HorsePower Equine Services

01/06/2013

Happy New Year! Here's to happy, healthy horses and the blissful moments spent with them.

11/04/2012

I don't make it a habit to work on a Sunday, but I did make an exception for a 4H group this afternoon at http://www.wb-farm.com/ (Willow Brook Farm, Plainfield NH).

08/11/2012

Even a Gold Medalist thinks helmets are the way to go: "“It’s going to be a rule, I think, for wearing a crash hat (helmet) and I actually fractured my skull through not wearing a hat,” she told the BBC in an interview. “I was so lucky to escape from that and now, it’s something I always do.”

http://www.riders4helmets.com/2012/08/charlotte-dujardin-previously-fractured-skull-in-fall-while-riding/

Olympic dressage team and individual gold medalist, Charlotte Dujardin, has stated that she wears a helmet while riding due to previously fractured her skull in a fall from a horse. Dujardin became a global role model for safety after she donned a helmet to compete in the London 2012 Olympics. Dujar...

07/17/2012

Back down to one horse day a week, starting today. And what a HOT horse day it'll be! Why do neither of my jobs involve air conditioning?! I hope everyone, and their horses stay cool and hydrated. Bring on the rain & cooler temps!

07/11/2012

After this week, I am lessening my horse days to just one again. I have the horses to sustain more than one - however, I'll be taking on more work at my "other" job and gaining health benefits in doing so because paying for private health care is pricey here in NH. This will affect my clients in the sense that I'll have less room to just add another horse, and my most regular clients have first dibs on appointments. Weekly clients, then bi-weekly and so on. I've done just one horse day for years, so this won't be strange territory for me. Thank you ALL for your support!

06/19/2012

"....we're always so busy trying to show horses what we WANT from them that we don't take the time to listen to what they're trying to say back....." ~ Mark Rashid. Have you stopped, and listened to YOUR horse lately? For real?

06/18/2012

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120430100649.htm

Chronic inflammatory small bowel disease has an increased prevalence in sport horses. The disorder is associated with intermittent colic, weight loss, poor performance and anemia. Chronic inflammatory small bowel disease seems to have a predominance in dressage horses, but its exact cause is unknown...