Health & Care
The broad topics of horse care and horse health encompass many subjects.
This page is to identify several factors that I focus on.
One of them is unsafe horse fence.
There is no 100% horse-safe fence. Horses find inventive ways to harm themselves.
Even the most safety-obsessed stables where all bits of wire and horseshoe nails are picked up, and where all stall connections and feed bins have rounded corners, horses still get hurt.
One of the easiest ways to prevent common injuries is to provide the safest horse fencing available. There are many options on the market today, but the biggest obstacle to safe horsekeeping is the existence of old, rusted, inadequate fence.
Another is “healthy” weight.
Generally speaking …
- I’d rather see a horse a little overweight than a little underweight.
- I’d rather see a horse a little underweight than a lot overweight.
- I’d rather see a horse a lot overweight than a lot underweight.
But ideally, I like to see horses at a healthy weight. (BCS 4-6.)
Sometimes, that means work. Money, too, perhaps—but mostly research and effort.
Horse seizure due to alleged neglect is another area of interest. Many posts on this topic can be found at the Justice for Turn 3 Ranch blog.