Choosing A Blanket or Sheet For Your Horse
As the seasons change, ensuring your horse stays comfortable and protected from the elements becomes a priority. Choosing the right blanket or sheet can seem daunting with the variety of styles, weights, and materials available.
Essential Rodeo Attire: Dressing for Success in the Arena
As a rodeo competitor, your attire is not merely a fashion statement but a crucial component of your performance and safety in the arena. The clothing and equipment you choose can significantly impact your comfort, mobility, and ability to communicate effectively with your horse during intense rodeo events.
Equine Socialization: Why Is It Important?
Horses are herd animals and they evolved to cooperate in groups. Since they are also prey species their survival is based on alerting members of the herd. Throughout their evolution horses developed ways to communicate with each other.
Why Is Release An Important Signal In Bodywork?
Bodywork is a complementary therapy that helps address issues your animal is having. This may be joint pain, strained muscles, healing from injury, or disease. The goal of bodywork is to stimulate the cells and encourage circulation.
Animal athletes such as performance horses benefit greatly from bodywork along with training. In addition, it has many applications for pets.
What Is A Fly Mask and Why You Need One
Fly masks are an important part of your horse’s health. They protect the eyes from insects, pollen, and sunburn. Fly masks come in a variety of styles and sizes. It can be confusing to know which one to purchase. And they are not just for summer!
10 Essential Steps To Complete Before Spring Show Season and Training
The days are getting longer and sunny. You are excited about the upcoming show season. These are the 10 essential steps that you need to complete before taking your horse anywhere.
Protecting Your Horses Eyes: Prevention and Remedies
Equine eye injuries are fairly common and should always be taken seriously. Vision is important to a horse and affects their behavior.
Horses are prone to eye problems in part because their eyes are large and located on the side of their head.
What is Cycloid Vibration Therapy?
Cycloid Vibration Therapy (CVT) is a safe and easy treatment used on soft tissue injuries, sore muscles, and joints. The vibrations stimulate the musculoskeletal system increasing circulation and flexibility.
Animal Bodywork 101
Animal bodywork practices are methods that treat problems in animals such as joint and muscle pain, soft tissue injuries, and anxiety. They are often termed complementary therapies because they are used to complement or work in conjunction with your veterinarian’s treatment.
Equine Kinesiology Taping
Kinesiology taping provides support, stabilization and relieves swelling for your horse. By providing soft tissue manipulation the tape mimics a massage. How wonderful is that?
Excel R8: Ruminants and Nutrition
Ruminants have a more complex digestive system and need quality nutrition. Excel R8 will support your livestock’s overall health and have them ready for showing, breeding or just being a quality farm animal.
Does Your Horse Need Vitamin E?
Your horse’s health is important. Horses need vitamin E to develop quality muscles and are especially important if your horse is active. This blog will help you decide if supplemental vitamin E is needed in your horse diet.
What is a Coggins? And Why Should You Care?
Coggins is actually a test. Every year along with your annual vaccinations your horse should receive a Coggins test. This test draws blood which is examined for the disease Equine Infectious Anemia.
Hit The Trails: Endurance Riding 101
Ready to take trail riding one step further? Endurance riding is a fun bonding activity that you can do with your horse. Exploring beautiful trails and sleeping under the stars is a wonderful experience.