Answers Straight From The Horses Mouth!
Our horse recently gave birth, and my son loves horses so much that he was hoping we might get twins. I wasn’t even sure if this was possible, and I’ve been raising horses for half my life. In the end, the mare only gave birth to a single foal, and though my son was a …
Knowing your horse’s mood and behavior is a really important part of keeping horses. One of the most important things is about how and when you’re letting males and females interact. For that question, another important point is to understand a mare’s heat cycle. I had been wondering this myself recently, as I’d just gotten …
I was watching a documentary about farming and breeding practices for horses the other day, and one thing I kept hearing them mention was horse serum. It seemed like a strange and vague term to me, and unfortunately a lot of the science went right over my head. I wasn’t sure what any of it …
Recently, my son and I drove past a field late at night when it was quite cold, and we noticed there was a horse sleeping in the middle of the field. We’ve always had horses ourselves, and I’ve always stressed the importance of getting them indoors at night. And yet now, we could see a …
I was out grooming our horses with my son the other day, and he asked me if horses had whiskers in the same way dogs and cats do. I said I wasn’t sure, since I knew they have hairs on the ends of their mouths, but what exactly are whiskers anyway? The term is a …