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Shoeing Horses with Founder or Laminitis

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Therapeutic Horse Shoeing Part Two When shoeing a horse with flat feet, the sole is trimmed slightly but the frog is not trimmed. The sole is prevented from dropping further by making sure that the shoe covers the entire wall and white line and covers but does not touch a small part of the outside [...]

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Common Conditions for Therapeutic Horse Shoeing

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Therapeutic Horse Shoeing Part One Your horse farrier often encounters horses with pathological conditions that require therapeutic shoeing. The most common conditions are contracted heels, ringbone, sidebone, navicular disease, founder, and toe or quarter cracks. There are several ways, or combinations of ways, to re-establish proper foot function in a horse with contracted heels. Frog [...]

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Make Your Own Horse Fly Repellent

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Stop Biting Horse Flies with Home Made Repellent During the summer month’s horse flies are an annoyance to our horses and their bites can be a major irritation. Fly rugs can provide relief and there are also a variety of horse fly repellents sold in equestrian stores. There are also simple horse fly repellent remedies [...]

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Fungus Infected Fescue is Toxic to Your Horse

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Fighting Fungus Infected Fescue Tall fescue is a grass which grows on over 40 million acres of land in the United States. Over 600,000 horses may graze on fescue pastures or be fed fescue hay each year. Many of these pastures contain fescue that is infected with an endophytic fungus that is toxic to your [...]

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Caring for Your Expectant Mare

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Ensuring the Health of Your Expectant Mare Your mare should go into the breeding season fit and perhaps gaining weight. Severely underweight mares will have more trouble conceiving than will mares of appropriate weight. You should make sure your mare avoids stress as much as possible. Stress can cause a drop in progesterone, a hormone [...]