Horse health

All equestrians can help horses to stay healthy by taking simple steps to promote good hygiene and help prevent the spread of disease, both at the yard, and when out and about

Like us, horse’s need a healthy, balanced diet, so it is important to understand their basic feeding requirements

Maintaining your horse at a healthy weight can be a real challenge and is a balancing act between providing the right diet, health care, exercise and management

It’s important for our horses’ wellbeing that we keep them at the optimum level of fitness for their age and individual state of health

Horses thrive off a regular and consistent routine and any change to your horse’s routine needs to be made gradually to ensure the health of your horse is not compromised.

Undiagnosed dental problems are a major concern as they can seriously deteriorate unseen until the horse shows signs that there’s a problem

Horses have special tactile sensory hairs, known as whiskers. The whiskers on a horse play an important role in their sensory awareness system. These amazing sensory hairs have their own nerve and blood supply and help horses navigate their surroundings

Horses have evolved as slow grazing feeders, meaning that their digestive system can’t cope with large amounts of food passing through it at once.