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The articles archived here were written for the paper, “the Horse’s Maine”, and appear there once a month. I send them to the paper and they are posted on the web site one month after publication. I enjoy the writing, and try to share with you some of the things that I see every day on Maine horse farms. My goal is to write in an understandable way and hope that you can use some of this information in dealing with your horse health situations.

Buttons

Suturing massive lacerations

Deep Mud

A cure for muddy paddocks

Fire

The horror of barn fires

Hay Crisis

Bad hay year, and hay substitutes

Horse Talk Two

More horse terms we use every day

Looking and Seeing

Training your eye

Respect

Equine and people behavior

Shipshape

The importance of a clean barn

The Horse's Stomach

Its Anatomy and problems

Tradition

Passing down horse knowledge

Which Leg

Pinpointing the lame leg

Steamed Hay

How to deal with moldy hay

Night Check

Looking in on your horses before you go to bed

Tug

How one part of the horse’s body affects another

Horse Talk

Horse terms in our every day speech

The Walk

On walking colicky horses

Health Problems at Horse Shows

What you can expect there

ADR

Horses that Ain’t Doin’ Right

You Gotta Know How to Hold ‘Em

How to hold your horse for vet and farrier

It's The Law

How bones react to injury

Raw Exposure

Getting kids involved in the nitty gritty of horses

Looking and Seeing

Learning more about horses

Winter Skinny

Winter weight loss in horses

Learn from Pupil

How to assess eye problems and first aid for eyes

How Old?

Aging horses by their teeth

Ugly Pogo

Equine Protozoal Encephalomyelitis

Vitamin (E) and a mineral (Selenium)

The importance of Vit E and Selenium

Wonder Drug?

Banamine

A Plea

On keeping good vet relations

Great time to Buy

Strategies for horse buyers

Trapped

Horses getting caught

The Cooker

Fevers in horses

Horse Poor

The cost of keeping a horse

The Mountain Behind the Barn

All about horse manure

Winterizing Your Horse

Lymes Disease

Equine Herpes Virus Myeloencephalopathy (EHV-1)

Blood Loss in Horses

Three Barriers

Keeping horses out of the grain


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