Horse SA is calling for a review of laws which make it easy for some horse owners to abandon horses at boarding centres without paying fees.
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July 16, 2012
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July 12, 2012
American actress Bo Derek has lent her support to the FEI Awards 2012 by calling on the worldwide equestrian community to make nominations.
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March 30, 2012
So we love our horses right? We feed them the best, we rug them, tend to their injuries, care for them in old age. They are our willing partners, our friends. They look to us and we to them for companionship and a meaningful relationship. They try hard for us, are willing to please. They are quick learners, obliging, patient and forgiving. At the heart of our relationship with our horses is love. Right?
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March 27, 2012
Does your horse suffer from allergies and hayfever like symptoms? Spring and summer can certainly be the time of year when such unpleasant problems can make themselves known. Just like humans, horses can suffer the horrible effects of hayfever but luckily there are some wonderful herbs available to ease the discomfort.
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February 24, 2012
You’ve seen them, maybe you own one. They are uncontrollable, not all the time but often enough to cause you concern ... They’re skittish, can’t stand still, hard to lead, barging and shouldering, leaping in the air, rearing, kicking out. They act like you don’t even exist. And if you ever got up enough nerve to ride it turns out almost suicidal. Fighting the bridle, leaping, plunging, trying to run off, and rearing when you hold them back.
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February 23, 2012
Rosa Canina – Dog Rose is native to Europe and is considered a weed in parts of Australia which is unfortunate as it has such wonderful health giving properties for both ourselves and our horses. The hips of the dog rose were a popular sweetmeat in the Middle Ages. The term sweetmeats usually refers to candy or sweet confections. Doctors in the Middle Ages often concealed bitter medicine in candy form, so that it was more palatable to patients. However, many patients believed that medicine wasn’t working unless it tasted awful.
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February 7, 2012
In online discussions about bits, many posters will say that in the wrong hands a snaffle can be as deadly as any curb, gag or combo bit. At first glance this seems logical, after all the majority of bits are made of metal and sit on the soft and sensitive tissues inside the horse's mouth. Any application of strong or rapid pressure on those soft tissues will cause equal harm? The problem with this claim is that it doesn't stand up on closer scrutiny.
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January 11, 2012
Winters in the Gobi desert are usually long and very cold but the winter of 2009/2010 was particularly severe, a condition Mongolians refer to as “dzud”. Millions of livestock died in Mongolia and the re-introduced wild Przewalski’s horse population crashed dramatically.
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December 2, 2011
Horses with arthritis can benefit greatly from eating Hawthorn, both the tops of the plant and the berries. Its proper botanical name is Crataegus monogyna & Crataegus oxyacantha and it is considered an extremely valuable medicinal herb.
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November 30, 2011
Enhancing horse productivity and wellbeing has drawn considerable interest in feeding fat supplemented diets to horses. Much of this interest has been prompted by a significant amount of research on the subject over the last ten years. Whilst several unknown aspects of specific fatty acid nutrition in the horse still exist, the caloric and some extra caloric effects of feeding fat to horses are well documented.
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