Tips to Keep Your Horse from Bucking
It’s a scene riders dread: A tense, strong horse ignores your cues, moves straight ahead then begins bucking and kicking out. Your horse’s body is tight and you are out…
Tack Room Makeover – Horse Illustrated Magazine magazine
A shadowbox puts your ribbon collection on display and creates a beautiful work of art for the tack room. Use equestrian tapestries and show halters to dress up plain wooden…
Building Your Horse Care Dream Team
Photo by Clix/Shawn Hamilton Building your horse care dream team is a huge step. You’ve welcomed a new horse into your family, or decided to pull up roots and move…
Free Barn Fire Prevention Seminar
According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), 326 deadly barn fires occurred during the period 2013-2017. In 2022 a devastating fire hurt the Indiana Thoroughbred breeding industry when one…
Finding the Best Option for your Horse
Photo by Daniel Johnson Whether you’ve owned horses for a long time or you’re planning to buy your first horse (or first horse in a long time), one of the…
DIY Barn Hacks – Horse Illustrated
Whether it’s flies, mud, punishing sun or safety hazards, a farm has the potential to be filled with pain points. As horse owners, we have a clear responsibility to give…
Wildfire on the mountain – Equus Magazine
I was hungry and tired, and I wanted to be home. The dusty dirt road seemed to never end, and my windshield wipers had to constantly push away the dust…
Horse blankets and hair growth
By now you’ve put away your blankets for the season, but a study from the University of Wisconsin, River Falls, may have you rethinking how you will use them when…
Is agricultural lime safe for horse stalls?
QUESTION: There has been great debate at the barn I board at regarding lime. The barn manager likes to sprinkle it on the wet spots of stalls to neutralize the…
What does equine welfare really mean?
A survey of Canadian horse owners about equine housing practices reveals a disconnect between perceptions of “equine welfare” and “standard of care.” Researchers at Atlantic Veterinary College at the University…
Equine coronavirus risk factors identified
A large outbreak of equine coronavirus (ECoV) on a North Carolina horse farm provided valuable information about factors that put horses at risk of developing the disease. How coronavirus affects…