Innovative and beautiful, the paintings on these horses are designed to help teach students learning the art of equine massage. The unborn foal is particularly beautifully done. ~ HfH Anatomy art - Equine massage therapist Gillian Higgins paints horses' anatomies on their coats, as part of...
Good Sunday Afternoon to all! It is time to take a break. Let's go down to Misty Meadow Farms and enjoy watching Shetland Ponies - good ponies, naughty ponies, and cutest of all baby ponies. [caption id="attachment_33727" align="aligncenter" width="654"] Cute baby ponies nursing![/caption] ...
This is a very solid piece of journalism by Animals 24-7 in Australia. The relationship of gambling in horse racing and horse slaughter is one that has not been discussed often enough. A larger pool of speculative breeding of race horses generates more income for...
Most of the country - with the exception of southern Florida - is really cold right now. We are in the heart of winter. Horses, however, can survive even in bitter cold. Their winter coats, if intact, will provide them plenty of comfort. Hauling horses...
This is a follow up piece so our readers can understand the history of cobalt as a doping agent in horse racing. Cobalt salts (or cobalt chloride) is extremely dangerous to use on horses. Death is a common side effect. Yet, its ability to make...
We do not tend to think of horse breeds as being created for industrialization. Yet, early on in the Industrial Age, back before the automobile ruled the roads, horses were required to move the machines and manufactured goods made by the machines. Now, Belgian draft...
Happy Sunday Ya'll. We hope your weekend has gone well - we have been cleaning up after a very muddy COLD rain. Time to get some hot tea and enjoy a few cute horse pictures! ~ HfH [caption id="attachment_33615" align="aligncenter" width="467"] Mom and Dad are...
Ruidoso, New Mexico is reknown for its rugged beauty - a resort community sitting in the Sierra Blanca Mountain Range. Wild horses have been roaming this area for decades - locals have come to love and protect them. ~ HfH From: Ruidoso News Photographer David Tremblay spotted...
ADM Alliance reports that trace amounts of monensin could get into horse feed after a cattle feed production run has been finished. And that this is acceptable since they take measures to clean the machines and any monensin left there is by accident. So accidental...
Creeping Indigo does not grow through much of the US but thrives in tropical climes such as Florida and Hawaii. Not only was it brought to the US to use in lab experiments at the University of Florida but it has been used as ground...