101
Horsekeeping Tips Issue
This
newsletter is a personal letter from me to you,
a fellow horse owner and
enthusiast.
My goal is to answer some of your questions and send you interesting
stories and helpful tips for your
horse care, training, and riding.
Over the years, I've accumulated a large number
of ideas, tips, and advice related to horse handling and training and horse facilities
and care. I've shared many of these tips with you via this website and my books,
but now I am proud to announce the arrival of 101 Horsekeeping Tips Videos.
This video series contains some of my favorite tips, ideas and handy hints to
make you a better horsekeeper and trainer. Horsekeeping Videos are produced right
here at Long Tail Ranch by me and my husband Richard Klimesh. Take a tour of my
barn, meet my horses, and enjoy the Colorado foothills as you learn valuable tips
that will help you:
take better care
of your horses,
save you money,
make your horse handling safer and more effective,
help you get the most out of your precious horse time,
and make horsekeeping a pleasure for both you and your horses.
By
purchasing videos and books directly from our horsekeeping.com website, you support
the time and effort Richard and I both invest to produce and maintain Cherry Hill's
Horse Information Roundup and to send out the free Cherry Hill's Horsekeeping
Newsletter. Richard has generously offered the 101
Horsekeeping Tips videos at an introductory Christmas Special price and
newsletter recipients have access to this special one month earlier than other
website visitors. (NOTE: This special expired on December 25th, 2003)
To
give you a taste of what 101
Horsekeeping Tips video series contains, in this newsletter I'm excerpting
portions of 6 tips, one tip from each of the six sections in the video series.
The
HANDLING section covers everything from lifting your horse's leg, to using
an in-hand whip, to when feeding treats is good and when it is bad. Here is a
sample from the HANDLING section:
Blind
Spots
When a horse is facing straight
ahead and his head is at a normal level, he has four blind spots:
- the area directly behind his tail
- the area of his back directly behind his head
- the area directly in front
of his forehead
- the area directly under his head on the ground and near
his front legs.
The GROOMING section covers everything from removing chestnuts,
to caring for clipper blades, to putting your horse's tail up for the winter.
Here is a sample from the GROOMING section:
Brushing
a Horse's Tail
Here at Long Tail Ranch, I only
brush out a tail when it is clean and dry.
If you
brush a dirty or wet tail, a lot will be lost to snags and tangles.
I
always condition manes and tails after a bath and sometimes mist the tail with
a detangler before brushing - both further protect the tail from breakage.
I
buy sturdy, hair brushes with wide set bristles – whatever is on sale at the drug
store or discount department store and looks durable enough for the barn.
I never use a comb which tends to grab hair and pull it out.
I
start at the bottom, brush out a few inches of the tail and work my way up to
the top of the tail.
The
FEEDING section covers everything from choosing hay, to making a hay carrier,
to knowing what kind of salt and minerals to feed your horse. Here is a sample
from the FEEDING section:
Winter
Feeding
It's just human nature that makes us
think when the weather is cold, we need to give our horses more grain to keep
them warm.
But if you heap up the grain bucket every
time the temperature drops, your horse could suffer colic, become overweight,
be too full of energy, but still not really be warmer.
Grain
is digested relatively quickly and the heat from its digestion is soon gone.
On
the other hand, hay generates heat over a longer period of time and is safer to
increase suddenly.
For every 10 degrees below freezing,
increase your horse's roughage by 10%.
If your 1100#
horse normally receives 16 pounds of hay per day (in two 8# feedings) when the
temperature dips to 22 degrees Fahrenheit, increase his hay ration by 10% or 1.6
extra pounds.
At 22 degrees, he will receive 17.6
pounds of hay per day.
When the temperature is at
zero, he should be receiving 30% more hay per day that would be (16 x 30%) + 16
pounds = 20.8 pounds of hay per day at zero degrees.
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