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Pony iPhone Apps on iTunes
Recently I’ve been sharing all kinds of horse themed apps for your iPhone & iPod touch. In fact there are so many that they range from donkeys to unicorns and everything in between. Ponys At Your Fingertips Although I love horses, there is something so precious about ponies. Perhaps it’s the innate stubbornness or maybe […]
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African Wonder Tree – Toxic Plant of the Week
The second in my toxic plant of the week series and our naughty plant of this week is the strange-but-beautiful African Wonder Tree, perhaps more often known as the Castor Plant.
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How to Tie A Horse
Before you even get on a horse there are a number of lessons you must learn, how to halter, lead, groom and of course tie them. Often times the most basic lessons are the most important, so pay attention! Tying Safely Safety has to be considered at all times around large animals like horses. When […]
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Donkey iPhone Apps
For the past few weeks I’ve been sharing some horsey app finds from the iTunes store. Today I wanted to stray from the horses just a little and see whats on the iPhone for donkey lovers. Donkeys At Your Fingertips Maybe it’s that loud bray, or those long and demonstrative ears – but donkeys are […]
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Miohippus – Extinct Equidae
Image from ryanzz The Miohippus was responsible for a great deal of diversity within the equidae horse family. From them over a dozen different genera branched out. These animals lived around 32-25 million years ago during the Oligocene.
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Horse Breeds Beginning With Y
It’s horse breed Thursday again and time to meet one of the last two letters of the breed alphabet. Make sure you visit the breeds section where I’ve written pages about every breed I can find. If you haven’t met the rest of the alphabet, be sure to do so A | B | C […]
Horse Art
The Horses of Ludwig Koch
Ludwig Koch was a renowned equestrian painter in his home country of Austria and today his work is known throughout the world. Clearly he had a thing for dressage and coming from Austria he had plenty of material to work with. Unknown In The Crowd Sadly when Ludwig immigrated to the US in the 1920’s […]
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Unicorn iPhone Apps from iTunes
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of wandering around the app store and finding fun horse apps when it struck me that I should look for some unicorn apps too. Unicorns At Your Fingertips The horse app list is incredibly long and I’ve been sharing them one category at a time, but this week I […]
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African Rue – Toxic Plant of the Week
Image from Ninara under the CC by 2.0 license As many of you know, there is a pretty large number of plants that are actually toxic to horses and I during my years writing this site I’ve begun to catalogue & photograph as many of them as I can find. This is the Week #1 […]
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How to Lunge a Horse
Exercising horses on a lunge line is a good practice in many respects. It’s a great way to warm your animal up, work out a few bucks & squeals and to check for injury and lameness before getting on their back. Safety First The video makes a point that the art of lunging should only […]
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Useful Equestrian iPhone Apps From iTunes
Over the past few weeks I’ve been having a ball wandering around iTunes looking for all things horse. There is already an endless supply of interesting & useful horse apps, equestrian games even some designed to simply waste time. Horses At Your Fingertips As I started collecting I realized that my list was never going […]
Guest Posts
The Coronary Band
Today’s information is a guest post courtesy of Gary Minshall, long-time farrier and photographer extraordinaire. Be sure to check out part 1 & part 2 and you can find him & his work on facebook. Anyone who has looked at my interview here at the Equinest knows that I was a horseshoer for alot of […]