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Horse Care FAQ
Learn about basic horse care, food, shelter, costs, necessary equipment, alternatives to ownership and the time it takes to care for your first horse or pony. Your questions about basic horse care answered.
About Horses Quizzes and Games
Find horse games that test your knowledge about horse care, riding and horse equipment. Take these quizzes and learn about horses.
Horse Health Check List
Learn how to identify good health in horses and ponies. Guidelines include instructions on how to take your horse's or pony's pulse, respiration, and temperature, normal ranges, and when to call the veterinarian. Learn to check your horse's health. Horse health check list.
Money Saving Tips for Horse Owners
Save money with these tips for budget horse care. Learn how you can keep costs lower and still take good care of your horse with these money saving tips for horse owners.
Emergency Planning for Horse and Pony Owners
Disaster preparedness for horse and pony owners. Learn how to prepare an emergency plan so you can care for your horses and ponies should an disaster like a hurricane, ice storm, brush fire, or other natural disaster strike.
Stable Design
Learn how to design your horse's barn or stable for safety and comfort. Learn adequate stall size, door and wall height, types of flooring, and loose box or standing stall design.
Tying Your Horse or Pony Safely
Learn how to tie a horse safely. Learn how to ensure the saftey of horse and handler when tying to posts, in cross ties, in trailers, at shows, and in the stable.
Grooming Tips
About Horses and Ponies readers share their horse grooming tips for dealing with tangled manes, giving baths, removing stains, grooming tools and other grooming issues. Learn how to put the finishing touches on your horse with these grooming tips.
Working Safely With Horses
Learn how to stay safe around horses. These tips can help you safely work with your horses while you feed, groom and care for your horse. Safe handling prevents accidents and makes horses owning more fun.
Water for Your Horse
Water is essential for a horse's health. Learn why clean, fresh, abundant water is important to your horse. Learn how to clean troughs and buckets, how much water a horse needs, how to supply water, and what affects water consumption.
Poll: Boarding Your Horse
Do you board your horse? Take this poll and tell us what type of board you have. Do you pasture board, full board or part board? Do you have a different arrangement? Take the poll or leave a comment.
Choosing a Boarding Stable for Your Horse
Tips for choosing a boarding stable for your horse. What should you look for when trying to pick the best boarding stable where your horse will be cared for and you will be comfortable? Here are ideas to consider when trying to pick the best place to board your horse in.
What Type of Bedding Do You Use?
What type of bedding do you or would you use in your horses stall. See what is the most popular type of bedding according to About Horses and Ponies readers. Add you choice to this interactive poll for horse lovers.
Safety on the Road - Horse Trailer Hauling Tips
Learn how to safely trailer a horse. Tips and suggestions for the first time you drive a truck and horse trailer.
Frequently Asked Questions About Shoeing
Answers to your questions about shoeing your horse. Does your horse need shoes? Find out what conditions and sports might require shoes, what a good shoeing job looks like, how often shoes should be reset and more.
Bedding For Horse Stalls
Learn about bedding choices for your horse's stall.
Can My Horse Make Me Sick?
Can you catch a disease, sickness or illness from your horse? Find out about zoonotic diseases and the transfer of infection from horse to human. Learn which diseases can you catch and which (like West Nile Virus or Eastern Equine Encephalitis) you won't get from your horse?
Frequently Asked Questions About Colic
Find the answers to your questions about colic in horses and ponies. Learn how to identify colic, avoid colic, assess severity, care for a colicking horse, when to call the vet, and what you can expect during the veterinarian's examination. Learn the difference between spasmodic, impaction and intestinal catastrophe (twisted gut) colic.
Safety on the Road - Tow Vehicles
Learn to choose the right vehicle to haul your horse trailer. Safely tow your gooseneck or tag-along horse trailer with these tips and recommendations for safe horse trailer hauling.
Safety on the Road--Truck Hitches
Learn about choosing the right hitch to safely tow your horse trailer. Learn to safely tow your gooseneck or tag-along horse trailer.
Safe Treats for Horses
Learn how to safely feed your horse or pony treats. Tips on what you can safely feed your horse as treats.
A Hay FAQ Main Index
Learn how to choose good horse hay, why hay is important, how to store and feed hay to your horse or pony. A horse care FAQ about feeding hay to horses.