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Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall Horse, Pasture, and Stable Care

Recommendations help you care for your horse or pony, pastures, and stables through the seasons. You'll find tips for protecting your horse from extreme temperatures, biting insects and winter hazards.

Spring Horse Care Tips

Spring horse care tips for preparing your pastures stables barns paddocks stalls. Learn how to fix sagging gates and fences, spring clean your barn and pastures, help your horse adjust to warmer weather and more.

Should You Blanket Your Horse?

Should yourse horse wear a winter blanket? Here are the pros and cons of putting a turn-out rug or winter blanket on your horse when colder weather hits.

Tips for Preparing Your Horse Barn or Stable for Winter

Tips help you prepare your horse's or pony's stable for the cold winter months.

Winter Pasture Care Tips

Quick tips help you prepare your horse's or ponies pastures, stable yards, paddocks, and fields for winter.

Winter Horse and Pony Care Tips

Winter horse and pony care tips for adjusting your feed and care schedule during the winter months.

Will Blanketing Prevent Winter Coat Growth and What Blanket Shoud I Use

Will blanketing prevent the growth of winter coat on your horse? Find out if blanketing your horse will stop thick hair coat growth and speed spring shedding. What type of blanket should you use?

Winter Shoeing Poll

Depending on the snow cover you receive and your riding schedule during the winter months you may change the way your horse is shod. Take this poll and tell us how your hoof care changes during the colder weather.

Anhidrosis In Horses

Anhidrosis in horses is also known as dry coat syndrome, puff disease or non-sweating disease. Learn about the symptoms, causes and control of anhidrois in horses.

Spring Barn Maintenance Tips

Spring barn and stable cleaning and maintenance tips and advice. How to clean out stalls, spring clean and plan to avoid problems when winter returns.

Hot Weather Strategies for Keeping Your Horse Cool

Learn how to keep your horse, pony, donkey, or mule comfortable and healthy in hot weather. Learn to identify the signs of heat stress in horses. Prevent heat stroke in horses and find out what to do until the veterinarian arrives.

Help Your Horse Make the Transition from Cold to Warm Weather

Horse care tips for spring time. Learn how to help your horse shed out a long winter coat, get back into a riding schedule, and putting your horse out on spring pasture. Grooming, feeding, and care advice and tips.

Tips for Checking Your Horse's Fences, Fields and Paddocks

Spring pasture clean up tips. Get your pasture growing, check for debris and make sure your fences are in good repair.

Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly Horse and Pony Keeping

A quick checklist of things you must do to keep your horse or pony healthy and happy, by the day, week, month, and year.

Reader's Winter Horse Care Tips - Winter Horse and Pony Care Tips

Reader's winter horse and pony care tips for adjusting feed and care schedules during the winter months. Horse care in cold weather.

Horse Blanketing Tips and Tricks - Readers' Tips for Blanketi…

Readers' tips for blanketing your horse, especially during the cold weather. Learn how to prevent belly straps from undoing, leg strap snaps from sticking, chaffing and more.

Winter Horse Care - Readers' Tips for Preparing Your Horse Barn or St…

Readers' tips help you prepare your horse's or pony's stable for the cold winter months.

Winter Pasture Care - Readers' Winter Pasture Care Tips

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Spring Horse Care - Spring Barn Maintenance Readers' Tips

Spring barn and stable cleaning and maintenance tips and advice. How to clean out stalls, spring clean and plan to avoid problems when winter returns. Tips from readers.

Does Blanketing Prevent Horse's Winter Coat Growth? Readers Respond

Will blanketing prevent the growth of winter coat on your horse? Readers comment on blanketing and preventing thick coat growth. Find out if blanketing your horse will stop thick hair coat growth and speed spring shedding.

Winter Horse Water Tips

Here is how to unfreeze horse water buckets, prevent horse water buckets and pails from freezing and ensure your horse has drinking water through the winter months. Learn how to provide water to your horse and prevent pails and buckets from freezing.

Readers' Horse Water Tips – Winter Horse Water Tips from About.com Horses...

Here is how About.com Horses readers unfreeze horse water buckets, prevent horse water buckets and pails from freezing and ensure your horse has drinking water through the winter months. Learn how About.com Horses readers provide water to their horses and prevent pails and buckets from freezing.

Electrolytes for Horses

Learn what electrolytes are, and when you should administer them to your horse or pony. If your horse is working hard and sweating find out if you should be providing electrolytes. A horse care tip to help keep your horse hydrated.

Fly Spray Recipes for Horses

Avoid nasty summer bugs that bite and irritate your horses with these easy homemade fly repellent recipes.

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