Horse Facts Blog

This is the Horse Facts Blog page. It keeps you up-to-date on any changes or additions to this site. Find need to know horse facts for all horse owners. Also find tips and techniques to make horsekeeping a little easier.

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Be sure and check out our new online store, Dream Horse Designs. Here you can get all kinds of horse themed merchandise and apparel.

Dream Horse Designs

Dream Horse Designs has a selection of unique horse themed items for those who love horses and want to show it off in style.

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Top Product Reviews and Recommendations

Honest, top product reviews for horse supplies and horse related merchandise.

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Purina Mills Coupons

The coupon opportunity through www.omoleneuniversity.com really is designed to give our customers an opportunity for offers on Purina horse feeds. I encourage

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Cleaning waterbuckets.

Instead of soaps that leave residue, use baking soda. It makes for a nice abrasion to get slime off and rinses cleaner than anything!!

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No cost scrub brush

Take baling twine and fold it several times tie a knot it and scrub out your troughs buckets and throw it away.

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Thrush

Put 1 Tlb dried oregano, 6 oz olive oil, and 1 tsp tea tree oil in a ketchup bottle and squirt onto hoof when cleaning for thrush. Works like a charm

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Petroleum Jelly for scars and tail itch

Petroleum Jelly helps reduce scars. Rub Petroleum Jelly on scars in the same direction as the surrounding hair, it helps soften the scar and promote new

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home remedies supplements and tips

-add hay pellets in winter to stretch out hay. alfalfa pellets contain too much protein which can cause harm to the kidneys in older horses. i prefer timothy

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Hoof Care

Hoof care tips: Watch out for hairline cracks. These are caused by the very dry horn of the hoof because the hoof has lost its flexibility. How to prevent:

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Read horse stories and enter our Horse Of The Month Contest.

Horse stories and horse photos. Enter your horse in our Horse of the Month contest.

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