Do you and your horse cough more when you’re riding in an indoor arena? What about stumbling? A Kentucky researcher is looking to learn more about the health effects on both humans and horses using indoor arenas.
The Foal Watch Class at at Cal Poly Pomona in Pomona, California assigns students to a pregnant mare and involves them in the process of caring for pregnant mares; including everything from attending ultrasounds and learning the stages of labor to delivering the foals.
Imagine carrying 5 kilograms (11 pounds) on an outstretched arm for an extended time. Head movement timing helps horses walk efficiently so they can more easily carry this heavy load.
A Rutgers University-New Brunswick study finds that horses don’t mind working as part of therapy for traumatized veterans.
Midway is an old town right in the center of the Bluegrass, and just on the edge you’ll find an old college. It started as the Kentucky Female Orphan School, which came along in 1849, and later became Midway College, for women. Now it’s coed and has grown into a university with 1,200 students. And…
Researchers developed and validated a test to determine how easily individual horses become distracted.
Just like horses that hold records for being the fastest or jumping the highest, there’s also a record set for the tallest and the shortest horse.
Interesting study where Swiss researchers compared chewing patterns in six Warmblood riding horses to six heifers and six camels. What did they learn?
Wanted: One outgoing blond-haired, blue-eyed Alberta girl, aged six to nine, to become a new face on the family drama Heartland.
Sixty-six horses switched from being ridden with a bit to a bitless bridle showed dramatic reductions in 69 behaviours linked to bit-related pain..