Reading Time: 5 minutes Horse owners often observe that their four-legged darlings are increasingly walking “tenderly”. As it often can be observed most visibly after the hoof trimmer was visiting, it is quickly blamed on the fact that “too much has been taken away” during the hoof treatment. The culprit is found, a new
Reading Time: 5 minutes Laminitis in summer on a grazed down, dry field? That can’t be right! As soon as the first grass growth has been eaten away, many horse owners put their horses that have a sensitive metabolism and are at risk of laminitis out onto that field, as ‘then there is nothing
Reading Time: 3 minutes What is insulin resistance? It is still often equated with EMS (Equine Metabolic Syndrome) by many horse owners, but these are two completely different conditions. EMS means that my horse is significantly overweight, and in cases of “true” EMS, the excess weight is primarily due to fat. A horse with
Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘My horse can’t go into the field, or it will explode!’ You hear this over and over again and again from many horse owners. Greed is however, not a natural horse behaviour, not even in the Gypsy Cob. Healthy horses naturally have their ‘noses down’ as soon as they move
Reading Time: 5 minutes As the grass turns greener following the long, wet, muddy winter season, the horses stretch their necks and lips to fetch a few fresh shoots of grass under the fence. Every walk turns into a pulling contest with a stressed owner at one end, and the horse at the other,
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