mercredi 12 janvier 2011

horse color's and marking's


Color's:
Horses come in all diffrent color's, most breeds are the same color such as duch wormblod are oftern some kind of gray. One of the most populare colors for a horse is a chestnut you can find a chestnuts in almost eney breed. Albino horses are very rare and often don't live as long as other normal colored horses.

Marking's:



A star is a pach of hair that is in the shape of a star or diamond found on the horses frohead a star will always be white hair. Stripe is a thin long pach thsat strarts at the forhead and will end at the nose tis marking is also always white. A blaze is simaler to a stripe but the blaze is much thiker and also covers the nose.
A snip is the same shap of a star but the snip is only on  the nose of the horse. An interrupted sripe will start at the forhead with a star then have a longer stripe following and then will end with a snip on the nose. Finaly a white face covers the front of the horses face covering the nose and the hole forhead.

jeudi 6 janvier 2011

horse feed

There are a lot of diffrent tips of horse feeds and supliments, and averig horse should be eating at lest 5 to 6 flaks of hey a day plus one serving of all purpus horse feed. some horses need extera protin or fibre  so for that horse you should be adding an extra supliment to there regular feed. Also some breeds of horses need sertin vitamins and minerals so its a good idea to have salt and mineral licks in your horses stall. There are all kinds of feed mixes such as comprtition blends for hard working enduranc horses or plesur horse blend for your every day horse therer are even blends for older horses so it is im protant to know what activites you will be doing with your horse so you can have them on the best posibel diet for therer helth.

mercredi 5 janvier 2011

polo wraps and boots

A polo wrap is a long strip of fabric that is wraped around the horses legs to protect the tendints from getting hit. Wraps that are made of hard plastic are made for jumping so that if the horse hit his leg of a jumop it wont dameg or hurt there sensitive legs. If you are goingto use  wraps be shur to use the right ones polos should not be used for jumping if the wrap comes undone it could get stuck and make the horse fall. Traviling wraps cover the leg to protect them from getting cut or hit in the trailer, horses tend to move alot in the trailer so wraping its legs is always a good idea when traviling.