Once you’ve decided to buy a trailer, you’ll find an almost endless array of choices. How do you pick the best one, and how can you know it’s safe? Follow our experts’ advice and avoid trouble down the road.
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When the chill is on, we undaunted horse lovers are wrapped mummy-like against the elements waddling to the barn or pasture to provide care for our equine companions. While our four-legged friends aren’t lacking for life’s essentials, they do...
Horses are an expensive hobby, as any equine lover will tell you. Most people scrimp and save, cutting corners elsewhere in life to afford their horsey hobby. If your paycheck isn’t going as far as it used to, whether...
Note: This is day 22 of my 30-day blogging challenge. What the heck is a 30-day blogging challenge? Read about it here.Uncle Snoopy and his old boarding stable crew.
Every time we post something on our Facebook page about boarding,...
Whether updating a barn or creating a perfect horsey haven from the ground up, equine safety should get top billing. While care is taken in many barn-planning details, from aisle width to insulation to placement of paddocks, many times...
One of the most important tenets of horse keeping is: thou shalt keep the stall clean. Mucking your horse’s stall is the barn chore you treat like the doing the dishes—annoying as it is, it’s a necessity. Also like...
Editor’s Note: Horse Illustrated is introducing a new column for 2015. Stable Advice is a place for our readers to offer their advice on some of those uniquely equestrian problems. These aren’t the questions that you’d normally ask your...
Ideally, your horse’s blankets would last from the first chilly day of winter to its last lingering gasp, but that’s often not the case. Read on to learn how to do an emergency patch-up until you can bring his...
Note: This is day 10 of my 30-day blogging challenge. What the heck is a 30-day blogging challenge? Read about it here.I bring my dog to the barn fairly regularly. While we've more or less eliminated her worst habit,...
All horse owners know the familiar and somehow aesthetically pleasing outline of a dozing horse: one hind leg bent in relaxation while the other three legs are locked in place; head hung low; ears relaxed; lower lip drooping and...
