If my horse has ever taught me anything in the eight years he’s been with us, he’s taught me about fear. Not the fear of malicious spiders and unknown creatures dwelling in the darkest parts of the basement, but the fear of reasonable things. Say, the vet. From Alcapone I learned that she the equivelant of an executioner. He taught me about the terrible nature of saddles, and that I’m never to put one on his back if I want him to live past fourteen.
Watch “Strategic Deworming & Equine Wellness” to see if you can deworm less often.
Most horse owners reach for a tube of dewormer every 8 weeks. But did you know only 35 percent of horses on pasture shed 85 percent of the parasite eggs? That means a lot of horses are being dewormed unnecessarily.
Tune in to RFD-TV on Monday, April 6, at 8 p.m. EDT for “Strategic Deworming & Equine Wellness,” a one-hour show that discusses strategic deworming along with overall spring health and wellness for your horse. You’ll learn the importance of using the right dewormer at the right time on the right horse.
The show is sponsored by Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health and includes special guests to answer your live call-in questions. The equine experts are Heidi Brady, PhD, from Texas Tech University and Wendy E Vaala, VMD, Dipl. ACVIM, Senior Equine Technical Service Veterinarian from Intervet/Schering-Plough.
This morning when I went out in the yard I realized that my feeder was almost emtpy. Luckily I was able to fill it up before the birds picked the last grain. Don’t forget them, ecpecially if it is cold and frozen outside and they depend on us.
When we moved to the horse farm we acquired a Guinea Hen from the former owner who was not able to capture her. We call her Amelia Bedelia. I think she knew excately why she wanted to stay. She is the most funniest bird I have ever seen. It started when she first discovered how great our horses grains taste and she hit the jack pot when I left a bag of horse feed in the barn.Read the rest of this entry »
