Mediaeval Day
May 13th, 2008 by admin 
Northcote Heavy Horse Centre at Spilsby is holding a Mediaeval Day on Sunday May 25 with a parade, crafts, mediaeval riding skills, pillory and stocks, re-enactment display, archery, tilting for children and a pitched battle finale.
Not only is this a great family day out, but it also a major fundraising event for the rescued horses at the centre.
Gates open from 10.30, programme starts 11.30 and ends 3.30pm. Adults £3.50, children under 16 £2.50.
Source: MarketRasenMail
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Inmates Help Horses
May 13th, 2008 by adminOne year ago, the yard of the Gunnison Correctional Facility would have resembled the yard of just about any other prison across the country.
Today, however, things are quite different. Inmates, dressed in pink shirts and white pants, can be seen busy working with horses. A walk around the facility finds these men brushing and grooming horses and working to train the animals.
Inmates at the Gunnison facility work to gentle wild horses so they can be adopted as part of a program implemented in conjunction with the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Adoption Program. Gentling is a more humane approach to horse breaking.
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Another dog attacks horses
May 10th, 2008 by adminA young male pit bull attacked several horses pastured at a northern Harford County farm Wednesday, injuring one so severely that it was put down. Another horse might not survive its injuries and a third has nearly 50 stitches on its face, officials said.
Harford County animal control officials ordered the dog destroyed yesterday.
“Based on information from witnesses and past history, this dog was considered potentially dangerous and had to be destroyed for the safety of this neighborhood,” said Pamela Arney, Harford’s animal control officer.
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The horse is a creature of habit
May 8th, 2008 by admin
Everyone, who spends time with horses, knows that they are creatures of habit. Some horses seem to have a “curiosity-gene” and like to investigate things, but most horses do not welcome change, they prefer that things stay the way they are (provided they lead a comfortable life of course!).
Many horse-owners have tried to walk their young or inexsperienced horse in a different direction than usual, and find the horse a bit confused and unsure. Or the bush you have passed many times is one day blooming, and the horse reacts.
Most horse-owners train their horses, they take the youngsters for walks so they can get used to different sights, sounds and smells, and learn that change is nothing to worry about. They take their horses out in trailers to
Who are you?
places with lots of people and other horses and so forth. For most people it is important, and necessary, that the horse is used to many different things, and to some extent, “forgets” his fear of change and his flight-instinct.
What would the horses do if they could decide for themselves?
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World´s first cloned horse has foal
May 7th, 2008 by admin
The world’s first cloned horse has produced a foal.
Prometea, a Haflinger, was unveiled in 2003 as the world’s first horse clone.
The Laboratory of Reproductive Technologies in Cremona, which was behind her cloning from skin cells, has now announced that she gave birth on March 17 to a colt named Pegaso.
The pregnancy resulted from a single artificial insemination with sperm from the Haflinger stallion Abendfurst.
Professor Cesare Galli described the arrival of Prometea’s foal as the ultimate proof of her normality.”
“During these five years Prometea has been in very good health and often at the centre of media attention.
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Broken race horses
May 7th, 2008 by adminAn awful lot of people make an awful lot of money off the race horses - this is what the horses get out of it:
* Eight Belles, 2008: About a quarter-mile after finishing second in the Kentucky Derby, the filly breaks both front ankles and has to be euthanized in front of 157,770 at Churchill Downs.
* George Washington, 2007: Breaks down 100 yards from the finish in the Breeders’ Cup Classic in the mud at Monmouth Park, breaking bones in his right foreleg. The horse has to be euthanized.
* Barbaro, 2006: Kentucky Derby winner fractures three bones in and around the ankle of his right hind leg in front of the grandstand, about a quarter-mile into the Preakness. Despite six surgeries, the horse had bouts with laminitis and had to be euthanized eight months later.
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4-6000 Brumbies to be shot
May 7th, 2008 by admin
A SECOND cull of feral horses at Queensland’s Carnarvon Gorge National Park will start today with 4000 to 6000 to be shot.
About 4000 were shot in August last year after they over-ran the park.
Two sharpshooters will operate from helicopters in remote and steep sections of the park in a plan reluctantly approved by the RSPCA.
The second shooter’s sole job is to ensure all animals die as quickly as possible.
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Adopt a Kaimanawa Horse
May 5th, 2008 by admin
Horse welfare groups are urging people to adopt a wild Kaimanawa horse before the Department of Conservation (DOC) begins its annual muster in the central North Island later this month.
Kaimanawa Wild Horse Welfare Trust Pahiatua representative Sharyn Boness said the horses made excellent pets and work animals.
Bill Fleury, from DOC’s Wanganui Conservancy, said a count of the Kaimanawa wild horses had shown them to be holding their own with a herd size of around 592 in the management area.
Source: NZ Herald
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Valentia Equine Retraining Centre
May 2nd, 2008 by adminJust like many people get second chances, Jim and Michelle Ward believe horses should get them too.
The two have established the Valentia Equine Retraining Centre to for retired racehorses, as well as injured and unwanted horses.
While the Wards have been rescuing horses for eight years, they only set up their not-for-profit organization about a year ago.
“We started in Pickering and we eventually moved here,” said Michelle, noting that they currently have nine horses that they have rescued.
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Not giving up on the wild horses
May 2nd, 2008 by admin 
We occasionally get asked “why bother” with respect to the apparently never-ending battles with the Nevada Department of Agriculture and other agencies over wild horses. Here’s an example as to why:
A volunteer spotted one of the bands of wild horses that we keep tabs on so I went out to check them. In this instance we wanted to check the condition of a foal as well as check on a weanling filly that had gotten caught in a fence and separated from her band the week before. The band had just finished drinking and Sentinel, the band stallion, was driving his band up into the hills and away from another stallion’s territory.
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