Month: December 2016
The Irish Horse Welfare Trust recently announced the launch of its new website at www.ihwt.ie and we’re delighted to have sponsored the build of this new site! The website has been especially designed and delivered by Irish equestrian marketing agency Halcyon Days (our mother company 🙂 ) and sponsored by us at www.HorsePlay.ie Jenny Doran […]
Unless your horse is stabled year-round, feeding horses in winter requires a somewhat different approach than feeding in summer. Lisa Elliott – equine nutritionist at Smart Horse Nutrition – gives us some insights into best feed our horses in winter, for optimum health and performance. Grass is the horse’s primary natural feed and what the […]
As the nights get colder and the frost greets us in the morning, we need to seriously consider the health care of our horses over this festive season. It’s all too easy for horses to lose weight, or develop skin conditions that could be relatively easily avoided if we pay attention. In this post our […]
With Ireland’s largely mild and usually wet winters, mud fever is unfortuantely all too prevalent in this country. Given that most horse owners have to face and treat it at some stage, it’s important to know exactly what mud fever is, what causes it and the best way to treat it. So, our equine veterinary […]
The better vets can examine their equine patients the better they are able diagnose and treat them. The good news is that major progress in imaging of the head and spine is helping to achieve exactly this. The Equine Veterinary Journal (EVJ) has joined forces with Equine Veterinary Education and Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound to […]
Mud… it’s something that us horse owners have to learn to live with. And as much as us we dislike the stuff, our horses love it in equal proportions. Mine seem to set themselves a daily challenge of caking as much mud as they possibly can over as large a surface area of their bodies […]
British horses may dominate the role of honour at the home of jumps racing, but Irish entrants have more than held their own when they make the voyage over the Irish Sea. Irish raiders have been turning up at the gates of Prestbury Park – accompanied by a massive following of supporters who have also […]