For the past few weeks I’ve been sharing some of the more toxic members of the plant world every Monday. These are plants you should keep away from your horse and today we are going to look at a sunny yellow little plant that just sounds yukky, Bitterweed.
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Does That Mean I’m On The Team?
This is a quick animated clip that just made me chuckle. Not sure where the audio came from but the animator did a great job of bringing it to life in horsey cartoon terms.
Loving Cheeky Horse Cartoons
Totally safe for work and fun for the whole family, this is one little horsey that is just ecstatic about finally being on the team…
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Robert Merkert – Unique Jeweler Interview
Name
Robert Merkert
Website & Places you can find my work online
My gems are called Equinite and can be seen, purchased and set in jewelry at www.equinite.com. My jewelry is also in the Saratoga Art Gallery gift shop.
Where I am
I live in Brandon, Vermont.
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Quagga – Extinct Equidae
Perhaps one of the more recently extinct equidae, the Quagga was a subspecies of the plains zebras. They were with us until the end of the 19th century.
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Miniature Horses – Horse Types
The Horses of Aelbert Cuyp
Aelbert Cuyp was a Dutch painter during the late 17th century. He came from a family of artists and grew to become a celebrated landscape artist and the most famous member of the Cuyp family.
Hard to Credit
While Cuyp was a prolific artist he rarely dated his paintings which has made it difficult to put them in chronological order. Horses are not an important part of his art, but tend to make an appearance in the idyllic pastoral or lakeside scenes he was fond of painting.
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Nanette Levin – Horse Author Interview
Name
Nanette Levin
Website & Places you can find me online
Websites: www.HorseSenseAndCents.com, www.BookConductors.com & www.HalcyonAcres.com
Twitter: @NanetteLevin
Facebook: Hors Sense and Cents & Nanette Levin
Linkedin: Nanette Levin (active in many of the equine groups and co-manage Horse Lovers of the Business World and Horse Trail Riding).
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Bird of Paradise – Toxic Plant of the Week
It’s toxic plant Monday again and time to take a look at another of the more beautiful but wicked members of the plant world. Today it’s the lovely and brightly colored Bird of Paradise, another beautiful flower for a Monday.
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Icelandic Horses in The Wintertime
There is something a little magical about the Icelandic Horse. Their physical isolation makes them one of the purest breeds on the planet & that’s a real accomplishment.
Wait For It…
Iceland is not the most hospitable place so often images of them are set in an isolated and dramatic landscape. This video is no different but the animals seem to instantly warm their environment with their frosty breaths and colorful fur coats. The video is a little slow to start, but the horse shots are worth the wait.
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Weekly Rescues
About J&M Acres
J&M Acres Horse Rescue is a non-profit rescue in Maple Ridge, BC. We rescue most of our horses from auction or from off the racetrack. Our aim is to get as many horses as we can off the meat truck and adopted into loving homes so that we are able to rescue more.
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Hagerman Horse or Equus Simplicidens – Extinct Equidae
The Hagerman Horse (also called the Hagerman Zebra) was native to North America from the Pliocene to the Pleistocene (around 3.5 million years ago).
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Hotblooded Horses – Horse Types
Different from some of the other types of horse, there are only two recognized hotblooded breeds the Arabian and the Thoroughbred. A cross between the two breeds is also considered hotblooded.
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