Happy Thanksgiving 2024
Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday, no matter how you choose to celebrate. Don’t forget to give thanks to your four legged friends on this day too!
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Organic Horse
When it comes to the animals we love, it’s important to provide them with the best. While not necessary, using non-GMO and organic products provides peace of mind that products are high-quality Supplements Health & Beauty Bedding Feed & Treats Horse Basics
Horse News for the Week of Oct. 20, 2024
A round up of interesting or useful horse news from the past week, including events, new education programs and useful feed studies.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
It’s about that time of the year, time for Washington Irving’s spooky tale of a headless horseman and his hapless prey.
Last Scraps of Hay – Horse Image of the Week
Monday’s horse image is one that you don’t’ have to be a horse lover to appreciate. There is just something so endearing about the behavior in this snap.
Herbs n’ Pastures – Rosemary
Not all plants are good for horses, which is crazy considering that is all they eat! Incredibly, there are a whole list of plants horses can’t eat. We don’t recommend you feed your horse rosemary directly (they probably wouldn’t eat it anyway), but it can do wonders for skin & hair ailments.
The Horse’s Foot and How it Goes Wrong
No matter what kind or breed of horse you ride, you have probably dealt with a foot problem of some sort. This short video shows a bit about the causes of laminitis in horses.
Read Black Beauty Online – Chapter 48. Farmer Thoroughgood and His Grandson Willie
Chapter 48. Farmer Thoroughgood and His Grandson Willie At this sale, of course I found myself in company with the old broken-down horses — some lame, some broken-winded, some old, and some that I am sure it would have been merciful to shoot.
Wintercress – Toxic Plant of the Week
Welcome to this week’s edition of the a-z of plants that are dangerous to your horse, as you can see we are finally getting close to the end of the alphabet. Today’s plant is fairly common & fairly common looking, which can make it more dangerous. Wintercress is pretty average-looking in every way so be […]
Read Black Beauty Online – Chapter 47. Hard Times
Chapter 47. Hard Times My new master I shall never forget; he had black eyes and a hooked nose, his mouth was as full of teeth as a bull-dog’s, and his voice was as harsh as the grinding of cart wheels over graveled stones. His name was Nicholas Skinner, and I believe he was the […]
Read Black Beauty Online – Chapter 46. Jakes and the Lady
Chapter 46. Jakes and the Lady I was sold to a corn dealer and baker, whom Jerry knew, and with him he thought I should have good food and fair work. In the first he was quite right, and if my master had always been on the premises I do not think I should have […]
Read Black Beauty Online – Chapter 45. Jerry’s New Year
Chapter 45. Jerry’s New Year For some people Christmas and the New Year are very merry times; but for cabmen and cabmen’s horses it is no holiday, though it may be a harvest. There are so many parties, balls, and places of amusement open that the work is hard and often late. Sometimes driver and […]