10 Irrefutable Laws – Law 09 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Law 9 - Energy is everything.
Whether looking through a microscope or a telescope, everything you see uses energy. Some of you may believe in a deity…
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10 Irrefutable Laws – Law 10 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Law 10 - A horse is a horse.
Horses are living, breathing beings with thoughts, needs, wants and desires. They have a unique digestive system. They …
Never Stand With Food In A Field Of Horses ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This is a very dangerous situation to be in. Walking into a field of horses with a bucket of grain can lead to your death. It has happened. Horses are…
Do Not Reward Bad Behavior ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Rewarding bad behavior is the most common mistake people make every day with their horses as well as the other people in their lives. Horsemanship IS…
Never Turn Horses Out Together Wearing Hind Shoes ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Never turn out horses together in a field when any horse has hind shoes on.
If I punched you in the jaw with my fist you will remember how much it hur…
Horse Communication – Talk To The Hand ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Treating the horse as a patient requires those treating the horse to respect it and treat it as a living being and not as as inanimate object.
Ankylosis (Fused Joints) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Ankylosis (Fused Joints) In Horses
White markings, Pinto, Roan, Leopard Complex And White Horses ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Coat patterns are made of white hairs (non-pigmented) that are genetically determined and applied over the modified base coat color. They are categor…
Beau and Renew Gold® (testimony) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. "Taking this old horse off of grain caused him to lose weight so Renew …
Conformation – Bench Knee ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Bench Knee Conformation In Horses
Base Modifiers – The Agouti Control Of Black (Bay) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
The Agouti gene controls where the black pigment of black horses is seen by restricting the black to the lower legs, the ears, the mane and the tail.
Dilutions – The Cream Gene ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
The cream dilution gene can dilute both the red and black base colors to yield the Palomino, the Cremello, The Buckskin, the Perlino, the Smoky Black …
Base Coat Colors Of Red And Black ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Independent of what a horse looks like, there are only 2 base colors of horses - red and black. From there horses layer modifiers and dilutors and th…
Sheath Cleaning Without Sedation ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
The sheath is the part of the male horse that provides cover and protection to the penis. Cleaning the sheath refers to the regular cleaning of this …
Concentrate Feeds ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Concentrate rations are the opposite of forage for horses. They developed a while ago when people moved from the country farms to the industrialized …
Dangerous Things Around Horses ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
There are so many dangerous things I have found on horse farms. These include sharp objects, exposed electric wires and bee hives in the wall. Mos…
The Dapple Hair Color Pattern ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Dappling is the description given to any color horse exhibiting circles of a darker color (dark rings) over all of the body.
Draining Tracts And Abscesses In Hooves ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Draining Tracts And Abscesses Of The Horse Hoof
Dropped Fetlocks (DSLD) ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Dropped Fetlocks (DSLD) In Horses
Dilutions – The Dun And Grulla Gene ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
This gene can work on both red and black base colors by lightening the base color. It also allows expressing of the primitive markings, most notably …
Bandaging Horse Wounds ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Bandaging accomplishes two things: 1) It applies pressure to the area to drive edema out of the limb and 2) keeps dirt from getting a wound if there i…
Electro-stimulation ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Electrostimulation In Horse Healing
Firm Lumps Of The Limbs ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Firm Lumps Of The Limbs Of Horses
Enucleation ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Enucleation is the removal of an eye ball. This is done when an eye is in the end stage of chronic inflammation or the active inflammation is too pai…
Fluid Filling Of The Fetlock And Cannon Bone ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Fluid Filling Of The Fetlock And Cannon Bone
Feed By Weight, Not Volume ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Horse owners feed by volume which most will call a “scoop.” This is irrational. If we all decided to pick one size for a “scoop,” would th…
Fluid Fillings Of The Upper Limbs ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Fluid Fillings Of The Upper Limbs Of Horses
Feeding Signs ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Feeding signs I have seen at horse farms.
Partial Skin Thickness Wounds ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )
Surgery topics are items that help the horse owner understand the fundamentals behind wounds and surgical lesions in horses. This particular topic ne…