Hello
My name is Kerry Pilkey, I had a horse advertised on our site October 2006. A person by the name of Paul James repplied to the add wanted to buy the horse and said I should mark him as sold. I was asking $2000 for the horse. He sent a cashiers check for $5500 and wanted the us to deduct our money from it and wire the rest to his horse hauler.
We held the money to see if the check cleared and it turned out to be fraud. There is no harm done but I just wanted to notify you.
P.S. I have sold horses on your website and have always been happy with results.
 
Thanks Kerry

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• Sweating helps the horse lose heat when body temperature increases.
• Sweat is a watery fluid containing salts, also called electrolytes
• It is formed in the sweat gland in the skin (more…)

HUB OR HUB DRUM PACKING AND INSTALLATION PROCEDURE
FOR A STANDARD (NON SPINDLE-LUBE AXLE)

1.     When installing bearings in a hub or hub drum for a “plain” spindle axle, it is necessary to prepack the bearings prior to installing them in the hub. To prepack your bearings, you can buy a bearing packer at your local auto parts store, or you can pre-grease your bearings using the grease in the palm method. (more…)

Goals:

Optimum Health & Performance
Optimum Nutrition
Reasonable Cost

How to Achieve the Goals:

Define your horse’s current performance level ie. breeding, racing, recreation etc. and body condition score.
(See ERC’s Body Condition Scoring Fact Sheet.)
Determine your horse’s daily nutrient requirements based on the current performance level and other factors such as environment (temperature, rain, wind), age, breed. Use the National Research Council’s Nutrient Requirements of Horses,1989 or consult an equine nutritionist through your local feed dealer.
Determine feed composition by analysis. Knowing the protein, energy, fibre, minerals etc. content of feeds is essential in order to feed for optimum health and performance. (more…)

How to Recognize Foot Problems

Keep in mind that the following are generalizations. The signs that one sees are based on the interpretation of pain relative to the individual horse. How it interprets the painful response and the intensity will, obviously, determine the way in which the animal uses a given limb. (more…)

Table 6. When to feed before riding^a High intensity activity = Thoroughbred, Standardbred and Quarter Horse racing; barrel racing, roping, cutting, etc.
^b Light to moderate intensity = pleasure/trail riding, jumping, team penning, reining, etc.
^c Long distance activity = endurance riding, competitive trail riding, pack trips, etc.

For horses that will be exerting themselves heavily, hay should also be removed 4 hours before exercise (Table 6). Ingestion of hay increases “gut fill,” which increases the amount of weight the horse has to carry. This additional weight (20 to 40 pounds or 9 to 18 kg) could be a handicap for horses competing in high-speed events. (more…)

The influence of diet and dietary supplements on the structure and growth of the equine hoof horn has received the most attention to date, although there are still vast areas that are not fully understood. In the study of the effect of nutrition on the structure and growth of the hoof horn, trimmings removed from the foot during routine farrier attention have been used. There is usually a plentiful supply of tissue and its collection is non-invasive and causes no trauma to the animal. Hooves of horses with poor horn have a slow rate of growth, but slivers of horn only 1 mm in thickness can be examined. The hoof samples are processed for both transmission and scanning electron microscopy. Electron microscopy of hoof trimmings has also proved to be a useful diagnostic tool for horses with poor hoof horn growth. (more…)

By Rick Kubik, CCA

Wherever there’s livestock, good fences definitely help make good nieghbours. One of the most useful tools tools for making and maintaining good wire fences is a good fencing plier, available at any farm supply store. To get the best use out of this handy tool, it’s good to know the uses of all the notches and shapes in this multi-function tool. It’s not just so you can look like a someone well versed in the roots of fence making (although that’s nice) – the knowledge will save effort and leave you less cut up and achy at the end of the job. (more…)

with Don Blazer

Advertising is valuable when it produces.

But it doesn’t produce unless it is based on your “correct” answers to these questions. (more…)

 

When importing horses from Alaska that require a veterinary inspection, the importer may be asked to present the horse for veterinary inspection at Dawson Creek, BC (250) 782-5682 as there is no veterinarian service at the Canada/Alaska border.

For information on ports of entry in central and eastern Canada, contact:

Guelph (519) 837-9400
Montreal (514) 283-8888
Moncton (506) 851-7400

For further information on health requirements, contact:

Local Canadian Food Inspection Agency District Office. See the Government of Canada blue pages in the telephone directory.

Prepared by:
Les Burwash
Horse Industry Section
Alberta Agriculture, Food and
Rural Development