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User: lamber93
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I'm a freshmen at Michigan State University. I'm interested in animal science and hoping to focus on equine nutrition. I have two horses and work on a horse farm.

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Home » January 2005
Saturday, 29 January 2005
keep movin'

 today it isn't uncommon for horses to be shod (to have shoes). even though there still is an invisible line drawn between those who promote it and those who don't. this article was really interesting a gave some interesting points from both sides.TO SHOE OR NOT TO SHOE

Posted by: lamber93 at 02:43 | link | comments

Shocking

this is interesting...check this site out. i'm a horse person and i didn't know some of these.Horse Facts

Posted by: lamber93 at 02:35 | link | comments

Thursday, 27 January 2005
Over doing it

one thing that really burns me is that people don't take into account that if they buy different feeds for different things they don't hve to worry about the amount of the feed they're giving. by over doing it with certian feeds it can be bad for horses just like it is for people. Welcome to horse.purinamills.com

Posted by: lamber93 at 22:50 | link | comments

Sneaky Sneaky

Ask yourself this...Would I ever steal a horse? I know it might seem  a little odd but people do steal them. What's strange is that they're a little harder to find than a dog or cat or something like that. They're literaly huge compared to other animals. Also unlike cats or dogs when they are stolen they are never found again. Sad but it's very unlikely that they ever get returned to their original owners.

Posted by: lamber93 at 19:17 | link | comments

Really little to Really big

 

One of the neatest things about horses is that they come in all shapes and sizes. From the miniature horses to draft horses. Height wise that's about two feet tall at the shoulder for miniature horses to about eight or nine feet tall at the shoulder for draft horses. Mini's even though very short in comparison to other horses are still shown like other horses but just primarily in driving and halter and showmanship. Riding for something that small is the best for it. While on the other end of the spectrum with draft horses they can be ridden, but are mostly known for driving and halter type showing.  They're a bit too much horse to do showmanship because of their size. They are kind of like shoes they come in different shapes (relatively speaking) and sizes, and have a wide variety of uses.

Posted by: lamber93 at 18:46 | link | comments

funny world

 Have you ever looked in or gone into a GNC health food store? if you have then you know what it looks like. Pills, supplements, muscle grow stuff, and way too many other things. well horses also have their own part of that business too. They too are given muscle growers, weight gaining, hoof growing, coat shining supplements. it's a huge industry. My view on this is that most horse people take better care of their horse than they do of themselves.

Posted by: lamber93 at 18:30 | link | comments

Sunday, 16 January 2005
Differece between Proforming Horses and Non-Proforming Horses

 Just like in people exersise is very important to horses as well. If people don't get out and move they get fat and out of shape but that's probably a no brainer for most. This is also a problem in horses who don't get worked and exercised they get fat and gain weight (some weight is alright but too much is a problem).  Think about this instead of walking on our feet (flat footed) we instead walk on the finger tip of our middle finger and then add 1000 to 2500 pounds depending on breed. Granted that one would also need to have four legs to support themselves, but hopefully you get the idea. That's a tramendous amount of weight to put on legs like that so a horse needs to have strong muscles to help it support itself. This is not to say that non-proforming horses have no muscle, they do but their condition is nowhere near a proformance horse.

http://equinet.com/articles/stotts.2.20.html

Posted by: lamber93 at 20:13 | link | comments

It's Amazing

It seems amazing to me that in all reality, humans who own horses prolly spend more money on their horses to keep them healthy than they do on themselves. Especially when it comes to supplements for brood mares, proforming horses, arthritic horses, and so on and so on.  

http://search.aimhome.netscape.com/aim/boomframe.jsp?query=money+spent+on+equine+nutrition+%28supplements%29&page=1&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3Ddd32eb3a0ed3c9fa%26clickedItemRank%3D5%26userQuery%3Dmoney%2Bspent%2Bon%2Bequine%2Bnutrition%2B%2528supplements%2529%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.anvilmag.com%252Freview%252F010d5.htm%26invocationType%3D-%26fromPage%3DAIMResults%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.anvilmag.com%2Freview%2F010d5.htm

Posted by: lamber93 at 19:56 | link | comments (2)

Wednesday, 12 January 2005
Equine Nutrition

This is my first post and it's a link 

 http://www.ker.com/library/EquineReview/N05.pdf

Posted by: lamber93 at 13:31 | link | comments