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This photo shows how car drivers see a horse and rider in sunlight coming through the trees into the shadows, if you don't wear hi viz then perhaps you should, Oz
Via Fran Jurga 's Facebook page, please share with people you know who ride out on roads.
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What are the best horsecare practices to protect your horse from laminitis?
What are the risk factors?
Can icing the feet help?
What might a cresty neck or hoof rings mean?
Watch the video and learn to recognize early changes in your horse's feet before laminitis occurs and how to correct hormone levels before horses go lame. Dr Walsh of Animal Health Foundation also suggests ways to prevent supporting limb laminitis in horses with leg injuries.
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A lot of people thought Fortune was
naive. Here he was this 12 year old kid, spending all his summertime
money on a lame racer from the track. But he didn't care what people
said and he sure as hell didn't listen to the advice everyone thought he
needed.
He just smiled and nodded and named his horse King.
Fortune
had his own path, his own methods, his own ways to go about life. He
knew this horse could be fixed just as much as he knew his disappointed
heart couldn't stay broken. Fortune could see that plain, just by
looking at him. King was an unpretentious. Fortune his ally. It was as
simple and true as any instinct could be.
Fortune's King is just one of the equine portraits offered for sale by Sintwister Photography. Each photograph comes a little story and they've been featured on HGTV.com, StylishHome.com, the San Diego Jewish Journal and Canada's Style at Home Magazine, as well as a bevy of blogs! To see more visit the Sintwister Photography Etsy shop.
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World Horse Welfare recently launched a national TV appeal to raise awareness of the horse crisis in the UK. It tells the story of 20 ponies living on a dumpsite. The ponies were a mixture of Shetlands and other native breeds, a mix of mares, nine stallions and youngsters.
World Horse Welfare Field Officer, Chris Williamson was first at the scene.
He says: “These horses were living on a dumpsite; there was
rubbish, bits of scrap metal, derelict vehicles, cranes and nails
sticking out everywhere I turned.
“When I found a mare and her foal locked inside a container, I just
couldn’t believe it. They had obviously been in there for quite some
time; they were covered in faeces and the debris that had been dumped
there.”
Chris says: “One of the ponies was lagging behind; he was
really struggling to put his foot to the floor – there was something
drastically wrong."
“On closer inspection we found that the poor thing had a four
inch nail embedded in his foot, if it had not been removed - we would
have lost him.
“We took action as necessary and removed all of the horses and ponies
from the site into the care of World Horse Welfare. If we hadn’t got
there in time - there would have been fatalities.”
Here you can watch the orginal World Horse Welfare video from this 2009 rescue:
Read the full story on the World Horse Welfare website: World Horse Welfare launches TV appeal after damning figures confirm depth of horse crisis.
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"The British Horse Society's advice to all young people who aspire to work within the equine industry is that they should first complete their general education as far as possible and not cut short their time at school. An all-round education is an asset in any walk of life, you will find that GCSE's and "A" Levels or their equivalent are jsut as important in the equine industry as they are in any other sphere, not as a requirement for good horsemanship but as proof of aptitude, diligence and determination. Basic educational qualifications are also necessary to enter many horse-related careers."
BHS Guide to Working with Horses
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“I never had one I didn't love. Really and truly, all my special horses were Thoroughbreds. If it weren't for them, I don't know that I would have had a riding career at all." Dianne Grod
Click the following links for more horse quotes:
Horse Quotes, Favourite Horse Quotes,
The horse is a very noble creature - Desmond Morris
Make him your FRIEND - Oliveira
stables are the real centre of the household - George Bernard Shaw
Monica Dickens - You and your horse,
Sherlock Holmes - Game of Shadows
Black Elk - A Sky Full of Horses
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Remember those Shetland ponies in cardigans?
Well now you can have your very own 8" x 12" photographic print of Vitamin and Fivla wearing their bespoke Fair Isle cardigans. The photographs were taken by their owner, photographer Frances Taylor of Thordale Photography and can be purchased from her Etsy shop Thordale Photography.
Frances also has a super blog My Shetland Everything Shetland
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Barbara Franc enjoys the challenge of transforming something with a past history into something new and exciting. She uses recycled and discarded materials turning them into wonderful sculptures of horses
"I find the sculpting of a horse a really interesting challenge, they are a form we think we know so well. Their power, physique and the debt owed them by humanity as the early fast vehicle of trade and conquest has always been a subject for artists since early dawn of time."
and zebras
dogs, birds and other wonderous things.
Visit her website to see more barbarafranc.co.uk
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Laminil has received FDA approval in the USA for investigational drug testing as it goes through the regulatory process and is being tested around the world at major veterinary clinics. It is a prescribed injectable drug administered by vets via limb perfusion that has had an 80 percent success rate in tests on more than 60 horses suffering from all types of laminitis, such as insulin resistance, equine metabolic syndrome, grain overload, grass founder, trauma and single limb laminitis.
Take a look at these before treatment and after treatment videos:
and 3 days later
Willowcroft Pharm LLC are currently running clinical trials, they will add horses to the clinical trial on a first-come, first-served basis as soon as resources allow. For further information please visit Laminil
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The top six in this year’s Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials:
1 Jonathan Paget and Clifton Promise NZL (39.7)
2 Michael Jung and La Biosthetique-Sam GER FBW (40)
3 Andrew Nicholson and Nereo NZL (40.2)
4 Sandra Auffarth and Opgun Louvo GER (42.5)
5 William Fox-Pitt and Parklane Hawk GBR (44)
6 Stefano Brecciaroli and Apollo VD Wendi Kurt Hoeve (46.8)
For the full results click here.
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