Horse keeping refers to the practice of maintaining a happy, tidy, and healthy barn or stable for your horses. It includes tips on winter horse care, keeping water traps clean, and stall maintenance
While washing English saddle pads is usually straightforward, cleaning western saddle pads is trickier. These thick, dense pads can be up to 1½ inches thick, often featuring difficult to clean materials like wool, leather, foam layers. In this article, we’ll discuss tips, tricks, and best practices for cleaning both English and western saddle pads …
Horse stall mats are a great way to upgrade your barn or stable. Good stall mats can last for years, improve joint health and comfort for horses, and reduce both cost and time spent cleaning stalls. Horse stall mats, usually made from reinforced rubber, can be purchased in a number of different styles, thicknesses, and …
By your third or fourth time on a horse, you’ve probably learned a few rules about what to wear. Aside from the basic rules of safety and style, most horseback riders avoid wearing light-colored clothing or anything new when they go to the barn. Frustratingly, this approach to preventing stains on riding clothing is maddeningly …
You may think that a guide to how to clean horse boots might be as brief as just instructions to toss them in a washing machine, but keeping your horse boots looking their best actually takes a bit more care. With proper cleaning, horse boots last longer, provide better protection, and create a more …
Most of us became involved with horses through horseback riding. By far the most popular activity to do with horses, horseback riding is all some people can think of to do with a horse. In fact, there are many things you can do with a horse when you can’t ride. Whether your horse is on …
A no affiliate-link, no bullshit guide to buying, using, and repairing horse lead ropes A horse lead rope is one of the most basic pieces of equipment for horses. It’s so basic that sometimes it’s even included when you purchase a horse! A lead rope is a specific type of rope with a horse-safe clip …
Planning to build or renovate a horse barn is an exciting project. One of the most exciting parts of building or refinishing a barn is the tack room. While most aspects of a horse barn are standardized (like 12 x 12 stalls with just a few options for prefab stall fronts, and a set width …
Clean, rust-free horse bits serve the purpose of both form and function- that is to say, a clean horse bit doesn’t just look good – it works better. While clean bits might not turn heads in the horse show ring, being well turned out (with polished hardware, dusted boots, and a clean horse) can sometimes …
Keeping a horse on stall rest can be stressful both for horses and for the humans who care for them. For some equine injuries, stall rest or partial stall rest is the only way to rest a horse’s body sufficiently for a full recovery. For horses, whose brains and bodies evolved to range over many …
Because my farm has frontage on a busy road in a suburban area, I have my horses wear leather halters 24/7. I once watched the comical-had-it-not-been-so-scary struggle of a highway patrol officer trying to secure an unhaltered horse running loose on a highway and that experience convinced me that having a fast, secure way to …
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