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Horse Hoof Pick How-To: Cleaning Horse Hooves
Horse hoof picking should be part of a daily grooming schedule. This practice can prevent horse hoof problems caused by impacted stones and other debris. It is also an important preventative measure for conditions such as equine thrush, a bacterial infection of the hoof that produces a black discharge and foul-smelling odor. With proper horse handling, cleaning horse hooves is an easy task. Horses who are not used to having their feet handled should … Read entire article »
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Thorough Horse Grooming for Spring Shedding
Lately, I’ve been currying out hair more than I’ve been riding. With the onset of the warmer weather and the longer days, my lawn has been sprinkled with the copper and white hairs shedding from my horse’s coat. After every grooming session, I find that my shirt is covered in several layers of hair. It gets a bit frustrating when it seems as though there is no end to all of the madness. It seems that … Read entire article »
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Cutting and Pulling to Get The Perfect Mane
It was two days before the show. My horse’s mane was long and shaggy and thicker towards the poll. I read earlier about how a “top pro” thinned and shortened the manes of her horses, but it was a two-week process. I had two days. I had to think quickly. I knew that I was going to have to cut it. I was disappointed to learn that I didn’t have thinning shears – a tool … Read entire article »
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The Versatility of the Curry Comb
This time of year it gets pretty scary to walk out to the barnyard. The horses rush up to the fence whinnying for food–but only after playing in the mud. What used to be a herd of bays, buckskins, and greys, is now a herd of earth worked into the knotted hairs of fetlocks, manes, and tails. Dry mud, wet mud, clumpy mud, mud of all sorts. You are out there to feed hay to mudballs with eyes. All horse people have come up with their own ways of scraping mud off of horses. Sometimes, it is easiest just to pull out the shedding blade and have at it. When the job looks rather discouraging, we wonder if we should just chuck the hay over the fence and retreat to our … Read entire article »
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