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Jun 04
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What You Don’t Know About Worming Can Kill Your Horse!

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From How to Care for a Rescue Horse: Australian Version by Dr Ann Nyland Note: This information doesn’t only apply to Rescue Horses. Your fat, shiny, “healthy” horse can also die from an overburden of worms with incorrect worming. Rescue horses have different needs. Some may be injured, or have wounds, while others may “only” be skinny. Whatever their circumstances, rescue horses need worming and feed, and these two very things, if not carried out correctly, may harm or even kill the horse. This concise and to the point how-to book also takes the reader through several pictorial case histories….

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Jun 04
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How to Bandage a Leg So It Stays On

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by Debbie Summerhayes Horses are designed to live in wide open spaces, roaming in herds many miles every day, grazing in open country.  They would get to run in open spaces, without hindrance of fences, posts or walls.  Their legs would be toughened from birth to cope with a range of footings, hills, rocky country and both hard and soft sandy surfaces. We then take them and shut them into small areas, paddocks with wire (either barbed or plain) or even smaller into stables.  We also separate them to keep them from hurting each other, or to make sure that…

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Apr 21
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Fear Of Riding – And What You Can Do About It

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By Gavin Bartlett One of the biggest things I come across in my clinics and helping people is a genuine fear that some people have when it comes to riding. And being nervous while riding can create all sorts of problems and issues itself. For some horses it’s not enough that they are afraid that they might get eaten by nearly every object that they see, or from whatever may be hiding in the bush or behind every tree or rock, but when their rider feels anxious they feel they need to take over. So what can we do about…

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