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Volume 12 Issue 5

 

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Healthy Hoof Acu-Care

ACUPOINTERS

Healthy Hoof Acu-Care - by Amy Snow & Nancy Zidonis

While we can’t completely create natural living conditions for our horses to support their own hoof building, we can offer them acupressure that can support the natural, balanced flow of blood and life-promoting energy, called \“chi\” in Chinese medicine, which will help the horse grow strong, flexible hooves

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Put the Final Touch on Your Horse’s Hoof Trim … Bodywork!

TOUCH TIPS

Put the Final Touch on Your Horse’s Hoof Trim … Bodywork! by Stefanie Reinhold

There is an important link between biomechanical patterns and asymmetries in the horse and hoof health and development. Bodywork, by balancing biomechanical patterns, puts the finishing touch on a hoof trim. You can help your horse (and support your hoof care specialist) by introducing some simple bodywork techniques into your routine.

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Proposal for Wild Horse & Burro Reserve Design as a Solution to Present Crisis

WITHIN THE LAW

Proposal for Wild Horse & Burro Reserve Design as a Solution to Present Crisis - by Craig C. Downer, Wildlife Ecologist

Unless urgent action is taken, wild horses and burros in today’s America face a bleak future. Here’s a plan to restore America’s wild horses and burros as viable natural herds throughout the West by promoting a wild horse- & burro-containing ecosystem and eliminating those cruel and disruptive roundups and reproductive manipulations that are only making a mockery of the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971

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Clicker Training for Mules; Part 5 - How Mules Learn Differently

FEATURE ARTICLE

Clicker Training for Mules; Part 5 - How Mules Learn Differently by Brigid Wasson

Mules are different from horses in various ways, and understanding them is key to a harmonious and rewarding relationship. I offer my assessment of how mules learn differently in hopes that it will help you decide if a mule is the right companion for you.

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Additional Stories

In this Issue:

Issue 5
  • Healthy Hoof Acu-Care - by Amy Snow & Nancy Zidonis
  • Put the Final Touch on Your Horse’s Hoof Trim … Bodywork!
  • Proposal for Wild Horse & Burro Reserve Design as a Solution to Present Crisis - by Craig C. Downer, Wildlife Ecologist
  • Clicker Training for Mules; Part 5 - How Mules Learn Differently -by Brigid Wasson
  • Fruits that Horses Love and Why They are Good for Them - by Jessica Lynn
  • Exercise Your Horse for Life - by Katelyn Kent
  • Versatile & Worthwhile Electric Fencing - by Lisa Ross-Williams and Kenny Williams
  • Hyssop Essential Oil - by Nayana Morag
  • Herbs for Horses: A Personal Perspective - by Cindy Daigre
  • The Dangers of Foxtails - by Lisa Ross-Williams with Christina Corbisello
  • Safety Series 101: Excellent Hoof Handling Basics by Nancy Faulconer
  • Laminitis: Regain Hoof Health with Complementary Therapies by Gloria Garland L.Ac., Dipl. Ac. & Ch.
  • Understanding Injury and Illness from a Horse’s Perspective by Kristina Marie Wium
  • Cowboy Poetry: An Orphan’s Tale by Harold Roy Miller
  • If It Doesn’t FEEL Right, Perhaps It Isn’t … Using Bits or Going Bitless by Dan Sumerel
  • Rescuing the Rescuers by Melanie Sue Bowles
  • The Legend of Bigfoot by Ginger Kathrens
  • The Speed of Shoe Contraction! by Ute Miethe
  • Make A Rain Barrel by Lucinda Dyer

On the cover:

The Indigo Kid (right) plays with a bay bachelor. This 2-year-old striking blue roan colt is the son of Prince and Electra, wild horses of the Pryor Mountains, home of Cloud and, featured in this issue, the legendary Bigfoot, a senior stallion. Read more inside about these wild horses, and of a promising plan for the future of all our wild horses and burros.
Photo by Makendra Silverman, www.thecloudfoundation.org

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