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Head to Hoof® Products Help Senior Horse Regain Health The Sturdy Horse, located in Del Norte, Colorado, researches, develops, and manufactures products made from hemp seeds that help humans, horses, and pets. One horse, Peaches, a 29-year-old Quarter Horse with extreme malnutrition due to negligence, was checked over by a …
Lessons from the Ranch: Training, Riding, Luck, and Love By Van Hargis Van Hargis grew up in the saddle on an East Texas ranch, training his first horse at age 12 and eventually making a living starting cutting and reining colts, many of which would leave his hands to become …
Useful Lives Beyond Useful Years My love for older horses has grown as I’ve aged-out several horses in my life. As I too grow older, I find myself longing for the days when I could swing up on my horse from the ground or ride for hours without feeling it …
How to Take, Measure and Track Key Vital Signs By Meriel Moore-Colyer for Haygain Maintaining good health in our horses is every owner’s responsibility. Avoiding performance-limiting viruses, preventing the development of more serious diseases, and ensuring your horse is content and living as natural a life as possible should be everyone’s …
Developers of the Parma Arena Groomer How and why did you get started in business? In 1994, Parma Company, a century old farm equipment manufacturer, developed the Parma® Arena Groomer® tool to fill the need for an economical yet effective way to work and groom the footing in horse arenas. …
Ethan Pregulman’s Journey into Horsemanship Who can measure what draws children to horses and keeps them there? Could it be the giddy experience of sitting so high above the ground, or that soft, fluffy mane, or the magical connection enabling a human to communicate with an animal? If you ask …
The Benefits of Horse Ownership Go Beyond Riding Today I walked my far fields, skirted the woods my husband and I planted decades ago, and soaked in a few moments of one of the last sunny days of the year. The grass was damp from a recent rain, but the …
Unveiling the Truth Behind Equine Footwear Hoof boots—we’ve all heard of them, and it’s a love-or-hate relationship for most. I tried boots from four manufacturers a few years ago and promptly returned to traditional steel shoes. Steel has worked for me for years. Other than a few sprung shoes, failures …
Competitions and Opportunities Highlight Mustangs’ Qualities At the end of the last article, I’d finally saddled Journey, my formerly wild mustang who I was preparing for a 90-day competition, with a full-sized saddle after starting him with a kid’s saddle. Then life happened, and I had to be gone for …
It was a joy to read the essays and see the photos submitted to our Senior Horse Essay Contest this year. It was very difficult, as usual, to choose the winners. In the end, I chose those who most closely followed the submission guidelines and whose words and photos best …
