Equine Technical Articles
Article published the June 26, 2009:
Manure management is a vital part of modern day horse ownership. Many horses spend a significant portion of their day in stalls, accumulating large amounts of manure and stall waste. Horse owners generally have...
Article published the July 25, 2008:
Normal Behavior Most domestic horses readily adapt to a variety of housing environments. That is, either immediately or within a few days they appear comfortable, reasonably content, and they adopt a pattern of...
Article published the July 22, 2008:
Researchers studying the physiology of exercise of horses are continually refining methods to accurately monitor the fitness and health status of horses in physical training. Exercise creates a need for efficie...
Article published the February 15, 2008:
Effective trainers understand how horses perceive their world, what motivates them and how they learn. Attributing human qualities to horses can spell trouble for horse owners, handlers and trainers. Understand...
Article published the November 29, 2007:
The history of moving horses from one place to another dates back as far as 3500 years. Some of the reasons for transporting include: shipping horses long distances to participate in military conflicts in far- ...
Article published the November 28, 2007:
Performance horses are often plagued with injuries arising from skeletal systems that are ill-prepared for the rigors of exercise. This creates many issues. Among the major ones is the welfare of the animal. A ...
Article published the November 21, 2007:
The horse industry has not progressed far from the way our grandparents raised horses. The majority of horse stalls are still mucked out using a wheelbarrow and pitch fork. However, there are other ways of doin...
Article published the August 12, 2007:
All health, performance, and disease traits in horses are fundamentally influenced by a subset of the approximately 25,000 genes that comprise the equine genome. Athletic ability and physical fitness in humans ...
Article published the July 16, 2007:
One of the great ironies for agriculture is the popular recognition horse breeders enjoy as genetics experts while academics in agriculture consider horse breeding an obtuse art. Indeed, even horse breeders pre...
Article published the July 2, 2007:
Teagasc, the Agriculture and Food Development Authority, is the national body in Ireland providing integrated research, advisory and training services to the agriculture and food industry and rural communities....