Dancing with my Horses

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Have you ever considered…

feeding your kitchen scraps to your horse(s). How often do you use apples, pears, bananas, sweet potatoes, salads and lots more of fresh produce in your kitchen? What happens to all this? You might have a compost, great! But you also have horses in the paddock....

Kitchen scraps
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Accidents, healing and proud flesh

In every horse owners life there is the day when you have to deal with wounds. Horses are really prone to proud flesh. I experienced that myself many times over and have used different ways to control the developing of proud flesh including using copper sulphate....

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Horse Health Indicators

For quick access I have put together a checklist to help determine the vital signs and health of the horse. I decided I will publish this here as it might be helpful for others as well. I intend to update this document as I find it necessary:   Adult Horse Newborn...

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That awful bute no horse likes

We all experience the moment when we have to use bute. If your horse is anything like George, it will smell it in anything. I did not even try to put it into his food anymore. His food should be sacro sanct to him, I will not sneak anything into it. Eating is a...