Featured Advice · General Equestrian No Bridle, No Saddle, No Problem! By Tanya Buck 2020-02-13 Ever watch someone riding with no bridle or saddle and wish you could do that with your own horse? The sheer magic of the horse-human relationship is never more clear than when both parties are in com...
Featured Advice · General Equestrian The Most Popular Horse Breeds Of 2019 2020-02-03 We've listed our 15 most popular horse breeds placed on HorseClicks throughout 2019! Here's what they were: 1. Quarter Horse 2. Paint 3. Thoroughbred 4. Tennesse...
Featured Advice · Care Thoroughpins - What Causes Them & How Should They Be Treated 2020-01-31 Thoroughpin is a condition in which the tendon that’s located over the hock has swollen. This condition does not cause pain to your horse and generally won’t cause lameness. In some c...
Advice · General Equestrian Bates And Wintec saddles By Cher Griffin 2020-05-21 I get a lot of inquiries about why a customer’s Bates or Wintec saddle seems to bounce a bit or leans them in the wrong direction. As a saddle fitter and conformation analyst, I love what the CAIR panels do for the comfort of the horse. They can subtly change shape in the areas that need them without any help from me. They allow the saddle to ride cooler than wool and no matter how good of a flocker I am, I can’t see everything once the saddle is clamped down. As any good fitter will...
Advice · General Equestrian Buying Blind - Silver and Gold during a Pandemic By Tanya Buck 2020-05-21 I’ve bought a Horse during Covid-19, sight unseen. Am I nuts? A little, but here’s how it happened. There I was, scrolling along in Facebook, looking at posts with a cursory glance, before spinning my mouse like a wheel of fortune and moving on to pause at a cute puppy photo or a pretty landscape, when I landed on a photo of a grey horse. Something about her gaze made me stop and read the caption that said something along the lines of her being ready for her new home. I looked to...
News · General Equestrian Government Funding For Reducing Wild Horse Populations Draws Ire From Humane Interests By Frank J. Buchman 2020-05-18 Helicopters are used to efficiently round up wild horses from national rangelands under authority of the Bureau of Land Management. Wild horses living in natural habitat or confined to public holding facilities continue a highly controversial issue. Discussions have become more heated with the coronavirus imposed health and economy shutdown. Whatever one’s opinion the program is government funded and record unemployed are not spending as the taxpayer pot dwindles. ...
Advice · General Equestrian Horse Safety For Kids 2020-05-13 Horse Safety For Kids from Wholesale Vinyl Fencing
News · General Equestrian Closing Wild Mustang Holding Facilities To Public Draws Alarm By Frank J. Buchman 2020-05-11 Certain wild horse advocates believe public shuttering long term holding facilities due to coronavirus may harmful to the mustangs. “The wild mustangs are lonely all cooped up in manmade captivity.” Government stay-at-home orders and social distancing due to coronavirus COVID-19 have long term mustang holding facilities closed to the public. That’s according to Marty Irby, executive director of the Animal Wellness Action headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Bur...
Advice · Care Equine Therapy for Mental Health as a Popular Kind of Alternative Therapy By Dominic Beaulieu 2020-05-11 The human condition is subject to a variety of traumas or disturbances that affect our general wellness early on or over time. Over the years, mental health has rapidly become an essential topic of concern. Every year, more significant percentages of the world’s population continues to add to the numbers of people suffering from one or multiple forms of mental illnesses. Records estimate that one out of every six people has one or more mental or related disorders. On a global scale, this m...
