With the warming weather and the promise of beautiful, memory making rides, comes another memory you'll wish you could forget about: The Ticks. Speaking from personal experience: the the ticks are bad this year. I've been dealing with ticks for many years, but never have I seen so many so early i[...]
Horse coats are fascinating. There's bays, grays, chestnuts, blacks, and palominos. But then there's even more variety - there's variations on those basic coat colors, modifying colors and giving some horses unique patterns. Horse coats are so important to us, we even have whole breeds that were cr[...]
Never have I ever seen such a heated debate as one I saw on Facebook recently. A horse was shown jumping cross country and her owner states that she gets messaged chastising her for calling the mare a chestnut. She is, in fact a sorrel, she was told. A heated debate ensues. Is it chestnut or sorr[...]
Horses are a lifelong dream for many. They begged their parents to buy them a horse growing up only to be told, "Horses are too expensive!" Horses are well known to be an expensive hobby. They are expensive to buy and expensive to keep. But unless you already have the horse, what they cost to keep[...]
Horses seem to be made of glass. They are injured easily, sometimes under mysterious circumstances, and sometimes for reasons we can't control. We try our best to keep our horses sound, and use every tool we can to keep them safe. Boots are one of the methods. Using boots is extremely popular, and[...]
I still remember the day I bought my first grooming supplies. I was 14 years old, about to go to my first horse show. I was staying at my trainer's house for the show, and my parents were so excited they camped out there, too. It decided I was finally ready for my own tools. Up until that point, I'[...]
There's a variety of options available to board your horse, and so many different situations where you might choose one over another. Sometimes budget is the most important concern, other times it's location. I've kept my horses at home, and I've boarded them out. I've been at many different[...]
We've come to a strange time in history. Before, I would make a trip to the tack shop in order to get those specialty items we need for horses. They just didn't exist outside of that. Later, it was the online versions of the those tack stores. Now I can go to Amazon to get these things, items I t[...]
A horse safe pasture should be a high priority for every horse owner, especially since horses seem to be on a mission to destroy themselves. Horses spend a lot of time in their pastures, or all their time, if they are pasture kept, and keeping a pasture safe is much cheaper than paying vet bills to[...]
Fly season is approaching (or in some cases, already here) and once again, we are preparing to deal with annoying, obnoxious flies. While uncomfortable for us, they are highly annoying to horses, who aren't able to run back into the air conditioned house to escape. We try to keep them away with c[...]