Is your horse looking a little scruffy these days? Is his normal 5 o’clock shadow starting to resemble ZZ Top (young folk, feel free to click the link if you don’t get the ZZ Top reference)? Well before you get out those trimmers, you should know that the whiskers on a horse’s muzzle have a name,…
A horse’s eyes are unique for several reasons. For starters, horses have near 360° vision. Ok, so maybe you knew that. But did you know that horses have bigger
According to a study done by researchers at the University of Liverpool, polo ponies are no more likely to be injured than horses in the general population. The only factor that seemed to increase a horse’s likelihood of injury was being stabled all season long. Go figure- with mallets flying around, horses bumping into each…
An estimated 900,000 horses will colic in the U.S. this year! Take proper precautions. Be mindful of this fact when feeding and exercising your horse(s).
Ponies can eat up to 1 percent of their body weight (in dry matter) in just three hours when out on certain pastures. They can eat up to 5 percent over 24 hours. This basically means that in theory, a small pony could be eating as many calories as a racing Thoroughbred! And you thought your pony was just “big…