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Miniature Horses: Not quite the same as a horse

Horse Health: Miniatures are attractive for their personalities and intelligence, but face some unique health problems

By Carol Shwetz March 13, 2015

Whilst the exact origin of the modern Miniature Horse is unclear, selective breeding of pony stock breeds such as the Shetland pony for a smaller size is most likely. Pony breeds, typically considered an equine under 14.2 hands or 58 inches in height, have been around for hundreds of years. Most of their evolutionary selection

Horses tend to prefer travelling diagonally in a trailer, but most important is giving them adequate space to properly balance themselves while travelling. photo: thinkstock

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Reducing risk of injury or sickness when trailering horses

You can minimize the level of stress by practising horse-trailering skills well ahead of when it’s necessary

By Carol Shwetz January 16, 2015

A trailer ride is a formidable undertaking for a horse, as it is in strong contradiction to their inherent nature. Acceptance of loading into the trailer, travelling calmly and unloading quietly from the trailer requires mental preparation and conditioning of the horse. Horses that are properly prepared mentally for trailering arrive at their destination with

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Keeping your horse physically active in the winter

Pawing for forage through snow is one way to provide physical activity and mental relief

By Carol Shwetz December 24, 2014

Daily physical activity is essential for the overall health of your horse year round and this includes the winter season. Given the limitations that snow and cold and somewhat unsure footing can impose on activities with horses during the winter months, it can be challenging to ensure horses have sufficient physical activity. As long as

Forages, Livestock, Other livestock

Feeding round hay bales to horses has risks

Concentration of nutrients and overfeeding are among the potential problems

By Carol Shwetz October 29, 2014

Convenience and dollar savings are often cited as two major advantages when feeding round baled hay, especially when feeding groups of horses. At first glance these advantages may seem obvious, but for actual economic benefit certain conditions need to be met and the inherent health risks to the horses being fed round bales need to

When a horse sustains a laceration to one of its lower limbs, the functional and cosmetic outcome is greatly improved with early veterinary intervention.

Livestock, Other livestock

Dealing with the eight top equine emergencies

When to call the vet and what to do until he or she arrives

By Carol Shwetz September 26, 2014

Most horse owners will at some time encounter an emergency. Recognizing a true veterinary emergency and knowing appropriate first aid care until the veterinarian arrives can substantially improve the equine patient’s outcome. Colic is the most common cause for emergency calls. Colic is a broad term which describes abdominal pain or “pain in the belly.”

Brett Arnason poses with Ginnar, one of the family’s Icelandic horses kept at their Rosser-area farm. PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON

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VIDEO: Don’t call these tiny horses ‘ponies’

Bringing Icelandic horses to Manitoba was a dream of his late father’s.  Nearly 30 years later they’re still part of the Arnason family

By Lorraine Stevenson August 27, 2014

Brett Arnason remembers the first time he saw an Icelandic horse. This was no horse, he thought. This was a pony. But his father Frank, in the mid-1980s, who was raising thoroughbreds near here thought otherwise. The elder Arnason had grown increasingly interested in the capabilities of the Icelandic horse, and had started to talk

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Horses communicate with their eyes and mobile ears

Study also challenges notion that animals with eyes on the sides of their heads cannot glean  information from each other

By Current Biology Release August 7, 2014

Horses are sensitive to the facial expressions and attention of other horses, including the direction of the eyes and ears. The findings, reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on August 4, are a reminder for us humans to look beyond our own limitations and recognize that other species may communicate in ways that

Many equine athletes have their careers cut short because of arthritis.

Livestock, Other livestock

The most common cause of lameness in horses

There are many things horse owners and riders can do to prevent the onset of arthritis

By Carol Shwetz August 5, 2014

Recent estimates show that approximately 60 per cent of lameness problems in horses are related to arthritis. As a result the diagnosis and treatment of arthritis in horses has become a multibillion-dollar industry. Since arthritis is rarely curable and at best manageable, it is worthwhile to consider the contributing factors that place horses at risk

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Targeted deworming can help maintain herd health

Treating horses that are ‘heavy shedders’ can reduce total parasitic infestations on the farm by up to 80 per cent

By Carol Shwetz July 9, 2014

Most horse owners are keenly aware of the importance deworming plays in the health of their horses. Veterinarians, pharmaceutical companies and extension programs have done an exceptional job at promoting frequent scheduled dewormings. Yet recent science about the biology of equine parasites has found that using more deworming compound does not necessarily result in a

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Caring for horses eases symptoms of dementia

Visiting a horse farm was a drug-free alternative that  improved moods, behaviour and physical activity levels

By Columbus, Ohio May 8, 2014

Ohio State University researchers have added a new study to the mounting evidence supporting the old adage attributed to Winston Churchill: “There’s something about the outside of a horse that’s good for the inside of a man.” They have found spending time with horses eases symptoms of Alzheimer’s dementia. A collaboration between the Ohio State

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U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures end lower, hogs mostly lower

CFIA adds controls for imports of Spanish feed ingredients after African swine fever outbreak

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