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  • Maintaining Horse Health in Winter

    Winter can be a challenging time for horse management. Whether your horse lives in the barn or in the pasture, there are some key points to keeping your equine happy and healthy during the colder months.

    Flossie Sellers - December 17, 2012 08:31

  • Making the Best of Holiday Treats for Your Horse

    During the holidays, people enjoy plenty of special treats, so why shouldn't horses? Holiday  treats can provide pleasure and add beneficial nutrients to your horse’s diet. Certainly, everyone enjoys seeing the horse's reaction when offered a s

    Flossie Sellers - December 12, 2012 08:38

  • Making the Horse's Foot Better Through Research

    In the last decade, thousands of veterinarians, farriers and horse owners have come to realize that better nutrition, trimming, correct movement, environment, and improved protective devices can cause dramatic and positive changes to the equine foot--not

    Flossie Sellers - August 21, 2012 08:26

  • Making Your Pasture Work for You and Your Horse

    Now that winter is well on its way, many horse owners are beginning to think about their pastures and ways to improve the amount of forage available for their horses.

    Flossie Sellers - January 25, 2013 10:04

  • Management Tips to Keep Foals Healthy as They Grow

    Maintaining your new foal as it grows can be both fun and challenging. Foals change drastically during their first months as they become weanlings and mature. Weanlings and yearlings continue to build bone and muscle and mass at a remarkable rate. From we

    Flossie Sellers - February 19, 2013 13:05

  • Meeting the Challenges of Raising an Orphan Foal

    Since newly-born foals are rather helpless, a foal that is unable to stay with its natural mother for any reason needs special care to ensure appropriate growth and development. Raising an orphaned foal to the age of a weanling is a challenge because of i

    Flossie Sellers - February 23, 2013 08:06

  • Merial Launches Osteoarthritis Web Site for Horse Owners

    With equine osteoarthritis (OA) having a major impact on the horse industry and sometimes determining the level of performance for many riders and their equine companions, understanding and being able to treat the pain and inflammation associated with equ

    Flossie Sellers - October 27, 2012 10:01

  • Michigan Equine Foundation Offering Free Horse Health Clinic

    With the banner: "Help horses in need. Take part in the Michigan Equine Foundation's Free Horse Health Care Clinic, September 28-29, 2012," the Michigan Equine Foundation is hoping to catch the attention of horse owners who need help in caring for the

    Flossie Sellers - September 21, 2012 12:39

  • More Low Cost Gelding Clinics Scheduled

    National Equine Resource Network’s (NERN) low-cost gelding clinic drive that has already gelded over 150 CA horses in 2012 will be expanding to other states this Fall.

    Flossie Sellers - August 16, 2012 13:47

  • More Mosquitoes - More Potential for Diseases in Horses and People

    Several Eastern states including Maine and Massachusetts are warning that the potential for more infectious diseases such as West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis are high because of the weather and the presen

    Flossie Sellers - August 7, 2012 11:04

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