Apr 30, 2021 | Hoof Care, Management
Text Courtesy of The Essential Hoof Book More and more horse owners are choosing to maintain their horses without shoes these days. Some are attracted by the fact that it is less expensive, others are comforted knowing they will never lose another shoe, and some feel...
Apr 30, 2021 | Equine Health, True Stories
By Susan Kauffmann When Cheryl McIntosh of Dewdney, BC, went to check her horses that morning, she knew something was wrong. She was normally greeted by a chorus of nickers from hungry horses, but that day, in the foaling season of 2003, the farm was ominously silent....
Apr 30, 2021 | Equine Health, Hoof Care, Management
Excerpt from The Essential Hoof Book A critically important component of hoof health for horses of any age is diet. In fact, diet is so often at the root of a horse’s hoof problems that it should be one of the very first avenues of inquiry with any horse that has...
Apr 30, 2021 | Product Reviews, Tack & Gear
By Susan Kauffmann I am a real stickler about saddle fit. I was forced to become knowledgeable in this area when my morgan, Gryphon, outgrew the lovely Rodrigo Pessoa Gen X jumping saddle I started him in. It had fit him fine when he was a three year old, but as he...