Latest articles by Avice O’Connor
Behaviour
If you’ve spent any time with horses, you’ve probably been nudged - possibly quite hard! Sometimes its obvious why, but a lot of the time there seems to be little or no reason. This can be a confusing, frustrating or eve…
Horses
Mud fever is the term given to a painful inflammatory condition involving the skin of the lower limbs, although it can extend above the pasterns. It is one of a collection of diseases collectively referred to as pastern…
Horses
Those winter nights are well and truly here and with the weather deteriorating, it can be particularly difficult to juggle work, home life and looking after your horse. We have collected some tips and advice to help you…
Horses
It may be somewhat alarming to see your horse, turned out in pristine pasture, ignoring the readily available grass and instead, tucking into a pile of dirt, or even worse, eating faecal material in their stable. There a…
Behaviour
Yawning, it’s something we all do regularly, sometimes more often than others. But what about our horses? Although horses yawn, it is not something they tend to do as frequently as humans. What does it mean when horses y…
Horses
It is estimated that around 850,000 horses and ponies live in the UK. The vast majority of these horses, by law, require a personalised, unique identity document known as a horse passport. In this article, we look at the…
