Horse Care Articles

Natural Horse Care is all about giving your horse the best life in a domestic environment.

It’s even more than meeting the Five Freedoms:

• Freedom from hunger and thirst,
• Freedom from discomfort, pain, injury, or disease,
• Freedom from fear and distress, and
• Freedom to express normal behavior.

Natural Horse Care is understanding equine ethology and applying it as much as possible.  

Here’s a definition I like from horseextension.org 

Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior. Technically, ethology is the study of animals in their natural habitat. Several things make a horse unique in the animal kingdom:

• Horses are strongly social. They are herd animals and are very comfortable when they can see other horses.
• Horses are herbivores, or plant-eating animals. They rely on grazing grasses and leaves for food.
• Horses typically show a tendency for imitation between young and old.
• Horse are seasonal breeders.
• Males tend to form separate male subgroups at certain times of the year.
• Horses are considered a prey species in the animal kingdom.
• Horses are capable of strong pair bond relationships.

My 50 years of natural horse-keeping has helped me choose what I think are the kindest and healthiest methods and products for their care.

The following posts will help you care for your horse in a more natural way, along with the topics listed in the drop-down menu above.

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