Horse Crazy Horse Club

Horse Care

Horses require a lot of attention and are a big responsibility. It you treat your horse well with plenty of love and care you will get the same in return. If you are still at school it may seem a lot of hard work getting up early to see your horse before school, but its worth it. A horse that is kept fit and healthy will reward when you are out riding.  Try and visit your horse at the same time daily & preferably at least twice a day, and remember if you feed your horse before you exercise it, you should wait about ONE AND A HALF HOURS before proceeding.

As for trees, trim off reachable branches and gather up what has fallen off.  If there are trees that are a nuisance, think about fencing them off.  Once you have pulled up all the poisonous plants, instead of leaving them in piles around the field where the horse can help its self to them, either burn them or dispose of them in a safe manner.

Obviously you cannot be there to look over your horse night and day, so while you are not there you would like to know your horse is safe and sound. The field where you keep your horse should be checked over regularly.

There is a number of poisonous shrubs, plants and trees just waiting to be eaten by your horse or pony. To start with check-up on what is safe and what is not, then have a thorough look over the whole of the field where your horse is kept, take a strong pair of rubber gloves and a sack, and pull up what plants you can when you see them, what you can't pull up, remember where you've seen it and go back better prepared (e.g. spade or sheers etc.).

Bracken, Buttercup, Flax, Foxglove, Hemlock,
Horsetail, Lupin, Meadow Saffron, Nightshade,

Purple Milk Vetch, Ragwort, St John's Wort, Yellow
Star Thistle. Box, Laurel, Oleader, Prive, Rhododendron. Buckthorn, Laburnum, Magnolia, Yew. 

Acorns.