Research indicated that 70% of equestrians have experience with girth galls, sores similar to blisters caused by friction of the saddle. Crafted Equestrian designed a girth with an innovative pressure-release system using moisture-wicking fabrics and foams.
Bethany Williams-Holthouse’s thesis combined her love of horses with an interest in water management. Her innovative research into drought-proofing Australia’s horse properties has won a Queensland state award for emerging town planners.
Swiss researchers have learned that the “bucket test,” used to determine horse dominance, has its place, but it can give significantly different results than an all-day field test of horses at pasture.
Real Horse Rescues is a groundbreaking equine advocacy series that focuses on equine welfare and examines the underlying issues that lead to equine abandonment, abuse, neglect, and slaughter.
Understanding how individual horses think and reason could help handlers be aware of their individual needs and strengths.
A horse’s injured tendon is likely to heal better if it’s got less strain on it. Corrective shoeing that changes the hoof’s angle in relation to the ground can affect the strain on the tendons of the distal (lower) limb.
A new study results indicate horses find pressure from most bitless bridles to be just as unpleasant as that from snaffle bridles. And with one of kind of bitless bridle, the researchers found the pressure to be even worse.
Horses can make 17 facial movements — which is three more than our relatives, the chimpanzees, and just 10 fewer than humans.
11 active sport horses were shod by the same farrier for two six-week shoeing cycles using copper-coated steel nails in the left front foot and conventional steel nails in the right front foot.
One of the prevailing hypotheses as to why zebras have stripes has been that they help zebras stay cool, a notion supported by the recent finding that zebras in warmer climates have more stripes covering their entire bodies compared to zebras in cooler regions.