Sam Ellis

Ah, the poo picking – everyone’s favorite job! Although it is less than fun, picking up your horse’s manure is essential for maintaining your field, especially if you have a smaller than average grazing area. Horses won’t eat the grass on which their manure sits (let’s face it, would you?) and leaving it laying about … Read more

Keeping your horse in a stable is a necessary thing, especially if your livery yard specifies restricted grazing at certain times of the year. But what do you do in the height of summer, when keeping your horse inside without the benefit of a tree to shade under, or a cooling breeze? You give him … Read more

Horses are vegetarians, and foragers who are designed to roam over hill and down dale, finding the best grazing as they go. But horses can eat things that aren’t just grass; their gut is designed to make the most of the nutrients they get, so they can survive on limited grazing and scrubby pickings for … Read more

For the majority of horses, sunburn isn’t a major problem. Most horses have black skin on their bodies, so aren’t affected by the sun’s harmful rays, and the skin is tough enough that sunburn isn’t a big problem – for the body, anyway. For those horses with pink skin around the muzzle, underneath a white … Read more