Habitat For Horses

On the banks of France's Arve river, the horse the Germans could not kill faced his most dangerous mission yet. The star-foreheaded Warrior, who arrived on the Western Front in August 1914, had survived four years of shells and bullets, come through the horrors of Ypres,...

OAKLAND, Calif. - California’s attorney general says federal officials who want to offer hundreds of wild horses up to slaughterhouse buyers would be breaking state law if they put the animals up for auction. Over the last month, the U.S. Forest Service has been rounding up...

By Drew Marine | October 11, 2018 at 9:18 PM CDT - Updated October 11 at 9:18 PM LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) - Wild horses at Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk have been the source of controversy for years, JRTC and Fort Polk...

The Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) has provided an update on equine infectious anemia (EIA) cases in Dallas County horses, the Equine Disease Communication Center (EDCC) reported Sept. 19. There have been three cases of EIA in Dallas County, Texas, horses since June. “On June 13,...

PHOENIX — If you’ve seen a wild horse roaming the Salt River area in the past year or so, it might have been Ducey. That’s right, there’s a Salt River wild horse named after Arizona’s governor. The Salt River Wild Horse Management Group — a nonprofit organization...

Researchers have found that a particular protein found in the intestine is upregulated in chronic cases of laminitis, strengthening that case that chronic inflammation of the laminae in the hoof might be associated with changes in the endocrine and immune systems. Texas A&M University researchers Samantha...

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...