The Bureau of Land Management is considering bait trapping to manage the Spring Creek Basin wild horse herd between Dove Creek and Norwood. BLM’s Tres Rios Field Office is seeking public comment on an environmental assessment on the proposal, with the potential for helicopter-assisted gathering, to...
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Jul 2018
New evidence that horses reliably produce more snorts in favorable situations could improve animal welfare practices, according to a study published July 11 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Mathilde Stomp of the Université de Rennes, France, and colleagues. Assessing positive emotions is important for...
Thanks to research conducted at the University of Arizona, horsemen and horsewomen may have a new tool to help manage equine stress, and it’s as simple as a sniff. A sniff of lavender, that is. Research recently published in the Journal of Equine Veterinary Science found...
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Jul 2018
A few of our volunteers have opted to bring some of the more challenging equine cases to their homes to give them individualized care, attention and love. Not just the old ones, but also those who, for whatever reason, strike a resonating chord when their...
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Jun 2018
Op-Ed by Jerry Finch NOTE: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has submitted a report to Congress with recommendations on how to “manage” the wild horse population on public lands. One of those recommendations includes a suggestion to kill at least 10,000 wild horses and burros....
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Jun 2018
More than once I’ve hiked my boot up on the fence and grumbled about the way people treat horses during the training process. I can tell endless stories about how we used to do it “back in the day” and chances are I can get...
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Jun 2018
“How can my donation help?” Here's an interesting example of our expenses - loading 15 round bales at a time to truck back to the ranch. When the grass isn't growing, and it hasn't been because of the lack of rain, these 15 bales might last...
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Jun 2018
Twenty years ago, I shook hands with a Galveston Police Officer named Howard Picard. That handshake sealed an agreement that the land next to his home would be transformed into a home for Habitat for Horses. It was ours, leased for $1 a year. We had...
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Jun 2018
(On occasion, Habitat for Horses will post a guest editorial article. Opinions expressed in these editorials are not necessarily the opinion of the the staff or management of Habitat for Horses.) BACK TO SQUARE 1: HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE MOVES TO BRING HORSE SLAUGHTER, MUSTANG MASS KILLING...