in bare muddy fields in winter.