Caring For Your Horse
Discover comprehensive guidance on horse care including feeding, grooming, health maintenance, stable management, and ensuring your horse's wellbeing and happiness.
A Healthy Diet for Your Horse
Horses live a long time and keeping them healthy for their whole life is not always easy. But a well-balanced diet can play a major part in ensuring your hor...
Caring for Your Horse: Time
Time is a big part of horse ownership. Getting to know your horse and forming a partnership takes time and effort on your part. All animals need time put int...
Definitions: Stallions, Geldings and Mares
It is safe to say that the majority of British people know that stallions, geldings, mares and other similar terms refer to horses. However, unless you are a...
Good Hoof Care
Horses’ feet are so important that it is imperative they are looked after carefully and thoroughly. Horses support a lot of weight on their feet which are...
Grooming Your Horse
A horse is not like a dog – you cannot just throw it in a bath every few months and hope for the best. A horse needs a routine of daily and weekly care –...
How to Care for a Horse
Whether you are a horse owner or you are just considering purchasing one, you need to know how to care for a horse. Just like any animal, owning a horse requ...
How to Care for a Racehorse
The issue of how to care for a racehorse is a multi-faceted one and one which comprises several different strands. There are many people involved with the ca...
Is Racing Horses Humane?
Debate has always raged over whether racing horses is humane or not and, the chances are, it always will. Humane societies have had their say, as have all of...
Mucking Out
There must be very few people who genuinely enjoy mucking out. Unfortunately it has to be done and is a necessary evil of horse ownership. If a stable is not...
Preventing Illness in Horses
Horses have complicated health needs. Just like humans they will get ill from time to time and there will be nothing you can do to prevent it. But there is p...
Shelter for Your Horse
Horses were originally wild animals and, as such did not have any shelter. But over the years, horses have become more and more domesticated and now there ar...
Stable Management
Stable management basically encompasses everything which is not covered by the actual act of riding. It includes all aspects of owning a horse or looking aft...
TLC: What Every Horse Needs
The reason horses are a joy to keep is the same reason they are so demanding to look after – TLC. All horses need a great deal of tender loving care as wel...
Veterinary Care
Veterinary care is an important need for all animals. But horses need vet care even more than most other animals. Horses are big animals with complex bodies...