Write a Winning Essay and Win a Horse Farm!

Tim and Maggie Lott have lived in their Victorian home for 18 years raising their two children and building their farm. They are ready to move and start a new adventure somewhere else. Instead of selling in the conventional real estate way, the Lotts are offering their property as the grand prize in an essay…

A Day in the Life of an Equitarian

In January 2016, veterinarian Ashley Leighton Kornatowski joined a team of 30 volunteers, including other veterinarians, vet techs, vet students, undergraduate students, PhDs, a saddler, and a farrier, on the Osa Peninsula, in southwestern Costa Rica, to perform a week of equitarian work.

Are Textbooks Wrong on Equine Body Temperature?

While books and other sources have stated “normal ranges” of temperatures for many years, there has been no recent published work examining whether these suggested normal values are representative of healthy horses. Enter Nottingham Trent University where researchers recently investigated the normal body temperature of horses in the Nottingham Trent University yard. The findings showed…

Horse Gait Analysis: Eight-Point Sensor System Shows Promise

By collecting kinematic movement data wirelessly from the horse’s poll, withers, sacrum, sternum (underside of the barrel), and each leg, veterinarians and even judges could complement their visual assessments of horses in motion. Such a system could give critical information about lameness, neurological disorders, performance, and natural gaits.