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79Four Common Equine Skin Ailments
Skin ailments can cause your horse much misery and even secondary infections if not attended to promptly. Late spring, summer and early fall is when you horse is most likely to suffer from one of these...
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73Hay Stretcher or Hay Replacer?
Several feed companies offer hay pellets or cubes, or what they call hay stretchers, a combination of hay and grain byproducts. Feeding hay pellets is a way to extend the winter hay supply. Fed in...
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74Horse Pulling
I arrived at Hunt Horse Complex on the North Carolina State Fair Grounds early. I walked around the barn area looking for my friend who had insisted I bring my camera to the Annual Southern National Draft...
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72Will Sweet Feed Make Your Horse hyper?
In 2008 Science Daily, "Sweets Make Young Horses Harder to Train", published an article based on equine nutrition research done at Montana State University. The researchers studied twelve young (the article...
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66The Character Interview as a Writing Tool
When writing a novel it is important to know your characters, and it makes life easier to get to know them early in your writing. There may be things in your character's past that you will not write in your...
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86Riding on the Beach
You have seen the photographs of a beautiful horse galloping down the beach, mane and tail flying in the wind, ridden by a beautiful lady whose long hair is doing the same. The waves splash glistening...
9 comments77Toys for Your Horse
Your horse is bored and you are worried he might start chewing or cribbing. Since you're at work most of the day you can't keep Ole Paint entertained, so you are thinking of buying him a toy. The only...
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74Seven Easy Writing Exercises
The writer must exercise her/his writing "muscles" daily to improve as a writer the same way an athlete must exercise to improve in the sport. Most of us are familiar with free writing, but to break the...
12 comments76Wounded Horses
According to Horses and Horsemanship by M.E. Ensminger, horses are more accident prone than any other class of domestic animal. Even the most careful owner will at one time or another need to treat his horse...
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74Bringing Back Real Horse Power
One of the joys of writing The Book of Draft Horses and The Book of Mules has been meeting some folks who have taken it upon themselves to preserve a part of our country's heritage; partnering up with their...
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