What Age Can a Horse No Longer Breed?

This is a very good question that is posed my many beginning horse breeders. Basically, a horse can live anywhere from 20-30 and possibly even older depending on their overall health and their lifestyle. Many breeders will begin to breed a mare when she is 3 or 4 years old and will often [...]

Buying a Horse: Looking at Conformation

Conformation is perhaps the most important aspect to consider when you’re purchasing a horse. If a horse has bad conformation, he is usually going to have some sort of lameness issues or other physical conditions later on down the road that will inhibit its performance. However, there are those poorly conformed horses that do make [...]

Signs of Foaling

The signs of foaling, or signs of parturition as it is known by most equine professionals and vets, can vary from mare to mare. It is very important to realize this, as some mares will be textbook cases and others may not even show any real signs until they are giving birth to their foal. [...]

Best Time to Breed Your Mare

Breeding is an incredibly complicated subject, especially on the mare’s side of things.  We could go into extensive details on hormones and the estrus cycle and this post would basically be a chapter of a book I started writing a long time ago
But, many people are just simply looking for the answer to [...]

Winterizing Your Mare

If you want to be sure that your mare is able to conceive next year, you will want to take some steps to be sure that your mare is ready to breed next spring. 
Common mare reproductive issues that can occur in your mare include endometritis (uterine inflammation) are caused by uterine infections that can potentially [...]

Preparing Your Mare For Breeding

Breeding is a complex subject and there is a lot to talk about on the subject in general.  Because of this, there are going to be several posts on breeding in the next few months.  This is the breeding time of the year for many mares in the US and some mares have already been bred [...]

Horses 101: The Complete Guide to Buying & Caring for Your Horse

The price of Horses 101: The Complete Guide to Buying & Caring For Your Horse has been lowered on Lulu.com for a limited time!  You can now purchase it for $28.78!  That’s almost $10 cheaper than if you purchase it through my website!  This means that you get a full-color, 120 page paperback book for [...]

Conformation Faults: The Knife Neck

Okay, since I’m on this neck comformation kick and Wikipedia has great photos of these, you have to look at this horse.  Now, he just has a skinny neck. If this horse wasn’t looking at the camera you could really see the neck gets very thin at the throatlatch.  I would think that these horses have balance [...]

Conformation Faults: The Ewe Neck

On the other hand of things we have the horse with a ewe neck.  You wouldn’t want to pass this trait on either.  These horses just look uncomfortable and I would also think that they are probably hard to control as they probably don’t take the bit very well.  These horses have thin and upwardly [...]

Conformation Faults: The Bull Neck

After 5 years in college, majoring in Equine Business, you would have thought that somebody would have mentioned this odd conformation fault.  But nobody did and I ran across it doing some research for another book I was writing.  I also included it in Horses 101.  A horse with a bull neck has a very [...]