Habitat For Horses

Researchers in Britain have confirmed that donkeys don’t cope well with wet, cold weather, and they need extra protection in winter. This is the first study of the hair coat properties of donkeys in any environment and indicates that donkeys are less well adapted to the...

RICHMOND, Texas - It's unusual to see a horse inside any store, but at a PetSmart in Richmond, it's nothing out of the ordinary. In a photo that's going viral on Reddit, a full-grown horse can be seen with a young man believed to be his...

A team of scientists in Siberia is hopeful that a mummified 40,000-year-old baby horse can provide critical genetic material for cloning the extinct ice-age species. But experts told Live Science that they are skeptical that the scientists will be able to find viable DNA on the...

"The National Park Service is welcoming a new Assateague Pony foal born last week. The mare N9BM-J (known as “Giggles”) gave birth to a pinto colt early on Aug. 17, The new foal, N9BM-JQ, and his band live most of the year in the very busy developed...

Economic developers in three Western states are competing for the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) new headquarters, which is now under consideration by the Department of the Interior (DOI). Some wild horse advocates believe a new BLM headquarters in the West could work in the...

"Horse shows are a huge part of the horse industry. Some competitors travel to multiple arenas, grounds, and private facilities each year, some across state lines or even national borders. Those competitions can be festering ground for many equine diseases that a horse owner can...

The American Horse Council (AHC) is hoping to develop a universal equine microchip look-up tool. A universal microchip look-up tool would provide a single source where the general public and various organizations and emergency response teams could find a horse’s identity or the registry with which...

The Bureau of Land Management is considering bait trapping to manage the Spring Creek Basin wild horse herd between Dove Creek and Norwood. BLM’s Tres Rios Field Office is seeking public comment on an environmental assessment on the proposal, with the potential for helicopter-assisted gathering, to...

New evidence that horses reliably produce more snorts in favorable situations could improve animal welfare practices, according to a study published July 11 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Mathilde Stomp of the Université de Rennes, France, and colleagues. Assessing positive emotions is important for...

Thanks to research conducted at the University of Arizona, horsemen and horsewomen may have a new tool to help manage equine stress, and it’s as simple as a sniff. A sniff of lavender, that is. Research recently published in the Journal of Equine Veterinary Science found...