I knew Asad was overdue for a hoof trim before he started down my way. What I did not know was just how long it had been since his last hoof trim. As you can see in the photo below, he had platters for front hooves and his hind hooves were equally overgrown. I was […]
Over the past year I been appalled to learn how much genetic diversity among Square Horses has been irrevocably lost due to short-sighted breeding and management practices, especially here in the USA. The Bureau of Land Management has been gelding free roaming stallions for decades. Now the policy is turning towards surgically sterilizing free- roaming […]
I posted this list of logical fallacies on Facebook. It proved quite popular. In fact it spread so fast among so many friends of friends of friends it caused Facebook great alarm. I was put on notice that my news feed would be slowed down and anything I posted would appear at the bottom of […]
My phone and I have not yet agreed on how to take photos of horses. I wanted a telephoto shot and I got a bit of a blur this morning instead. I’m still posting the photo because this morning is the first morning Asad answered when I whistled to let him know I was on […]
Asad has been here for a week. When he showed up he was a bit dehydrated and exhausted from his trip. For the first few days he drank, licked his salt blocks, ate and slept. His eyes and nose were both drippy so I figured he had shipping fever, which basically means he got sick […]
EHF Asad is linebred to Cochise, the stallion the founders of the Spanish Mustang Registry held up as an example of their ideal horse. As you can tell from the number of links in this paragraph, he meets my criteria foran outstanding individual of these exceptional and extra-ordinary horses. When I inherited my property a […]
Personally, I rarely enjoy watching dressage freestyles because I find the music so painfully unrelated to the horse’s strides that I have to either mute the sound or move on to something else. But Steffan Peters’ 2021 Olympic freestyle dressage ride went viral not just because the music is upbeat techno dance music. The freestyle […]
I was actually able to watch the showjumping of the 202(1) Olympics without utterly cringing. The Swedish team took the gold with only one pole down. They were one of the few teams that seemed to realized that the brakes are in their behinds and their hands are for communication. And their horses not only […]
Horsetalk.co.nz Horses and burros, especially those living naturally in the wild, have a superior ability to sequester, or “lock away”, carbon. Spotlight on the overlooked role of horses as carbon sequesters — Horsetalk.co.nz – equine news, research, and information Spotlight on the overlooked role of horses as carbon sequesters — Horsetalk.co.nz
The Horse: Do vets use a “one size fits all” protocol for sedation/anesthesia? Hubbell: Many equine veterinarians have developed different dosing regimens for different breeds or types of horses based on their experiences. Minimal data are available to directly support variations between breeds, but here are some observations I made during my career: The atmosphere of […]
