I think your decision of moving your horse back to your mom’s farm was a very wise move.
Putting your girl with 12 geldings in a field based on her being “dominant” and not keeping a very watchful eye on her is not …
SPOKANE — Thousands of horse owners can’t afford to take care of their animals and are giving them up or abandoning them. Some are ending up in slaughterhouses, drawing protests from horse-lovers, but others say there’s no alternative.
Last year nearly 150,000 horses were …
With this log design, a horse may trip but is less likely to experience a dangerous rotational fall, protecting both horse and rider. …
It’s a wet, sloppy Tuesday for the Missoula Livestock Exchange’s monthly horse auction.
Trailers rumble in, one after the other, just before the sale begins.
The air is taut with tension as owners unload their horses and park them in a sea of connecting metal corrals.
In this unfamiliar place, the horses whinny. They pin back their ears. Some kick out, lose their footing and fall down in the slippery muck. Others stand wide-eyed …
By Matt Russell
Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN
If you’re looking to buy a horse, the good news is there are plenty on the market, and they’re cheaper than ever.
The bad news? Horse buyers often have the same problem horse sellers have these days: The rising cost of care forces them to get rid of the animals.
It’s a vicious cycle — the cost of care forces horses onto the market only to be purchased by new owners also can’t afford to care them — and it has horse lovers concerned about the animals’ welfare.
“People live in this fairy tale world when they think they want …
by: Deirdre Biles
November 07 2008, Article # 13037
On day four of the plunging Keeneland November breeding stock sale market, here’s what people had to say about the situation:
Patrick Lawley-Wakelin, Virginia-based bloodstock agent: “The market is obviously a reflection of what the world is doing outside the horse business. The last people to get real in this business, in my opinion, are the consignors. There are buyers here, but they are being super, super selective. You can get good money for a mare, but you may not get as much as you would last year. You’re going to have to seriously discount …
Mustangs roaming the craggy, mountainous terrain of the West can be a blessing or a curse, depending on whom you ask.
The Bureau of Land Management has been charged with protecting, managing, and controlling wild horses and burros under the authority of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 to ensure healthy herds thrive on healthy rangelands. To maintain population numbers, the agency places a few thousand rounded-up horses in holding facilities or adopts them out every year.
The BLM’s role has not been without controversy, though, as it has been …
This year, as a humanitarian effort, the Natinal Black Farmers Association (NBFA) and the Aminal Welfare Institute (AWI) launched ‘Project Wanted Horse,” assuring that any horse rescued from slaughter or an abuse situation would be placed on one of 94,000 NBFA farms across the country. Del Camino Equestrian Enterprises Inc., which takes …
This year particularly you really need to watch the quality of hay your horse is being fed at any boarding stable. Of course the quality of hay should be a number one priority for every horse boarding stable, but this year costs have sky rocketed and …
We all use them, you know, those good heavy duty buckets with the flat backs? Mind you, I don’t think it really matters which kind of buckets you use, they’re all pretty well created equal. What’s the problem? Well, I’ve never had a problem in 10 years until …
