People who are not ready to provide the love, attention, and care that a dog needs should not keep one. Having a pet in your home is an exciting prospect, but it’s also a big responsibility. Dogs require a lot of love, attention, and care to stay healthy and happy. If you are not prepared…
Horse blankets serve an important purpose: they protect the animals from wetness, cold, sun and annoying insects. Innovative sweat-off blankets prevent muscle tension and cooling after intensive work by ensuring that the animals dry off quickly. Sooner or later, you’ll need to wash your horse blanket to rid it of dust, dirt, hair and sweat….
Unfortunately, as a horse owner, sometimes you can’t avoid it: with some injuries or illnesses of your animal, an isolated standing in the box is unavoidable. As a result, your horse can get quite bored. But how strict should you be about stall rest? Can you allow your horse to move around from time to…
Is your horse a real muckraker? Does it like to roll in the dust and prefer to run around camouflaged in sand? Then it loves the innate rolling behavior and you are used to cleaning it frequently. While you’re cleaning your horse, you’re strengthening your bond. The intensive grooming is good for him. Horses appreciate…
As a rule, usually only veterinarians, scientists or psychologists are interested in the internal nature or structure of an animal. Is that always the case? No. Especially as a rider or owner of a horse, you are certainly interested in deeper information about the “inner life” of your favorite. It is well known that horse…
Horses can make a whole range of sounds to express their state of mind. Whinnying plays a central role in horses’ communication with each other and with their caregivers. In this guide, we will explore the whinnying of horses together. In this way you will learn to understand your horse and to respond better to…
Learn everything you need to know about sheep and their husbandry. In addition, you will get useful tips in the rearing of lambs and why mobile catching systems make your work much easier. General information about sheep Sheep (lat. ovis aries) have been kept for centuries for wool, meat and milk. But not only as…
Important reasons for regular sheep shearing If you keep sheep, you should know that sheep shearing is an unavoidable maintenance procedure for the animals. The wool that has kept the animal warm over the winter needs to come off as temperatures rise in the spring so that it can survive the hot summer without health…
In this article, we will show you what you should look for when installing such a fence, which regulations must be observed and how to find the right fence for your sheep and goats. Temporary or permanent fence? Before you start with the concrete planning of your fence, the question arises whether it should be…
Especially in spring, large flocks of sheep are not uncommon, particularly in rural areas. The ewes are often accompanied by their little lambs – an idyllic sight, but one that is usually short-lived. This is because following the so-called colostrum phase, in which the lambs still feed on the milk of the ewes, the lambs…
