I just completed a two month experiment trying to feed two horses together so they would get equal amounts. Had it down to 9 feedings a day of a ration of a little less than 16 pounds per horse. The n

I would wait for the 2nd cutting. The first cutting is always a weedy, overripe prickly mess. Central Valley hay comes earlier than mountain hay from MacArthur to the northeast of us.

Putting up a highly visible camera (or a fake one with a flashing red light on it) plus talking to the barn owner in stern terms might work. It sounds like the offender is a tenant of the barn owner,

There is also a Facebook page for Non-Ridden Equines. All kinds of things to do with a horse that is not being ridden. My neighbor trained hers to dunk a basketball in a hoop. (one with a loop on the

Long before anyone really understood IR, I had friends who were taking care of a Norwegian Fjord mare while she was pregnant. She foundered badly. While she did eventually deliver, I believe she was e

My vet has read the research Arenus cites and says she believes it is worthwhile. She is not normally one to fall for supplements, but she always recommends this.

I have found that alfalfa is not all that persistent.

The newer one's might work. But they will significantly overstate the steps. They record acceleration and deceleration. Likely, a horse will quadruple. I know this because of issues with pacemakers an

Cinnamon is often recommended for human diabetics.

Mine eat them as clicker training treats! Fjords!

I credit ECIR to my making some fairly extreme positive diet changes of which our fast, processed food culture is completely non supportive. I just thought, "If my poor starving IR Fjord pony can be f

If a horse is on drylot, cleaned every day, can worms be transmitted? I always understood that they had to be ingested on grass?

What about using something like this corner feeder with a built in hay net on top? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBNi03-Tl78 (Not sure can use hay nets, but might work if you used the big orange hay

Yes, I agree that I should not condemn them. I could have protested and tried to do something, but figured the bone infection really was going to be determinative anyway. If not for that, I might have

I just got a message from a riding school to which I had donated an insulin resistant Fjord mare. She was around 13 when a donated her. She is now 23, and they were planning on putting her down yester

I have used all different kinds of nets. Hay pillows, Cinch Chix Nets, Nibble nets, Hay nets sewn onto the bottom of 35 gallon plastic barrels that allowed me to just throw hay into the barrel rather

My vet gets discount coupons for horses in her care that are on Prascend. Usually late fall, I think.

Well, we helped Brother cross the Rainbow Bridge this morning. It was the right thing to do. When we drew blood on Monday, the vet commented that his blood pressure was low when she tried to get a blo

Jaini, Your experience with Merlin is helpful. The vet did not give me the actual urea and creatinine numbers. She seemed to think she needed a clean catch of urine to really understand what is going

Blood work came back today showing kidney disease. Not clear how bad until we can get a clean catch of urine. We mag not get that before we have to put him down due to slow starvation from severe inap