A pastor dressed up a horse in a wedding dress!
No, this isn’t the opening line of a hilarious joke. This past Friday a Mississippi pastor dressed up a horse in a wedding dress! Why? To protest a federal judge’s ruling (currently on hold) to overturn the state’s ban on gay marriage. He stood outside the federal courthouse building with this horse who was not…
A “cowboy family” on horseback spotted in New York City’s Central Park!
The story we’ve been recently told about a “cowboy family” on horseback, riding through New York City’s Central Park, is so unique, that we felt compelled to dust off the old keyboard, look up our forgotten passwords, and fire off one more FillyGirl article! The story, as told to us by a first hand witness,…
Alaska: The Last Frontier- is Atz just Otto’s ranch hand?
Discovery Channel’s widely successful reality show “Alaska: The Last Frontier” (2.7 million viewers per episode) features three generations of the Kilcher family who live off the land that Yule Kilcher homesteaded over 80 years ago. The Kilcher family resides and lives off of their 640 acre homestead, just outside of Homer, Alaska. There are many episodes…
Central Park Horseback Riding Returns In NYC
In 2007 the Clairemont riding Academy, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, shut its doors and horseback riding in Central Park came to a halt. Over the next several years (up until 2011), Riverdale Equestrian Center intermittently brought their horses down from the Bronx and offered rides by appointment. Currently, Central Park Horseback Rides…
How much can a pony eat? Filly Fun Fact
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…
33% of horses are either nearsighted or farsighted! So?
No, we don’t think horses will be sporting fancy eye glasses (like the horse featured in this post) as a result of a study that’s gotten recent attention. Nor do we believe that the study, which found that two-thirds of horses have normal vision while the remainder of horses are either nearsighted or farsighted, will…
Free Webinar on Manure Management Strategies
Every horse can make up to 50 pounds of manure every day! WOW! The problem (aside from shoveling all of it), is that the nutrients in manure and urine can get into the ground and surface waters, eventually rendering them undrinkable. On December 9th, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m, My Horse University and eXtension…
Stop your horse’s water bucket from freezing
We’ve been seeing the same question popping up in forums over and over again now that the weather has turned “freezing cold” across the U.S. Horse owners are looking for an economical way to provide their horses with warm water and want a way to stop their horse’s water bucket from freezing. For some, it’s…
A Digital Race Horse Just Sold For $125,000 As Crypto-Mania Continues!
By now you’re well familiar with Bitcoin, perhaps the most popularcrypto-currency in existence. But a little less well known is Ether (thesecond largest crypto-currency) and Ethereum, the blockchain upon which Etheris based. A blockchain is a digital ledger and is the technology thatcrypto-currencies are based on. Blockchain technology certifies a digitalasset to be unique and…
Dubai BOUGHT SAND! (for Meydan Racecourse, home to the Dubai World Cup)
You can’t “sell ice to an Eskimo,” but apparently you can sell sand to a country in the middle of the desert, IF they have a horse racing track! According to a report published this past Friday in The Daily Mail, Dubai ordered 1,500 cubic meters of sand from a company in Germany for their…
Winter Warning: Pediculosis- Lice infestation & your horse
There’s a common myth that only unhealthy horses, or horses who aren’t regularly attended to, are susceptible to lice infestation (otherwise known as pediculosis). If you haven’t found out the hard way that this simply isn’t true, there’s also a research study that proves that healthy horses can become infested with lice. Why are we bringing…
Will Cuba’s horse racing industry thrive again?
Cuba’s horse racing industry once flourished at the country’s only horse racing track, Oriental Park. Oriental Park Racetrack opened in 1915 and was operated by the Havana-American Jockey Club of Cuba. It was open during the winter months and many of America’s top stables brought their best horses to Oriental Park Racetrack to compete. It’s also…
Polo Ponies- Filly Fun Fact
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…
Dog In Georgia Is The Second To Test Positive for the virus that causes COVID-19: Why aren’t we testing more?
A dog in Georgia is believed to have been the second canine in the U.S. to test positive for the virus that causes COVID-19. The 6-year-old mixed breed dog was tested after its owners contracted COVID-19 and the dog began suffering from a neurological illness, the Georgia Department of Health said in a news release…
Gorgeous Gypsy Pony!
Watch this video of a gorgeous gypsy pony playing in an open field with her friends. Look at this pony’s beautiful blonde hair and coat. If she were human, she’d be Daryl Hannah in her prime!
Hand Grooming a horse vs. using a Brush or Comb
There’s been a recent fad or trend that many horse owners have tried called “hand grooming.” No, this doesn’t mean using your hand as opposed to a machine. It means literally using your hand to groom your horse, instead of a brush. We don’t know exactly when hand grooming started becoming popular, and quite frankly,…
Zooey Deschanel is being sued by a horse owner
This is one of those cases where we won’t know who’s in the “right/wrong” until we hear all the details, but here’s a quick summary of what we do know: Zoey Deschanel is being sued by a horse owner named Patty Parker. Parker is suing actress Zooey Deschanel (who stars in the Fox sitcom New…
White growths in my horse’s ear? Could be Aural Plaques
Those white growths are most likely Aural Plaques. Aural plaques are benign, raised, crusty, white skin growths on the interior surface of the ear. If you see raised lesions, with a hard, scaly appearance, it’s probably aural plaques. You might also see rounded, knob like protuberances within the scaly area. If your horse is resisting…