Expert Pet Care Tips for a Happy, Healthy Pet

As the temperatures beginning to rise, it’s important you spend a bit of a moment thinking about water availability for your horse and if it’s healthy water.   The warm weather is on it’s way and the end of winter has been and gone…..   A big issue in Australia is Algae growing in the troughs.   Sometimes we don’t notice it or we think it looks go …

Wet weather and Horses Wet weather and horses don’t always mix. While we love to see our ponies running around and grazing in their paddocks, a lot of rain means we need to take into consideration some health issues which may arise. Rain and wet ground can cause your precious pony to contract things like greasy heels, mud fever and rain scald. If a horse develops these conditions, treatm …

Horses are animals who depend heavily on their mouth. As such, their dental health is super important to their overall health. When one understands that a horse’s tooth grows at over 3mm a year, it’s important to realise that a healthy mouth is not something which is a set and forget issue. It’s highly recommended to get regular dental checks with a professional for your pony eve …

Keeping Horses in Small Paddocks- Things to consider. We all wish we could have sprawling ancestral acres for our beautiful ponies to roam and be happy….. However the reality can be the exact opposite. Quite often, we have smaller land lots to house our horses. This means small paddocks….. But small paddocks don’t need to be a smelly, muddy, bare ground mess. With some simple …

Fashion for Horses can also be Functional!!! Zebra print and Giraffe Print are always exciting prints to have on your clothes in the ward Robe….. They are also fashionable with Horse Rugs!!!! But there has been some recent studies that show these types of prints can actually protect your horse as well as making them look good too…… Recently there was a team of scientists out …