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  • Cooling your hot horse: to scrape or not to scrape...
    July 11, 2021

    Cooling your hot horse: to scrape or not to scrape...

    Keeping our horses cool and healthy continues to be an important topic of conversation this summer, so bear with me if hot weather care seems to be a recurring theme here. And as we know, there is an ongoing debate around whether immediately using a sweat scraper after cold hosing is better than just continually applying water to cool a hot horse. 
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  • I'm keeping my horse.
    July 4, 2021

    I'm keeping my horse.

    The following poem has been trending on social media with “author unknown” at the end. I wish I knew the author and if you are her or him, please let me know so I can properly credit you. That said,...

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  • Horse Care in Hot Weather: 5 Important Tips
    June 14, 2021

    Horse Care in Hot Weather: 5 Important Tips

    I don’t know if y’all noticed, but  summer has arrived. Heat and humidity are as uncomfortable and potentially dangerous for our horses as they are for us, so let’s talk about how to keep them cool and as safe as...

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