Care-for-my-Horse.com is a guide to the issues facing both first-time horse owners and those who have already experienced the joys and responsibilities of horse care.

It's best to have your horse trimmed and shod every six to eight weeks, in addition to picking your horse's hoofs daily to remove dirt and debris. Here are some more things to consider when caring for your horse's hoofs.

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After these questions are answered a vaccination protocol can be recommend. How old is your horse? How healthy is your horse? What diseases are present in your area? Where and how is your horse stabled? What activities do you and your horse participate in? How fearful are you that your horse will get sick or die if you do not vaccinate? Are you willing to change your management, if necessary, to prevent disease and support your horse's immune system.

Healthy Horse Grooming Tips for Winter, maintain your horse's health and haircoat this winter with these cold-weather grooming tips - by the Editors of Horse and Rider Magazine.

Factors Affecting Horses During Transport; Travel Tips to Minimize the Stress Associated with Transporting Horses; Trailer Safety Kit; The history of moving horses from one place to another dates back as far as 3500 years. Some of the reasons for transporting include: shipping horses long distances to participate in military conflicts in far- off colonies, breeding, racing competitions and slaughter.

Dexamethasone 21 Isoniconate For Veterinary Use by Barbara Forney, VMD. Dexamethasone-21-isonicotinate is an esterified form of dexamethasone that is approved and marketed for horses. Work in laboratory animals has shown it to be more powerful and longer acting than the parent compound.

Care of Your Horse's Feet, an article by Wayne Loch, Department of Animal Sciences at University of Missouri-Columbia. Foot care is one of the most neglected horse management practices. Most lameness that impairs the usefulness of a horse can be prevented by proper foot care and reasonable management.

Internal parasites are silent killers. They can cause extensive internal damage, and you may not even realize your animals are heavily infected. At the very least, parasites can lower resistance, rob the horse of valuable nutrients, and cause gastrointestinal irritation and unthriftiness.

Metabolic HP is extremely high during exercise in horses. Thermoregulation in horses is primarily dependent on evaporative heat loss from sweating in particular. Under thermoneutral conditions, these mechanisms are sufficient to allow horses to perform high-intensity exercise for long periods.