Health and Wellness - April Love – Holistic Horse Works, LLC

Keep Your Horse’s Lungs Healthy (Especially During Fire Season)

by April | Aug 21, 2023 | Health and Wellness

Keep Your Horse’s Lungs Healthy (Especially During Fire Season) Share this article:       Wildfires. It seems like they’re everywhere these days. If you live in the Western US or Canada, then you know them all too well. And even the Eastern states...

Love riding your horse? Here is how to help them be more comfortable in their bodies and be rideable into their 30’s

by Gill Brooks | Oct 24, 2019 | Health and Wellness

Is your horse tripping or short striding? Do you wonder why your horse is pinning ears, swishing tail when saddled or when being asked for the trot or canter? A horse unwilling to flex at the poll, bend to the bit, unwilling to extend the gait, canter on the other...

5 Myths about Winter Horse Care

by Gill Brooks | Oct 24, 2019 | Health and Wellness

Freezing temperatures and snow bring several misconceptions on how we care for our horses. In this article, April Love examines five common winter horse care myths, and what horse owners need to know. Let’s take a look at some commonly held misconceptions. “It’s...

High-Low ‘Syndrome’ in front hooves? What causes it and what can you do about it?

by Gill Brooks | Oct 24, 2019 | Health and Wellness

What does High – Low Syndrome look like? Well when you squat down and look at your horses front hooves you will notice the hairlines do not match-meaning one is more horizontal and one is more sloped to the ground. The horizontal one is the high heel the one sloping...

No Hoof – No Horse

by Gill Brooks | Oct 24, 2019 | Health and Wellness

This old cowboy adage has been bantered around since we first started domesticating and using the horse as a means of traveling and working with heavy loads and instills the dreaded notion that if your horse has a hoof problem you really don’t have a healthy horse. ...

If you knew your horse was in pain, what would you do?

by Gill Brooks | Jun 14, 2017 | Crooked Horse, Health and Wellness, Newsletters

If you knew your horse was in pain the entire time you were riding your horse, would you be enthused to learn how to fix it? Unfortunately, most people do not realize they are riding a crooked horse and that makes me sad. Good news, it does not have to be that way!...